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PAST
MEETINGS
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2001
LOCATION: Jenkens & Gilchrist
1919 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
TOPIC: Helpful Training Tips
HOST: Rochelle Bungie
NOTES FROM THE MEETING:
Member introductions to group and each member was give the opportunity
to present one current issue that they would like assistance on
resolving from their firm. Their issue was presented before the group –
anyone who had experienced the same problem and had a solution responded.
I promised to put all unresolved issues in my notes to request assistance
from other group members. This issues are listed below.
- Cynthia DeArman, Kilpatrick,
Stockman – She experienced "Conflicts between the NIC cards and the Drivers" when their Dell "CPI"
laptops were used with their Docking Stations. Another member stated they experienced the same problem with their Dell
CPI but they were using Windows 95 with Office 97. The resolved the
conflict by resetting the "IP Addresses."
Greta Cox, Drinker, Briddle
– They are using Windows 2000 with Office.97 and she is looking for
a conversion software tool that would produce minimal document cleanup
in Word.
Candy Truss
- suggested "DocX" as a possible solution.
Rochelle Bungie -
I received an email from Donna Payne [DonnaPayne@payneconsulting.com],
in reference to conversion tools. "Donna stated that there are
two primary vendors for conversion of WP documents to Word:
Microsystems and Levit and James. Microsystems is based out of
Chicago, Levit and James from Chantilly, VA. These packages both do a
good job with the conversion from our experience."
Karen Sykes, Ballard & Spahr -
I
received an email from Karen stating the following: "I'm in
Baltimore until mid-April. One thought for a future meeting -- we are
in the midst of converting our users from WP8 to Word 2000 and are
using the Payne macro suite. They have a simply wonderful conversion
package and have been truly outstanding in helping us with our
conversion. They respond to all requests extremely quickly and have
developed a numbering suite that is phenomenal."
Sonya Morshauser, Bracewell & Patterson -- no issues to discuss.
Venessa Lawrence, Van Ness & Feldman – looking for suggestions
to make training tips and tricks, training schedule and materials
available to her Users.
Rochelle suggested creating public folders in Outlook, place
information there and have a desktop link to the folder. Rhonda Gray
stated that she uses their IntraNet Portal to display her information
and she changes it monthly. Rhonda offered to send some examples to
assist. It was also suggested that she use her HelpDesk calls for
"tips" to Users
Kasey Muer and Maxine Hollis, Cole, Raywid & Braverman – they
just finished an iManage upgrade to version 5.3. They noticed that the
"echol" directory does not synchronize in Windows 2000 and
they have been experiencing printer problems with the HP450. Please
forward any suggestions to Kasey.
Angela Holland, Powell, Goldstein – Their firm went to mandatory
re-training for all employees, 3 hours a week for 5 weeks.
Rhonda Gray, Akin Gump – writes all the training information for
the trainers; how to tips, etc. Attorney training is one day and the
secretaries are 3 days. Rhonda suggested "techrepublic.com"
as a good website – they send daily tips to her.
Software Demonstration and Information
Since we used a large amount of time assisting one another with the
above issues, I only had time to demonstrate three of the software listed
below. I used my laptop and projector to show how beneficial SoftSkills,
Microsoft Office 2000 and the CD for Upgrading and Repairing PCs. Everyone
had an opportunity to review the CD covers and write down any pertinent
information.
- SoftSkills Interactive Proficiency-Level Training
by
CompuMaster (3 levels, Novice, Intermediate and Advanced);
- The Office Survival Guide -- Solutions that Work
by
CompuMaster -- reference CD with tips, tricks, quick help and
instructions for using Access, Excel, Word and PowerPoint;
- Upgrading and Repairing PCs and Networks
-- Que's Reference CD
featuring fully searchable electronic editions of its 11th and 12th
editions for Upgrading & Repairing PCs and its 2nd edition for the
network. The CD also includes video clips of the author describing his
upgrade and repair techniques (for those of us who where more than one
office cap);
- Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Suite Solutions
-- CD
containing fully seachable electronic editions of Access, Excel,
PowerPoint and Word Bible books.
The above Technical Training
Resources as well as many other ones may be purchased as follows:
- Fax: 1-913-362-4264 or by
- Mail: SkillPath Publications;
P.O. Box 803839,
Kansas, MO
64180-3839
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