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    NOTE: This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizen and permanent migrant adults, their partners on work visas, refugees, NZ citizen and permanent resident young people aged 16+ who are not currently enrolled in a secondary school. We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship, residency or refugee status if requested. A condition of accepting a course fee subsidy is that you commit to at least 80% attendance of your course.

    About Introduction to Microsoft

    This course is for those who wish to get more familiar with common Microsoft software including:

    • Windows 10 - operating system
    • Outlook - email
    • Word - create smart-looking documents
    • Excel - spreadsheet programme (grids of text, numbers and formulas for calculations)
    • PowerPoint - software for designing presentations
    • Publisher - for creating brochures, leaftets, newsletters

    Expected learning outcomes

    • Learn to navigate your keyboard more efficiently - understanding fn, ctrl, tab and alt keys
    • Windows 10 - overview of this new version including features like Write on the Web and Take Your Reading with You
    • Outlook - learn how to format an email, attach more than one document, add appointments to Calendar, add Contacts
    • Word - create an interesting an eye-catching document and learn a few of Word's fabulous formatting features. Learn how to use the Online Picture function, add a Page Border, use several different formatting features
    • Excel - create a simple budget,  use the Merge and Centre function, Autofill, Autosum, and enhance data with formatting features
    • PowerPoint - create an eye-catching presentation using PowerPoint and learn a few of its features like changing the background colour and design
    • Publisher - learn to use one of Publisher's many Quick Publications (templates) to create an advertising flyer

    Who should attend this course?

    Those relatively new to computing who would like a quick and interesting introduction to some of Microsoft's popular software programmes. This will give students an opportunity to see which software they may wish to study further. We offer MS Word Beginners (12 hours), MS Excel Beginners (10 hours), Introduction to PowerPoint (8 hours), MS Publisher for Beginners (10 hours).

    The course is taught in a PC classroom at Selwyn Community Education.

     

    Testimonials

    March 2020:  "...impressed with Kathy - she's the best computer tutor I've had in a long time coming to Selwyn." GK

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    203-245 Kohimarama Road, Kohimarama

     

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    Term Time: Monday - Wednesday 9:00am - 9:00pm
    Thursday - Friday 9:00am - 3:00pm

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