Dan St. Hilaire

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Create an Excel Template for Ease of Use

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  March 6, 2014  /  Excel   —   1 Comments ↓

Often we know what we want our Excel spreadsheet to do and how it should all work. Save time and precious brain cells by downloading and utilizing pre-formatted templates. In this short and direct video we discus how templates can be used when you use the same worksheet repeatedly.

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A First Look at Microsoft Word 2013

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  February 13, 2014  /  Word   —   No Comments ↓

Interested in a first look of Word 2013 and want to see some of the great features Word 2013 has to offer? We’ve pulled together two videos that will help get you introduced to the newest version of Microsoft Word. These are just the tip of the great content iceberg we’ve created for Word 2013. Our Excel 2013 Essentials Series is now complete and has been posted to Log on to Learn. Check out the topics below the videos. Want to watch one? Take us up on our 7-day, no credit card required trial membership and watch them all!

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The Meaning of End of Life (I'm Speaking XP)

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  February 11, 2014  /  Industry News   —   No Comments ↓

Microsoft has set the end of life for Microsoft XP and Office 2003 for April 8th, 2014. End of Life has lots of meanings, in tech talk, it means support and updates are going away. There’s no more support or lifelines. Phoning a friend is almost as useless as calling a support line. No more security patches or bug fixes. The countdown is on. Come April 8th, 2014 other vendors will likely discontinue supporting the XP operating systems on new releases of their software too. The end date is near, but the world isn’t coming to end. Let KnowledgeWave and Log on to Learn help you.

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Using the BCC Field in Microsoft Outlook

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  January 17, 2014  /  Microsoft 365   —   No Comments ↓

Do you have a story where BCC should have been used? Fresh off our Production Schedule. Considering using the BCC Field. In the past few days I've received two messages where BCC should have been used. My email was shared with people I didn't know, and I was forced to receive dozens of useless replies from others that hit the reply to all button. Share this video with the next person that sends you a message that should have used BCC.

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Microsoft Office 2013 Training and Support Content

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  December 23, 2013  /  Microsoft 365   —   No Comments ↓

 

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Excel 3D Formulas and Worksheet Management Webinar

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  November 14, 2013  /  Webinars   —   No Comments ↓

Join our expert instructor as they share secrets related to 3D Formulas and Worksheet Management.

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Free Webinar: The Power of Sort and Filter Functions in Microsoft Outlook

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  November 12, 2013  /  Webinars   —   No Comments ↓

Join our expert instructor as they share the power of Sorting and Filter functions in Microsoft Outlook.

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Introduction to Agile PM with Scrum

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  November 7, 2013  /  KnowledgeWave Courses   —   No Comments ↓

KnowledgeWave provides access to an Introduction to Agile Project Management course on an ongoing monthly basis. This course is an excellent starting point for you if you are familiar with the concepts of traditional project management and may have used the concepts to manage multiple projects. However, for projects in which the requirements are continuously changing, you may need a more proactive project management approach. In this course, you will use the Agile project management framework.

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Using Clear Formatting Feature in Word 2010

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  September 30, 2013  /  Word   —   No Comments ↓

Learn how to change selected formatted text back to the default font and paragraph formats easily with the click of a button. In this video, we will select formatted text and use the clear formatting command in the Font group of the Home tab.

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How We Learn is Changing

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  September 25, 2013  /    —   No Comments ↓

How we learn today is changing. Employee training is a $156B industry with 77% of US business providing eLearning options to employees, Log on to Learn is a solution that meets the needs of many multi-generational distributed work environments. Log on to Learn knows eLearning and provides an online community for our members, specialized and customized content and live events. Member companies have a number of Log on to Learn tools and features that appeal to HR and IT, making their employees more productive while tracking their learning advancement.

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How to Print Your Outlook Calendar

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  September 10, 2013  /  Outlook   —   No Comments ↓

Believe it or not, this one question is asked more often than most any other in our Instructor-led hands-on Microsoft Outlook courses and let's face it. The world will never go completely paperless. Sometimes a paper copy of one's calendar is far preferable than the one on your screen. Here's how to print your Outlook calendar in your preferred configuration. This short tip is well worth the time.

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How to Use the Excel Rate Function

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  August 21, 2013  /  Excel   —   No Comments ↓

In this video, you will learn how to determine the interest rate of a loan based on the amount of the loan, the number of payment periods, and the amount of the payments. Log on to Learn offers 100's of these types of Excel videos. Learn a topic quickly and apply the knowledge immediately.

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MS20462: Administering Microsoft SQL Server Databases Course

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  August 20, 2013  /  KnowledgeWave Courses   —   No Comments ↓

20462 Administering Microsoft SQL Server Databases

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iOS and Mac Hands-On Training Classes Confirmed

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  June 24, 2013  /  KnowledgeWave Courses   —   No Comments ↓

KnowledgeWave in partnership with Small Dog Electronics is excited to announce the offering of two iOS classes, iOS (iPad/iPhone) for Business and iOS (iPad/iPhone) Technical Training for IT Professionals. In addition to the iOS offerings, KnowledgeWave and Small Dog are offering a Mac OS X Technical Training for IT Professionals course. Hosted at KnowledgeWave in South Burlington, Vermont and taught by industry experts from Small Dog Electronics, these classes hit a niche that today’s businesses are faced with; a blended environment of PC and Mac or iOS devices. Join us this July and August for these great events. Register early, seating is extremely limited.

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How to Add the Developer Ribbon/Tab to Microsoft Word 2010

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  June 11, 2013  /  Word   —   No Comments ↓

Learn how to turn on the Developer Ribbon in Word 2010. In this video, we will go through the different ways to turn on, and then turn off, the Developer tab and its Ribbon. We will then go over the different groups on the ribbon, and discuss the commands available in those groups. If you need to develop macros, create form fields, work with XML files, or restrict editing on a document, then you will want to turn on this valuable ribbon.

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Tags: Word