Computers for Beginners and Getting Started with MS Office

Computers for Beginners and Getting Started with MS Office Course Overview

Course Prerequisites

• • No previous experience required.

Included with this course

• • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises
  • Telephone and Email Support

Computers for Beginners and Getting Started with MS Office Course Content

• Introduction to Windows

  Introduction to Windows
  The Desktop, Taskbar and using the Start button
  Starting and quitting programs
  Using the Mouse, the mouse pointer, clicking, dragging & dropping
  Using the Keyboard
  Aspects of a Window, window frame and adjusting the window size
  Moving a windows, and Minimize, Maximising and Close
  Arranging your windows and switching between windows
  My Computer
  Managing files and folders: Finding, renaming, copying, moving and deleting
  

• Getting Started with Outlook

  Email Basics
  Sending emails
  Reply to an email
  Forwarding an email
  Attach Files to an email
  Open and Save attachments from other people
  Check spelling and grammar
  Print a message
  Delete a message
  Searching for Mail
  Handling your Email Inbox
  Creating Folders
  Adding Folders to the Favourites
  Flagging Messages for Follow-up
  Using the out of office assistant
  The calendar
  Displaying your calendar
  Creating, printing and deleting personal appointments
  Keeping contacts
  Creating, editing, printing and deleting a contact
  Sorting and Finding contacts

• Getting Started with Word

  Create a new document
  Saving a document
  Entering text in a document
  Opening and closing an existing document
  Selecting text using the Mouse and Keyboard
  Delete text
  Undo and Redo actions
  Inserting a space and a line
  Inserting a new line within the same paragraph
  Overwrite text
  Inserting and remove a manual page break
  Character Formatting
  Remove all manual character formats
  Applying character formats, bold, italics, underline
  Character Formats & Case Changing
  Paragraph Formatting
  Text Alignment
  Increase and decrease the indent of text
  Line and paragraph spacing
  Using the Format Painter
  Paragraph Numbers and Borders
  Cut, Copy and Paste text
  Spell checking and Thesaurus
  Page Set-up & Print Preview
  Selecting paper size and page orientation
  Changing the margins
  Previewing before printing and Printing

• Getting Started with Excel

  Workbooks
  Create a new workbook
  Saving a workbook
  Opening and Closing a workbook already created
  Screen options
  Zooming in or out
  Navigating a worksheet
  The scroll bars and the GoTo command
  Entering information onto a worksheet
  Entering text or numbers and numbers as text
  Inputting dates and times
  Editing the contents of a cell
  Undo and Redo actions
  Ranges
  Selecting a Range of Input Cells
  Using and Understanding Cell Formats
  Using the Format Cells options
  Number Formatting
  Automatic Number Formatting
  Using the Ribbon to Format Numbers
  Cut, Copy and Paste
  Inserting and deleting columns and rows
  Adjusting column widths and row heights
  Spelling and printing