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Springhouse Expands Its Training Services into D.C. and Virginia

Public Classes Begin in March Microsoft Technologies Training and Project Management Classes to begin in Metro DC, Reston and Richmond, VA in March 2010.
 
Springhouse Education & Consulting Services will begin offering open-enrollment training classes in Washington, DC; Reston, VA; and Richmond, VA in March. Topics will include Microsoft Technologies – such as SharePoint, SQL Server [...]

Springhouse Opens Center City Philadelphia Office

We’re happy to post that we’ve successfully opened our newest training location in Center City Philadelphia earlier this month.
"We want to make it convenient and easy to work with Springhouse. [...]

Springhouse Announces Executive Promotions

Bruce Cooper promoted to Chief Executive Officer; Neall Alcott promoted to President
EXTON, Penn. – Dec. 11, 2009 – Springhouse Education & Consulting Services today announced the promotion of Bruce Cooper to Chief Executive Officer and Neall Alcott to President, effective January 1, 2010.

As CEO, Bruce Cooper will assume the responsibilities of overseeing Operations, Financial and [...]

Creating TOP X queries with SSAS 2008

Once you start working with BI, one of the most popular requests is “Can you create a TOP 5 Products report”? So let’s see how SSAS 2008 can help us with that. There are different ways to create TOP X queries/reports with SSAS.
The way I prefer is creating a new Named Set. So let’s create [...]

Earn a 20% Return on Your Training Investment

If you’re looking for an easy way to manage your training budget and you want to maximize those funds, then invest in a Springhouse Training Savings Account.
It’s easy – for every $5,000 you deposit into your Springhouse account, you will receive an additional $1,000 in training credits.
That’s a 20% return on your investment! Use [...]

Tuesday Take Offs! Training Discounts on Select Courses

Economy woes effecting your wallet or even your business budgets?
Probably.
Seems like everywhere you look or listen you are learning more about the hardships of business and individuals feeling the effects of a poor economy. Take off the stress of these hardships and read the rest of my post and learn about how Springhouse can [...]

Outlook 2007 Email Tips

Here are some of my favorites:
1. Drag an email over to the Calendar on the To Do Bar; dropping on the desired date. Outlook creates a calendar item from the email with all the contents in the body of the appointment.
2. If you deleted an email and even emptied your Deleted Items folder. Don’t worry, [...]

Change default hyperlink color in PowerPoint 2007

What happens if you are using a blue background in your presentation and you insert a hyperlink? It automatically changes the text color to blue.  Now you can’t read your hyperlink because the text and background are almost if not exactly the same color! UGH!
In PowerPoint 2007, it is very easy to change the color [...]

Introducing the Springhouse iLearn Webcast Series

Springhouse Education and Consulting Services would like to introduce our latest training series to bring education to you, we’re calling it Springhouse iLearn Webcasts.
The iLearn Webcast series will be short, 1-hour and free webcasts covering such topics as:
Microsoft Excel 2007: Tips and Tricks
Microsoft Visio 2007: Tips and Tricks
Microsoft Project 2007: Tips and Tricks
Getting Started [...]

Ever ask yourself, what Task Type should I use in MS Project?

Are you looking to answer the million dollar question in Microsoft Project: What task type should I use for my tasks? This question can make or break resourcing a project schedule and can cause headaches for those managing those schedules when not properly understood.   Continue reading to better understand this feature and how to greatly simplify the answer to [...]