So today the President came to Mr. Russell, asking if I had time to type up his part of the big corporatewide meeting presentation they’re having on Friday morning. It was only a few slides, but he wanted me to type them up instead of his admin. I jazzed it up by adding animation and a few graphics, and he loved it. :cheer:
In other news, his admin asked me to help her make some Excel charts and build some easy formulas with the data she had. So after lunch we did that.
Mr. Sutherland has asked me to input his contacts into SalesLogix. The only problem? His contacts aren’t all in one place. There are two separate Excel files, his Lotus Notes and a PDF file. So far I’ve merged the Excel files and the PDF into one large Excel file. But the kicker is that not all of the contact info is there – in fact, about 80% of the 250 contacts I have so far do NOT include the company address or main telephone number. So for the past two days I’ve been surfing the WWW looking up company info for this file. Then I have to tackle the Lotus Notes export – that’s another 750 contacts and when I try to export it doesn’t bring ALL the info over, just the info that appears on the main contacts page. So stupid – I hate Lotus Notes.
In yet other Mr. Sutherland news, he wanted me to figure out the web conferencing capabilities with our phone conference system, so I spent about 30 minutes playing with that today. I had another admin, KK, sign on as the meeting participant so I could find out what she saw on her machine. For the most part it went well, except for when I went into “share computer” mode – this is the mode that allows her to see everything I do on my computer. Instead of being sized to fit her screen, it jumped up to a HUGE resolution on her monitor so that she could only see the upper left corner of my own desktop. Weird. But it worked well for everything else, so I’m sure I can fix that as well.
Either way, they are definitely keeping me busy, which makes me happy – I need to start keeping notes of what my accomplishments are this quarter so that come review time I have my list ready of the things I did over the past three months.