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PowerPoint 2016, Level 2 provides advanced concepts and skills for PowerPoint 2016 power users: how to use advanced formatting features, and animation and transition techniques, add and format media, track corrections and work with multiple presentations, create custom slide shows, and work with security and sharing options. This course, along with the preceding one, maps to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist exam for PowerPoint 2016.

This course focuses on Adobe® Illustrator® CC, the component within Creative Cloud used to create “drawn” graphics, while enabling its users to integrate content from other domains (such as photo-oriented graphics and animation, which belong to Adobe® Photoshop® and Flash®). With Illustrator's many, easily used tools, you will discover that not only can you unlock the same creative impulses you've always had as you've picked up a pencil to sketch out an idea, but also capture those multiple ideas and “what ifs” during the creative process in ways that you never imagined.

This course is designed for new and emerging supervisors. 

The transition from employee to supervisor is a delicate and complex one. You’ve worked together on projects, and maybe even became friends away from the job. Now you’re leading your peers and administering the projects, and the relationships between you and your peers change.  

In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design, write advanced queries, structure existing data, validate data entered into a database, and customize reports. Extending your knowledge of Microsoft Access 2016 will result in a robust, functional database for your users.

This course provides the basic concepts and skills to start being productive with Microsoft Word 2016, including how to create, format, and set up a document, and how to add graphics and tables. This course, and the two that come after, map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist and Expert exams for Word 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

This one-day workshop teaches participants to:

• Think critically when choosing a project team
• Make the best of an assigned project team
• Help teams move through various stages to become a high-functioning unit
• Maximize productivity at team meetings
• Reward and motivate a team
• Develop and execute a communication plan
• Communicate with sponsors and executives more effectively
• Identify strategies for working with problem team members

Excel 2016 Level 2 builds on the basic concepts and skills of our Level 1 course to provide more advanced tools for analysis and presentation of complex, realistic data in Microsoft Excel 2016: how to manage complex workbooks, build more complex functions, use data analysis tools, make an impact with powerful chart and presentation features, and collaborate with other users.

This one-day workshop will help you teach participants how to:

Self-awareness under conflict leads to greater self-control and is the first step in managing conflict effectively. In this program, participants will learn and practice a step-by-step model of dealing with conflict, which emphasizes a positive outcome for everyone involved. Because conflict is inevitable in some situations and avoidable in others, it is important to know the different strategies that can be applied in particular situations. 

This course will provide the concepts and skills to use some more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2016, including enhanced formatting, references, editing, and sharing, and saving to various formats. This course, and the two others in this series, map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist and Expert exams for Word 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.