Who Should Attend:
Any users of Microsoft Office products who would like to enhance their skills, learn expert tips, and receive advice to improve performance with their daily duties.
Series Overview:
The Microsoft Office 365 Series is comprised of 10 webinars offered from July through December 2024. Webinars can be taken individually or as an entire series; by registering for the full series, you will receive all 10 webinars at a discounted price. All webinars will be recorded for any registrants that are unable to attend the scheduled time.
Microsoft Planner Essentials, July 17, 2024
Are you looking for a tool that will help you with projects? Microsoft Planner can help! In this hands-on course, you will earn how to utilize Microsoft Planner to create a simple project plan consisting of tasks, assignments, start/due dates, and documents.
Excel Essentials, July 23-24, 2024
In this two-part webinar, you will learn skills required to effectively work in Excel, including entering and manipulating data; managing layout, cell formats, and tabs; and setting up a sheet for printing.
Excel Calculations and Charts, Aug. 13-14, 2024
Learn the fundamentals of using Excel to perform calculations and create charts. Following this course, you will be able to use Excel to perform calculations; utilize numbers, dates, and times in your formulas; and create dynamic charts for visual data presentation.
Fast Start to OneNote, Aug. 27-28, 2024
OneNote is one of Microsoft’s best-kept secrets, and one of its most useful programs. In this course, you will learn how OneNote can be used to organize and share information for task management and historical purposes.
Excel Database and List Management, Sept. 17-18, 2024
In this two-part webinar, learn the power of Excel as a database. Topics include database terminology, outlining and doing data subtotals, and more.
Excel Power Calculations, Oct. 1-2, 2024 NEW
In this course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of how to use Excel to perform calculations and create charts. The course covers the fundamentals and goes beyond, covering the function palette, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, net workdays, cell and range names, conditional formatting, Sparklines, protecting data, and saving a chart as a template.
Lean Outlook - Simplify and Get More Done, Oct. 29-30, 2024
You already know Outlook as a workhorse that you rely on throughout your busy day. But did you know that by maximizing Outlook’s functionality, you may be able to view it as a racehorse that can get you to your daily finish line with greater ease, efficiency, and even fun?
Microsoft To Do, Nov. 12, 2024 NEW
Unleash the power of Microsoft Office 365 To Do and manage your daily tasks efficiently, collaboratively, and with greater focus. In this webinar, you will learn to create, edit, and view tasks in a variety of ways and utilize task parameters such as due dates and priorities.
Excel Conditional Formatting, Nov. 13, 2024
This deep dive starts with the essentials of Excel's conditional formatting and then takes off quickly. You will learn to call out interesting data using colors, icons, or data bars.
Excel Get and Transform, Dec. 3-4, 2024
This two-part course is for Excel users who regularly spend too much time manipulating data into the right format before they even begin to analyze it. Get and Transform (aka Power Query) can perform repetitive data cleansing such as deleting rows and columns, merging data from various data sources, and fixing layout issues without macros or VBA. Data source examples used in this class include Excel, comma-separated values, and text.
Webinar Recordings:
Webinar recordings will be made available to registrants who are unable to attend live.
Webinar Instructor:
Neal Otto, Jump-start Computer Training
Webinar Schedule:
All webinars in this series will be held from either 10 a.m.-noon or 1-3 p.m. Pacific Time. Attendees will be admitted 15 minutes before each webinar begins.
How to Participate:
Instructions will be emailed to attendees within 24 hours of the webinar, and we recommend that you test the link to the meeting as soon as you get the instructions. The webinar is best viewed using Google Chrome as your browser. We recommend that you use a landline for both your phone and your internet connections.
This registration is for one person to attend. We manage our webinars on an honor-system basis; if more than one person from a utility wishes to attend, each is to register separately.
Series Fees:
Utility Member Rate: $1,815
Associate Member Rate: $2,700
Non-Member Rate: $3,295
Please visit the event pages for individual webinar pricing.
Note: Organizations that register a group of employees will receive every fifth registration for free. For example, if you register five employees, you only pay for four; register 10 employees, you only pay for eight; and so on. There is nothing additional you need to do to receive this discount.
Cancellation Policies:
For webinars, virtual classes, and section meetings: cancellation at least five days prior to the event, full refund; within 1-4 days or no show, 100% of the registration fee.
When possible, please send a substitute instead of canceling; NWPPA does not charge a fee for substitutions. To request a refund, please contact registration@nwppa.org or (360) 254-0109.
Continuing Hours:
Each course qualifies for 2-4 continuing hours and completing all 10 courses in the series qualifies for a total of 34 continuing hour credits. Certificates are issued upon full completion of each course.