6 Office Productivity courses in Hemel Hempstead

A half day workshop exploring practical ways we can invest in our workplace happiness.

This is an essential programme for any member of staff whose role requires a high level of attention to detail. The focus is specifically on the handling of text and data, whether at the input stage or when collating information into reports and documents for use by others. The session looks at both prevention and cure. For 'prevention', it focuses on understanding how common errors occur and on developing an awareness of the factors which influence our level of attentiveness. It introduces key psychological theories around attentiveness including the 'capacity' and 'bottleneck filter' models. And it looks at how working styles can affect attention to detail. For 'cure', the programme looks at how to minimise the effect of stress on concentration as well as introducing a number of tools and techniques for promoting accuracy - at both the input and the checking stages. Particular attention is paid to proof-reading techniques. By the end of the session, participants will: * Appreciate why errors occur * Understand how stress and other factors can affect focus and accuracy * Know how to improve accuracy and reduce errors when handling text and data * Be able to proof-read text and number-based documents more accurately 1 THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURACY * The impact of mistakes * Why accuracy is so important * Main reasons why errors occur 2 ATTENTIVENESS THEORY * The 'capacity' and 'bottleneck filter' models * Selective attention * Chunking - big picture / little picture 3 PREPARING FOR ACCURACY * Working styles - how they affect detail-orientation * Identifying and minimising the impact of stress on concentration 4 PRACTICAL STRATEGIES * How to improve accuracy and reduce errors when inputting text * Managing interruptions and distractions * Proofing text and numbers

This one-day introduction workshop is intended for users who need to get to grips with the essentials of Microsoft Outlook. It will provide you with the basic skills you need to effectively start using Outlook to manage your emails, calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. This course will help participants: * Send messages with added email options applied * Quickly file messages away for safe keeping * Manage messages and attachments * Organise calendar meetings and check other people's schedules * Respond to a meeting request * Create a contacts list * Manage daily tasks * Use reading and folder panes * Create and manage folders * Use auto reply * Use notes * Utilise Outlook's printing functionality 1 GETTING STARTED * Using the reading pane * Using the folder pane * Changing inbox views * Managing the to-do bar 2 EMAILING MESSAGES * Replying to and forwarding messages * Adding message options * Attaching files to an email message * Opening and saving attachments 3 OUTLOOK FOLDERS * Creating and managing folders * Moving messages into folders * Adding folders to favourites * Using search folder * Always moving messages in conversation * Automatically move messages with rules 4 MANAGING MESSAGES * Using instant search * Finding messages by criteria * Grouping and sorting messages * Categorising messages * Adding message follow up flags * Filtering messages with the people pane 5 USING AUTO REPLY * Replying to messages whilst you are away * Managing auto reply settings * Applying rules to auto reply 6 OUTLOOK CALENDARS * Adding and editing appointments * Adding calendar reminders * Moving and copying appointments * Creating all day events * Recurring appointments * Sharing your calendar * Opening another user's calendar 7 PLANNING A MEETING * Arranging meetings * Inviting attendees to meetings * Responding to meeting invites 8 OUTLOOK CONTACTS * Creating and editing a contact * Saving emails as contacts * Finding contacts * Sending messages to contacts * Creating contact groups 9 ADDING TASKS * Creating and editing tasks * Completing tasks * Assigning a task to another user * Responding to a task request 10 NOTES * Creating and editing tasks * Emailing notes * Sticking notes on your desktop 11 PRINTING * Printing messages * Printing calendars * Printing contacts

This one-day workshop is designed to help users work with advanced features within Word. It includes hands-on exercises to help make complex documents more manageable. Participants will learn how to share and collaborate on documents and track document changes. This course will help participants: * Add document links to files, websites, bookmarks and headings * Create and revise footnotes and endnotes * Use cross-referencing * Insert and mark a document index * Use comments within a document * Create and edit document templates * Set up picture and table captioning * Work with tracked changes, including viewing, accepting and rejecting changes * Use tables of contents * Transfer styles across files using styles organiser * Protect and restrict the opening and editing of documents * Work with document themes * Work with subdocuments * Use ribbon buttons and groups 1 ADDING DOCUMENT LINKS * Adding links to a document * Linking to files, websites and email * Adding and linking to bookmarks * Linking to document headings 2 CAPTIONING AND CROSS-REFERENCING * Inserting picture and table captions * Creating and updating a table of figures * Adding and revising endnotes and footnotes * Understanding cross-reference types * Creating a cross-reference * Marking and inserting a document index 3 COLLABORATING ON DOCUMENTS * Inserting and viewing documents * Navigating through comments * Replying to a comment * Printing comments 4 TRACKING CHANGES * Using tracking changes within a document * Choosing how to view document revisions * Accepting and rejecting changes 5 COMPARING DOCUMENTS * Comparing two documents * Combining changes into a single document * Accepting and rejecting changes 6 PROTECTING A DOCUMENT * Restricting opening or editing of documents * Defining regions for editing * Restricting document formatting 7 OUTLINE VIEW * Collapsing paragraphs with heading styles * Managing files with subdocuments * Editing and locking subdocuments * Sharing subdocuments 8 DOCUMENT THEMES * Standardise document formatting with themes * Using a theme to match corporate branding * Transferring themes across files 9 CREATING TEMPLATES * Creating and editing document templates * Adding font and heading styles to templates * Defining file locations for shared templates * Copying styles across templates and files 10 CUSTOMISING THE RIBBON * Customising ribbon buttons * Adding new ribbons * Adding buttons to ribbon groups

This one-day workshop is designed to build upon skills already acquired using Microsoft Word, whether participants are self-taught or have previously attended a course. It gives participants a good understanding of managing different types of paragraph indents, and managing automated numbered paragraph lists. This course will help participants: * Create and manage the layout of paragraphs * Create and manage multi-level numbered paragraphs * Effectively insert, use and manage section breaks * Create and manage columns * Find, create and apply styles * Create and update a table of contents from styles * Work with styles to manage formatting * Work with sums in tables and use table headings * Input and edit text using AutoText * Work with SmartArt graphics * Link to other files using paste special 1 MANAGING PARAGRAPH LAYOUT * Controlling paragraph layouts with indents * Creating and managing paragraph hanging indents 2 NUMBERING PARAGRAPHS * Creating a new multi-level numbered paragraph * Managing existing multi-level numbered paragraphs 3 INSERTING COLUMNS * Creating columns from existing paragraphs * Setting up columns * Managing columns 4 DOCUMENT SECTION BREAKS * Controlling document layout using section breaks * Managing page orientation using section breaks * Managing page numbering using section breaks 5 USING STYLES * Applying quick styles * Finding existing styles * Creating and saving styles * Modifying styles * Creating a table of contents from styles * Updating a table of contents 6 USING QUICK PARTS * Saving content to quick parts * Modifying saved quick parts * Inserting content using AutoText * Editing AutoText entries * Inputting text using AutoCorrect 7 ADVANCED TABLE FEATURES * Sorting table columns * Running sums in tables * Repeating table headings at top of page * Importing Excel content in tables * Using table properties 8 CREATING A MAIL MERGE * Creating letters, labels and emails * Merging addresses from external files * Using Outlook's address book to merge * Merging to email 9 SMARTART GRAPHIC * Visually communicate content with SmartArt * Choosing a SmartArt graphic * Inputting into SmartArt * Modifying and formatting SmartArt graphics 10 LINKING TO OTHER FILES * Linking to files using paste special * Linking an Excel chart to a document * Managing linked content from Word

This one-day workshop is designed to give participants an understanding of the fundamentals of Microsoft Word and its commands, with quick ways to enter text, control formatting and edit paragraphs. This course will help participants: * Create, manage and save documents, files and folders * Create paragraph lists, bulleted and numbered paragraphs * Edit, modify and format paragraphs * Create and format tables * Use shortcuts to navigate documents * Format the layout of documents * Manage page headers and footers * Insert and managing pictures and diagrams within a document * Learn time saving tips and tricks to obtain a professional finish to documents * Use printing options 1 CREATING DOCUMENTS * Getting help * Creating and saving documents * Accessing recently used documents * Managing files and folders 2 ENTERING AND EDITING TEXT * Inserting and editing paragraph text * Cutting, copying and pasting text * Using tool tips to manage content * Applying and removing text formatting * Correcting spelling and grammar 3 CREATING PARAGRAPH LISTS * Creating bulleted paragraphs * Creating numbered paragraphs * Managing bulleted and numbered lists 4 MODIFYING PARAGRAPHS * Changing paragraph alignment * Indenting a paragraph * Adding borders and shading to paragraphs * Formatting paragraphs using styles 5 NAVIGATING DOCUMENTS * Using shortcuts for navigating documents * Using 'Go To' to navigate documents * Finding and replacing text * Changing to read view 6 DOCUMENT LAYOUT * Inserting page breaks * Changing page orientation * Adjusting page margins * Adding borders to pages 7 PAGE HEADERS AND FOOTERS * Inserting page headers and footers * Using header and footer commands * Inserting page numbers * Using different first page 8 INSERTING PICTURES AND DIAGRAMS * Inserting pictures from your computer * Inserting online pictures * Flowing text around a picture * Changing a picture * Inserting SmartArt diagrams * Entering text into SmartArt 9 INSERTING TABLES * Using tabs to create tables * Resizing and repositioning tables * Inserting and deleting rows and columns * Using a table's commands * Changing a tables text direction * Formatting tables 10 PRINTING DOCUMENTS * Previewing and printing documents * Using the printing tools * Printing parts of a document