If Microsoft Office was designed to give us the power to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations seamlessly and consistently...WHY AREN'T WE?

Over the years, we have discovered that over 90% of our clients aren't using Office the way it was designed to be used, and wasting both time and money in the process.

How many of these statements ring true?

• I spend almost as much time formatting my Word documents as I do writing them
• We end up doing things like numbering and tables of contents in Word manually
• I have to spend hours a week trying to summarise Excel data
• I've heard that Excel Pivot Tables are very useful but I don't know how to create one
• I struggle to keep on top of my Outlook emails, and keep being told I'm at my mailbox limit!
• I have too many Outlook reminders popping up, yet still seem to miss the important things

The 4 most common client complaints

• I'm sure I am doing things the long way round
• I don't feel like we are sharing information effectively
• I'm not confident in organising my files or finding them again
• I don't know what I don't know!

It's not unusual for us to save our clients 20% of their time using the standard Microsoft Office features - THAT'S ONE DAY A WEEK!

How can we help?

We can offer a few different options:

• We can tailor the perfect course for you or your team, if you already know where your skill gaps are
• We can spend time with you and your colleagues on a one to one basis for just an hour or so; the help and advice you get is then precisely what you need
• We can help you change your working practices - we can create your templates with you that will revolutionise the way you use Office
• Let us shadow you in the office, and then help you decide what we think would help you the most

Client Feedback

"I spent every Monday morning creating a series of reports in Excel for my clients.  After a two hour one-to-one training session, I was shown how to use a feature that would do it in 3 minutes"

"I had hired a very expensive consultant to create a series of macros for me in Excel, but sometimes they wouldn't work.  A short session with a trainer taught me that I didn't even need macros!"

"We have a team of engineers who manually format long reports, including paragraph numbering and tables of contents. We would spend hours fiddling with these reports, trying to fix formatting issues and header/footer errors.  Computerworld helped us create a handful of templates which meant that the reports were perfectly formatted, perfectly numbered.  They were so easy to use, the engineers only needed a half hour's tuition.  Their jaws dropped when they realised just how much time had been wasted."

"The sheer number of emails I was receiving each day had made it impossible for me to organise or prioritise information, and I could never find anything.  In a few simple steps, my eyes were opened to what was possible - I had no idea how powerful Outlook actually is."

"I would regularly spend hours trying to restructure and reformat PowerPoint presentations, only to find they would be too big to email! And then the next time, I would be doing it all over again.  No one had told me (or anyone else in my company!) the correct way to use PowerPoint.  Who knew we weren't meant to be formatting slides at all - PowerPoint does it all for you!"

"I was appalled at how much time we had been wasting as a business before learning about these simple techniques. These courses should be compulsory!"

"We were instructed to create quarterly reports by our US office, and we didn't know where to start.  After a day of consultancy and a further day of training, we were able to create the report in 20 minutes.  We subsequently found out that it had taken the US office 60 hours..."