Vickie Sokol Evans MCT

Learn the secrets of high-performers and discover quick and easy digital productivity tips across Microsoft Office that will help you deliver better results in less time by using more of your technology.

This class is cultivated from years of training the world’s smartest
people.

Benefits of Attending:

You’ll walk away with a better understanding of whether or not you’re ready for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification. How? 90% of the tips you learn will meet the objectives of the MOS certification exam.

Plus, in this magical space that you enter, you’ll be able to bend time and space because one hour in training with us will yield upwards of 48 hours saved in one year. That’s because students save one hour per week for each hour of RedCape training.

Learning Outcomes

• Eliminate the most common old (and bad) habits and unessential work.
• No more wasted hours working on a project.
• No more feeling paralyzed by the latest technology
• Leverage the tools you have at your fingertips & execute flawlessly!

You don’t know whether to scream or cry.

That’s what happens when you can’t find a document that needs to get out the door. You saved it…somewhere. Was it on OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint or OneNote?

In this session, Microsoft Certified Trainer Vickie Sokol Evans breaks down the differences between these powerful apps. You’ll learn where to store your files, and the fastest way to retrieve them – on any device. She’ll show you the best way to separate work and personal documents on the same drive. Spend an hour with Vickie and you’ll save hundreds of hours over the rest of your working life.

Learning Outcomes

• Find that file fast
• Never lose a document again
• Understand where to save your documents
• Eliminate the need to manage document permissions

In this session, learn how to perform logical tests in Excel to magically create values in other cells with ease!

We’ll use seven of the most common logical functions to build your skills and confidence when cleaning and analyzing data. Eliminate unessential work and manual tasks, instantly clean up data and increase the integrity of your reports. You’ll feel like a magician!

Note: this session is part of a 5-part Excel Functions Workshop available through the RedCape Academy. While it is helpful to attend all five parts, it is not required.

Learning Outcomes

• Practice the functions: If(), Or(), And(), Countif(), Countifs(), Sumif(), and Sumifs()
• Master the basics by practising True or False outcomes
• Edit your logical function to display a custom statement when it’s true or when it’s false.
• Edit your logical function to display nothing if it meets the true or false criteria
• Use the negative false statement to get the result you need
• Practice creating nested statements with Or() and And()

Do you use Microsoft Office every single day at work? Have you been using it for at least three years? Are you nervous about taking the steps to pursue MOS certification? Attend this session to assess your readiness to achieve the Microsoft Office Specialist certification in the programs you use every day.

Founder of RedCape and their MOS Study Group, Vickie Sokol Evans is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. She has successfully studied for and passed 25 “Core” and “Expert” certification exams on her first try and has perfected the MOS certification process.

While she is forbidden to tell you what’s on the exams, she and her team at RedCape can shorten the amount of time it takes for you and your entire team to get certified in the programs you use every day. But first, she wants to help you determine your certification readiness.

Vickie will walk through an overview of the four exams and their objectives and give you tips on how to study for your first exam. You’ll also find out what makes the first exam the most challenging of them  all and tips to overcome that hurdle.

After passing your first exam, you’ll wonder why you didn’t pursue certification sooner. She did.

Learn the secrets of high-performers and discover quick and easy digital productivity tips across Microsoft Office that will help you deliver better results in less time by using more of your technology. This class is cultivated from years of training the world’s smartest people.

Pro Tip: it’s all in Vickie’s bestselling “100 Tips” book too.

Learning Objectives:

• Eliminate the most common old (and bad) habits and unessential work.
• No more wasted hours working on a project.
• No more feeling paralyzed by the latest technology.
• Leverage the tools you have at your fingertips & execute flawlessly!

BONUS: you’ll walk away with a better understanding of whether or not you’re ready for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification. How? 90% of the tips you learn will meet the objectives of the MOS certification exam.

Plus, in this magical space that you enter, you’ll be able to bend time and space because one hour in training with us, will yield upwards of 48 hours saved in one year. That’s because students save one hour per week for each hour of RedCape training.

Timesaving Secrets to Transforming Your Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations Into Professional-Looking Masterpieces.

The last thing you want to do is spend unnecessary time getting your documents to look GREAT! Introduced in Microsoft Office 2007, Office Themes are available across all Microsoft Office applications and allow you to create professional looking and branded documents with ease. In this session, understand what makes up a Theme and best practices for automating your work so that you can work less.

• Leverage existing themes across all applications
• Customize an existing theme
• Create a new theme to match your company’s brand
• Save your custom themes and share them with others
• Discover the #1 mistake people make when changing fonts in their document that cost them valuable time

Frustrated with the amount of time it takes to create your presentation and make changes to it?

Are you responsible for combining multiple presentations into one presentation?

Do you cringe when someone else makes a change, which requires you to spend extra time making things consistent with the format and brand?

Great news! Vickie designed this session to take the pain and angst out of creating and editing your presentations by using slide masters.

Vickie avoided slide masters at all costs because she thought it was more work with little benefit…until she discovered how valuable they were for structuring her presentations and fixing common problems. In fact, any time one of her customers has a formatting issue in PowerPoint or comes to her with very limited time to create a presentation, Slide Masters are the answer.

This session is for you if you:

• Are responsible for creating or editing any type of PowerPoint presentation
• Feel like you’re constantly having to rearrange things on various slides
• Spend too much time trying to make things look good on the slides
• Need to combine several presentations into one
• Have problem slides that give you trouble
• Have a fear of working with Slide Masters
• Need to leverage your time wisely and be more productive

Discover the amazing tools that you have at your fingertips – make your life easier and more productive when managing presentations for yourself and others!

Thank you so much for those great tips! I just wish you could have seen the ‘jaw-dropping’ and heard the gasps of amazement when I shared your tips with the PA team here at Roche. Thank you. Your tips and links to RedCape are cascading through the organisation at great speed. A member of our Leadership came to thank me for having injected newfound IT enthusiasm into his PA as a result – but it’s all thanks to you!

Awesome!!! OFF THE CHARTS!!! I texted 3 other employees – encouraging them to come because this was soooo helpful. Sooo informative. Thank you.

Your class has changed my life – not just my day, but my life. I’m so at rest right now. I am walking away full of life and knowledge. Finally going to be able to leave work on time to spend with my family because I’m working more efficiently. Thank you!