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Follow-up on today's train-the-trainer Webcast - additional resources
February 23, 2006

Hi, everyone! Thanks to everyone who made the time to attend my advanced train-the-trainer session today. If you wanted to and didn't get the chance, the on-demand version should be available by later today or tomorrow the latest.

I promised a bunch of additional resources for people who want to review any of the features we talked about today -- as well as for more detailed responses to some of the questions at the end of the session, so those follow. If your question isn't answered, if I've forgotten to post something I promised, or if you have a new question ... please just post a comment and I'll reply asap. If you have any trouble registering to leave a comment (that's new functionality for this blog) just drop me an email and I'll help you get your comment posted.

To view the first part of the train-the-trainer series from this month (the session we picked up from today -- so it covers a lot of the core concepts, styles, tables, and section formatting topics): Train-the-Trainer Tips and Tricks: Word Document Production Made Simple (Level 300)

Webcasts for reviewing the how-to's for features covered today:

Word features are covered at a power-user level in this webcast: Advanced Tips and Tricks for Complex Word Documents: Financial Pitch Books Made Simple (Level 300) (pitch books are just a very complex document type with lots of graphics and detailed layout -- so this session is just as valid whether or not you're in finance)

Advanced Excel charting tips (ditto to the above -- for advanced charting tips, this will be just as relevant whether you're in finance or not): Advanced Tips and Tricks for Excel Charting: Financial Pitch Books Made Simple (Level 300)

All of the features we covered in PowerPoints today as well as some Visio tips: Advanced Tips and Tricks for Creating Business Diagrams with PowerPoint and Visio (Level 300)

Additional learning and teaching resources from today's topics:

- If you have my book, Microsoft Office Document Designer (MODD), and you've installed the tools on the MODD CD - click the How Do I button on the MODD toolbars in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint for access to the 75 how-to document production tip sheets and articles I mentioned today. For more info on the book, click the link in the image to the right which goes to the book's Amazon page.

The following links for more info on some topics discussed today are to freely available excerpts from the MODD tip sheets (on Office Online):

For help explaining Word core concepts:
Making your Word documents behave
Paragraph formatting essentials for unbreakable documents

For help understanding style types:
Understanding paragraph, character, list, and table styles

For help with section formatting basics:
Understanding page (section) formatting
Changing page (section) formatting within a document

Additional resources:

For help with Word tables, please check out my free series of self-paced, online courses for Office Online Training (and check out all Office Online Training courses as a great training resource to utilize when you have students who can't make a class or need to review a specific topic):

Tables I: Create and format basic tables

Tables II: Use tables to simplify complex page layouts

Tables III: Manage financial tables and tables from Excel and the Web

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I think that about covers it. If I skipped something I promised you, please call me on it and post a comment requesting it! Meanwhile, HAPPY THURSDAY :)

Posted by Stephanie

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Hi Stephanie, I have reviewed Tables I, II, & III and can't quite get the answer I need. I work in a large plant w/ approx 20 engineers and my boss wants me to create a "Master Table" MS Word Doc. that is fed by each engineer's "linked" MS Word table so when he comes in in the morning, he opens his "Master Table" MS Word Doc. and all the linked tables will automatically feed the master sheet & he can view all the engineer reports on his master sheet. Is this an easy fix, or do I need extensive training?
Please help... Steve B.

Posted by: Steve B. [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 3, 2006 01:59 PM

Hi, Steve,

You certainly don't need extensive training :)

Where are the source files that you want the master table to link to? There surely is a way to do it, but I'm not sure that a master table in Word is the best choice ... if you can give me a bit more info, I'll be happy to help you find the easiest and best solution.

You can also feel free to email a sample to me (as long as it doesn't contain any proprietary content), if you feel that would be helpful. Email link is at the bottom of the page.

Best,
Stephanie

Posted by: stephk [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 3, 2006 07:39 PM

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