Jennifer Buchholz to be featured on MKE CONNECT on June 1
We are proud to announce that our owner and founder Jennifer Buchholz to be a will be a guest on MKE CONNECT on June 1 at 10 am.
MKE CONNECT, we help you Create, Create and Make an Impact by developing connections and delivering value to your audience. Create a Super Network of trusted allies in building your business!
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What’s New in Microsoft Teams - May 2021
Since there have been a couple of updates with Microsoft Teams Meetings features, we’d like to share the main features we think you’d like to start utilizing in your meetings.
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Types of Training
So there are two different types of training products that we offer:
Synchronous Training, which is with an instructor leading a training either face-to-face or live virtually, and we can be eyeball-to-eyeball with our participants to check for understanding.
Office Minded Asynchronous, which is an on-demand tool that you can use just like you would on Google, but it's much more focused.
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Join us for our special May "Ask Me Anything" Webinar
Over the past few months, we have dived deep into Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft OneNote. And Microsoft 365 in general has seen numerous updates to its Office 365 apps. So now is the time to catch up and join us for our “Ask Me Anything” webinar
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What’s New in Microsoft Teams - April 2021
At Excel & Flourish, we promise to stay on top of trends and new products to see if we can implement that into your current role or next training session. (Psst- that’s why it’s important to find the right trainer for you and your team!)
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Special Ask Me Anything Webinar - Admin Edition
In honor of Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April, 21, Founder And Owner, Jennifer Buchholz will be hosting a special Administrative Professionals week starting on Monday, April 19. All week long we will share special tips and tricks aimed at administrative professionals. These tips and tricks will help improve productivity and hopefully make their lives a little bit easier. At the end of the week on Friday, April 23, Jennifer will hold a special “Ask Me Anything” webinar for Administrative Professionals. This is your time to bring any software and productivity-related questions or issue and have them answered during the live webinar by a certified Microsoft Training Expert.
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PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has just rolled out its PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams, its video meeting and chat software, and now it wants to explain to its 115 million users how to actually use it to improve presentations. At last month's Microsoft Ignite conference, the company unveiled PowerPoint Live, Microsoft's rendition of classic PowerPoint for a world where Teams is the platform for remote meetings. With PowerPoint Live, Teams users don't need to open a PowerPoint deck and share their PC's screen with an audience. Instead, the presenter can just open PowerPoint Live within Teams to deliver a presentation
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Jennifer Buchholz Named Leader of NAWBO Chicago North Connects Group
Jennifer Buchholz, owner of Excel & Flourish, has been named leader of the National Association of Women Business Owners – Chicago North Connects group.
NAWBO is the only dues-based organization representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs across all industries and with chapters across the U.S. NAWBO is a one-stop resource, propelling women business owners into greater economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide. NAWBO is the country’s premier women’s business organization.
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Topic of the Month - Microsoft PowerPoint
Let’s bring the sexy back to Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most utilized applications in Office 365 and everyone’s go-to for presentations. But did you know PowerPoint can do so much more? Design brochures, create GIFs, edit images & videos, and more!
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What’s New in Microsoft Teams - March 2021
With consistent IT and user feedback, Microsoft is constantly updating for better experiences. That’s why you have us! At Excel & Flourish, we understand time is money. When you partner with one of our Microsoft Certified trainers, they’ll be able to sift through the new applications.....
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Jennifer Buchholz partnering with University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee for a Public professional development series
Our owner and founder Jennifer Buchholz will be partnering with the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee for a Public professional development series. The series will consist of four online courses focused on improving productivity for Microsoft Office 365 and Zoom.
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Excel-ent Content Part 2 – New Excel Functions
Our March 2021 topic of the month is a little program called Microsoft Excel. Last week we shared several great Microsoft Excel resources with you and this week we want to show you some exciting new functions within Microsoft Excel. We will review these and more on our Microsoft Excel Webinar on March 29.
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Excel-ent Content – Top Microsoft Excel Resources
Have you heard the news? Our March 2021 topic of the month is a little program called Microsoft Excel. You know the program that you use almost every day and the program that sometimes makes you want to throw your computer out the window. We receive more questions relating to Microsoft Excel than any other topic out there. And quite frankly there are so many things to do in Excel and so many new features being introduced, it’s hard to keep up, even for certified Microsoft trainers.
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Topic of the Month - Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is one of our most requested topics every year. It’s one of the most used programs in the world and touches just about every department and job function. And it’s been around seemingly forever… So what’s new in Excel that can actually help you do your job and increase productivity?
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Microsoft Ignite 2021 Recap
Microsoft Ignite 2021 took place last week as a virtual event. And we missed it. Yep, we are so used to Microsoft Ignite being an in-person event that we just missed the virtual version of this year. However, we were able to watch some on-demand presentations and read some recaps to provide you with our biggest takeaways from the event… We really hope 2022 can be in person!
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How Jennifer Buchholz Excelled and Flourished with Microsoft Training
I'm often asked,” How did you even get started doing Microsoft training?” To put it simply, I grew up (or, Excelled and Flourished) with it! My mom was an executive assistant in a county organization, and they were very much used to the Lotus, Lotus one, two, three, word Perfect programs, so she was an expert at that. I actually remember them converting to Microsoft because she would come home and just complain all the time.
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What’s New in Microsoft Teams - February 2021
If you’ve been following us on social media, you’ve seen the climbing statistics of just how much Microsoft has been a necessity for business growth, sustainability, and organization. As we all know, a lot can happen in one month. Here’s what’s new in Microsoft Teams that you might have missed this month...
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The Ripple Effect
Microsoft training ripples out to other projects and people they work with when you hire Excel and Flourish.
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Microsoft OneNote 101
Microsoft OneNote is an app that is designed for research, note-taking, and information storage. Similar to apps like Evernote and Dropbox Paper, it lets you store text and images in free-form documents which you can keep private or share with others. OneNote is a part of the Microsoft Office Suite, along with programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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Topic of the Month - Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is an app that is designed for research, note-taking, and information storage.
Similar to apps like Evernote and Dropbox Paper, it lets you store text and images in free-form documents which you can keep private or share with others. OneNote is a part of the Microsoft 365 suite, along with programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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