We are starting off some new hints and tips. We are looking at the Microsoft Office packages and giving hints and tips on specific actions you can do in them. This week we are starting off with the PowerPoint package!

This first hint and tip is looking PowerPoint basics slides. This is covered on our Basic PowerPoint training course. Firstly we will look at the different ways in which you insert a new slide into a presentation. Then we will look at the different slide layouts that are available.

Insert a New Slide

There are a few ways you can go about doing this and we will go through the different ones here.

First Way – Using the New Slide button on the Home Tab

This is one way of inserting a new slide and is often the most used way as the button is found on the Home Tab within PowerPoint.

The ‘New Slide’ button has 2 parts to it.

1. Part 1/top part: this will insert in a new slide with a default slide layout of ‘Title and Content’ which is often the most common slide layout used in creating a presentation.
2. Part 2/bottom part: this will bring up a menu where you can select the slide layout that you would like to insert and will insert a new slide with the layout you select.

Both of these ways can be used, the one that you choose to use depends on the slide layout that you wish you insert.

Second Way – Using the part 1/top part of the button alongside the Layout button

This way uses a step that we looked at previously, the top part of the ‘New Slide’ button, which inserts a slide with the ‘Title and Content’ layout.

You can use the ‘Layout’ button on the Home Tab to alter the layout of a slide that you have inserted in to your presentation. This allows you to alter the layout of an existing slide that you have in your presentation.

So if you inserted a slide but then decided that you would like a different layout, you can use the layout button to change the layout of the slide that you have selected.

Third Way – Using the shortcut Ctrl+M

Another way you can insert a new slide is through the use of a shortcut key! This shortcut key, Ctrl+M, is a shortcut for clicking on the top part of the ‘New Slide’ button.

This can then be used alongside the layout button if you wish to change the layout of the slide.

Another way is that you can use the ‘New Slide’ button which is found on the Insert Tab. This button is the same as mentioned above, just it can also be found on the Insert Tab as well as the Home Tab.

Once you have inserted your slide, you can then starting adding in content and you are then on your way to creating your presentation!

This week was looking at PowerPoint basics slides, look out for the next PowerPoint basics hint and tip coming soon! Why not take a look at our previous one on page sizes in Publisher?

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Here at JPL we continually strive to improve the variety of Microsoft Office courses in the Midlands and further afield.

We thought you may like to see a short video of the towns we’ve trained clients in during the last 12 months. It’s only 10 seconds and was created using a new feature in Excel called 3D maps. You may spot your town but if not let us know!

Although we train in a variety of modules in Microsoft office like Word, PowerPoint and Access we’ve found the major demand for our training courses is in Excel. Of which we have now developed 5 levels of courses.

We often publish hints and tips at least once a month and here’s our tip of the day – a really simple one to do with worksheets but then as the saying goes “the simpler the better”.

Tip of the Day in Excel

Four things you may not know about Excel worksheets:

1. To colour a worksheet simply right click and choose a Tab colour
2. To move a worksheet to a different position simply drag and drop the sheet to the left or right
3. To rename a worksheet its quicker to double click on it and then type over the worksheet name
4. When using a worksheet in a formula where a sheet has an embedded space in it use an apostrophe e.g. =sum(‘jan 18:mar 18’!b2)

Why not take a look at our previous post on new features in PowerPoint?

We’ve developed ourselves into a Microsoft Office specialist and pride ourselves on the commitment to interest trainees on courses to enjoy their experience of being trained by us.

We are grateful for your support over the years and please keep an eye on our hints and tips page. These cover all kinds of Microsoft Office modules and you can find them here.

If you have any comments on the hints and tips or any news we post, please let us know on johnlegge@jplcomputer.co.uk.

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Happy New Year! –

From everyone here at JPL IT Training Limited, we hope that you had a prosperous 2016 and were able to rest a bit over the Christmas break. We wish you all a happy and prosperous year for 2017.

This year we have a few ideas of courses that we are thinking of running and would love to hear your thoughts on them!

Firstly, we are thinking of running a 2-day PowerPoint course. This course would cover Basic principles on the first day, finishing with some Intermediate exercises and topics. Then the second day would carry off where the first left with more Intermediate topics and finishing with more Advanced topics and ways to really wow people in your presentations at work!

Secondly, we have a 2nd Master Class Excel course in the pipeline and so alongside our current Master Class course, we are thinking of running a 2-day Master Class Excel course which will appeal to those of you that have attended our Advanced Excel courses and have gone away wanting to learn more about Excel and about the next level of training that is on offer.

All of these courses are still available for you to individually attend too, but we were wanting to hear of any thoughts that you might have on them being 2-day courses? Would you find it beneficial as a 2-day course? Would you prefer it as a 2-day or would you prefer them as individual courses and attend them at different times of the year?

Any feedback would be most appreciated! You can leave your feedback on these two ideas by contacting us on 07903 840105 or by sending us an email on johnlegge@jplcomputer.co.uk.

If you want to ask about any of these courses, you can have a look on our website here or alternatively you can email us on johnlegge@jplcomputer.co.uk.

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Comments from attendees on a Publisher 2010 course and a Basic/Intermediate PowerPoint 2013 course run on our premises:

“Best part of the course: paced to suit. All clearly explained”.

“Best part of the course: I found all of the course content ideal and aimed at my level of ability”.

– Helen and Nigel

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The world of work is a fast changing one, and it isn’t difficult to get left behind. As the job market becomes more and more competitive, and more jobs than ever before require computer skills, Microsoft Office Training UK is more valued and valuable than it has ever been. When a potential employee lists full Microsoft Office training on their CV, it immediately lets their potential employer know that they have taken the time to go the extra mile. While most of us are now familiar with basic word processing skills, increasingly, employers are seeking that little bit extra – and, in most cases, are keen to take on individuals who have sought out training in the full Microsoft Office package. Microsoft Office training can make you stand out from the crowd, and equips you with the specific skills you need to slot yourself into almost any workplace, here in the twenty-first century.

Get the Microsoft Office Training skills you need for success

Microsoft Office training will open doors for you in many, many work-related skills and abilities, that can help you get a job, a promotion, or even assist you in your everyday life. Once Excel spreadsheets are understood, and the skills needed to create and utilise them are mastered, complex tasks and calculations become simple, logical actions to be taken advantage of. PowerPoint presentations become a useful mode of expression, for presentations, reports or classes. You’ll be able to type with confidence, insert images, tables, charts and graphs with ease – your CV will grow, and it will look better than ever thanks to your newfound skills with Microsoft Word document production, too.

Microsoft Office Training UK for business success

If you’re a business looking to grow, Microsoft Office Training can help increase the skillset of your employees, increasing productivity, staff and client satisfaction, and overall professionalism and experience. Take the case of Clesse UK Limited, a technical support and distribution centre which covers the UK, Ireland and Polish markets for Clesse Industries. The group specifies, designs, manufactures, and distributes LPG regulators and associated equipment to serve customers, from LPG gas suppliers to distributors and wholesaler. They needed help with their IT skills, so they decided to undertake Microsoft Office training with John P Legge Computer Services Limited. As the business was still developing, they received full Microsoft Office training in Excel, Office, Outlook and PowerPoint, and also received specialised advice and guidance from seasoned, experienced professionals in the IT industry. This, alongside bespoke training in producing databases in Microsoft Access for their testing and service systems, helped the growing company reach new heights of success and prosperity.

If you’d like to find out about how Microsoft Office Training can help you as an individual or business, then find out more on our website or give us a call on 07903 840105.

You might also find our recent article on Excel Training interesting reading.

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We are particularly active in Gloucestershire offering on site Excel training. Here at JPL we can offer a range of standard Excel courses ranging from Basic to Master Class and all content can be found on our website. We have also recently developed another Master Class Excel course – there used to be just a Master Class Excel Bronze, but now there is also Master Class Excel Silver!

Excel is a package that is often seen as a basic requirement for a lot of people nowadays when they are applying for a job. Excel is ever increasingly becoming a package that businesses use for storing and analysing data for a number of departments within the company. With the use of Excel becoming more important and integrated within a companies daily work it is becoming ever more important for your knowledge of Excel to be kept up to scratch!

A lot of people would probably class themselves as ‘self taught’, that they have picked up their skills and knowledge in Excel through ‘trial and error’ or by someone mentioning how to do something in passing. This often will get you by unless you need to do something a bit harder or if something goes wrong and you need to fix it!

This is where we come in, we have a number of Excel training courses that we run which you can take a look at details of here. We also offer training in other MS Office courses in Word, Access, Outlook, Project and PowerPoint. You can find details for these here on our website.

For more details of the Excel training Gloucestershire that we offer please contact us on 07903 840105 or feel free email us on johnlegge@jplcomputer.co.uk

Worksheet Hint and Tip – Renaming Worksheets

To finish on we thought we would include a little worksheet hint and tip, you can view more hints and tips on our main Hints and Tips page.

In Excel you can rename the worksheet you are working in. By default the name will be Sheet1, Sheet2, etc. These aren’t very informative and so you can rename them to make more sense!

To rename the worksheet, you can either:

1. Double click on the current worksheet name and type over the name and hit Enter once you have given it the new name to save it
2. Right hand click on the worksheet name and select the ‘Rename’ option for the list. Again type over the name and hit Enter once you have given the new name to save it

We hope you liked this worksheet hint and tip, why not take a look at our previous one on the SUM formula in Excel?

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When you first see Microsoft Office 2013 or indeed Office 365 (the on line version) you may think there is not much difference to Office 2010. Certainly the existing features are kept, the tabs and ribbons remain the same but new features are added particularly in Excel.

One new really good feature in Excel 2013 is called Quick Analysis. This button appears in the bottom right hand corner when you select a set of data and it allows you to easily do any of the following actions:

• Conditionally format the data that you have just selected
• Create a chart and easily add Chart elements, Styles and Filter your dataset
• Add Sparklines to your data in the spreadsheet
• Create Totals for the specific data that you have selected

Even though there are a lot of good new features in Excel, there are lots of new features within the other Microsoft Office packages.

One example is the Presenter view in PowerPoint. This view allows the presenter to see on part of their screen the slide that is up on the projector screen that the audience can see and then on the other part this presenter view which shows the next slide that will come up and any notes that have been assigned to the current slide.

Another example is the reading pane option within Word. This view is useful if your find reading word documents tiring as it makes the view more like that of a reading book. As well as this reading pane more, there is also an option to convert a PDF document in to a Word document to make editing it easier.

We now run a half day overview course on Microsoft office 2013 and if you are interested please contact us on johnlegge@jplcomputer.co.uk.

If you liked this post, why not take a look at our previous one on new features in Excel 2013?

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