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Microsoft Office forms the backbone of most modern businesses. As a Microsoft Office Specialist, you'll have the training and skills you need to thrive in a variety of careers and industries. This program gives students hands-on Microsoft Office training on programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. By the end of the program, students will be prepared to write the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification exam.
You will spend time learning both the basics of each Microsoft program, and will also delve deeper into the uses of each. This program helps students prepare for a career in a variety of business settings.
This program is 11 weeks in length.
Microsoft Office Specialist Certificate
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The program outline below is for British Columbia.
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- Students work with basic and more advanced features of Microsoft Outlook to manage messages for efficient communication, maintain personal and business contacts, and organize appointments and tasks.
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- This course is the first of two courses covering Microsoft Word. This level 1 course will present the MS Word application interface, tools and features. You will learn about the fundamentals of word processing, document, and paragraph and character formatting, working with templates, lists and tables. This course relies heavily on hands-on practical activities that allows you to learn the concepts by practicing them on a regular basis.
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- This course explores the use of electronic spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel. This course will present the MS Excel application interface, tools and features. You will learn about the fundamentals of spreadsheets, working with data, formatting cells, working with ranges of data and cells as well as applying functions and formulas to manipulate the data in the rows and columns of a spreadsheet. In addition, you will learn how to present tabular data in a variety of different chart formats. This course relies heavily on hands-on practical activities that allows you to learn the concepts by practicing them on a regular basis.
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- Students will explore both basic and more advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint while creating visually attractive and effective presentations.
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- This course offers a case-oriented, problem-solving approach for learning Microsoft Access. Students explore basic and more advanced features of this powerful database management system.