Word
- Learn a wide variety of Microsoft Word 2003 skills. Menus and tools, how to do basic formatting, typing, text editing; inserting pictures, and how to manipulate pictures. More advanced formatting, margins, spell checker, alignments and cut/copy paste are taught as you progress. Learn how to do tables in Word. We also teach the concept of mail merge, a much needed tool for today’s competitive marketplace! This is a series of classes. Each class increases your skills.
Excel
- Microsoft Excel 2003 is used. Learn menus and toolbars and how to do a small spreadsheet with equations. Spreadsheets with a few different exercises are taught and a sample budget is prepared. A pre-made budget file is used to see visually how a company may use Excel. The class continues with more real life examples and charts are introduced as well in the Excel series. While not required, it is strongly encouraged that you take the Excel classes in the order in which they are presented. Check the CAT Lab calendar for current class schedules. There are a series of classes. Each class increases your skills.
Internet Basics
- Learn a brief history of the Internet and the functions of the different toolbar buttons. Explore some popular web sites such as www.msn.com, www.yahoo.com, www.mapquest.com, and www.weather.com. This is a great class for someone who is new to the Internet. In additional Internet classes, learn how to search more effectively. Include and exclude and do specific Internet searches. Visit a few popular web sites. This is a great class for someone who already knows how to surf the web but is looking to improve their skills.
Publisher Basics 1
- Microsoft Publisher 2003 is used. Learn how to navigate around Publisher and use the various forms they have to create a calendar. This is a series of classes to improve skills.
Windows XP
- Learn the operating system of the computer. Think of an operating system like a foundation for your house. Without the foundation we wouldn’t have anything to build on. Learn the basics of getting around Windows XP. This is an excellent class for anyone looking to start their education in computer skills.
PowerPoint Basics
- Review the menus and tools of PowerPoint and how to recreate a PowerPoint presentation. This is a great class for someone who is artistically inclined.
Combining Your Skills
Have you mastered Word? Know everything there is about Excel? Start using them together with popular Microsoft products such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, and the Internet. This course teaches how to integrate them into one another.
**Resume Writing
Need a Resume? Who doesn’t? Use the Microsoft Office Online template and select one of over 30 (and growing) resume designs. Students then begin entering their own information into the form. Resume Writing 2 continues what was done earlier in Resume Writing 1, finishing the information and helping solve issues of formatting. Also topics of interviewing, emailing, online job searching, and writing are touched upon as they relate to writing a resume. It is required to have done Resume Writing 1 OR have a electronic copy of your resume to do Resume Writing 2. Also, we recommend having a short list of all your employers with contact info as well as references. Think about bringing a list.
**Internet Job Searching
Go over a few online job sites as well as set up a profile on monster.com. You will also review how to look for work on monster and tips for success when job hunting. Please note that this class requires an email account of some sort. A resume will not be made in this class. If you bring your resume in an electronic form to this class it can be entered to make your profile complete. Also we reserve the right to switch from monster.com to any equally as good web site at our discretion.
**Email Basics
Sign up with an account through a popular free web-based email program. Learn how to check an email and also how to write an email. In Email Basics 2 continue to learn Yahoo! Email. Please note Email Basics 2 requires having been at Email Basics 1 OR having a Yahoo! email account already. The free email provider may be changed from Yahoo! to an equal email provider at any time.
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