New PDP workshop on 23 July: Add-ins: work smarter & faster in MS Word
AMWA is offering an online professional development workshop ‘Add-ins: work smarter & faster in MS Word’
- When: Wednesday, 23 July 2014
- Time: 12 noon to 2 pm AEDT
- Cost: AMWA members $85 AUD/ Non-members $100 AUD
- Presenter: Dr Hilary Cadman, Cadman Editing Services
Places are strictly limited to 10 participants. So don’t miss out—register now at Trybooking registration
Completion of this workshop will count toward the AMWA PD certificate.
Workshop objective
To introduces four useful Word add-ins (PerfectIt, Editor’s Toolkit, Reference Checker and Phrase Express), and explain what each can do and how best to incorporate it into your work.
Content
In this workshop, for each of these add-ins, we will:
- have a demonstration of how the add-in works
- use the add-in on one or more sample documents
- discuss the pros and cons of the add-in, and how to use
- it effectively in your work
Participant profile
This workshop is aimed at medical writers or editors using MS Word.
It is NOT suitable for Mac users unless they are running Windows within the Mac.
Workshop format
The workshop includes a mandatory pre-workshop assignment and two-hour online session. The pre-workshop assignment should take no longer than one hour. The two-hour online session is interactive and includes presentations, exercises and discussion.
Workshop leader
Dr Hilary Cadman has worked internationally as a scientist, university lecturer and technical editor (both in-house and freelance). She now works as a freelance technical editor and trainer. Hilary is passionate about finding better ways to work on and in her business.
**Before booking, please note that the workshop will use the Citrix Go To Webinar platform, and you must use VoIP (the computer microphone and speakers, and a headset is highly recommended as this is an interactive session). This is to avoid long distance phone call charges.
Please make sure that your computer meets the system requirements
http://support.citrixonline.com/webinar/all_files/G2W010003
If you have questions, please contact L.E. Ohman at pdp@medicalwriters.org
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