Lunch and Learn

SMACNA Greater Chicago Lunch Remote Session

We're Serving Up New Offerings!

Level up your skills, confidence and efficiency! SMACNA Greater Chicago’s bite-sized Lunch and Learn courses are engineered to help you with professional development, day-to-day management skills, software skills, jobsite safety and more in a lunch hour (or a series of them)!

All Lunch & Learn sessions are remote, so you can join from the comfort of your office.

To register, call or email Laurie: Laurie@SMACNAGreaterChicago.org or 708-544-7007.

MEDLEY OF MICROSOFT

PART 1
Date: 2.5.26
Time: 11 a.m. – Noon

Registration deadline: 1/29.

PART 2
Date: 2.12.26
Time: 11 a.m. – Noon

Registration deadline: 2/5.

This course teaches how to integrate Excel with Word, Outlook, Excel and OneNote.

• Participants will create form letters in Word and email them using the recipient emails that are stored in Excel. Individual letters will be received by the recipients.

• It will introduce how to display Excel worksheets in Word and Outlook.

• Copy emails and calendar items to OneNote, where additional notes can be made.

To register, call or email Laurie: Laurie@SMACNAGreaterChicago.org or 708-544-7007.

EXCEL DATA LISTS AND FORMULAS

PART 1
Date: 3.5.26
Time: 11 a.m. – Noon

Registration deadline: 2/26.

This session will explain in detail how to create a formatted table that will easily set filters and display subtotals based on those filters. Create reports from your table with Pivot tables. Building formulas within a table will be introduced.

To register, call or email Laurie: Laurie@SMACNAGreaterChicago.org or 708-544-7007.

EXCEL DATA LISTS AND FORMULAS

PART 2
Date: 3.12.26
Time: 11 a.m. – Noon

Registration deadline: 3/5.

After mastering how to work with a formatted table we move to creating reports from these tables with the pivot tables function. Using the graphic interface, you can create a sophisticated report in minutes. Once the report is created, you can substitute current data to generate the report routinely without starting over again each month.

To register, call or email Laurie: Laurie@SMACNAGreaterChicago.org or 708-544-7007.

WORD “INTRO-MEDIATE”

PART 1
Date: 4.2.26
Time: 11 a.m. – Noon

Registration deadline: 3/26.

PART 2
Date: 4.9.26
Time: 11 a.m. – Noon

Registration deadline: 4/2.

This course is geared toward the self-taught Microsoft Word user, as well as professionals who aren’t regular Word users. We’ll review many of Word’s embedded features that you might not find on your own. Find out all the ways you can save time with this program.

To register, call or email Laurie: Laurie@SMACNAGreaterChicago.org or 708-544-7007.

EXCEL “INTRO-MEDIATE”

PART 1
Date: 5.14.26
Time: 11 a.m. – Noon

Registration deadline: 5/7.

PART 2
Date: 5.21.26
Time: 11 a.m. – Noon

Registration deadline: 5/14.

If you’re a self-taught Microsoft Excel user, this class will benefit you. It covers many uncommon shortcuts and helpful tips.

• Learn more about formulas

• Auditing tips for understanding formulas in inherited workbooks

• Formatting tips

• Managing multi-tabbed workbooks

• Creating a summary sheet that automatically adds up the individual month tabs

• Viewing multiple tabs adjacent to each other

• Creating formulas that work with other tabs or workbooks

To register, call or email Laurie: Laurie@SMACNAGreaterChicago.org or 708-544-7007.

Member Benefit Free 2-Hour Tech Help

Ginnie Floraday will remotely help individual companies work through any specific computer/software needs. Classes can include up to 25 participants, be customized for new hires or internal promotions and can be recorded for future use. This is an annual benefit - schedule yours by emailing gfloraday@comcast.net.