BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8@itiscotland.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190316T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190316T163000 DTSTAMP:20190203T145635Z URL:https://itiscotland.org.uk/events/spring-workshop-2019/ SUMMARY:Spring Workshop 2019 - The Wizard of Word Returns DESCRIPTION:Registration is open for our 16 March 2019 workshop!\nThe Wizar d of Word Returns: More Word Wizardry with Kay McBurney\nScotNet’s resid ent Word Wiz Kay McBurney will once again pull lots of productivity-boosti ng tips and techniques out of her hat to help you get the most out of Micr osoft Word in your everyday translation work.\n\nWord Wizardry I will larg ely be a repeat of her previous workshop in 2017 for the benefit of those who missed it or would like a refresher. This session will take an in-dept h look at the Word environment\, focusing on customising it to enable you to work faster (e.g. Quick Access Toolbar)\, essential shortcut keys and a dvanced Find&\;Replace options.\n\nThe Word Wizardry II session in the afternoon will go on to look at more advanced formatting techniques such a s harnessing the power of styles\, ways of converting pdf files into Word and in particular how to speedily knock them into shape for translation. E veryone is welcome to attend either just one or both sessions.\n\n Note: Tips and techniques will be demonstrated using Microsoft Word 2010 for Win dows but the same or similar features should be available on all Windows & amp\; Mac versions from Word 2007 onwards.\n\nProgramme\n9:30          Registration/foregather (tea/coffee available)\n10:00       Wor d Wizardry I\n11:30       Refreshment break\n12:00       Word Wizardry I cont.\n13:00       Buffet lunch\n14:00       Word W izardry II\n15:00       Refreshment break\n15:20       Word Wi zardry II cont.\n16:20       Q&\;A/wind up\n16:30       End \nSpeaker\nKay McBurney has been working as a translator since the dictaph one and golfball typewriter era. She started her professional career at Ni xdorf Computer in Germany\, where among other things she learned to use a Wang word processing system to post-edit machine-translated user manuals. Following a short stint at an agency in England\, in the early nineties sh e turned freelance and returned to Scotland the proud owner of an early De ll PC running Word and WordPerfect for DOS. Shortly afterwards she upgrade d to Word for Windows and has never looked back.\n\nAlong the way she lear ned a lot about using this word processing tool so she was invited to hold MS-Word clinics for the ITI Scottish and German networks. She subsequentl y also taught on ITI’s inaugural IT courses for translators and served a s guest tutor for translation memory tools at Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Un iversity. Over her 5-year tenure as ITI ScotNet Convenor in the noughties\ , she organized a wide variety of other CPD events for the network too.\n\ nWhen she’s not sailing off into the wild blue yonder\, Kay puts her Wor d wizardry skills to good use when turning stodgy German corporate communi cations into stylish English.\nVenue\nThe event will take place in the Qua ker Meeting House\, 7 Victoria Terrace\, Edinburgh EH1 2JL. The Meeting Ho use is located in Edinburgh’s Old Town\, a 10-minute walk from Waverley Station. The buffet lunch will be served within the venue.\nCost\n\n\n\nIT I Scottish Network members\nWorkshop only (all day or half day): free\nWor kshop and lunch: £8\n\n\nITI members\nWorkshop only: £5 for half day/£1 0 for full day\nWorkshop and lunch: £13 for half day/£18 for full day\n\ n\nNon-ITI members\nWorkshop only: £10 for half day/£20 for full day\nWo rkshop and lunch: £18 for half day/£28 for full day\n\n\nStudents\nWorks hop only: £3 for half day/£5 for full day\nWorkshop and lunch: £11 for half day/£13 for full day\n\n\nAll\n£8 for lunch only\n\n\n\nRegistratio n\nTo register\, please complete and return the form below to Angelika by Friday\, 1st March 2019\, and pay your registration fee directly by bank t ransfer to ITI Scottish Network's account:\n\nBank of Scotland\nSort code: 80-02-83\nAccount: 00298915\nBIC: BOFSGB21346\nIBAN: GB97 BOFS 8002 8300 2989 15\nPlease enter your name as the reference!\n\nDownload Registration Form CATEGORIES:Technology LOCATION:Quaker Meeting House\, 7 Victoria St\, Edinburgh\, EH1 2JL\, Scotl and GEO:55.9485013;-3.1939621000000216 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=7 Victoria St\, Edinburgh\, EH1 2JL\, Scotland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Quaker Meeting House:geo:55 .9485013,-3.1939621000000216 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181028T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR