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Excel Introduction
Desktop Publishing with Microsoft Word
Excel Intermediate Tips and Tricks
Word Introduction
Excel Advanced Tips and Tricks
Word Intermediate Tips and Tricks
 
Word Advanced Tips and Tricks
 
 
PC
Email/Internet
Introduction to Computers
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Windows and Computer Administration
Introduction to Internet
 
 
MS Access
Web Design
Access Introduction
Web Design with Front Page and HTML
Access Intermediate Tips and Tricks
Web Design with Word and PowerPoint
Access Advanced Tips and Tricks
 
 
 
MS Powerpoint
 

PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

 

 

 

 

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Introduction to Computers

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Introduction to Computers course is designed for beginners. It will cover the following topics:

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Start computer and access basic system information & features       

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Computer functions

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Navigate and manipulate desktop environment using mouse and keyboard

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Organise basic directory and folder structures                                         

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Storage devices and basic categories

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Organise files for user and/or organisational requirements

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Basic parts of a computer and various hardware components

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Basic keyboarding skills

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Saving and retrieving files to various locations

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Reading and writing at a level where basic workplace documents are understood

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Interpretation of user manuals and help functions

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Learn about computer security and virus protection

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Operating Health and Safety issues

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Conservation techniques in the office

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Copyright

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Computer terminology

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Professional Ethics

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Computer Jobs

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Desktop Publishing with Microsoft Word

 

Design and create newsletters and columns using Microsoft Word

Create Flyers

Import and modify graphics (drawings and photographs)

Create a booklet

Create invitations and cards

Create business cards

Work with forms

Create mass mailings and merges

Create a Logo

Work advanced tables

Work Section Breaks

Advanced Headers and Footers

Work with Tabs

Work with Watermarks

Work with WordArt

Work with Templates with autofeatures

Work with borders and lines

Work with Text Boxes and Callouts

Work with forms and advanced tables

Create Table of Contents

Create Index and Table of Figures

Create Comments and Footnotes

Create a Webpage in Word

Create a booklet

Autocorrect and Autotext

Import/Export to PowerPoint, Photoshop and other programs

Use Word shortcuts

 

 

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Microsoft Windows and Computer Administration

 

Desktop manipulation

Multitasking - Work with several applications

Customise the Start Button and the Taskbar

Customise Toolbars 

Controlling, tiling and sizing Windows   

Organising Files

Work with a CD/DVD/USB

Recycle Bin

Customize Desktop (screen saver, colours, etc)

Printer installation and management

Disk Cleanup and freeing of space

Hard Disk maintenance: ScanDisk

Disk Defragmenter

Create a Startup Disk

Add and Remove Windows Components

Compress folders and files and graphics

Change System Settings

Plug and Play

Hibernation and Standby

Shortcuts and "Scraps"

Import and compress graphics from camera/scanner

Create Folders and subfolders

Backup and System Restoration

Change Date/Time

Languages Support

Security with Passwords

Spy cookie removal

Virus Protection

Finding Files

Work with Windows Explorer and My Computer

Control Panel

Get Help in Windows

Install Drivers

Customise Icons

Customise Send to Menu

The Network Neighbourhood

Work with Fonts

Accessories: Calculator, Notepad, Clipboard, Paint

Install and Remove Software

Internet software; privacy, crime and social concerns

CD/DVD/Floppy care and management

Ergonomics

Input and Output devices, computer system connection

 

 

 

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Excel: Tips and Tricks Intermediate

 

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Revision of Excel Basics

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Excel Auto features    

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Right Mouse Button Fill       

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Left Mouse Button AutoFill  

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Creating a Custom List

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Page Layout Features         

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Relative and Absolute References       

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Filter the List (Database)     

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Subtotal List (Database)

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Consolidate Data

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Name ranges and Worsksheets  

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Group and Outlining   

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3D Formulas (file and sheet linking)

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Excel Charts      

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Insert Comments

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Track Changes

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Paste Special

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Find and Replace

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Conditional Formatting

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Statistical and Math Functions

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Logical functions        

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Dates functions

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Text functions

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Pivot tables

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Create Pivot Charts

 

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Excel: Tips and Tricks Advanced

 

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Working with Range names

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Nesting functions with IF

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SUMIF functions

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ROUND functions

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Using the PMT function

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Using the VLOOKUP, MATCH, and INDEX functions

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Using data tables

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Validating data

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Using database functions

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Importing/exporting data to text files

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Object Linking and Embedding

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Using Goal Seek

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Using Solver

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Installing Analysis ToolPak

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Creating Views

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Creating Scenarios

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Working with macros and VBA

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Creating custom functions

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Creating Document Workspaces

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SharePoint server

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Web Query

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Templates

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Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts

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Security

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File Password Protection

                                                                                                             

 

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Microsoft Word: Tips and Tricks Intermediate

 

 

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Create letters, fax forms and multi-page documents

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Format text and tables

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Insert graphics

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Spell Check and Grammar Check

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Work in Print Preview

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Autocorrect and Autoformat

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Work with shortcuts

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Tabs

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Page Setup and Page breaks

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Headers and Footers

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Work with various views

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Date and Time

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Copy and Paste data

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Find and Replace data

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Undo mistakes

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Work with bullets

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Create a newsletter, a flier and forms

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Mail Merge

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Format Painter

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Advanced Tables

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Formulas

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Sorting data

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WordArt

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Create forms

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Drop Caps

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Work with formulas and sorting

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Import external data (PowerPoint, Excel, Explorer)

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Drawing Toolbar

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Create labels and business cards

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Autoformat

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Autotext and Spike

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Work with multiple windows

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Insert Symbols

 

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Microsoft Word: Tips and Tricks Advanced

 

 

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Import and modify graphics (drawings and photographs)

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Work with forms

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Create mass mailings and merges

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Advanced tables

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Section Breaks

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Advanced Headers and Footers

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Work with Tabs

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Work with Watermarks

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Work with WordArt

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Work with Templates with auto features

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Work with borders and lines

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Work with Text Boxes and Callouts

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Work with forms

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Create Table of Contents

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Create Index and Table of Figures

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Create Comments and Footnotes

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Create a Webpage in Word

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Autocorrect

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Autotext and Spike

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Import/Export to PowerPoint, Photoshop and other programs

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Use Word shortcuts

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Work with styles

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Work with fill-in form fields

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Track Changes

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Customise screen and toolbars

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Macros

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Document Protection

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Work with multiple toolbars

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Insert Footnotes

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Insert Comments

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Bookmarks

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Create Master document and subdocuments

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Advanced document layout and formatting

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Work in Print Preview

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 Autoformat

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Work with shortcuts

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Page Setup and Page breaks

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Work with various views

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Date and Time

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Copy and Paste data

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Find and Replace data

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Customise bullets

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Format Painter

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Sorting data

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WordArt

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Create forms

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Drop Caps

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Work with formulas and sorting

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Import external data (PowerPoint, Excel, Explorer)

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Drawing Toolbar

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Create labels and business cards

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Work with multiple windows

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Insert Symbols

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Documents Compare

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Research facilities

 

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Microsoft Powerpoint

 

 

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Create text, bullet and title charts

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Format text, backgrounds and objects

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Work in various views

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Create organisational charts

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Create graphs

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Create flowcharts

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Design and manipulate graphics

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Create special animation and sound effects

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Create a web page

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Create slide show

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Create Tables

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Create Photo Album

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Work with Diagrams

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Work with WordArt

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Work with Graphs

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Slide Transitions and Animations

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Speaker Notes

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Templates

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Master Slides

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Headers and Footers

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Print Handouts options

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Create Webpage

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Shortcuts

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Copy/Paste/Delete Slides

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Import/Export Word/Excel

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Create PowerPoint Show Files

 

 

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Web Design using Front Page and HTML

Creating a Web
-Overview of Web Development
-Design a Web Page Layout
-Create a New Web Site
-Create and Format Web Page Text
-Import Web Pages

Creating Links
-Add Hyperlinks
-Add Bookmark Links
-Link from an Image

Adding and modifying Tables

Create customised bullets

Create Navigation Bar

Use lines and dividers

Work with graphics (JPG and GIF)

Work with Frames

Formatting a Web Page
-Work with Themes
-Set the Background

Publishing a Web
-Optimise page for search engines
-Downloading process of the page
-Web Page Hosting and Name Registration

 

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Microsoft Access – Intermediate

 

 

Tables:

  • Datasheet view, Design View and Table Wizard

 

  • Data types, field properties and Lookup fields

 

  • Work with records and Table layout

 

  • Use Input Masks to format and validate data

 

  • filter records, sort, find, replace data

 

  • Import and export data from Excel

 

  • Work with relationships and table linking

 

  • Work with multiple windows

 

 

Queries:

  • Use Query Wizard to create queries

 

  • Set criteria to queries, sort, total and add data

 

  • Perform calculations in queries

 

  • Use parameter queries

 

  • Find Unmatched and Find Duplicates Query Wizards

 

  • Perform action queries

 

 

Forms:

  •  Use AutoForms and the Form Wizard

 

  • Work with design view

 

  • Use basic calculations

 

  • Add a Subform and new records

 

  • Create a basic Switchboard

 

 

Reports:

  • Use AutoReports and the Report Wizard to create reports

 

  • Edit reports

 

  • Add a Subreport

 

  • Create mailing labels and send reports to Word and Excel

 

  • Add totals, sort and group data

 
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Microsoft Access – Advanced

 

Tables:

  • Use advanced features to work with field properties and data types

 

  • Modify the properties

 

  • Use validation rules to avoid errors

 

  • Work with hyperlink fields

 

  • Get external data by importing and linking tables -

 

  • Enforce Referential Integrity to table relationships

 

 

Queries:

  • Create complex queries using multiple criteria operators and wildcards

 

  • Work with formulas (Built-In functions) and calculated fields

 

  • Create a cross-tab query and then view the data in a PivotTable / PivotChart

 

  • Work with date and time

 

 

Forms:

  • Design professional-looking forms using graphics, tabs and hyperlinks

 

  • Work with subforms

 

  • Use graphical controls, work with the Toolbox and change the backgrounds.

 

  • Import graphics from the Web, camera or scanner

 

  • Apply conditional formatting to certain controls

 

  • Create customised switchboard

 

  • Customise tabs

 

  • Create command buttons

 

  • Use formulas and calculated controls

 

  • Work with macros

 
  • Access Shortcuts

 

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Outlook Tips and Tricks

 

1. Outlook Screen Components

  • Views in  Navigation Pane

  • Work with toolbars

  • Use Outlook Menus

  • Create new folders

2. Use Mail

  • Create, read, forward and reply to e-mail messages

  • Work with Address Book

  • Message formatting, flagging, deleting, drafting, tracking, tracking, etc.

  • Setting message sensitivity and importance

  • Attach files

  • Create signatures

  • Link contacts and set voting

Use Address Book and Contact lists

  • Add new addresses and edit them

  • Use alternate views and sorting

  • Print address books

  • View categories

  • Create distribution lists

Calendar

  • Date navigation views

  • Create appointments, meetings, events and groups schedules

  • Set reminders and recurring calendar entries

  • Track attendees

  • Print calendars

Task Management

  • Create and modify tasks

  • Track the status of tasks

  • Send task requests

  • Sort tasks and mark them complete

Outlook Rules and Out-of-Office Assistant

  • Set notification rules alerts

  • Set organization rules to perform actions on a message.

  • Set Office Assistant to manage your mail in your absence

Mail Merge with Outlook

  • Merge to Microsoft Word documents contact lists

Journal

  • Create Journal entries and record activity reports

  • Tracking options

Notes

  • Create and manage notes

 

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Web Design with Word and PowerPoint

 

  •  7 Fundamentals of Web Design
 
  •  Create Web Site Storyboard
 
  • Enter and Format Text
 
  • Hyperlinks
  • hyperlinks within the file
  • to email
  • graphics
  • to external webs and files
  • Tables
 
  • Bullets (lists)
 
  • Backgrounds and Themes
 
  • Insert video clips
 
  • Add scrolling text
 
  • Graphics
  • scanned photos and from digital camera
  • GIF and JPG
  • animated graphics
  • graphic compression
  • Use lines and dividers
 
  • Frames
 
  • Forms
 
  • Webpage optimization for search engines
 
  • Upload the webpage onto Server
 
  • Web page hosting and name registration
 

 

 

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Microsoft Access – Introduction

 

The Access Screen and the Database Window  
Planning your design
  • Identify your tables
  • determine the fields and their properties
  • determing the Primary key
  • determine relationships
  • optimise your database design
Create Tables
  • set field properties
  • create table relationships
  • manipulate and enter data in the table
  • format text and numbers
Filter Tables
  • filter and show data in a table
Querying Tables
  • test and run queries
  • refine data selection
  • hide data in a query
  • parameter criteria
  • edit query
Work with Forms
  • Format backgrounds, text and numbers
  • work with controls
  • with work graphics
  • create heaters and footers
Create Reports
  • positioning your controls
  • edit reports
  • print and preview your data

 

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Microsoft Excel - Introduction

 

What is a Spreadsheet?
  • screen display
  • toolbars management
  • plan and design a spreadsheet
Basic Operations
  • Creating new workbooks
  • work with multiple sheets
  • work with cells and ranges
  • work with values, labels and dates
  • using Help in Exel
  • work with rows and columns
Manipulate Data
  • format and edit data
  • work with borders and shading
  • find and replace data
  • navigation techniques
  • selection techniques
  • copy/cut and paste data
Automating Data Entry
  • Autofill
  • Autocomplete
  • Autoformat
  • Undo mistakes
  • Autocorrect
  • Spell Check
  • Format Painter
Formulas
  • BODMAN rule
  • Calculations
  • Copying formulas
  • Inserting Functions
Charts
  • Create embedded charts
  • Create a chart sheet
Printing
  • Preview
  • Page Setup
  • Page Breaks
  • Headers/Footers

 

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Microsoft Word - Introduction

 

What is Word Processing?  
Word's Screen
  • work with views and toolbars
Using Help in Word  
Create documents
  • create letters, memos, fax forms and reports
Format text  
Manipulate text
  • copy/cut and paste text
  • change case
  • insert dates
  • word count
Work with multiple Windows
  • work with several documents
Save  
Page Setup  
Work with Indents  
Paragraphs' techniques  
Managing documents
  • copy, delete, preview, sort and find documents
Spell check and Grammar Check  
Selecting text techniques  
Find and Replace text  
Undo mistakes  
Autocorrect  
Printing and Print preview  
Page Breaks  
Work with bullets and paragraph numbering  
Work with paragraph borders and shading  
Introduction to Graphics  
Keyboard Shortcuts  
Page Numbering  
Headers and Footers  

 

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Introduction to Internet

 

What is the Internet and World Wide Web?
  • the history and the purpose of the Internet
  • connecting to Internet
  • ADSL and other connection types
  • internet software
  • privacy, crime and social concerns
  • freedom versus quality issues
Browsing the Internet
  • Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla Firefox
  • a web page components
  • URLs
  • Hypertext
  • Navigation techniques
Manipulate data
  • Print, copy text and graphics
  • download software
Search for Information
  • Searching tips
  • Boolean Logic
  • Search engines
  • Portals
Transferring Files
  • FTP and File Transfer software
Security
  • Viruses, spyware, cookies, firewalls, popups
Blogs and Forums  
Shopping On-line
  • e-bay, etc
Electronic Banking  
Chat Rooms and Newsgroups  
Using Skype and communication software
  • online broadcasting
  • videoconferencing
  • phone calls
Work with multimedia
  • video clips, sounds, music and animations
On-line Subscriptions  
Remote logon  
Home Page  
History  
Bookmarks and Favorites  
Internet Options  
Menus
  • Edit, Tools, View, Help and File
Email
  • Google Mail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Mail
  • File and Graphic Compression
Putting your pages on the web
  • Authoring software

 

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