Local Government Events

Excel Basic provides the basic concepts and skills to start being productive with Microsoft Excel 2016: how to create, save, share, and print worksheets that contain various kinds of calculations and formatting. This course, and the two that come after, map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist and Expert exams for Excel 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

Excel 2016 Level 2 builds on the basic concepts and skills of our Level 1 course to provide more advanced tools for analysis and presentation of complex, realistic data in Microsoft Excel 2016: how to manage complex workbooks, build more complex functions, use data analysis tools, make an impact with powerful chart and presentation features, and collaborate with other users.

This one-day workshop will help you teach participants how to:

• Describe what is meant by a project
• Explain what project management means
• Identify benefits of projects
• Identify the phases of a project’s life cycle
• Sell ideas and make presentations related to pitching a project
• Prioritize projects
• Begin conceptualizing your project, including goals and vision statements
• Use project planning tools
• Contribute to creating a Statement of Work

PowerPoint 2016, Level 2 provides advanced concepts and skills for PowerPoint 2016 power users: how to use advanced formatting features, and animation and transition techniques, add and format media, track corrections and work with multiple presentations, create custom slide shows, and work with security and sharing options. This course, along with the preceding one, maps to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist exam for PowerPoint 2016.

The meeting will feature a panel discussion over different types of incremental development with experts in the space. Expect a lively conversation with lots of knowledge and tools to bring back to your communities!

This is a virtual meeting offered through Zoom. There is no cost for this event, but your registration to attend is requested. Login information will be provided following registration.

This course focuses on Adobe® Illustrator® CC, the component within CC used to create “drawn” graphics, while enabling its users to integrate content from other domains (such as photo-oriented graphics and animation, which belong to Adobe® Photoshop® and Flash®). With Illustrator's many, easily used tools, you will discover that not only can you unlock the same creative impulses you've always had as you've picked up a pencil to sketch out an idea, but also capture those multiple ideas and “what ifs” during the creative process in ways that you never imagined.

Hybrid format: limited attendees in MARC’s Board Room with a remote option via Zoom.

Excel 2016 Level 3 builds on the concepts and skills of our Level 1 and Level 2 courses to provide advanced tools for solving real-world problems in Microsoft Excel 2016: lookup and decision-making functions, auditing and error-handling, array functions, date and text functions, importing and exporting, what-if-analysis, and macros. The three levels of our Excel 2016 courses map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist and Expert exams for Excel 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

This one-day workshop teaches participants to:

Communicating ideas and information is the cornerstone of organizational operations. And, electronic forms of communication have made the transfer of knowledge quick, easy, and inexpensive. The ability to harness the potential of electronic forms of communication is critical in nearly every type of organization. But, in many, if not most, organizations, people work with a wide variety of devices running on a wide variety of platforms. And sometimes, what works well or looks good on one device, won't work at all on another device.