Word Processing — Microsoft Word

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Among the main areas that I train include the following:

  • Cus­tom­ising Word
  • Cre­at­ing and sav­ing documents
  • Set­ting up templates
  • Edit­ing Documents
  • Deal­ing with paragraphs
  • Pages, Sec­tions, Head­ers and Footers
  • Doc­u­ment Tools
  • Mail Merge
  • Auto­Text and AutoCorrect
  • Tam­ing the Rib­bon in Word 2007/2010
  • Deal­ing With Long Documents

Spreadsheet Training — Microsoft Excel

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Among some of the many top­ics that I cover are the following:

  • Design­ing Workbooks
  • Enter­ing and Edit­ing Data
  • Format­ting Worksheets
  • Func­tions
  • Charts
  • Vlook­ups, Hlookups
  • Data­base Features
  • Print­ing
  • Tam­ing the Rib­bon in Excel 2007/2010
  • Mac­ros
  • VBA Pro­gram­ming
  • Work­ing with Pro­ced­ures and Functions
  • Under­stand­ing Objects
  • Using Expres­sions, Vari­ables, and Intrinsic Functions
  • Con­trolling Pro­gram Execution
  • Work­ing with Forms and Controls
  • Work­ing with the Pivot­Table Object
  • Debug­ging Code
  • Hand­ling Errors

Database Training — Microsoft Access

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Among the top­ics that I cover in my Microsoft Access train­ing are the following:

  • Rela­tional Databases
  • Nor­m­al­ised Tables
  • Tables
  • Quer­ies
  • Forms and sub forms
  • Reports and sub reports
  • Mac­ros
  • VBA Pro­gram­ming for Access
  • Secur­ity
  • Net­work­ing Front End and Back End Data
  • Recover Data from cor­rupt Access Databases
  • JAWS com­pat­ible data­bases for com­puter users whose vis­ion loss pre­vents them from see­ing screen content

Get Your Life Back From Facebook

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Irish Times have a great art­icle on how to get your life back from over­use of Facebook.

You can down­load all the inform­a­tion Face­book holds on you and it’s sober­ing to hear that the file is gold dust for scammers

SOCIAL NETWORKING giant Face­book will have the biggest IPO in the his­tory of tech­no­logy com­pan­ies but what should really interest its 800 mil­lion users is how big a databank of per­sonal inform­a­tion it stores on all of us and how it handles this data now and in the future. Con­tinue read­ing →

O2 shuts webmail service

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O2 shuts web­mail ser­vice as out­dated sys­tem led to lost and delayed emails

The Irish Times have repor­ted that O2 is to dis­con­tinue its free web­mail ser­vice next month fol­low­ing fre­quent ser­vice dis­rup­tions that have left many users unable to receive emails, in some cases for up to three weeks.

In a state­ment to The Irish Times , the mobile oper­ator said the tech­no­logy plat­form that runs its web­mail ser­vice had become out­dated. Con­tinue read­ing →

New Data Protection Laws

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Irish Times have a very good piece about the new pro­pos­als for Data Pro­tec­tion in Europe including:

  • A single set of rules will apply across the EU
  • Less paper­work for com­pan­ies, as “unne­ces­sary” admin­is­trat­ive require­ments will go
  • Organ­isa­tions and cit­izens will deal with a single data pro­tec­tion author­ity in the EU coun­try where organ­isa­tions have their main base Con­tinue read­ing →

Microsoft sues Comet over Windows ‘counterfeits’

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ZD Net reports that Microsoft is suing the UK elec­trical retailer Comet for allegedly cre­at­ing and selling more than 94,000 coun­ter­feit Win­dows recov­ery CDs.

Microsoft is suing UK retailer Comet over claims it sold thou­sands of coun­ter­feit Win­dows recov­ery disks. The soft­ware giant took its case to the UK High Court on Wed­nes­day, claim­ing Comet had made money from sales of sets of knock-off Win­dows Vista and Win­dows XP recov­ery disks. Con­tinue read­ing →

Facebook stares down privacy audit in 2011

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One of the big IT stor­ies repor­ted by RTE was Face­book stares down pri­vacy audit.

RTE repor­ted that “In Octo­ber pri­vacy group Europe v Face­book com­plained to the Office of the Data Pro­tec­tion Com­mis­sioner (ODPC) about the social network’s prac­tices regard­ing user data. The group, brainchild of Aus­trian law stu­dent Max Shrems, com­plained that Facebook’s labyrinth­ine terms of ser­vice left users per­sonal data open to exploit­a­tion by (com­mer­cial) third parties. Con­tinue read­ing →

Window XP use drops as Windows 7 catches up

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Microsoft’s Win­dows XP oper­at­ing sys­tem was the most used OS in 2011 but its mar­ket share has been drop­ping rap­idly, los­ing more than 10 per­cent as people shift to Win­dows 7.

In its latest desktop OS study, released on Monday, web met­rics firm Net Applic­a­tions revealed that the num­ber of com­puters world­wide run­ning Win­dows XP — released in Octo­ber 2001 — stood at 57.51 per­cent in Feb­ru­ary 2011, but fell to 46.52 per­cent in Decem­ber. Con­tinue read­ing →