MS Office

As of today, everyone in the firm should have an Office 365 Account.  You should have received an email from Office 365 allowing you to download a setup program, which will install MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and a few other Office programs on your computer.

Hopefully by this time, it is not a surprise to anyone that we are doing away with WordPerfect and moving to MS Word as the firm's supported word processor.  I announced this change in a Blog post last August.  In March, I published this post and this one announcing the move to Office 365, which includes the most current version of MS Word (2016).

If you did not get an email allowing you to install Office 365, or lost the one we sent you, please email me or the help desk and we will send you another one.

Cain Elliot will be offering training classes beginning soon.  You should have MS Office on your computer before you take that class.  I strongly recommend playing around with the program ahead of time so that if something you do is a problem, you can ask about it during the class.

There are also online training videos available here: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/topics/office2016

I am addressing this issue again, because I want to make very clear to everyone that I will not be making an Obama-like promise that if you like your word processor you can keep your word processor.  You cannot.   The firm is moving to MS Word and you need to make sure you are up to speed on its use.

We expect to be using MS Word exclusively for all new documents by the end of this summer.  That deadline will come sooner than you think.  Please act now.

Thanks.