Welcome everyone. This is Brian Rowe from LS NTAP. Thank you guys for coming out today for this training on Microsoft Outlook 2016, although it's also going to include some general tips. We've got Sandy Rylander who we've worked with for several years at Northwest Justice Project and who has now joined us for the second year running at LS NTAP to do some trainings here. Well, thank you for having me. Welcome everybody to Outlook. We will cover Outlook 2013-2016. I know a lot of you probably are still on 2013 and there are so many new features that occurred in 2013 that are so worthwhile that we will definitely be looking at those as well as the 2016. Because a lot of people will be working in 2013 and 2016 over time, if you do download my handout, which by the way is under the handouts part of the email that you were sent, you'll see that in the table of contents it lists all the different features but it also off to the side of everything that's new in 2013 has a dash new in 2013 for you so you can just look at what's new if you'd like. And then in Appendix A, there's an Appendix A in the book that lists the handful of new items in 2016. Microsoft decided since they went to quite a new look a couple releases back that they wouldn't do that to people again, that they would keep the look relatively the same and that they would just add a handful of new features. So if you're switching from 13 to 16, don't be worried that you're going to see any great changes because there aren't a huge number of different changes as far as looks at all as you can probably already tell by looking at my screen. So I thought I'd start out by introducing myself a little bit in case you haven't had a class. I started out going to UC Berkeley and majored in business then worked for about eight years for IBM and then about 28 years ago started my own business teaching WordPerfect, Lotus, and DOS and then about 20 years ago switched over to the Microsoft Office suite. So I teach Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, all the different products including OneNote which is a relatively new product for them. So in starting out, does anybody have anything in particular that they would like to learn today? Otherwise I'm just going to go ahead and start with mail. Well if you come up with anything, Brian mentioned two ways of getting our attention is to ask a question or to raise a hand. So we're just going to start by looking at my screen. Hopefully everybody's having no trouble seeing my screen and I'm going to see if I can move this a little bit out of the way. There we go. So on the screen you should all be used to already the fact that we have a ribbon and a quick access toolbar. Over on the left is your navigation pane and down on the bottom you have navigation tools. Now in the past they've had names on them and now they're just little icons. So this is your mail navigation tool, so if you want to go to email. This is your calendar, your contacts, your folder list or if you point to it it should show you what the different items are and then your tasks. Now you may not have a folder list, I don't know. You can change what's being shown on there by clicking on the triple dots and then going to navigation options and deciding which ones you want and which order you want them in. So that's all in the triple dots over here. Now this navigation pane I like to always keep it open because I'm always moving between different folders but if you say, well gosh it's taking up too much of my screen you can always minimize it by using this little arrow here and then you see it sort of collapsed and you can still navigate to different folders simply by clicking on sent mail over here or inbox over here. But I like having it bigger and staying on there so I click on this push pin so that it stays there and if you'd like it to be open but maybe not take up as much room you can always go to the line that separates the navigation pane from your messages and notice the two sizing arrows allow you to move left or right so you can make it larger or smaller there. So this is the new sleek look that they introduced with 2013 but back then they didn't have many colors on the tools. I don't know if you've looked at your tools but that was apparent to many and they weren't too happy with the fact that they had reduced the colors and the color options so much. So they introduced color back in in this release. Not a lot but more so than in the past. So that's one of the new things about 2016 is you have more color options. If you go to file and you click on options notice that now you have an office theme called colorful where in 2013-2010 all you had was gray, dark gray, and white. So it's nice to have a little bit of color back in the palette. So on the screen so over here like I said were the navigation just some of the different navigation tools over on the right hand side bottom right you see there's your zoom slider which was a new feature and you can zoom in and out of your text so your text gets larger or smaller. And then over on the left side of this navigation pane notice it shows you the number of items you have and that's the number of items that are currently showing in your mail screen, the mail folder that you're currently in. This is going to be important in a second when we do a search you're going to see that as we narrow our search more and more you'll see the number of items continue to go down and so you'll see how to search a lot faster than you've probably been used to in the past. Another new feature that came about in 2013 was the read and unread view. Notice that up here it says all which means you're looking at everything whether you've read it or not but if you click on unread now you're only seeing unread items. The way you can tell if an item has been read or not is if you look on this left side do you see as I point to it it turns into this thick bar but you see this thin bar is that it's red because if I click on all do you see how there's a thin bar there so it has not been read. These all have been read because that bar is not there. If you want to change something from read to unread if I point over here and I click you see that now it thinks I've read it and then I can also click again excuse me now it thinks I have not read it because it had that light blue line and if I click again now it thinks I have because it's gone. So red and unread is something new that happened in 2013. Also in 2013 they have a new search bar that is always visible and it is much faster to find things than it used to be. As you start typing something like if I start just typing T-A-M-M you're going to see that it immediately starts searching which is much faster than it used to be and it also highlights in yellow everywhere that it finds what you're typing in. So you don't even have to finish the entire search criteria for it to have found an item. So if you're following along in the handout we just finished page 9 and page 9 and page 10. We've talked about this navigation pain over here but one of the things that we have not talked about down here at the bottom with the navigation. Just a quick note as we've had two or three people join us late. The handout that Sandy is mentioning is under the handouts tab on go to webinar there. It's a downloadable PDF. It's Outlook 2016 training. So again, thank you. Underneath the navigation pane at the bottom are these navigation tools and something else that happened new in 2013 was this being able to point to the calendar and getting what's called a sneak-a-peek. It allows you without going to calendar it allows you to see what's coming up. So it says here I've got this appointment today which is what I'm doing right now. It says Wednesday I have another appointment. Thursday another one. So without going to my calendar at all I can sneak-a-peek right here. So that's true of calendar. You can also sneak-a-peek with contacts and notice you can have contact favorites if you'd like. You can add to this list so you can quickly see them. So I can click on the person and shoot them an email. I can click on this down arrow and actually see the rest of their contact information. I can edit their contact information. If I have link I can do all the different link options which are sending messages, creating a phone or video conversation, all those things. If for any reason I want to keep this on the screen which I wouldn't most likely but you can pin the contact card but most likely you're just going to get out of it and maybe use that contact some other time. One of the things that I didn't show you when you're sneaking-a-peek for calendar is notice that right now you're seeing basically calendar items for this week and I can scroll up and down. What if I wanted to see some calendar items for next month? I can go to whatever month I want and click on whatever day I want and it'll show me those calendar items for that week or around that period of time. This is really a nice feature. Nice enough in fact that you might want to take advantage of another feature called dock-a-peek. To dock the peak you can just click on up here it says dock the peak and what it's going to do is dock it to the right hand side of your screen. This will keep it open so while you're working on your email if you want over on the right hand side you can be looking at your calendar and again you can click from calendar to calendar. You can make this area wider or smaller whatever it is that you'd like to do to have that peak. If you decide you no longer want to have that peak docked you can always click on this X and it goes away. So really easy to put on and really easy to take off. In addition to calendar and contacts being able to be viewed and docked you also can do the same thing with tasks. You can look at tasks and whoops and if you go to the top again you can dock these tasks and notice you can arrange by different things. This is by due date and this allows you to see to change the sort order from being today versus later. Alright so those are again new in 2013 those sneaker peaks. Out of office the out of office is new it was new in 2013 for the first time and unfortunately since I am not on exchange I'm a single user I can't show it to you but what I'm going to do is show you where you would find it. If I click on file it would be right here the out of office assistant and because I don't have it what I did was I put it so that I could show you what that looks like found a place here on the internet so you can see it. Notice as I just told you you'd go to file and under the file tab you would see the additional option that you did not see on mine that says automatic replies. So you would click that and then you would get this new screen up and maybe you've already noticed this one of the neat things that it allows you to do is say that give it a start and an end time it used to be that you had to do this as you were flying out of the office trying to catch a flight because it would start right when you set it but now you can do it at any time and just say don't start until this date. You can also say I want to end at this date so that you don't have to come back to the office and then say yes I'm now back in the office and therefore start you can automatically set a start and an end time if you wish and then by checking only send during this time range it's going to just be within those two dates. In addition you can select two different messages to send one can be for people inside your organization and if you click on this tab you can have a completely different message if you'd like for people outside your organization. So those are some really nice new features that happened in 2013 that you may or may not know about. The other thing we have which we're going to look at in a little bit is the quick access toolbar which you probably have up here above your ribbon. The quick access toolbar is where you can put tools that you want to use all the time because as you noticed with the ribbon if you want to find something you may have to go from tab to tab to find it. Once you find it if it's something you use often it sure would be nice if instead of having to remember that it's on this tab or even have to go to this tab each time you might want to add it to your quick access toolbar. For instance, some people would like to hide reading pain and so you'd have to go to view and you'd have to go to reading pain and you would have to say that you want to turn it off, right? Well, if that's something you want to do frequently because people enter your office and you don't want them to be able to read your mail then instead of having to come here I'm going to put it back on the right I can put this on my quick access toolbar. Does anybody know how to do that? Anybody that's taken a class from me before knows that the right answer for almost any question I ever ask is if you don't know how to do something right click on whatever you don't know how to do. So if you don't know how to put the reading pain on your quick access toolbar then all you have to do is come to the reading pane right click do you see it says add to quick access toolbar and that's how easy it is to have now always be there. Very handy feature. So this would allow me then to come here and turn it off and turn it on very quickly. If you decide, hey you know I really won't use that tool much then you might want to remove it off the quick access toolbar. So what would you do in order to do that? Well, if you don't know how to do something you right click and look at that remove from quick access toolbar it's that simple. You're saying up here in the right hand corner you're not seeing Doc the Peak? Stan responded with yes. That's exactly what he's saying. So what version of Outlook do you have? And do you know how to find out what version you have? He says I was trying to find out where do I look. If you go to file and I believe it's Office Account then it should tell you here it might say 2010, it might say 2013. Well, just so that we don't hold up. So it's Office 365. You have Microsoft Office 365? Okay, well then we're going to I'd say offline we're going to need to investigate that because that's what I have too Do you have your Office updates? Maybe you could click update now and see if for some reason you're on a back version it should be updating automatically. Notice I have updates are automatically downloaded and installed. If that's what you have showing then quite honestly I don't know why you would not have the Doc a Peak on all of them. Yeah, he says yes it is. It is on? Okay, well maybe what we can do later is do a join.me session or something and take a look at it because I don't know. I've never seen that not be available. Okay, so going on then so searching was one of the things that we talked about earlier. Remember I came in here and I typed in Tamara and remember earlier also I talked to you about looking at your task bar down here for the number of items in the folder. It's not true that there's only 250 items in the folder but the number of items is visible because we have now said we only want items with Tamara in it. So it went from let me X out of Tamara so we look again at how many I had to begin with. Notice I have 2,126 items. If you don't know what I'm going to show you next just this is going to be worth staying in class for because I don't know about you but I'm a really slow reader and if I want to find an email and have to look through 2,126 items it will take me forever. So the first thing I do is I type in Tamara and it finds that really quickly. What that has done though is find it's found every single email that has Tamara not just from Tamara but has Tamara anywhere in the email at all. And so it's already merited down to 250 which is amazing, that's better but still a lot to read. So instead if I highlight tomorrow now notice by the way that the second I go into this search area I get a brand new tab and a lot of people don't look at this tab but that tab will save you hours and hours and hours of time. Instead of just typing Tamara if I want to make sure it came from her and not something that I sent to her or just had somebody mention her I can now click on from and you see how now I've gone from 250 to 152 and now I'm just getting the ones that are from her. Now if I only want to see ones that have attachments I can click on has attachments and I've limited it even further. So now instead of 150 152 I'm down to 29. Now I would like to have something having to do with yard work so I'm going to click on subject because I know I put it somewhere in the subject and I don't even have to type in all of yard work I can just type in yard and now I'm down to six items. Can you imagine how much time that's going to save you instead of having to look at 250 items to now just glance through six different items? That's a pretty fabulous feature and all of it comes when you click in this search bar and then you can go to any of these items to refine your search. If I want to click on important now it's only going to show me four items. So all of them are additive that's why it's called refining. Every single one of them is going to narrow my search further and further. If you don't see something that you'd like to limit your search on you can click on more and look at all the different things that you can add to refining your search. Really amazing toolbar and it works so quickly. Now sometimes you want to refine a search I'm going to go ahead and click on the X to get out of here but sometimes you want to expand a search. Have you ever tried to search for something and it comes up with nothing and yet you know it's there? Well again if you click in the search box so that you see your search tools this is where you can increase the scope of your search. Notice that right now it's only looking at the current mailbox. But I can say I'd also like to include all subfolders or all mailboxes so every single one of these mailboxes it's going to include or I can even search all outlook items. So if I'm looking for let's say Tamara and I click on all outlook items it's also going to find meetings with Tamara find contact information with Tamara, everything. So over here on the search bar it's going to narrow your scope over here it's going to increase it. And then over here if you search for the same thing a lot what's nice is it saves your recent searches and you could just quickly click on some of your recent searches. Any questions on any of that? So search is a phenomenal tool. And now we're back you can see down here we're back to 2100. Okay so that is on page 19 and page 20. On page 20 it also refers to categories color categories. And notice that if you're in 2013 you're probably seeing the ability to add a category color category and that was one of the things that was taken away in 2016 in mail. You can still color code with categories when it comes to your calendar and when it comes to contacts but no longer in mail. So if you're seeing it on page 20 just know that that's for 2013 and before. Another nice feature on page 21 that it talks about is sending to OneNote. I don't know how many of you are familiar that you actually own OneNote. Everybody that owns the Microsoft Office Suite has this thing called OneNote. And OneNote is a phenomenal new application that allows you to take notes and create these little mini binders. Look at these binders. I've got one on business opportunities, one on to-do lists, one on email, one on travel, and one on restaurants. Just all kinds of different things. So you could have one for each case that you're working on. You could have one for things that you need to do. Just all kinds of different notebooks. And what's cool about this is these notebooks can be available on your phone, on your iPad. Every place that you've got an electronic device you can have access to this information. So let's say there's something in Outlook, since that's what we're working with right now, that you would like to have in OneNote. For instance, maybe you're going to go on a trip for business, and you're going to take Alaska Airlines, so you have a confirmation. And you'd like to save it in OneNote, so if they tell you you don't have a confirmation, you can say, no, I do. Let's see if I can type in airlines. Okay, well, I'm not seeing a reservation. Let's see if I can find one in here. Okay, well, it's having a hard... Oh, I just found it. Sorry. Go back. Okay, let's say... I'm trying to find a... Well, it doesn't matter. These are just different Alaska Airlines things. But let's say this is my confirmation.  Maybe Travel Planned. This is a trip that I'm taking to Hawaii in 2016. And notice that I've already got some reservations here. So if I want to store it here, I can just click on OK, and it will create its own little page for that particular reservation. If I want to add it to the bottom of a page, I can click on the page that I'd like to add it to the bottom of, and click on OK. Either way, when you go into OneNote, you're going to, and I go to Travel, and go to Travel Planned, and Hawaii 2016, this is how easy it is to find your reservation. Here's the reservation, here's the Hertz reservation, all of that sort of thing. So at your fingertips, all the information that you used to look at, you'd look for it everywhere. Notes on your desk, notes on your computer, notes in a file. I never have to worry about where anything is anymore because my entire life is now in OneNote. It's so handy to have everything in one place. So that is integrated right into Outlook, right here. Back to email. We already covered read and unread, which is on page 23, and seeing those. Now we're going to look at page, bottom of 23, that all you have to do is click on an email in order to read it over on the right, and that's been true for a long time. But, some of the new things are, you can click on an attachment if you want to, and preview it right in the preview pane. See this? We're going to, I'm going to look at another attachment here. This is just a Word document. Let's look and see if that will work for PowerPoint. First of all, let's look at just those items that have attachments. So if I only want to see items with attachments, do you see this neat filter email button? I can click on that, click on has attachments, and now it's just going to look for attachments. And let's see if I can find one real quick here that has a PowerPoint. I'm not seeing the PowerPoint. Oh, here it is. Here we go. Here's a PowerPoint one. All I have to do is click, shows me not just the first screen of PowerPoint, but the entire PowerPoint presentation, which is pretty cool. Now you may say, well, how do I get back to my message? You can either click on the message, or click on back to message, and then you can read the message. Those of you, when you get to 2016, you may notice that this looks different than you've ever seen it before. It used to just be a small button that would say the name of the item, but now notice it's a large button, and it has a dropdown. If you click on the dropdown, notice that it has lots of different options, including Save As, which will just save the one, or Save All Attachments. So if you had 16 attachments, you could save them all here. Or you can also remove attachments. So attachment handling has become a lot easier because everything is right here on the dropdown arrow. Another thing that's new with 2013 was the ability to do what's called inline replies. Inline means that right here, you have the option to click on Reply, and notice as soon as I do that, it says I'm creating a draft. So if I start typing a message now, and then I click somewhere else, I don't have to worry that I'm going to forget about this draft. Do you remember how in earlier releases, it would go to your draft folder and you'd forget all about drafts? Sometimes I would a month or two later say, oh my gosh, that draft is still in my draft folder. Well here, if you're using inline messaging, you don't have to worry about it because it's going to be in red reminding you until you do something about it that you've got unfinished drafts. To finish it, all I have to do is come back here, type some more, and then click Send. Now almost everything that you can do by popping out your email, which is popping out just means that it's going to be a separate screen, which is what you've been used to in the past. Almost all the tool options that you have without popping it out are the same, but there are a few that are on here that you won't find if you do inline editing. So there are reasons that once in a while you may want to pop out, but if you do that, know that that feature will not work. It will go into your draft folder if you leave it sit for a long time, but it won't have that nice red message. Okay? All right, now if I decide that I don't want to have this anymore, I can always discard the draft if I want to. It's like coming up here, clicking on discard, and it just doesn't have that draft anymore. We've got a quick question here, which is can I add a new folder directly from the OneNote link in Outlook? Oh, so you're saying when I click on this, can I add a new folder right here? Mm-hmm. I don't believe you can add a new folder. No, because there's a lot to adding a new folder, so what you're going to want to do, you can leave this up if you want, and then you can just go to OneNote and add a new folder either by clicking on File New or by right clicking and saying new folder either way, but not from this little pop-up screen. Because when you're adding a new folder, you have to decide where you want it. You have to decide whether you're going to put it on your network, whether you're going to put it on the cloud, whether you're going to put it on your computer, so there's a lot to setting it up, whether you want to share it with other people or not, so they don't have you do that here. And then there was also a question about could you do a OneNote training, and I'm putting a link into the chat. We have two past trainings on OneNote that have been done. I'm going to put a link to the YouTube videos for those, and we will consider doing another OneNote in the future. Yeah, OneNote is fabulous. Excel used to be my favorite product, but now OneNote is a really close second, and Outlook is phenomenal as well, but OneNote just changed my life. Okay, so any questions, any more questions, or is that it, Brian? That's it. Okay. So that's one of the changes with attachments that I just showed you here. There's another change with attachments that's in 2016, and that's when you click on New Email. You know when you click on Attach a File, usually it would just ask you if you wanted to browse your computer or whatever to attach a file, but now it will give you a list of, I believe it's 26, I have to look up, different files that you've worked with recently so that if you want to attach something that you've worked with recently, instead of having to go find it, all you have to do is click on it, and boom, it'll be attached. That's pretty cool, right? So, now, another difference, and by the way, notice you have options here, you can change permissions, so as to whether somebody can edit or just view, and it depends on where you have these saved. Okay, if you have them saved and you go to Attach a File, it's going to, if you have 2016, not 13, so don't think this is a 13 feature, this is a 2016 feature. If you have it saved on SharePoint, your Internet, that sort of thing, then instead of attaching the document itself by default, it's going to attach a link, which is really nice, so instead of having your inbox cluttered with huge items, you're just going to have links, and everybody, if they're editing, they're going to be editing the same document, instead of having a ton of documents out there and everybody doing their own thing. Remember I said by default, you can change if you don't want to send something as a link, you can change it to being an actual attachment, but that would be the default, okay? But you can click down here, you can also, even though you are sending a link, maybe you don't want somebody to edit it, you just want somebody to see whatever it is you're sending them, and that's where you can come in here and say that they can view it, but they can't edit it, okay? Notice you can also attach it as a copy, that would be a regular attachment as opposed to a link, okay? So you have different options here. If you don't find, let's say it wasn't a file you recently used, then if you come down here, you can browse web locations and browse this PC. And you might have other options, like you may have browse network locations, that sort of thing. If you've got a network, I'm just not attached to one, okay? So that's another new thing with attachments. Another new thing with attachments, if you do have an attachment, this was new in 2013, if you have an attachment and you send, excuse me, if you send something in your subject line that says, see this attachment and there is nothing attached, you will get an error message or just a message saying, hey, you said there was something attached and there isn't, would you like to attach something? Also in 2013, they started spell checking your subject line. Those of you who have worried in the past that you've typed in something incorrectly, they now spell check your subject line, and also in 2013, if you hit send with no subject, it will give you a message saying, hey, are you sure you want to send without putting a subject in? So there's a lot more checking of items going on. Also in 2013, when you start typing a name, have you ever started typing a name to send to somebody and when you look at the email address, you see it's wrong. It's an old email address and you want to get rid of it. A lot of people had no clue how to get rid of bad email addresses from this list. So what they did in 2013, they put an X over here to make it really easy to delete items off of this list. Now don't think that because you delete an item off this list, it will get deleted out of your contacts, it won't. All it's doing is not showing up as an email that you've sent to in the past. Now there have been times that I've actually deleted items off this list that are valid. For instance, this one right here. This is my husband and this is the person who built our home. I don't want to ever accidentally send to this person, so even though this is a correct email address, I will often delete him off that list just to make sure that I don't accidentally send an email to the wrong person. This happens a lot in organizations that people have the same name. I used to get so much confidential email when I worked for Seattle Monorail Project because the director's assistant, her name was Sandy, and people didn't watch that they were sending it to me instead of her. So by deleting things off this list that you don't use frequently, you can make sure that it won't accidentally go to the wrong email address. Okay. Now if I send to that, if I send let's say to Roger McPherson again, he will get added to the list, so I may have to remove him again, but since I don't do it that often, it's not a big issue. Okay. Another new thing in 2013, people may not have known about, under this by date, by date allows you to sort by lots of different things. So instead of sorting by date, I might want to sort by from. Let's see what that does. Notice sorting by from is now sorting by the name of the sender. Now sometimes it would be nice to see all of your sender's names really quickly. One way to do that, notice I've got a little arrow here that allows me to close up each one of them, or it's called collapsing, but that would take me a huge amount of time to collapse each of them. So how would I collapse all of them? Well once again, remember I told you if you don't know how to do something, right click on whatever you don't know how to do. So on top of one of these little headers, just right click and you see where it says collapse all groups. So now if I want to quickly look at something sent by my husband, I can click on any one of these and I can just start typing R and notice I'm already down to the R's. So let's say Brian Rowe, let's say he called me and I wanted to find all of his email really quickly. I could just type in br and I'd be right up here and could click and see everything that he sent me. I could also come over here and create a folder called Brian if I wanted to. Do you know how to create a folder really quickly? Well if you don't know how, right click on the inbox, new folder, type in Brian, hit enter, boom I've got a Brian folder. If I want to move all his email over there, I can simply drag this heading, notice as I'm dragging the heading, all of the email lights up and I could just drag it down to Brian if I wanted to. I don't want to do that but that's how easy it would be. Instead though I might want to be a little more selective because maybe I don't need all of them. So I can click on the first, shift click on the last or control click if there are ones that are not next to each other and then go to any of the blue ones and drag over to Brian and they'd be in the Brian folder. That's how easy it would be to move items to a folder. If you no longer want a folder you could right click and delete the folder. Another new thing in 2013, it used to be these folders were always arranged in alphabetical order.  Well now that's not the case. I can actually drag Brian. Now make sure that you see this black line. I can drag that folder anywhere I want. Let go. And you see that even though we're a model obviously is not ahead of Brian in the alphabet I now can put a folder anywhere I want to have it which is really nice. So your most important folders can come at the top. You might also decide that Brian's a folder you use a lot and you can drag it up to the favorites area. And what that does is it gives you a shortcut. It's not really the folder but it's a shortcut to this folder. And if I no longer want it to be a favorite I can always right click and remove from favorites. But notice what I put in my favorites. I have several different inboxes. And a lot of times I wonder if a mail actually got out of the outbox and sent. So below each inbox I decided I'd drag up sent mail and put it up underneath the inbox so I can see all of my inboxes and all of my sent mails right below each other. Okay. Now the reason a lot of times that I sort by from is maybe Brian gave me a call and said hey Sandy could you look at the email I sent you a few days back. So I click on sort by from. I type in start typing his name so it immediately brings me to all his items right. But now Brian hangs up and I no longer want to see it in sorted order by name. I want to see it by date like I always have it. Well that seems like a lot of work for me just to find out emails that Brian sent me. So there's this new feature that started in 2013. It was called the it was called the social pain I think something like that back then. Now it's called the people pain but if you look down here some of you are going to see this and some of you aren't. But it's called the people pain. Those of you who don't see it you may have to go to the view tab and you see here there's a people pain or it could be the social connector pain. If you're not seeing it you might want to click on either normal or minimized but then you see this pain and right now it's not showing you anything right.  It says click to expand the people pain. By expanding it notice that it says Brian row and if I click on mail it shows me all the mail he's ever sent and if I click on attachments it shows me those with attachments. I can also look at meetings that we've had together these are group meetings. Or I can look at all three but I find this mail and attachments so handy because if I now want to look at one of them notice it's blue so it means I can just click and it'll open it right up. If that's not the right one I can go further down click and it opens it right up. So I love this little pain you can make it you can make it taller or shorter if you want and then you can just close it or open it if you want. Any of those things will work great. Another neat new feature. Any questions so far? Another nice feature that again was in 2013 if you click on this by date which we looked at before which remember allows you to sort by different things you can also decide whether you want to show things in groups. What does that mean? Well groups when you're looking by date are these collapsible items here like today, yesterday. Remember when I right clicked and I said collapse all groups it's these little headings here. Okay and when I was sorting by from it was the name of the person. So it's these headings that allow you to collapse and expand. You may like those headings or you may say hey they just take up room on my screen so if you don't want to see them shown in groups you take that off it's still sorted exactly the same as it was before it just doesn't have those little collapsible headings. This is how easy it is to put it back on. Another neat feature that was added in 2013 is showing as conversations. Those of you who use Gmail may have already seen show as conversations in the past but if you click on show as conversations what it allows you to do is every email that you have going back and forth on a particular subject it would group together as a conversation. Now when you say show as conversation notice that you can say just for this one folder or for all mailboxes. I always like to err on the side of caution so I like to do this folder till you see if you like it and what happens then is anytime you have this same subject like email introduction that's how it decides that it's part of the same conversation every time you reply back and forth you will see that it's a conversation because you will see an arrow to the left of each of the conversations. To expand to see the conversation you click on that arrow and you see some different items in here and if I click on it again you'll see that not only will you see items that were sent to me but items that I sent to her. So right here you're seeing you see how this is italicized so those are sent items and then these are items that were sent to me. So this is in my inbox these two are in sent items inbox sent item and you can follow the whole conversation by clicking on it. Here's another one that's click on the arrow okay click on the arrow and it will expand okay here's another one I don't know why it keeps opening up here but here you're seeing all the different conversations if you like that let me tell you one of the neat things about looking at conversations if you look at the home tab notice you have a this delete area here and one of the items under delete is clean up if you click on the down arrow next to clean up do you see where it says clean up conversation a lot of people have huge inboxes and one of the reason they have so many items in their inbox is there's a lot of reply going back and forth so if I send an email saying or if Brian sends me one saying hey when can we do a training and I send one back saying oh how about next week that whole back and forth every single one of those items is a new mail message and yet most everything is captured in the reply every time you reply most people just leave in all the prior conversations within the reply so instead of having 15 email all with repetitive information you can say clean up conversation and it will leave all but the last email that has all that complete information in it so a great way to clean up items out of your mailbox now in addition to cleaning up conversation clean up conversation will just clean up everything in this one conversation clean up folder will clean up all conversations in this folder and clean up folder and sub folders will clean up everything in the folder and all sub folders below when I say clean up I mean delete so be really careful what I do is I just I would start out by just cleaning up conversations and making sure that it's doing what you want it to do before I would ever even think about cleaning up a folder and myself I would not do clean up folder and sub folders just because that's such a huge amount of deletion possible now if you do want to do that let's say you think you know hey I know I really don't have much then what I would do if I were you is I would go to your trash and I would right click and I would say empty folder so now your trash would be completely empty now if you do a clean up and you accidentally delete too much you know that everything in your trash can came from that clean up process and it would be very easy for you to just like whatever you want right back into your inbox so just be cautious be safety minded ok with your clean up it's a great feature that use it cautiously ignore ignore allows you to ignore conversations not a good thing to do if it's something sent to you from somebody important so know that ignore will do is it will move current notice it says right here on your screen and future messages into the deleted items folder ok so for me what I would use ignore on so somebody might say hey I've got Mariners tickets to tonight's game who wants them or this is a joke and everybody seems to like to do reply all to those sorts of things and that would be for me a great use of ignore no matter what the future response is I don't want to see it so that would be a good use of ignore also new in 2013 ok so if you don't want to see items in conversation mode anymore no problem you can just click take the check off of conversation mode and you're back to seeing everything just grouped by date or from or whatever it is that you'd like ok alright we've done attachment preview which is on page 27 and we've done saving both a single attachment and multiple attachments on 28 and 29 and we've discussed the people pain on page 30 which is that pain right here in the bottom right corner another great feature that's been around forever but a lot of people didn't know it was there is a feature called auto create what do I mean by that well notice that I've got an email from Brian Rowe and let's say I don't have in my contact folder instead of me having to go to my contacts and type all this information in which I could do incorrectly I could make mistakes or whatever but whatever it is it's time consuming right auto create says if I drag from a folder like a mail folder to any other folder like a contact folder so notice I'm dragging right on top of contacts you see the little plus next to my arrow all I've done is drag this email on top of contacts let go notice it already typed in his name and his email but Brian is nice enough to give me all sorts of other cool information so if I want to put in the company well I don't know which one is this company I'll do this one I can highlight it and then drag it to company I can highlight his job title drag it up missed it you have to let go after you've highlighted point drag up to job title do the same with address do the same with address now there is an extra blank line in this address so I do want to make sure I clean it up just hit backspace a couple of times you've got a nice phone number and really that's all I need so all the rest of this if you want to keep it you can but I feel like it's just taking up room so I'll do a control a to select all and delete or I can drag across all of it and select delete notice how now I've got this great contact card if I want I can categorize let's say he's a business law client I can do a category and then if I want I can save and close now if I do that it'll say I have a duplicate contact because I've already got him in there but that's how easy it would be to create a contact without having typed a single thing in myself so we've got a quick question here which is is the people of pain only in 2016 someone's not seeing it in 2013 but it is called the social pain or something like that in 2013 not the they just changed the name of it if you look under view it should be under that same tab let me I have a second computer here let me quickly see but sometimes it doesn't show there is a reason for it not to show I have to look into why it's not showing but let me see what it's called exactly I think it's called the social connector pain or something like that oh no it is called the people pain even on 2013 even though it has a couple different names but it should be it should look the same as far as are you looking at view is that true or are you just not seeing it down here look at view and you should hopefully have it here if you don't I think a couple reasons we could just Google what they are to have it display but are you seeing that or not just a second here because I don't know if it just turned off then it's just not showing up down here it's not showing up in view but she says she's going to Google around for it and let you know you will definitely find it in Google because I've had to do that for clients before okay any questions so this is one auto create and the way I did it remember was I dragged an email to my contacts but I can also drag an email let's say to my task folder and it auto creates a task for me okay I can also be in my people pane and I can drag an email to my excuse me not an email a contact to my email pane and start an email and what's cool about that is let's say I'm in let's say I'm talking to Lynn and I want to send an email to her and to Denny and to Heather I just have to make sure that I have my control key down when I click on all of these see that and then and I do want to make sure that they all have email addresses then drag let me try that again well for some reason it's just popping up this could be a new feature in 2016 which would not be fun there we go drag to my email and do you see how all three names are in the two so a really easy way to select a bunch of people to send email to now if you are sending to a bunch of people and you say you know what I really don't want everybody seeing who I'm sending to you can simply select them and drag down to BCC now what if you aren't seeing BCC well if you click on options you see BCC there and that's how easy it is to turn it on or off and it will stay on for all the emails that you write until you turn it off so you can write just keep mine on always okay any questions okay so that's auto create on page 31 and 32 we've talked about grouping and finding on page 33 and arranging in order and in line reply so we've done a lot of these things already okay another new feature that you may or may not be aware of that was again in 2013 if I create a new email if I click make sure you click somewhere in the body of the email there's a couple neat features one is if you click on the insert tab if you go to screenshot I can click on screenshot and every window that I currently have open appears and I can include any of them in my email message simply by clicking on them so that's inserting a screenshot but what if I'd like to insert less than the entire screen well if I have let's say I have a something in Excel that I'd like and it's formatted and I go gosh you know how sometimes when you copy and paste things just don't look as good in Excel so I could even go to print preview and look at exactly what I want to see then go back to my email and I can say insert screenshot and screen clip what will happen as soon as I click on that it goes back to whatever I last looked at so you need to make sure you've got whatever it is you want to insert has to be the last thing you looked at now I just drag across whatever I'd like to have put in to my body of my email let go and boom perfect look with really no effort on my part I just went to insert and I went to screenshot and screen clip now I love using this so much that for me I would right click and add to quick access toolbar but notice it's del grey only because I've already done it because I like using it so much notice here I've got screenshot and here I've got screen clip now do any of you have messages that you write frequently like whatever please contact me between the hours of dot dot dot dot let's say there's some standard messages that you send a lot there's another cool feature again in 2013 called quick parts that if this is something you insert a lot you can just select it quick parts and you can say save selection to quick part gallery you can give it a name or leave it what you see here leave it if you want in the quick parts gallery you can give it a category like if this were an entire letter you could name it letter this is something I would call a snippet and I've already created one called snippets so I could click on snippets and click on okay now whenever I create a new email or it doesn't have to be a new email but let me go back to new email and I want to insert that snippet I can go to insert quick parts and look at this please contact me boom I created another one earlier called please reply boom isn't that easier if you have texts over and over again to be able to save them now if you want to have let's say a complete email in here then when you highlight it and you go to save like I said you can create a new category and call it letter or email or whatever so that you can have different categories going okay and this could be called welcome maybe it's a welcome letter or whatever it is click on okay and then it will be stored see all your letters will lead together all your snippets will be together now when you name these categories just understand they're always going to be in alphabetical order so think about that as you're naming them if you want to have some things closer to the top let's say you did this and you say oh you know I this is garbage I don't want it anymore just right click go to organize delete you can delete or you can you can do lots of different things in organized delete maybe you want to change the name of one of these you can click on edit properties and change the category or change the name or change whatever it is you'd like on this box okay so that's quick parts now I use quick parts so much that saving quick parts and selecting a quick part I put directly on my quick access toolbar so that I can easily insert these parts into an email okay any questions on that okay so that quick parts is on page 44 quick parts can also be tables you can create a table that you like and that you'd like to save and so when you're done with creating the entire table you'd highlight the table and again it's under insert and quick parts and when you save the selection instead of saving it to quick parts you could save it to tables and call it whatever table name you'd like like my table if you do that you'll actually find that quick part under quick tables okay so all your quick tables will be right here quick parts are a great feature that's not just an outlook but in word and lots of different places okay so that's also on page 45 in your handout okay we just did that attaching files if you send photos have you ever sent a photo so I'm going to attach I have a photo here yeah random jpeg if you attach a photo sometimes when you try and send a photo have you noticed that it's too big to send and so if you go to file info after you've attached a photo do you see that you can opt to resize the image you send it to have it more chance that it will get through okay so that's under file info and attachment creating a signature block I'm assuming most of you know how but they did move it in 2013 so all you have to do is go into an email click on this down arrow go to signatures and you can create as many different signature blocks as you want I always create two one called new at least two and one called reply and reply you see as a subset of my new so what I usually do is I create a new one I click on new and create give it a name like new or reply okay and then click on okay I'll call it new one just have something okay and then you would type whatever you want down here change the font look font size all of that stuff that you want and save it okay if you want to use it in the future you can choose new one as your reply or your reply whatever you'd like but I like to create the bigger one first I'm going to go ahead and delete this one because I don't want it but I create the new one and what I did then is I just copied and created this reply I pasted and then I deleted out whatever I didn't want so I wouldn't have to recreate everything okay once you have those signature blocks you can choose them by clicking on new or clicking on reply or you can simply select them on the fly by so if I want a different signature block I can just right click here and I can say hey I'd rather have the reply or I'd rather have the new it's that simple okay the signature blocks are really nice the problem is and they did not fix this in 2016 that if you choose a file let's say you're here have you ever right clicked and said send to okay I'm in my hang on a second I'm in my backup you go here let's say right click and send to mail recipient I think I was too low let's try that again right click send to mail recipient where's my oh here it is it came up with this attach gonna go ahead okay so here notice that when you do that whenever you send to mail recipient do you notice that you never get your signature block not only don't you get your signature block to put my signature block in do you see how none of the pretty stuff that I had in there is there and that's because two things happen one is they don't give you your signature block I'm not quite sure why but also if you look under format text you'll see it formatted it as plain text instead of HTML so that's why you're not getting anything looking pretty so I click on HTML and then I go back to inserting my my signature and now I get my signature but that's kind of a pain so what I've done as you might be able to tell here on my quick access toolbar I've right clicked on this and added that to my quick access toolbar as well as under format text I've right clicked on HTML and added that so whenever I do send mail recipient all I have to do is click on this to make sure it's HTML and click on this to be new and I get my signature really quickly so those are some neat things to put on your quick access toolbar when you're creating mail okay I don't think we have too much time to go into message sending options but they are on page 53 if you want to look at them on your own there's one that you'd like to go into in particular managing mailbox size I just want to point out really quickly that under file mailbox settings tools there's this mailbox cleanup option that allows you to find old items or large items really quickly by clicking on find you can also find which mailboxes you have the most ridiculously large by clicking on view mailbox size so you can see which ones you need to work on the most but once you've figured out which ones you need to work on you can find items and then via this find which will show up down here you can start deleting items and cleaning up your mailbox we don't have time today but another new feature that I'd like to point your attention to here is this item called quick steps quick steps is a way to and it's on page 59 in your handout but a way to do multiple things to one email at a time so let's say for this one I wanted to send this to my manager then I wanted to put it in a manager folder then I wanted to delete it I could instead of doing three different things to this one item I could create a quick step let me quickly show you I'll just right click on this to manager and edit it so right now all this is doing is forwarding it to someone and I can click on the to and put in my manager's name but I could add another action here and that action could be move to a folder and then I could add another action that could be delete or whatever notice all the different actions so you could just keep adding actions so it's a nice way to do multiple things to an email or several email at a time called quick steps and that was new in 2013 so what we primarily went over today due to only having so much time we primarily went over all the cool things that you can do with mail we didn't get into contacts but contacts and tasks and calendar are all in your handout so you have a specific question on any of those I'm certainly more than happy to answer them and otherwise I hope that you've learned some tricks to make your management of email much faster than it was before Brian do we have any questions no but covered a lot of great stuff there I greatly appreciated if you've got any questions please feel free to click the hand raise button and we will unmute you or type it into the question pane our next training is coming up this Wednesday I just put the registration link into the chat it is on testing legal documents for usability and plain language it is with transcend it is a new topic for us I've worked with them on plain language legal stuff in the past I highly respect them so I'm looking forward to it and give me a second here and I'll also get up the next training that we're doing with you Sandy I know we've got two more scheduled this year it features across all Microsoft applications that is October 12 and the pre-registration for it is up I will drop that into the chat here in just one second this is Microsoft all applications and then as I've also mentioned before all of our trainings are up on YouTube including a one note training that we did last year with Sandy our YouTube channel is NTAP videos we've got over 75 videos up there of past trainings over the last few years so go check those out there is a short exit interview or survey afterwards please give us any feedback on this especially if there's particular topics that you would like to see from Sandy in the future thank you all so much for showing up any closing notes or anything else you want people to know Sandy just the Excel tables is going to be on the 9th according to my notes and the way I found it so quickly we didn't get to calendar but I just wanted to show you that because I start all of I try to keep my labels pretty consistent when I type things into calendar like I started each of these with NTAP I was able to just go to the search bar and type in NTAP and quickly get that information where had I just typed in Excel tables or great features I wouldn't have been able to do a search so just something to keep in mind when you're working in calendar and this color coding that you're seeing of calendars that something else that's in my handout that makes life really easy to find out things that are important or things that are dealing with certain people like this happens to be a business color that sort of thing so that would be something that might be worth looking at and you can either hand color code or color code your calendar for you and we'll do that some day in a calendar class thanks again for coming I really appreciate it excellent thank you for doing this once again it definitely has went over well with the community we appreciate you taking the time to do this thank you


So what's up everyone? Happy Monday today is Monday, September 20th, right? So if you guys are just watching this video for the first time, I like to do a YouTube live every single Monday at 11. And that's because I primarily trade between 9.30 and 10.30 a.m. I trade for one hour a day. I trade during the most profitable window, which is the open. And then we started making these videos on Mondays because Mondays used to be my worst performing day. I used to lose money every single Monday. And we started these videos as like my video journal, like my video diary to be able to talk and vent and educate you guys on how I could improve my trading, right? This was my own diary. And now it turns out that doing these videos, Monday is my most profitable day, right? Monday is my most profitable day and Friday is my most profitable day. Friday because I wanna work for as little time as possible so I forced myself to leave even earlier.  So if you guys are struggling or if you guys have a day of the week that you guys aren't good during, it would always be great to just like make a video journal, make a video diary, talk about it, educate.   And now what I do and what I preach to everyone is to avoid the pre-market trading because pre-market trading is very choppy. It's very random, it doesn't really have a trend, it doesn't really have a pattern. So what I've found in my trading guys is every single morning I wake up, I have a coffee and after I have my coffee, after I get my caffeine rush, I go for a morning walk. I go for a 30 minute morning walk for a few reasons. Reason number one is I'm fat, so I'm trying to get a little bit skinnier. But reason number two is by walking for half an hour pre-market, that is half an hour that I'm not trading. That is half an hour that I'm getting the fomo out of my system. That is half an hour that I'm getting my heart rate up and I'm getting ready for the day. So I highly, highly suggest guys that you guys take a 20 to 30 minute walk around town pre-market before the market opens to get the juices flowing, to avoid pre-market, and to maybe lose some weight, right? So that's been helping me. I've been doing that for approximately two or three months and for the past two or three months I've been doing that, I've been making over six figures every single month, right? So we're at the point now on the year where I'm up over $2.5 million after fees and after commissions.  It is mental athleticism. I am not the most physically fit person.   We are fighting greed. We are fighting ego. We are fighting our emotions. We are fighting every single human, every single thing that makes us human. We must fight and we must combat to become profitable traders. The reason why robots and algos are so good is because they have no emotions, right?  Humans are emotional creatures, right? So anyway, I didn't wanna get into all that rant. The point that I'm saying is these videos were created to help improve my trading on Monday.  So today's lesson or today's topic is what to do when markets are in turmoil. So today the Dow is down, I think like five or 600 points, right? And the main question that I always get when the market is down is, should I be following CNBC? These guys are financial guys. They wear suit and ties. They seem like they know what they're talking about. They're all millionaires, blah, blah, blah. But my lesson to you guys is the reason why people follow CNBC is because they have no idea what they're doing. They really don't know any better. They are just looking for a handout. They're looking for a quick win. And I don't know about you, but I've never heard anyone say that they've gotten rich by following CNBC. The reason why people have CNBC up is to do pretty much the opposite of what they're saying, right? So for example, if CNBC is telling you to buy a stock, chances are either one, they're already in it, you already missed the move, and you are going to be the liquidity for them to exit their positions. So this is just a lesson in anything else guys. You should not be following CNBC. You should not be following any alerts. You should not be following any forex signals. By the time you get that signal, by the time you get that alert, by the time you watch it on TV, it is already too late. So for all the people asking me every single day, should I be following CNBC? Should I be buying CNBC stock? Should I be doing this or that? In my opinion, in my personal opinion guys, by the time you hear it, it is too late. You are the sheep, right? You are the sheep. So everyone listening to CNBC, that is a trigger and that is a radar that they are a new trader. They're a brand of person. They don't know what they're looking. They're looking for signals. They're looking for alerts. They're looking for information. Most of the time I do exactly the opposite of CNBC and I make money. And that is because if everyone is doing the same thing, if everyone is buying the same stock, it's probably gonna go right down, right? That's how it works. If one side is very stuck on one trade, if one side is doing the same thing, the other side is gonna win.  It is not a surprise that whenever CNBC does a markets in turmoil, stocks bounce because they panic everyone out, right? They panic everyone out. So keep that in mind, guys. Keep that in mind. Do not follow CNBC.  Do not follow XYZ. By the time you hear it, it is too late. And I challenge you to find me one person that says they are a consistently profitable six or seven figure trader from just following CNBC. If it was as easy as following CNBC, we would all be rich, okay? So think logically, guys. Think logically. So that was the first topic that I wanted to talk about, right?  You know, I'm not a financial advisor. They'll probably never bring me on.  I'm wearing a full sense shirt. But at the end of the day, I'm probably making more money than all of those people because I'm doing it the right way, okay? So that's lesson number one. Now, lesson number two is the stock market is down a shitload today. Why is the stock market down a shitload today? I mean, to be honest, guys, it doesn't matter what the reason why is. It doesn't matter if there's coronavirus variant six.  What you have to remember, guys, is the market has to move up and down. If anything goes directly like this, it comes back down. You need peaks and valleys, right? Peaks and valleys is what you need in the market. So if you are a long-term investor, if your outlook is 10 or 20 years, I think you're gonna be fine, right? I think you're gonna be fine. But if you are a short-term trader, what does the large cap sell off mean for small caps?  Small cap action does not follow large cap action. Today we have a stock Zivo. Zivo is up 164%, okay? 164% this stock is up. So when large cap stocks are tanking, all of that money is trying to work for something else. So to be honest, it is more advantageous for us to have the overall markets tanking because then that speculation money will flow into small caps. It will flow into these stocks. Now it doesn't mean that we're gonna get parabolic runners. It doesn't mean that we're gonna get crazy things. It just means that the money is shifting, right? There's cycles, guys. There's cycles. During earning season, large cap stocks are very active. During summertime, large cap stocks are very inactive, right? So there's cycles, guys. And again, the reason why I want to make this video is to kind of educate you guys on what to do. A lot of people ask me, what do I do with my extra capital from trading, right? So for example, guys, let's say I make the math easy. I make $1 million, right? After I make $1 million, the feds are taking 500K, right? You can't escape it. Doesn't matter if you make 10 million, you make 100 million, they're taking half your money. Get used to it, right? So if I make a million dollars, that leaves me 500K. After, let's say, $100,000 in expenses a year, food, rent, laundry, this, that, I have $400,000. Now, with that $400,000, do I put it in the bank? Do I put it into crypto? Do I do this? Do I do that? And to me, guys, you will not be rich unless you have your money working for you while you sleep, right? Bauer's very invested into real estate. I have some long-term stocks. But my goal, my goal as a trader is to take that cash flow that I am making in trading and diversify it in different places so that I don't have to be trading for the rest of my life. So if I have $400,000, I would put $100,000 into the market, $100,000 into crypto, and probably $200,000 into real estate.  Now, why am I staying this? If the market is down 500 points and it goes down again tomorrow, I mean, it might be a very good way to start for you to invest in your retirement. It might be a great way for you to start to build a long-term portfolio, right? These are the things that no one else is gonna tell you. Sure, you could make millions of dollars trading, but if I can have a portfolio that has a million dollars in it and make 20% a year, all of a sudden I'm making $200,000 for doing nothing. And that is the goal, guys. Your goal is to take all the money you make to trading and funnel it into real estate, funnel it into other places so that you are diversified and that you are protected, right? So the reason why it's called My Investing Club and not My Trading Club is because after you guys get all this money from trading that we teach you, we are going to teach you how to put it into real estate. We're gonna teach you how to put it into long-term investments. We are not ready for that yet, but just know that that is something that we are working on. Tao is very involved in the real estate world. He has connections up the ass and eventually we're gonna get to a point where after, let's say you make $100,000 a year trading, well, shit, maybe 50,000 of that, you could put it into real estate, earning five to 10% a year and then just growing and growing and growing, guys. So during these market panics, during these market sell-offs, use it as an opportunity to build your long-term wealth. Doesn't mean go all in.  It just means that it might be a great time for you to buy things while they are down. And historically, the stock market long-term has gone up. Sure, maybe for the next three years it'll go down, but for the next 27 years after that, it's probably gonna go up. So as long as your perspective is long-term, there is money to be made, guys. So keep in mind, my investing club, we're gonna teach you how to invest in real estate. We're gonna teach you how to invest in long-term stocks. We're gonna teach you how to invest in different opportunities out there, opportunities that I have for myself, opportunities that Bao has, opportunities that everyone else has, because the way to create long-term wealth is this. Average millionaire has five different sources of income. So if you only have one source of income, which is trading, chances are you're not gonna become a millionaire. You need to have different sources of different opportunities, of different cash flow, bringing you guys in money. So does that make sense? Sorry, I'm just looking around at these stocks. So does that make sense, guys? These are the things that no one else is gonna teach you. These are the things that a lot of people don't care about. I see plenty of people on Twitter making millions and millions of dollars, but they just keep that money in the bank, or they keep that money somewhere else, and hey, you can do whatever you want, but it is what it is. So now what I'm gonna do, guys, is I wanna open it up to a Q&A. I wanna do an audience Q&A. So this is your opportunity to ask me any question you want about day trading, any question you want about cars, any question you want about real estate. Yes, or last time I did this, people were asking me what coffee am I drinking, or what am I drinking out of my cup? That's not gonna provide value, that's not gonna make you money, but if you guys wanna know, I will tell you. So let's use this opportunity, guys, to talk. Additionally, I am going on vacation on Thursday. So Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, I will not be around for DMs, watchlists, trading, anything. I am taking a much needed, much deserved vacation.  So if you don't hear from me from Thursday to Monday, I didn't die, I'm just sipping a margarita on a beach, right? So I need a vacation, I need to de-stress, I need to recharge my batteries, I am burnt out, I am checked out, I am looking homeless, people are gonna confuse me for al-Qaeda soon, but yeah, I am really excited for that. So let's get into the Q&A, guys, any questions for me? Alex, what does your typical day look like? I wake up in the morning around 6 or 7 a.m., espresso, bathroom, go for a 30 minute walk, prep pre-market, trade from 9.30 to 10, from 10 to like three answer member questions, help MIC members, around four, I go work out, around 4.30 I have my first meal of the day, from 5 to 7 I answer more questions, and then from 7 to 9 I watch TV and go to sleep. Do I swing trade in large caps? No, I just have long-term investments in large caps. How do you always know if a pumper is in or out of a stock? I have many people in these pump rooms giving me the information. How many strategies do we have? We have the first bounce, first resistance, death line, short inter-resistance, first red day, first green day, we have like six or seven different strategies, guys, and the reason why we have so many strategies is for you guys to find what works for you. Hey, I'm really struggling with holding my wins in trading. How can I improve on that? Number one thing is to hold on your winners, you need to be able to lock in profits. If you are not locking in profits when you are trading, at least covering a quarter or at least covering half, then you will not be able to be patient for the big picture moves. What makes you avoid the shiny object? I've learned through multiple, multiple losses that trading the hot stock of the day is the hardest stock of the day. Have you thought about taking on a one-on-one apprentice? I mean, to be honest, guys, we educate 2,000 members. I've given my entire life to helping you guys. And to be honest, you cannot afford me for my one-on-one. My time is super valuable and I will not do one-on-ones unless it's worth my time now.  When do I consider trading the hot chick? Like EDSA was the hot chick of the day today, pre-market, and then I opened it, tanked. So after tanked, after I put in a death candle, after it was under VWAP, after it was broken, that's when I want to trade it. The most important step for beginners to focus on is education. You cannot know what you're trading without being educated. I could tell you all these strategies, I could tell you what to do, but if you have no idea what it means, then it won't matter. What is my favorite scanner to use in the seven years that I've been trading? I have never paid for a scanner once. I use the DOS Trader top list, right? And then I use MIC members. They help me filter out which stocks are moving, do not pay for a scanner. Would you personally consider longing hot chicks after 1030? Yes, but I am so busy during the day, guys, running MIC, answering questions, working with everything that I physically have no time after the first hour to do anything, because if not, I will not be able to finish my other work. Yeah, you guys don't even pay $99 and you guys wanna ask for one-on-one coaching. You guys cannot afford my one-on-one coaching.  I am a multi-millionaire trader, right? And if I want to do one-on-one coaching, I don't want to because it's not gonna be valuable. I'd rather coach 2,000 people, which is what we're doing. Again, guys, about the other investments, like stocks or crypto or real estate, we're gonna be releasing stuff on that very soon. That is something that we want to get right. We want to make sure that you guys are getting the best value for that stuff. And I mean, we're gonna be revolutionizing everything, guys. Again, it's not my trading club, it's my investing club. We're gonna teach you how to invest differently. When are we gonna see live trading from you? I am recording live trades as we speak to offer a live trading course for you guys. So that's gonna take some time. It's not my priority. My priority isn't to sell you guys a course. My priority is to educate you guys. I don't like shorting zombie hours. It is a losing strategy. I have made millions of dollars leaving at zombie times. So why are you trying to deviate? Would you consider an MIC meetup in London? I actually had an MIC meetup in London. The meetups are coming back soon, guys. I am just really overwhelmed. I'm just really burnt out. I am really tired. I just need to give some time to myself first before I give myself back to everyone else. So I think I'm gonna wrap it up there, guys. I think this will provide a lot of value for you. What I did last time is I left you guys a challenge. So what I said is if you guys leave a comment on this video with one lesson that you learned, I'm gonna pick one person to win a free month at MIC. So like the video, comment one lesson that you learned on the video, and if you're lucky, you're gonna get an email from me giving you a free month of MIC. So again, guys, this is what I do every Monday, and I'm here to help you guys. I'm here to provide value, but please try to help yourself. Go to the website, myinvestingclub.com. Your first month is half off, and if you made it this far, you're about to hear that monthly membership is going to be ending very soon. So don't wanna say much more details, but you guys will find out soon the monthly membership is going to disappear soon. So if you guys don't take advantage now, probably never gonna have a chance again. So text Tosh<PHONE_NUMBER>. I will see you guys back in the room and I'm going to go enjoy my vacation on Thursday. So thank you, everyone. 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Hello, everyone, and welcome to my Asia-Crypt 2021 virtual talk. So the topic of my presentation is algebraic adversaries in the universal compatibility framework and it is joint work with Michelle Abdallah, Manuel Barbosa, Jonathan Katz, and Julian Loss. So here's an outline of my talk. Our work combines two powerful models in cryptography. One is the universal compatibility or UC framework, and the other is the algebraic group model or AGM. So I will first provide a brief overview of these two existing models, and then I will introduce our UC-AGM framework, which defines AGM within UC. And finally, I will showcase two applications of our new model. One is the CHO and ORANDI OT protocol, and the other is a number of password-authenticated key exchange protocols. So now let's start the first part of the talk, which is the modeling. The universal compatibility framework or UC was proposed by Carnegie in 2001, and it has the strongest security definition framework in multi-party computation in the sense that it supports arbitrary protocol composition. It follows the real ideal paradigm in MPC. So the figures here are copied directly from Carnegie's original paper on UC. The left-hand side is the real world, where the M party is mu1 to muM in the protocol pi. And in an execution of the protocol pi, there are two additional parties, the adversary i.e., and the environment e. And these two parties can communicate with the protocol parties. And the right-hand side is the ideal world. So let me stress that the protocol in the ideal world can be any protocol, but usually the ideal protocol consists of a single ideal functionality f, and M dummy parties denoted d1 to dm here. So now we say that the protocol pi, UC emulates the ideal functionality f. If for any adversary in the real world, there is an adversary in the ideal world which simulates the environment's view. So one reason why UC is so powerful is the composition theorem, which says that if protocol pi, UC emulates ideal functionality f, then a protocol which has pi as a sub-protocol also UC emulates the protocol with pi replaced with f. So what does this mean? So this allows for using the ideal functionality instead of a UC secure protocol within a higher level protocol. The algebraic group model was introduced much later. It was formalized by Fosch-Bauer kills and loss in 2018. So it sits between the standard model and the general group model. So an algebraic adversary, whenever it outputs a group element, it must also output its so-called algebraic representation, which explains how this group element is computed from the adversary's view. So that is, so suppose the adversary's view consists of group elements x1 to xn, then whenever the adversary outputs another group element y, it must also output integers lambda 1 for lambda n on an auxiliary type called the algebraic type, such that y is equal to x1 to the power of lambda 1 times xn to the power of lambda n. So this is exactly how y is computed from the adversary's view. So the HGM mainly has two types of applications. The first one is it allows for either proving a stronger security notion or giving a tighter security bound for some schemes. One notable example is that in the HGM, you can avoid rewinding. So you can give a simple and tighter proof or say the snore signature. The other thing is HGM enables security proof for some schemes that are unlikely or perhaps even impossible to prove otherwise, such as some blind signature schemes. However, up to now, there have been no applications of the HGM that is in the simulation base setting, which severely limits its use in multi-party computation. So our work combines UC and HGM, and we propose the UC-HGM framework. Here we have two key issues to tackle. So the first one is which parties need to be algebraic. In the original HGM, there's only a single adversary, and we require that this adversary is algebraic. But in UC, there are actually three adversarial parties in a security definition. So there's the adversary A in the real world. There's the simulator S in the ideal world, and there's an environment E which tries to distinguish between the real world and the ideal world. So we require that all these three parties to be algebraic in UC-HGM. And then we need to decide what exactly it means to say that a party is algebraic. So recall that in the original HGM, this means that the adversary must write the algebraic representation whenever it sends a group element to some party. So here, when the adversary or the simulator communicates with a protocol party, we require the same thing. However, in order to make the composition theorem work, we need something additional. And in particular, we need to place some restriction on the environment as well. So we require that the environment needs to send the algebraic representation directly to the adversary. So why do we require this intuitively? This is because we want the simulator to receive the algebraic representations from all adversarial parties. Both the adversary and the environment. But the simulator cannot run the environment in UC. It can only run the adversary. So that is why we require that the environment sends the algebraic representation to the adversary. So in this way, the simulator can directly see the algebraic representations from the environment. For other communications, namely the adversary sending a group element to the environment or the simulator sending a group element to the environment. Or the environment sends some group elements to the protocol parties. So in all these cases, we don't require them to send the algebraic representations. So here is a graphic illustration of what I just said. The left-hand side is the real world, where the protocol role consists of parties as well as an ideal functionality F. In an execution of role, the communication channels where the parties must behave algebraically are in bloom. So again, the environment must be algebraic while sending some group elements to the adversary. And the adversary must behave algebraically when sending some group elements to the protocol parties, including the ideal functionality. On the right-hand side is the ideal world with the ideal protocol role. So usually a role is an ideal functionality. So again, the requirements of algebraic parties are in bloom. So having defined the exact meanings of algebraic adversaries, we cannot define UC-AGM emulation, which is the same with UC emulation except that all adversarial parties must be algebraic. And finally, we also prove that the conversation theorem still holds in this setting. So this shows that our UC-AGM framework is as useful as the original UC framework. So now let's see some applications of our new UC-AGM framework. So the first one is the Chouan-Orlandy OT protocol. So recall that a one-to-OT protocol is as follows. So a sender has two messages, M0 and M1, and a receiver has a bit B. At the end of their interaction, the receiver learns one of the messages, Mb, but not the other message, and the sender doesn't learn which message was sent. In 2015, Chouan-Orlandy wrote a paper with the title, the simplest protocol for oblivious transfer, in which they proposed a protocol and they claimed it to be UC secure, even in the adaptive corruption setting. So this protocol soon gained much attention, and the most efficient implementations nowadays are based on this protocol. However, in 2017, there were two papers showing three flaws in the original security proof in the Chouan-Orlandy paper. There's even an impossibility result which shows that a UC proof is impossible, assuming that a certain assumption holds. So this essentially leaves the protocol with no security proof at all. And we do the best thing possible, which is to show that the protocol is actually UC-AGM secure. And this gives the first security proof of the Chouan-Orlandy protocol. So let's see at a very high level how it overcomes the difficulties in the original proof. So here's the protocol. The receiver first sends a random group element, i.e., for the sender. And the sender sends back a group element, which may or may not be a one-time-packed encryption of this A, depending on the bit B. And then the receiver then derives a piece from the protocol transcript and encrypts its messages, m0 and m1, under these two keys. And it sends the cybertext to the receiver. The receiver can also derive the correct key, kb. And thus it can decrypt the correct cybertext and get the message. The other message cannot be decrypted and remains unknown from the receiver's view. So now if you want to prove the security of this protocol, the problematic scenario is the sender is statically corrupted and the receiver is adaptively corrupted. So what will happen here? So in this case, when the receiver is corrupted, the simulator must send the random nonce x to the adversary, which explains how the group element iu is computed. So this requires the simulator to know the discrete log of the group element a, which is y. But the simulator has no way to know this y, so it is done. But in the AGM, so this issue can be trivially resolved because an algebraic adversary must write this y on its algebraic type. So this is because y is how the group element a is computed. And therefore, this y can be seen by the simulator, and then the simulator can compute x accordingly. So in this way, we can bypass the problem and manage to prove the UC security of Trojan-Orlandy OT protocol. Here's another example, the aspect one, aspect two and C-PACE password authenticated key exchange protocols. For a password authenticated key exchange protocol or PIC, it allows two parties to establish a shared secret key in the following setting. Only a low entropy password is agreed on in advance, and there's no authenticated channel. So this is different from many protocols in MPC. In recent years, PIC gained much attention, and last year CFRG held a competition for the standardization of fake protocols. And two protocols made it to the final list. So one is aspect two, and the other is C-PACE. Eventually, C-PACE was selected and standardized. However, the landscape of both protocols, UC security analysis, has been kind of bumpy. So there are certain critical difficulties that when both of them are likely to be UC secure with respect to the standard UC functionality for PIC. Recently, in last year and also this year, there have been some work. By the way, I think one of these works also appeared in this year's Azure works. So these work proved that both aspect two and C-PACE are UC secure with respect to a relaxed UC functionality. The security guarantee of this relaxed functionality is kind of weak, and in particular, it is not very clear whether this functionality implies perfect forward sequencing, which is an important security property for PIC. And again here, we managed to prove that both aspect two and C-PACE are UC-AGM secure with respect to the standard UC functionality for PIC. As a bonus, we also proved that a variant called aspect one, so this aspect one has better security under some side channel attacks. So we proved that aspect one is also UC-AGM secure. And this is actually the first security proof ever for aspect one. So let's see how we managed to prove the UC security of these protocols. Here's the aspect protocol. It is essentially a harsh deployment where the protocol messages are encrypted under the password using the one hand path. So the difference between aspect one and aspect two is whether the password is part of the harsh input while deriving the session key. So if you want to prove the UC security, the UC simulator needs to extract the password from the protocol transcript and send this extracted password to the PIC functionality. But if you look at what the transcript is, so actually the transcript is a Peterson commitment to the password. So the password is information theoretically hidden and there's simply no way for the simulator to extract it. However, if we work in the AGM, then the adversary has to explain how the protocol messages say the group element X is computed, which requires the adversary to write the password on its outer bracket, which in turn can be seen by the UC simulator. So again, the UC simulator can continually see the critical information which allows it to complete the UC simulation. So note that this entire thing has nothing to do with what happens after the protocol messages are sent. And the differences between aspect one and two only appear in what the protocol party is to afterwards. So therefore, aspect one can be proven secure in the UC AGM in essentially the same manner. And C-PACE can be proven UC AGM secure as well, using a similar trick. If you are interested, then you can check our paper. So in summary, we make three major contributions. So first, we propose the UC AGM framework, which models an algebraic adversary in UC. And then we showcase two applications. So for Chouan or Lightning OT protocol, it cannot be proven secure in standard UC because of the impossibility result. For aspect one, there's no impossibility result, but it is also unlikely to be UC secure. For aspect two and C-PACE, it only has a weak security guarantee in UC. So for all the above protocols, we prove that they are UC AGM secure. So for Chouan or Lightning OT on aspect one, we prove something that when we prove the UC security in the AGM, which were unknown previously. And for aspect two and C-PACE, we achieve stronger security notion. OK, so this is the end of my talk. Our paper is on E-Print. You can check it out if you are interested. Thank you very much.