BASIC SKILLS – IT

Four-day programme covering the following Microsoft packages:

MICROSOFT OUTLOOK

Learn how to best set up and manage email, calendars, and contacts in Outlook. This course begins with a tour of the interface and shows how to connect to a wide variety of email accounts, as well as OneDrive for online file storage. You will be shown how to quickly create, send, and read email and reduce your inbox clutter; organise, group, and share contacts; and stay on schedule with calendars and tasks.

Includes:

  • Composing and sending emails with attachments, links, images and a signature.
  • Schedule one-time and recurring meetings and create appointments.
  • Create rules to automate tasks for incoming mail.
  • Recall messages, redirect replies, and archive old emails.

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

Microsoft PowerPoint is a slide show presentation program containing various features to make effective presentation. The professionals broadly utilise it to present the business information both in the office and international conferences.

Includes:

  • Creating a new blank presentation.
  • Entering and editing text.
  • Adding, moving slides, deleting slides.
  • Using different slide layouts.
  • Creating a table, inserting and delete rows and columns.
  • Adding text, using pictures, merging shapes and formatting the outline.
  • Photographs – inserting, applying artistic effects and corrections, cropping, compressing.
  • Audio – inserting from a file, using the playback ribbon, removing audio.
  • Video – inserting and linking video files.
  • Hyperlinks – inserting and editing, hyperlinks between slides, using pictures, linking to other files and websites.

MICROSOFT EXCEL

Microsoft Excel is the most commonly used spreadsheet programme in the world; providing the base for accounts, reporting and planning across multiple office sectors.

Includes:

  • Creating a worksheet with text and numbers.
  • Entering addition formulas.
  • Using the SUM function in a formula and the AutoSum feature.
  • Selecting and formatting cells ranges.
  • Inserting and deleting rows and columns.
  • Using styles to format a worksheet.
  • Making a cell reference absolute and knowing when this is needed.
  • Creating more complex formulas and calculating percentages
  • Inserting column, line and pie charts.

MICROSOFT WORD

Being confident in Microsoft Word is essential for anyone who either works or aspires to work in an office environment.

Includes:

  • Starting a new document.
  • Entering and editing text.
  • Formatting text including using text effects, text alignment and using repeat facility.
  • Checking spelling and grammar.
  • Creating new folders, saving files with different names and format.
  • Cut, copy and paste functions.
  • Managing page numbers, headers and footers.
  • Creating tables and entering details.
  • Inserting and formatting text boxes, word art and images.

Delivered by Rotunda.

This is part funded by the European Social Fund

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