Discovery of MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

This training provides an introduction to the essential features of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. It offers a first overview of the Microsoft Office environment and the basic tools needed to create documents, manage data, build presentations and handle email and calendar activities.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• use the basic features of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

• create, edit and format simple documents, tables and presentations

• manage email, calendar and essential Office tasks

Word 

• Introduction to Word, the environment: Quick Access toolbar, ribbon and tabs
  
• Input and edit data
  
• Enter and edit text
  
• Move and select
  
• Copy and move text
  
• Formatting
  
• Characters (Font, size, effects, …)
  
• Paragraphs (alignments, indents, …)
  
• Managing documents
  
• Open, New, Close
  
• Save
  
• Page Layout
  
• Margins
  
• Orientation
  
• Page numbering
  
• Printing documents
  

Excel 

• Introduction to Excel: workbooks, worksheets and cells
  
• Create a table
  
• Enter and edit data in cells
  
• Formatting data
  
• Font, size, borders, alignments
  
• Number formatting
  
• Managing columns and rows
  
• Insert and delete
  
• Width and Height
  
• Calculation
  
• Basic formulas
  
• • Basic operations ( + - * / )
  • Relative and absolute references
    
• Autosum
  
• Copy and move cells
  
• Manage worksheets: add, rename, move, copy and delete
  
• Save a document
  
• Page layout and print a table
  

PowerPoint

• Create a presentation
  
• Add a new slide
  
• Slide layouts
  
• Edit slides
  
• Text Boxes (formatting, levels, bullets, layout)
  
• Add shapes and pictures
  
• Different views in PowerPoint
  
• Slide show
  
• Manual presentation
  
• Automatic presentation with timing
  
• Transition effects
  

Outlook 

• All functionalities of Outlook
  
• Electronic mail
  
• Interface: MailBox, folders
  
• Create and send an e-mail
  
• Reply and forward an e-mail
  
• The reading pane
  
• Options (delivery and read receipts)
  
• Folders
  
• Create a folder
  
• Move and copy mails
  
• Delete
  
• Overview of the calendar
  
• The views
  
• Add an event
  
• Add an appointment

Anyone who wishes to learn how to create and manage electronic tables

Basic computer concepts, skills and knowledge of Windows

At the end of the training, the participants will receive a certificate of attendance delivered by the House of Training.