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Personal Productivity for Profit and Compliance: Computer efficiency:
approved by The Faculty Office for two CPE points

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The seminar covers the production and content of smartly presented documents and other computer-related issues. Improved client care and notarial record keeping can boost income and prevent misunderstandings between you and your clients thus alleviating the possibility of a complaint.

The seminar is ideal for
• Notaries who want to increase income and efficiency
• Newly qualified Notaries
• Lawyers seeking to improve their computer knowledge and skills

We demonstrate the best way to use Microsoft Office’s Word, Excel and Outlook for compliance, efficiency and profit.

This one-day course is aimed at notaries with some computer experience. It is presented in lecture mode however delegates may bring a laptop computer and work through the examples demonstrated. All delegates will be given a disk containing the examples we work through to take away and use.

Program.
9.30am – 4.30pm, includes a light lunch and templates on disk to take away and re-use.

Content overview: Personal Productivity for Profit and Compliance.
1. The Business Case for Computer Efficiency: the real reason efficiency matters.
• Introduction.
• What documentation?
• Your computer equipment.
• Which programs?
• What about the data?

How to be super successful in business: part one of three

It’s all about the data
• Explorer
• Indentifying files types
• Saving data
• Data security
Client facing and legal documentation presented in Word
• Letterhead & letters, quotations, alternative compliment slip, client registration form, notarial certificates ...
• Using images

Working in Excel from documents currently in use by successful notaries ….
• Master Register: Spreadsheet layout
• Invoice: using formulae
• Book Keeping Records

Outlook
• Managing email, settings, signatures ...
• Impress your clients with ‘Meeting Request’
• Address book: importing & exporting contacts

Pandora’s Box
General discussion about other related computer issues...
• Storing records electronically
• Date security: Data Protection Act, data backup options,
• Antivirus software and routine DIY computer maintenance
• About Skype
• Equipment
• PowerPoint

• Overlap with "The Entrepreneurial Notary"

Templates on disk and detailed take-away notes are provided

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*SOLICITORS: 5 CPD hours are awarded on request