Computer Seminar Dates

Times 8:00AM to 12:30 PM
10/19 FileMaker Pro: Effective Databases
10/20 Improved Word in Action
10/21 Proposal Process MS Word in Action
10/22 Enhanced Microsoft Excel Skills
10/23 Enhanced Presentation Skills and Tools
10/26 FileMaker Pro: Effective Databases
10/27 Improved Word in Action
10/28 Proposal Process MS Word in Action
10/29 Enhanced Microsoft Excel Skills
10/30 Enhanced Presentation Skills and Tools

Registration Information


Sessions will be held at Office Alternatives 4801 Lang NE, Suite 110, Albuquerque, NM 87109  Phone 505-796-9600

Session information call 505-720-6926. Pre-registration required using the computer session registration form.
Current Computer Seminars

The sessions described below are being offered at a special price. You must bring your own laptop.

Improved Word in Action

Document planning, creating templates and modifying templates. Setting margins for printing on both sides of the page. Setting tabs, tabs in tables, hanging indents and numbers in tables. Creating and using styles, creating tables of contents, table of authorities and indexes. Create bibliography sources (APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian) and use in footnotes or endnotes based upon style and inserting bibliographies. Controlling graphics and other objects. Use track changes and document comparisons.  Using section breaks within document. Learn all this and more in the session designed to make word processing work for you.(4 hour session seminar action packed)


Proposal Process MS Word in Action

Planning a proposal, selecting appropriate software for the job: MS Word, MS Excel, (Open Source Software), MS PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Project, Shared Plan, ConceptDraw, and Inspiration for Business, MindMap, Personal Brain, zoho.com, Officezilla.com and Goggle documents. Creating proposal outlines with outline functions, creating and modifying styles from templates saving new templates, creating and inserting and controlling objects from the different applications. Using captions, creating tables of tables, tables of authorities, and table of contents. Creating bibliographies source entries. Using APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian in footnotes and endnotes and then inserting bibliography at the end of the document. The focus is not the learning of the applications but how to use the programs to develop strategies and proposals. (4 hour session seminar action packed) 


Enhanced Microsoft Excel Skills

This session is design to work with you to enhance your use of Excel or any spreadsheet. Learn to combine the power to improve your business. Learn to work with linked spreadsheets and workbooks, consolidate spreadsheets, use goal seek, create multiple scenarios, pivot table functions, fill series and across sheets, move and copy sheets, networkdays, lookup functions, statistical calculations, logical functions, create graphs of data, add data to graphs, and integrate into other programs. (4 hour session seminar action packed)


Enhanced Presentation Skills and Tools

This session is designed to enhance your skills in delivering dynamic presentations. Learn to: Prepare presentations for specific audiences; Create your own well formed templates with logos and other basic information; Modify templates/themes; Create and Modify Masters; Make your slide show work like clock work; When to use links for: graphs, tables, and spreadsheets within your presentation; Create Web based presentation; Create Movies; Create your own basic animations; Creatively employ handouts and notes for your audience. Understand the software available for developing objects for presentation software. Open Source Software, Photoshop, Illustrator, ConceptDraw, and Inspiration for Business, MindMap, Personal Brain, and how to save the data in the best file format for importing into presentation software. (4 hour session seminar action packed)


FileMaker Pro: Effective Databases

You will learn to: design a database series, establish relationships, use lookup functions, use portals, modify menus, create buttons, design your own buttons, use repeating fields, use global containers, modify pop up lists, define math, date and text calculation fields, work with summary functions in layouts, use calculated containers, create validations, create effective and efficient layouts, use multiple find and sort functions in scripts, work with redesigning layouts, design scripts, link scripts, setup accounts, setup sharing, and work with print options. (4 hour session seminar action packed)