Christopher Duncan

Introduction to PDF Forms in Acrobat Pro

Acrobat Pro is a great way to create forms that you can use to gather information and export it back out to a database/Excel format. You’ll learn about setting up electronic signatures and setting up a basic form. Attendees will be introduced to:

PDF Collaboration and Types of PDFs in Acrobat DC/Pro

Sharing and protecting PDFs are the two most common questions that come up after how to edit a PDF. You’ll also learn about the the world of different kinds of PDFs you can create. Attendees will find out how to:

Branding and Navigation in Acrobat DC/Pro

If you get lucky, your PDF will automagically come with built-in navigation. Unfortunately, no one is lucky all of the time. Master the skills of giving users the ability to navigate through any PDF document. Attendees at this session will learn about:

Getting Started with Acrobat DC/Pro

PDFs are everywhere and yet most people don’t know what they are or how they work. Learn about the three kinds of PDFs, Adobe’s Cloud and all of the different methods you can use to create a PDF. The course will cover:

Adobe Acrobat DC/Pro

Business professionals want to learn Adobe Acrobat DC or Pro due to its versatility and wide range of functionalities that streamline document management processes. The program comes in two separate forms: Adobe Acrobat Pro is a single user perennial license, and Acrobat Pro DC is the cloud-based subscription. Acrobat DC/Pro Read more…

Advanced Formatting and Lists

 Learn the difference between content and structure, and how they both play an important part in your document creation. Master creating special multi-level lists and change them on a whim. Experience the power of the Outline view and experience how easy it is to create advanced features like Tables of Read more…

Advanced Formulas and Functions

Matching data between two sets of information is one of the first tools that most advanced Microsoft Excel users learn. For example, it allows you to take an account number from one list and look up the payments from another list. It forever relieves you of manually filtering data and Read more…

Data Design and PivotTables

Many users assume that Microsoft Excel information is already in a Table. It has lines and rows and columns – oh my! Truthfully, the core power of Excel only comes out when you convert that information into Tables and PivotTables. It’s so easy to filter and sort your information that Read more…

Mastering Formulas and Functions in Excel

Formulas and Functions are the meat and potatoes of Microsoft Excel. They are the tools that give the program power to achieve our goals. We’ll review the basics of Formulas and Functions in this class before diving headlong into more advanced Functions. This class also takes a look at special Read more…

Problem PDFs and Solutions

 All of the theory in the world cannot prepare you for some of the oddball problems that you will encounter making a PDF accessible. In this workshop you’ll discover how to deal with table column headers that span multiple columns, tagging issues that are disguised as alternate text issues, missing Read more…

Accessible PDFs and Forms

Picking up where the first class left off, Accessible PDFs and Forms dives straight into documents supplied by real world users. Attendees will tackle remediating troublesome scanned documents, creating accessible fill-in-the-blank PDFs, and working with document packages that have some of the most troublesome accessibility challenges built into them. Most Read more…

Creating Accessible Documents

Beginning with the simple explanation of what accessibility means and why it is important, attendees learn to build accessible documents using Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Common stumbling blocks like alt text, repetitive blank characters and document structure will be addressed, and simple PDF documents will be Read more…

Introduction to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams has taken the world by storm as we have all learned how to operate in the “new normal” of COVID-19. It’s an innovative tool that allows us to securely connect, meet, chat and share files from the comfort of our computer – whether in the office or in Read more…

Intro to Cloud Computing with Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is your Swiss Army Knife of productivity software. It includes all of the programs you know – Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint – and puts them in the cloud, available to you from anywhere in the world. You’ll learn about Microsoft’s innovative approach to make your work Read more…

Advanced Word

One of the reasons Microsoft Word is so powerful is that it can do so many different things, many of them unique to certain professions. Not everyone needs to know these skills, but when you do, you want to make sure you’ve got the basics down. This class is for Read more…

Professional Documents in Word

This class has one thing that all document need: the big picture. Learn the difference between content and structure, and how they both play an important part in your document creation. Learn the power of the Outline view and experience how easy it is to create advanced features like Tables Read more…

Visual Communication in Word

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why are you writing so much? New tools in Microsoft Word make it easier than ever to support your conclusions with thought-provoking images, clear charts, definitive tables and even video! Take your document to the future with these skills.  Adding Clip Art Read more…

Formatting Documents in Word

Controlling how a document flows is crucial to its validity. Look like an amateur did it, and people will treat the information as amateurish. The power combo of Themes, Style Sets and Styles Sheets will catapult your document into the next dimension.  Headers & Footers Page Margins and Paper Sizes Read more…

From the Ground Up! in Word

Microsoft Word is the world’s most popular word processing program, and this class will get you started on the path to becoming a power user. Learn secrets in this introductory class that professionals use to make the program jump. We’ll start at the beginning and give you a thorough grounding Read more…