Basic Computing Skills

Course description

MS Word includes:

Creating documents, saving and opening documents

Working with text and paragraphs

Formatting text

Format Painter: learn how to copy the formats

Undo and Redo

Page breaks

Headers and footers

Cut, copy and paste (within documents and to external packages)

MS Outlook includes:

• Sending, replying to and forwarding e-mails
• Flagging e-mails Working with attachments
• E-mail management
• Searching e-mails 
• Creating contacts
• Working with the Calendar

MS Excel includes:

Overview of the Excel screen

Entering text, numbers, and dates

Working with the Home Ribbon to format

Creating Formulas: Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide

AutoSum

AutoFill

Editing spreadsheets (sizing, inserting and deleting rows, columns, and cells)

Working with worksheet tabs

Printing

This course teaches the essentials of Excel, Word, and Outlook.

It provides the basic skills required for day-to-day work in a typical office administration role.

No prior knowledge or previous experience of Microsoft Office is required to attend this course.