Course Title

Course Description

Introduction to Windows

This course is designed for the brand new user to a computer or to someone who wants to learn more about how to use Windows on the computer. Topics discussed include: Working with the desktop, working with windows, customizing your desktop, using shortcut menus, viewing your hard drive, and working with folders.

Introduction to Word
(Word 1)

This course is for the beginner to Word processing. Topics covered include: the advantages to using Word, how to insert text, format text, highlight text, using cut, copy and paste, Autotext and Autocorrect, bullet and numbering.

Tips & Tricks with Word
(Word 2)

This course is designed to make the user more efficient using Word. Students learn to customize Word to their advantage, how to navigate the Word document, an overview of Mail Merge, how to produce labels and envelopes, working with Clipart, various ways to print your document and recording a macro.

Word's Team Writing Tools

Learn to use comments and the reviewing tools in Word for easy collaboration. The reviewing feature enables your colleagues to make changes to a document, let you merge those changes into the original, and make the changes stand out so that you can see all the suggestions.

Word Power User: Creating Forms

In this course you will learn how to create forms in Word, and how to improve your interactivity and automation to the form with form fields. The course will cover what section breaks in Word are, how they work, and how you can use them to your advantage. In addition you will learn how to build a table of contents.

Introduction to Excel
(Excel 1)

This course covers spreadsheet concepts, how to edit a worksheet, selecting and formatting data, as well as printing a worksheet. Simple formulas and functions are also introduced.

Tips & Tricks with Excel
(Excel 2)

This course is designed to help you work more efficiently with Excel. The most common shortcut keys are discussed as well as working in multiple worksheets. Varied ways to enter data, format and print in Excel are also explored. Creating and using templates are presented.

Advanced Tips and Tricks with Excel
(Excel 3)

The emphasis is on macros, charts and filters in this class, but we also work with clip art, the paste special feature and integrating Excel with Word.

Using Functions to Your Advantage
(Excel 4)

Functions are one of the valuable tools in Excel and in this class we will explore the use of over 30 functions. We look at functions that evaluate data, manipulate text, analyze data, financial functions and functions that work with dates.

Excel What if...
(Excel 5)

Many people use Excel to make projections. Some of the most common projection tools will be taught in this class. They include Pivot tables and charts, data tables, Excel as a database, data validation and protecting worksheets.

Excel as a Database
(Excel 6)

In this course you will explore how Excel can be used to look at your data in ways you would use a database application. Excel can be used to sort data in many different ways, filter it so you see only data that matches specific criteria, and you can reorganize you data in any way you want.

Word & Excel "Significant Others"

Word and Excel were designed to work together - and in this course you'll learn the different ways that they complement each other. In mail merge you'll learn how to create a mail merge, customize merged documents, how to sort merged records. In addition, you will learn how to review a merged file before printing and printing envelopes and labels. The class will also explore ad hoc reports, and using filters in Excel to extract only the data you need.

Introduction to Access

Learn about relational databases and the general concepts that make them such a powerful tool. We will work with an existing database and learn to navigate through records and forms. Also, we will explore the different views of Access including tables, forms, queries and reports.

Introduction to Outlook

This course teaches the various tools that are available to you in Outlook. It includes: sending and receiving e-mail, enhancing e-mail, keeping track of your contacts, scheduling with calendar, working with tasks and creating "sticky notes".

Introduction to PowerPoint

This course is designed to give the novice a basic overview of Microsoft PowerPoint concepts. Topics covered include, creating a blank presentation, selecting an auto layout, creating, saving, and closing a new Presentation, using design templates, enhancing presentation text, and printing presentations.

Intermediate PowerPoint

Building on the basic knowledge of PowerPoint, this course shows you different ways to enhance your presentation including: working with objects, changing the appearance of a slide, working with a slide master, using action buttons on your slide, using speaker notes, and how to deliver a presentation.

Introduction to Publisher

This course introduces the student to desk top publishing. Included topics are: working with text frames, using Word Art, understanding the drawing tools, inserting pictures, grouping objects, adding borders and border art. Actual publications are produced in class, including a business card, a customized calendar, and a two page newsletter.

Intermediate Publisher

Once you've learned the basics of Desktop publishing, this course is designed to give you more practice using the basics, it also introduces the concepts to enhance your publication, working more efficiently with master pages, using tables in your publication, and working with Mail Merge in Publisher.