by Mike Thomas | 30 Jan 2014 | Productivity Tips, Training Tips
Yesterday I was creating a piece of elearning using Adobe Captivate. I had a file that consisted of 33 slides along with a 6 minute MP3 of my narrative. When viewed by end users, the eLearning had to move from one slide to the next with no intervention from the...
by Mike Thomas | 29 Jan 2014 | Productivity Tips
All recent versions of Excel have the ability to create a PDF of your spreadsheet without requiring 3rd Party tools. In this short video tutorial, in addition to demonstrating how to do this, I also show how to convert a PDF into an editable Excel file using a free...
by Mike Thomas | 27 Jan 2014 | Training Tips
This week I was delivering one of my regular courses, How to Use The Company Intranet Editor, to a virtual audience. Or at least that’s what I thought it would be. I had my Webex details. I had my teleconference dialin details. What I didn’t have was a...
by Mike Thomas | 17 Jan 2014 | Tutorials
A Training Administrator who was organising a seminar wanted to send an email to a group of people, inviting them to the seminar. She wanted them to be able to double click an attachment icon in Outlook to add the appointment to their calendar. Although this tutorial...
by Mike Thomas | 16 Jan 2014 | Training Tips
When I delivered my first training course many years ago, all I had was a flip chart and some coloured marker pens. I didn’t even have a projector to demonstrate the software to the delegates. Fast forward 25 years and the flip chart and pens have been replaced with...