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MS OFFICE SUITE — INTRO (**NEW**)

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Instructor: Tom Keating, Principal, tkeating@pausd.org
Duration: 9 wks
Date range: April 12 to June 7
Date(s) of the week: Tuesday
Hour: 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Quarter: Spring 2022
Prerequisite: None
Address: Palo Alto HS Rm 410
Price: $135

Interested in learning how to use the Microsoft Office application to help you at work, school, or at home?

This course will introduce you to the basic features of 3 primary MS Office Suite applications:

  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint

You will learn the basic features of the each of these applications and will provide an excellent foundation for those who wish to pursue more in-depth learning of the advanced elements of these applications in the future. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to use the MS Office Suite applications to create professional-quality documents, worksheets, presentations, and databases suitable for academic, professional, and personal use.

Microsoft Office is the gold standard of productivity software. Today, 1.2 billion people across 140 countries and 107 languages use the productivity suite. Despite so many of us using Office programs in our daily lives, they can be a challenge to master without the right Microsoft Office Suite training.

Microsoft Excel

This course is designed to give you a solid foundation in the basics of Excel. You will learn the essential functions and formulas, sorting, filtering and creating charts, graphs

Over the course of the semester you will learn how to use math, statistics, logic and text functions, organize data by sorting and filtering, and effectively create presentations using charts, graphs, and tables.

Whether you use Excel for work or study, these tutorials will start you on your journey to becoming an Excel Ninja!

Microsoft Word

The Basic and Advanced Word courses will take you from the basics – creating, saving, and sharing documents – to more advanced tasks, like tracking changes, line spacing, automating a table of contents, and more!

This course is designed to give you a solid foundation in the basics of Word. You will learn how to format text with fonts and colors, use bullets and indents, customize the Quick Access Toolbar, insert pictures and screenshots, set up page layout for margins and printing and much more. These tutorials will help you transform that blank page into a professional looking document!

Microsoft PowerPoint

In this course you will learn how to create dazzling presentations sure to impress your peers and superiors. You will learn how to use themes and layouts, add audio visual components to your presentation, add animations, print, reuse and copy slides plus more.