Computers of
South Dublin

Wellington Lane
Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

phone: 087 917 1580
email:

Office application training for personal and business self-sufficiency

The main body of our Dublin computer training for office applications consists of three-hour course outlines, each designed to provide a basic level of self-sufficiency on one of the following programs:

*Microsoft Word* (word processing)	Buttons and menus, creating document (new and from wizard), scrolling and selecting text, changing fonts, cut/copy & paste, moving text, bullets and numbering, justification, headers and footers, spelling & grammar checking, common document problems, tables, text columns, paragraph styles, images and web links
*Microsoft Excel* (spreadsheets)	Buttons and menus, creating & opening spreadsheet files, structure of a spreadsheet, formatting (fonts, colours, etc…), copying cell ranges, inserting & deliting columns, copy & from other programs, using formulas, using currencies, creating and using charts
*Microsoft PowerPoint* (presentation graphics)	Creating a presentation (blank and from design template), using content layouts, master slides, working with layout regions, editing text, changing colours, transition effects, inserting images and clipart, adding tables and charts, adding sound effects
*Microsoft Access* (databases)	Database components (tables, forms, queries, reports), creating a database, table design and datasheet views, adding & deleting records & fields, sorting data, creating forms with “wizard,” entering form data, customising forms, creating and modifying queries, creating reports with “wizard,” priority & grouping levels, columnar & graphic reports, header/footers & images, modifying reports in design view
*Microsoft Outlook* (communications)	Buttons and menus, email account setup, sending & receiving mail, attachments, text vs. HTML, searching, sorting, folders, spell checking, adding & modifying contacts, adding & modifying calendar entries, calendar view organisation and notifications

Courses are modelled after the Microsoft teacher training programmes, condensed to the most practical and universal elements. You are free to download the full Office XP tutorials if you would prefer to study this material on your own… of course you are encouraged to call Computers of South Dublin for a specific training session if you run into problems.

For office-based professionals interested in migrating to a home working environment, COSD will emphasise those techniques supporting online communication with central office staff from your “remote” workstation and introduce any possible time-saving methods and productivity tools.

Certification for the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) involves an exhaustive survey of every feature of the above five Microsoft applications. In our experience most home and office users do not require knowledge this detailed in order to be creative and productive. Nevertheless, COSD is well-equipped to provide supplementary training whenever necessary for any ECDL certification programme.

To facilitate this, you may download the ECDL module outlines which serve well as pre-testing checklists. Though COSD does not provide ECDL certification, you are welcome to enroll in a self-paced home study course and contact COSD for supplementary training, including both periodic in-person tutoring and review before examinations.

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Wellington Lane
Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
IRELAND

phone: 087 917 1580
office: 01 669 7023
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