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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Friends In Tech: Free MS Office Training

Of course I've seen these, before, but I forget that others haven't seen this awfully useful stuff! MS's website is packed with extremely useful tools that most people don't even think to investigate ("site" doesn't really begin to describe the amount of resources they've got there, actually. WebWorld might be closer to the ballpark!). They might not think to investigate it because "it's not their job" is probably going through their minds. Curiosity and an interest in making the most of the tools available are really qualities you find in IT people more than other business professionals, I guess. Maybe that's why I'm impressed with non-techies who possess those qualities, too.

Anyway, in addition to the training tools FIT refers to, below, I've got to add my own recommendation that you go and check out Microsoft's online library of MS Office templates. They're always coming out with new ones and they've got tons of old ones to point you in the right direction on a myriad of topics. Don't reinvent the wheel, clean up Microsoft's and make it your own!

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Free Microsoft training
Microsoft
offers some really great training for lots of products. One resource
that I find especially useful to refer our clients to is the Microsoft Office Training. This resource offers over 150 short and focused lessons on just about anything related to Microsoft Office Products.

These are not training topics that most system administrators would be
interested in for themselves (but they should be) but your users will
love you for showing them these resources.

For more technical resources I regularly review the Microsoft On-Demand Webcast
page . I review these and send links to our techs for relevant webcast
topics. You can get some very beneficial information from these.
The best part is they are all FREE!