Microsoft Office training is now more important than ever
April 27, 2008
Remote working, from home or office, wherever that may be, is great for concentration, flexibility, comfort, time and costs. More and more people are taking advantage of how modern technology helps us achieve all of the above. But there can be a disadvantage to working alone too, and not one that’s easily spotted until you find you have a difficulty: the lack of help from other humans around you. How many times in the past have you just shouted “can anyone help …”; or “I’ve got a problem with …”
When you’re working alone, whether self employed or not, to have the correct training, knowledge and resources are an invaluable tool to help you get your job done.
Document Direct is helping more and more businesses with designing templates, creating banks of precedents, calculating Excel spreadsheets and designing PowerPoint slideshows. Our documents contain automatic cross-referencing, automatic tables of contents and other advanced word processing features. Our ongoing training ensures our skills are up to date to get the most from our techonology and you can too.
Microsoft Certificate Application Specialist (MCAS) is the qualification to have which will give you the skills needed to manage your remote office and it has never been easier to learn now that the whole course, libraries and exams are available online. Having an indepth knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint will mean you’ll never have to hold up your hand and ask for help, in fact, others might end up calling you!
If you’re interested in having more skills and knowledge about Microsoft Office then give us a call or email (you might even get a discount).
Experts in digital transcription for lawyers
April 23, 2008
What do you think makes an expert, expert? I think it can be summarised into three categories:
- Knowledge
- Skills
- Experience
Knowledge of lawyers’ needs must always come first. Document Direct’s team of typists are made up of experienced legal secretaries who have worked in the various areas of law, whether that is conveyancing, litigation, family or wills and trusts, etc. We speak the same language and have little difficulty with legal terminology.
We have knowledge of digital dictation software and devices (easy to use) to help the lawyers get their job done more efficiently. How to set up and install digital dictation software and devices on a home computer so a lawyer can work from home is a simple task we undertake regularly for our clients.
The obvious skills required are excellent audio typing skills, good word processing and computer skills. Less obvious skills for an outsourced typist will be how they problem solve for their clients. Remember, our typists don’t have access to files and papers and quite often their only resources are each other and the internet.
And experience of using all of the knowledge and skills together make for good problem solving skills and the ability to apply those skills to a wide range of situations and scenarios.
An outsourced secretary will have at her fingertips more knowledge, skills and experience makes an expert, expert.
Welcome!
April 10, 2008
A warm welcome to the Document Direct blog.
Here we will be sharing lots of information about how you can save time and money in the workplace by using tried and tested technologies in your business as well as looking at what’s going on in the area. Right now, we’ve just getting started but don’t worry, you’ll find much more news coming in a few days time so sign up to receive the posts via rss as they are published
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