Online Skills Training Descriptions

Microsoft Word Training

Microsoft Word 2003 Fundamentals
This first course will give current users of Office an overview of the key new features and capabilities of Word 2003. In addition to a broad overview of new capabilities, it specifically focuses on the use of XML as a native file format in Word, Excel, and Access, as well as on the greatly enhanced Outlook interface.

Microsoft Word 2003 Proficient
This series addresses the fundamental features of Word as defined by the Microsoft Office Specialist certification objectives for Word 2003 Specialist exam. Learners completing this series will gain a solid foundation in essential Word skills.

Microsoft Word 2003 Expert Part 1
This course, along with Part 2, maps to the Microsoft Office Expert certification objectives for the Word 2003 Expert exams. Learners completing these courses should be well prepared for the certification exams, and have a solid foundation in basic Word skills.

Microsoft Word 2003 Expert Part 2
This course, along with Part 1, maps to the Microsoft Office Expert certification objectives for the Word 2003 Expert exams. Learners completing these courses should be well prepared for the certification exams, and have a solid foundation in Word skills.

Microsoft Word 2002 Fundamentals
This course introduces the learner to the fundamental elements of Word 2002. The Word interface is covered along with the creation of documents and use of Word Help. Working with documents as well as document formatting and management and organization are covered.

Microsoft Word 2002 Proficient
This course covers more advanced skills of working with documents in Word 2002. Learners will deal with document enhancement, table management, and column management. This course also covers visual enhancements including WordArt, graphics, and diagrams. Lastly, learners will cover mail merge and workgroup collaboration.

Microsoft Word 2002 Expert
This course covers skills particular to the expert user of Word 2002. Advanced text and document handling is covered along with document styles and macros. Learners will cover group editing and document distribution, advanced workgroup collaboration and forms. Lastly, this course will cover tables, indexes and referencing, advanced document navigation and data tables.

Microsoft Word 2000 Fundamentals
The Microsoft Word 2000 Fundamentals course is designed for users interested in acquiring the basic skills required to create and manage documents in Microsoft Word. In this course, users learn to create and edit documents, format text and documents, set margins, align text, hyphenate text and print documents.

Microsoft Word 2000 Proficient
The Microsoft Word 2000 Proficient user course is designed for users interested in creating enhanced Word documents. In this course, users learn to add tables and column formatting to documents. Users also learn to include drawing objects, charts, Clip Art, WordArt and graphics in documents, and to perform mail merge operations.

Microsoft Word 2000 Expert
The Microsoft Word 2000 Expert User course is designed for users interesting in implementing advanced features of Word in documents. In this course, users learn advanced text editing and handling operations. Users also learn to manage documents in a workgroup environment, and add tables of contents and indexes to documents.

Microsoft Excel Training

Microsoft Excel 2003 Fundamentals
This course, along with course 75033, maps to the Microsoft Office Specialist certification objectives for the Excel 2003 Expert exams. Learners completing these courses should be well prepared for the certification exams, and have a solid foundation in basic Excel skills.

Microsoft Excel 2003 Proficient
This course, along with course 75032, maps to the Microsoft Office Specialist certification objectives for the Excel 2003 Expert exams. Learners completing these courses should be well prepared for the certification exams, and have a solid foundation in basic Excel skills.

Microsoft Excel 2003 Expert Part 1
This course, along with course 75035, maps to the Microsoft Office Expert certification objectives for the Excel 2003 Expert exams. Learners completing these courses should be well prepared for the certification exams, and have a solid foundation in basic Excel skills.

Microsoft Excel 2003 Expert Part 2
This course, along with course 75034, maps to the Microsoft Office Expert certification objectives for the Excel 2003 Expert exams. Learners completing these courses should be well prepared for the certification exams, and have a solid foundation in basic Excel skills.

Microsoft Excel 2002 Fundamentals
This course presents learners with the fundamental elements of Excel 2002. The course covers the Excel interface and navigation, how to create and format worksheets. Topics such as creating formulas, copying, inserting and deleting a range of cells are covered in the course.

Microsoft Excel 2002 Proficient
This course covers the advanced skills of working with worksheets in Excel 2002, and teaches how to manage display properties, advanced calculation techniques and worksheet data manipulation. The Outline and Web Integration section covers outlining worksheets and publishing a workbook as a Web page. Finally, the Charts and Drawing Objects section teaches creating and modifying a chart and drawing objects.

Microsoft Excel 2002 Expert
This course covers skills particular to the expert user of Excel 2002. The course teaches template and database integration, shared workbooks, and consolidating data across workbooks. This course also teaches, Data Analysis and Automation, data importing and querying, pivot tables, macros, and data analysis tools.

Microsoft Excel 2000 Fundamentals
The Microsoft Excel 2000 Fundamentals course is designed for users interested in learning the basic skills required to user Microsoft Excel in a business environment. In this course, users learn to create and edit workbooks, enter and manipulate data, use functions and formulas, and print worksheets and workbooks. Users also learn to format workbooks, worksheets, cells and to sort data.

Microsoft Excel 2000 Proficient
The Microsoft Excel 2000 Proficient User course is designed for users interested in acquiring the skills required to use Microsoft Excel in a business environment. In this course, users learn to format and print data in a worksheet, perform worksheet calculations using advanced formulas and functions, import and export workbook data. Users also learn to consolidate, validate, audit, debug and protect workbook data, as well as add charts and graphics to worksheets.

Microsoft Excel 2000 Expert
The Microsoft Excel 2000 Expert User course is designed for users interested in using the advanced features of Microsoft Excel in a business environment. In this course, users learn to enter, extract and modify data using templates, lists and queries. Users also learn to create and modify shared workbooks and to analyse data using the Data Map, PivotTable, Data Table, Scenario, and Data Analysis tools.

Microsoft PowerPoint Training

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Fundamentals
This course introduces the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. The learner is guided through the steps for creating a new presentation and how to manage slides. Participants learn how to work with AutoShapes, WordArt, Clip Art and graphics. How to use the Thesaurus and Spell Check tools, how to set up a presentation for printing, and how to create headers and footers are covered. Finally, this course teaches how to add and rehearse slide show timings and how to run a slide show.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Proficient
This course builds on the knowledge acquired in the first course of this two-part series, Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Fundamentals. In this course, the learner is guided through the steps for enhancing slide elements. How to add design templates and how to customize Slide Master are covered. Participants learn about hyperlinks, importing objects, and working with charts and graphs. This course teaches how to transfer presentations to Microsoft Word and how to package to CD. Finally, Participants learn about publishing presentations as Web pages and how to broadcast a presentation.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Proficient
This course presents the learner with the skills to become proficient at Microsoft PowerPoint 2002. This course guides the learner through the basics of PowerPoint presentations with the emphasis on learning by doing. Learners will be presented with topics such as creating and modifying presentations. The course will also cover adding graphics to presentations and preparing a slide show of the presentation.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Expert
This course builds on the skills acquired in the PowerPoint 2002 Proficient User course (74041), and enables the learner to master advanced skills in PowerPoint. The course covers presentation enhancements, using and inserting charts and tables, importing objects and making the final presentation as professional as possible.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Proficient
The Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Proficient User course is designed for users interested in learning to create PowerPoint presentations. In this course, users learn to create new presentations and modify existing presentations. Users also learn to enhance presentations by adding AutoShapes, Clip Art, and WordArt.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Expert
The PowerPoint 2000 Expert User course is designed for users interested in enhancing presentations using advanced PowerPoint features. In this course, the user learns to create and modify charts and organizational charts. Users also learn to import data and create navigational elements in presentations.

Microsoft Outlook Training

Microsoft Outlook 2003 Fundamentals
This course, along with course 75071, addresses the fundamental and essential features of Microsoft Outlook as defined by the Microsoft Office Specialist certification objectives for Outlook 2003 Specialist exam. Learners completing this series should be well prepared for the certification exam and have a solid foundation in essential Outlook skills.

Microsoft Outlook 2003 Proficient
This course, along with course 75070, addresses the fundamental and essential features of Outlook as defined by the Microsoft Office Specialist certification objectives for Outlook 2003 Specialist exam. Learners completing this series should be well prepared for the certification exam, and have a solid foundation in essential Outlook skills.

Microsoft Outlook 2002 Fundamentals
This course presents the learner with the basics of Microsoft Outlook 2002. Individuals will learn how to open and reply to e-mail messages, insert attachments in messages and schedule appointments in the Outlook Calendar.

Microsoft Outlook 2002 Proficient
This course teaches common utilities within Outlook 2002 and will enable the learner to become proficient in using Outlook. The course covers the advanced skills of scheduling meetings, Tasks, and working with Outlook Journal and Notes.

Microsoft Outlook 2002 Expert
This course teaches the advanced features of Outlook 2002 and will enable the learner to become an expert user. Message formats and templates, security tools and network configuration newsgroups, instant messaging and working remotely topics are covered in the course. It assumes the learner has taken the Outlook Fundamentals and Proficient User courses.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 Fundamentals
The Microsoft Outlook 2000 Fundamentals course introduces the Outlook 2000 interface to users interested in acquiring the skills to use Outlook to manage messaging and calendar functions. In this course, users learn to send, customize, receive, organize, read, format, reply to, forward, print and prioritize messages. Users also learn to identify Calendar features, schedule, edit and delete appointments and events.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 Proficient
The Microsoft Outlook 2000 Proficient User course is designed for users interested in obtaining the skills to implement Outlook features in a business environment. In this course, the user learns to work with contacts and organize meetings, manage tasks, create journal entries and create and manipulate notes. Users also learn to integrate the features of Outlook 2000 within folders and with Office 2000 documents.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 Expert
The Microsoft Outlook 2000 Expert User course is designed for users interested in learning the advanced features of Outlook. In this course, users learn to use advanced messaging features. Users also learn to create templates, rules, address books, and fax from Outlook. The course also teaches users to share private and public folders, delegate access rights, work offline and remotely.

Microsoft Access Training

Microsoft Access 2003 Fundamentals
This course, along with course 75051, maps to the Microsoft Office Specialist certification objectives for the Access 2003 Specialist exam. It presents the learner with the fundamentals of Microsoft Access 2003. The student learns how to create tables and relationships, how to manipulate tables, and how to create simple and advanced queries.

Microsoft Access 2003 Proficient
This course, along with course 75050, maps to the Microsoft Office Specialist certification objectives for the Access 2003 Specialist exam. Assuming knowledge of the fundamentals, it teaches how to create forms and reports and how to format controls on both forms and reports. The student is also introduced to importing and exporting data to and from Access. Finally, this course teaches about backing up and compacting and repairing databases.

Microsoft Access 2002 Fundamentals
This course presents the learner with the fundamentals of Microsoft Access 2002. This course guides the learner through the basics of Access databases and covers topics such as creating and modifying databases, and establishing relationships between tables.

Microsoft Access 2002 Proficient
This courses covers more advanced features of Access 2002. Individuals will learn how to make different types of data queries, work with forms and link data to other databases.

Microsoft Access 2002 Expert
This course covers the more complex aspects of working with data using Access 2002. Assuming the learner is already proficient in Access, the course covers advanced features of database queries, and enhancing forms and reports.

Microsoft Access 2000 Fundamentals
The Microsoft Access 2000 Fundamentals course is designed for business users who want to learn the basic skills required to use Microsoft Access in daily tasks. In this course, users learn basic concepts related to databases, the features of Access 2000, how to create and maintain tables, and how to use filters and queries to locate and manipulate data.

Microsoft Access 2000 Proficient
The Microsoft Access 2000 Proficient User course is designed for business users who want to use Microsoft Access to manage databases. In this course, users learn to create relationships between tables, maintain data integrity, and modify field properties. Users also learn database administration skills including integrating Microsoft Access with other applications, backing up, compacting, and restoring databases. This course includes lessons on creating and modifying data using Access forms and reports.

Microsoft Access 2000 Expert
The Microsoft Access 2000 Expert course is designed for business users interested in using the advanced features of Microsoft Access. In this course, users learn to create action queries, crosstab queries, parameter queries, and queries that include calculations. Users also learn to create and modify forms and reports in Design view, and to implement the Web capabilities of Access.

Microsoft Office Training

Microsoft Office 2003 - Introduction to Office 2003
This course will give new Office users a quick jump-start on the major applications in the suite. It will include a broad overview of the components of Office 2003, followed by a quick introduction to Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.

Microsoft Project Training

Microsoft Project 2003 Fundamentals
This, the first of a two-part curriculum, covers fundamental Project 2003 skills used in the areas of Task, Calendar, and Outlining management, manipulation of data, views and reports, and project updating, tracking, and conflict resolution.

Microsoft Project 2003 Proficient
This, the second course in a two-part curriculum covers Project 2003 proficiency-level skills, i.e. advanced management of Tables, Views, and Reports, the customization, automation, and exchange of data, Project consolidation and collaboration, and Project Server and Project Web Access.

Microsoft Project 2002 Fundamentals
The Microsoft Project 2002 Fundamentals introduces students to the fundamentals of Project 2002. The course covers how to create, schedule, and manage projects using Project 2002. It covers how to create and schedule tasks, how to create and use a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), how to create and assign resources, and how to create and use calendars. The course also deals with filtering, grouping, sorting, working with task views, project baselines, and how to track and update projects.

Microsoft Project 2000 Proficient
This second course in the two-part series will add to the skills and knowledge gained in the first course. In this course, students will gain proficiency with Project Central, be able to customize a Project plan and use advanced functions.

Microsoft Project Fundamentals
As the first in a two-part series, this course will provide learners with a foundation for using Project 2000. Learners will be given a thorough overview of the features of Project. Learners also will be taught how to create, communicate and track a Project plan.

Microsoft FrontPage Training

Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Proficient
This course will address the core features of FrontPage 2003, giving learners a solid foundation in essential FrontPage 2003 skills.

Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Expert
This course covers higher-level skills of working with FrontPage, including web components and style sheets, advanced forms and data driven pages, and non-HTML technologies and Share Point Services.

Microsoft Visio Training

Microsoft Visio 2003 Proficient
This course introduces the basics of Microsoft Visio 2003. The course focuses on the core features of Visio 2003, providing learners a solid foundation in essential Visio 2003 skills. This will help the learners create simple and specialized diagrams by using different shapes and wizards provided by Visio 2003.

Microsoft Visio 2003 Expert
This course focuses on the advanced features in Microsoft Visio 2003. This will help the learners create specialized diagrams by using different shapes and wizards provided by Visio 2003.

Introduction to PCs Training

Introduction to PCs and Software
This course provides the learner with comprehensive foundational knowledge of PCs, working with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft application software, and using the Internet and E-mail. The course covers an introduction to the PC, benefits, components, hardware and software, input and output devices, storage, and general maintenance. Working with Microsoft Windows XP, opening and closing applications, and managing windows and files are also covered. Additionally, the course will cover the main types of Microsoft application software: word processing, spreadsheet, database, graphics and presentation, and the basics of Internet technology and uses.

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