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Microsoft Windows 8 / 7 | Level 1 | Course Info...

Course Duration: 1 Day | Class Time: 9am - 4:30pm | Class Size: 6 Students Max

Training Room Location: Level 1, Opp. Reg. Hosp. Barracks Street Sunyani

Course Materials: As part of the course you will receive many useful resources and learning links to compliment your training and help you stay on track after your course.

Certificates: All students receive a certificate of achievement on completion of their course.

After Course Support: On completion of your course you will be eligible for free email and phone support*, to aid you in the development of your new skills.

FREE Course Resit: We offer you the chance to come back in the future and resit your course for FREE*, so if you want to polish your skills further or just recap on a few things this is a great option.

What you need to bring: Nothing. We supply a PC computer for you to use with all software already installed and have note pads, pens etc in the training room. If you think it would be beneficial to bring some samples of your work that would be great but not essential.

 

Cost: GH¢ ???+GST

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Our Microsoft Windows 8 Level 1 Course

Aims of the course

This course aims to introduce people with little or no understanding of the Microsoft Windows software to the basic features of the package.

Course Objectives

On completion of the course students should understand and be able to accomplish basic operations associated with creating, formatting and finishing a word processing document ready for distribution. They should also be able to use some of the more advanced Microsoft Word applications including:

• Introduction to the Desktop

• Exploring the Start Menu

• Windows in Windows 7

• Navigating your personal folders.

How the course is run

This instructor-led course has a hands-on approach, with plenty of opportunity for students to practise the new skills they learn at the computer.

Pre-requisites

Students attending the course should preferably have a basic understanding of the Windows environment and use of the keyboard and mouse.

 

 

 

COURSE DATES - SYD	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT
Windows 8 / 7 Level 1	call	call	call	call	call	call
Windows 8 / 7 Leve 2	call	call	call	call	call	call
Windows 8 / 7 Level 3	call	call	call	call	call	call

 

 

Course Outline

Introduction to the Desktop

• First Steps with Microsoft Word - opening, creating a new document, saving, closing, using Help functions

• Adjusting Basic Settings

• Document Exchange - saving documents in different formats, and in a format appropriate for posting to a Web site

Exploring the Start Menu

• Inserting Data

• Selecting Data

• Copying, Moving, Deleting

• Searching and Replacing

Windows in Windows 8/7

• Text Formatting - font size, font type, italics, emboldening, underlining, applying colours to text, alignment, justification, hyphenation, indenting, changing line spacing, format copying

• General Formatting - using and setting tabs, adding borders to a document, bulleted and numbered lists

• Templates

Navigating your personal folders

• Styles and Pagination - applying existing styles to a document, inserting page numbering

• Headers and Footers

• Spelling and Grammar

• Document Setup - page orientation, page size, margins, etc

Organizing files and folders using the context menu

• Preparing to Print - previewing a document, using basic print options, printing a document from an installed printer

Working with multiple files and folders

• Tables - creating standard tables, changing cell attributes, inserting and deleting columns and rows, adding borders to a table, using the automatic formatting tool

• Pictures and Images - adding an image or graphics file to a document, adding autoshapes to a document, changing line colours, changing autoshape fill colours, moving images or drawn objects within a document, resizing a graphic

• Importing Objects - importing a spreadsheet into a document, importing an image file, chart or graph into a document

• Mail Merge - creating a mailing list, merging a mailing list with a letter document or a label document