What's New?

New Office 2007 Webinars

Easel Solutions will now be offering Microsoft Office 2007 webinars. These webinars will be two hours long and cover specific Office 2007 features. Buy 2 Webinars and Get 1 Free if purchased by December 31, 2008.

Current Webinar Offerings

Excel 2007 Advanced Functions and Formulas: December 18, 2008, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
In this course, students will learn to create formulas in Excel using built in functions. With hundreds of functions available in Excel advance your understanding with several useful functions.

Excel 2007 Creating Charts: February 4, 2009, 10:00am - 12:00pm
In this course, students will learn to visually display data in an Excel chart. Students will work with different chart types and how to format the data.

Excel 2007 Creating PivotTables: January 14, 2009, 10:00am - 12:00pm
In this course, students will learn to create a PivotTable report that will allow you to summarize, analyze, explore, and present summary data.

Excel 2007 Working with Macros: January 28, 2009, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Macros are an action or a set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language. Students will learn to record and edit macros.

Outlook 2007 Staying Organized with Outlook: March 5, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Learn different techniques to stay organized in Outlook. Create folders for email messages, color code different types of information and setup reminders.

Outlook 2007 Working with the Calendar: March 19, 2009, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Learn how to use Outlook’s calendar feature. Students will create and edit appointments and events. Students will also learn advanced calendar features for sharing and sending invitations.

PowerPoint 2007 Animations and Multimedia: January 8, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Learn to insert different multimedia elements to presentations. Animations can be created to enhance text and objects. Movie and sounds can be created and inserted to give additional slide information.

PowerPoint 2007 Design Elements: March 5, 2009 1:30pm - 3:30pm
The most important thing next to the actual content is the design of PowerPoint presentations. Adding different formatting to presentations can enhance or ruin a presentation. Learn to design effectively in PowerPoint.

Word 2007 Styles and Formatting: January 14, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
This course will teach students to work with Word styles to create consistent formatting that is easy to create and modify.

Word 2007 The Mail Merge Process: December 18, 2008, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Mail Merge is a great tool to use for creating large quantities of letters or labels. Students will learn the mail merge process to develop letters and labels to a list of different contacts. Students will also learn to work with different mail merge tools to help customize letters and labels.

Word 2007 Working with Long Documents: January 25, 2009, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Learn to work with long documents to create a table of contents, an index and use referencing tools. Students will learn to add cross-references, footnotes, endnotes and bookmarks to their documents.

Microsoft Office 2007 and PDF: January 8, 2009
This course will show features available in Office 2007 to create PDF documents. Learn tips to correct from Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Each Office product has its own tools that can help in creating PDFs.

PDF for Legal Professionals Workshop
December 11, 2008
$395 per person
Grant funding is available, contact Stacey Sell for more information.

Easel Solutions has secured grant funding and will be offering the Acrobat & PDF for Legal Professionals course at no charge to Nebraska law firm staff members. The class will be held at our Lincoln office on December 12 from 8:30am-4:30pm with an hour lunch break. Our instructor, Angie Okamoto, is an Adobe Certified Expert and Certified Instructor in Adobe Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer. This hands-on course will focus on features widely used in the legal profession as well as general functions and techniques used in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional:

Acrobat for Legal Professionals is a 1-day hands-on course in which you will explore the Acrobat work environment and practice creating and manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The course covers in detail, how to set up and track a review process and modify settings to produce high quality results. You will also learn how to add security to PDF documents such as restricting access and distribution of confidential information. Additional topics include the following: electronic filing, redaction, bates numbering, document searching, retrieval, archival and more.

Since this is a hands-on course limited space is available on a first come first serve basis. Please contact Stacey Sell as soon as possible if you or anyone within your company would like to attend so the space can be reserved.

Nebraska User Group Meeting

Adobe Captivate User Group
Date: December 9, 2008: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Easel Solutions, 701 P Street, Suite 301 Lincoln, NE 68508
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This Captivate meeting with focus on enhancements available with the help of Adobe Flash. Dustin Tauer will be in town to discuss Flash features to enhance Captivate movies.

Adobe Acrobat User Group
Date: December 11, 2008: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Advanced Network Technologies, 12030 Pacific Street, Omaha, NE
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This Acrobat User Group meeting will discuss new features of Acrobat 9. Last meeting we had an overview of the new features but this meeting will focus on Flash capabilities within PDFs.

New Office Location!

Our new office is located in the Creamery Building of Lincoln’s Haymarket district. Our street address is: 701 P Street Suite 301, Lincoln, NE 68508. All Lincoln classes are now being held at this location.

Student Parking Information

Students may park in the Lumberworks Lot (under the bridge) at 7th & O Street or the Iron Horse lot at 7th & Q or the Haymarket Garage at 9th & Q Street which is about four blocks from our office. A Credit Card (Visa or MasterCard) is required to park in these lots. The cost is $3.00 per day. You will not receive a receipt or ticket until you exit the lot. Students may also park on a first come first serve basis in the metered lot on the west side of the Creamery building. Most stalls are two-hour meters but directly in front of the old Crawdaddy’s building there are five-hour metered stalls available. The cost is 50 cents per hour. Bring your quarters!

The Creamery Building has two entrances. The main entrance is off of P Street on the north side of the building. The elevator to the third floor is near the back of the building, follow the main hallway past the staircase to the elevators. The staircase is to the second floor only. You must take the elevators to get to the third floor. The West entrance is off the metered parking lot. There are two double doors on this side of the building, use the south set of doors. After entering, take the elevators located just inside the door, to the third floor. Handicap access is available at the west entrance of the building. If you have any special needs please contact us.

Featured Course Catalog

November - January Featured Courses

Adobe Illustrator CS3 Level 1: December 2 -3, 2008
Illustrator – Level 1 is a 2-day hands-on course that will introduce you to the basics of Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator is a sophisticated graphics program capable of creating complex and attractive illustrations and type effects. In this course, you will learn many of the basic skills that will allow you to take advantage of Illustrator’s powerful capabilities to create dynamic graphics using advanced drawing and editing tools, path editing techniques, filter effects, and masks.

Adobe InDesign CS3 level 2: December 4 - 5, 2008
This class provides the InDesign user the ability to hone their skills and move their knowledge of Adobe InDesign CS3 to an advanced level. Using the skills learned in the Level I class, students will create complex documents and work with a variety of palettes and tools to further understand the capabilities of this high-end design application.

Microsoft Access 2007 Level 1: December 9 - 10, 2008
This course, you will be introduced to the concept of the relational database and the Microsoft Office Access 2003 relational database application, and information management tools. Also, you will learn how to design and create a new Access database.

Flash CS3 Video Development: December 9 - 10, 2008
Flash Video Development provides students the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to produce and deliver high quality Flash Video over the internet using Flash Professional. This course will focus on delivering the best experience possible with Flash Video, exploring bandwidth scaling, progressive downloading, and streaming with the Flash Media Server and Flash Video Streaming Services.

Adobe Acrobat for Legal Professionals: December 11, 2008
Acrobat for Legal Professionals is a 1 day course during which you will explore the Acrobat work environment and practice creating and manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) files, usable for information collection. The course covers in detail, how to set up and track a review process and modify settings to produce high quality results. You will also learn how to add security to PDF documents such as restricting access and distribution of confidential information. Additional topics include the following: electronic filing, document search, retrieval, archival and delivery, modification of a PDF file by adding navigation to it, PDF forms, and how to obtain data from a PDF.

Excel 2007 Introduction: December 11, 2008
In this course, you will use Microsoft Office Excel 2007 to streamline and enhance your spreadsheets with templates, charts, graphics, and formulas.

Flash CS3 Advanced ActionScript 3.0: December 11 - 12, 2008
Flash Advanced Design provides the knowledge and hands-on practice required to build more flexible and dynamic design-based Flash pieces. This course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that removes their reliance on timeline-based visual tools. It also introduces them to other ActionScript code that will allow them to generate dynamic design and navigation elements that cannot be created without ActionScript.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Website Development: December 17 -19, 2008
Dreamweaver Website Development is a 3-day course that provides web designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional websites.

Adobe Captivate 3: January 8 - 9, 2009
Using Captivate is a 2-day course that provides student with knowledge on how to record and create software demonstrations in addition to editing and publishing projects. It also focuses on creating testing options for e-learners.

Microsoft Word 2007 Introduction: January 15, 2009
This course will teach students the basic features of Word. It is designed for students that are new to Microsoft Word.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional: January 21 - 22, 2009
Sorely overlooked, Adobe Acrobat is an amazing production tool that will change the way you work. You’ll be amazed at its incredible versatility and range, as you experience 2 full days of tips, little-known tricks and fresh, fast-forward ways to optimize digital production.

Adobe Acrobat Forms: January 23, 2009
This course introduces and describes various techniques for using Acrobat forms to create electronic forms that can complement, or supersede, other means of collecting and presenting enterprise data. After the completion of this course, you will be able to create interactive forms that can reduce data collection and processing errors, and enhance the user experience. The course first introduces the basics of form design and describes how to design your forms for efficient data exchange.

Check out our website for the latest information on all of our courses including detailed course descriptions and Easel Solutions´ public course schedule.