Excel-erate Your Spreadsheet Skills
9:00 - 10:30am
Excel Basics
• Ribbons, buttons, and interface issues
• Recommended default setting changes
Structuring Data and Using Formulas/Functions
• Navigation
• Editing cells
• Formulas/functions
• Copying/replicating formulas
• Creating a probate inventory and appraisal
• Medical bill summaries with running totals
• Real estate settlement statements with auto-calculating subtotals and totals
• Calculating loan payments based upon varying loan amounts, interest rates, terms, and number of payments per year
• Using formulas to calculate dates and deadlines
10:35 - 10:45 am
Break
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Formatting Cells and Worksheets
• Formatting to cells, rows, and columns
• Making worksheets look good
• Sorting, filtering, and conditional formatting
Getting the Worksheet to Print the Way You Want
• Headers and footers
• Printing options
• Gridlines
• Row and/or column headings
• Row and/or column labels (titles)
• Fitting text on a page when printing
• Scaling to fit/zoom
Creating Graphs
• Creating and customizing bar graphs
• Creating and customizing pie charts
Advanced Topics
• Using Excel for Mail Merges in Word
• Naming and nesting formulas
• Formulas to manipulate text instead of numbers
• Using tables to manipulate large data sets
• Combining data using VLOOKUP
• Summarizing data: sums and pivot tables
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch Break
Outlook Good: Be Your Own Magic 8-Ball
1:00 - 3:00 pm
How to Fix Outlook
• How to clean up and streamline the default interface
• Customizing the way email is displayed
• Change the default font
• Fix the programmatical defaults so Outlook works better
• Setting up multiple & automatic signatures
• How to minimize or eliminate notifications
• How to be selectively notified when certain people send you email
• Settings Outlook shares with Word
• Calendar and contacts customizations
Storing and Organizing Email
• Folder and subfolder structures
• Automatic email archival
• Best methods for storing important email outside of Outlook
• Best practices for dealing with attachments
• How to keep track of high email volume and not drop a ball
• Why printing email is a bad idea and how to preserve it without paper
• Email management techniques
Make a Good Thing Better with Outlook Add-Ins
• Why Microsoft Exchange is a must-have for all law offices and how to get it
• PDF programs that work with Outlook — the power of integrations
• Options for encrypting email
• Storage and organization add-ins
Outlook Power Tips
• Best email tips and hidden tools
• Calendar tips
• Organizing and searching contacts
• Tips for task management
3:00 pm
Adjourn