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