Learners will be able to use Outlook to enhance professional correspondence, create calendars, and schedule appointments. Participants will create and edit professional-looking email messages, maintain calendars across time zones, and schedule tasks for a variety of purposes and situations including sending email for marketing campaigns, planning staff meetings, and assigning action items from those meetings.
Participants will gain an advanced level of understanding of the Microsoft Excel environment, and the ability to
guide others to the proper use of the program's full features - critical skills for those in roles such as accountants,
financial analysts, and commercial bankers. Participants will create, manage, and distribute professional
spreadsheets for a variety of specialized purposes and situations. They will customize their Excel environments to
meet project needs and increase productivity. Expert workbook examples include custom business templates, multiaxis financial charts, amortization tables, and inventory schedules.
Participants will gain a fundamental understanding of the Excel environment and the ability to complete tasks
independently. They will know and demonstrate the correct application of the principal features of Excel.
Participants will create and edit a workbook with multiple sheets, and use a graphic element to represent data
visually. Workbook example includes professional-looking budgets, financial statements, team performance charts,
sales invoices, and data-entry logs.
Participants will learn to proficiently use the advanced features of Microsoft Word for document content
management and advanced formatting - critical skills for those in roles such as editors, project managers, business
information workers, and educators. Participants will create and manage professional multi-page documents for a
variety of specialized purposes and situations. They will customize their Word environments to meet project needs and to enhance productivity. Examples of expert-level documents include a business plan, a research paper, a
specialized brochure, and a mass mailing.
Participants will gain a fundamental understanding of the Microsoft Word environment and the ability to complete
tasks independently. They will demonstrate the correct application of the principal features of Word by creating and
editing documents for a variety of purposes and situations. Document examples include professional-looking reports,
multi-column newsletters, resumes, and business correspondence.
Participants will learn to create, edit, and enhance slideshow presentations to create professional-looking sales presentations, employee training, instructional materials, and kiosk slideshows. Learners will gain a fundamental understanding of the PowerPoint environment and the correct use of key features of this application.
Access is Microsoft’s flagship database application that allows you to create and manage databases for all sorts of different purposes. Access incorporates a few new features and connectivity options in order to make databases more accessible to the everyday user. This course is intended to help all novice computer users get up to speed quickly. This course will also help more experienced users who have little to no experience with Microsoft Access and databases in general.