Microsoft Office Certificate Program

For registration information please contact Barbara Hogg at 401-277-5200 or email bbb@uri.edu.

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The 5 Microsoft application competencies:

Word: documents, form letters, reports, proposals, memos and resumes all have specific requirements, not the least of which is that they look professional and employ a striking visual design.
Excel: every department in every business must crunch numbers, and Excel is the industry leader when it comes to calculating, projecting, and displaying numbers, formulas, charts, and lists.
PowerPoint: Computer presentations are on display everywhere, whether projected to an audience, printed for review, or assembled in a portfolio. PowerPoint remains the most popular presentation software, and can be a dynamic means to make your point, if you know the ropes.
Access: The database program most often used by large and small businesses, individual departments, and homes across the country, Access is the most user-friendly database program because of its relationships with the other Microsoft programs and its ability to link to them.
Program Links in the Microsoft 2007 Environment: Bring everything together through application links, including Internet and email relationships; review key features and consistencies in all the programs; learn how to customize the 2007 environment to your personal needs.

This 5-day program, (one full day a week for 5 weeks) will meet on Thursdays from 9:00 am-4:00 pm at the URI/Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education, 80 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903.
Certificate Program registration cost is $900.00 includes course handouts, computer access, and free parking.
Program completers will receive a Certificate of Completion.
Each session can be taken separately for those who want to just sharpen their skills in specific application competencies. Registration cost for each session is $180.00. If taking an individual session, a certificate of completion for the specific competency will be issued.

We can deliver and customize this program for your organization.

For more information on our certificate programs, please contact our program coordinator Christine P. Dolan Christine@uri.edu.

Spring 2010 SPECIAL:
Bring a buddy and receive 10% off the registration cost per person!

Computer Sessions

All hands-on computer seminars are conducted in the latest Microsoft Office 2007 environment. In addition to sharpening your computer skills, you will experience the new, different setting, and come away with helpful handouts filled with instructions, shortcuts, and tips.

Application Competency	Program Registration Cost: $900.00; Session Registration Cost: $180.00
Session I ••• Microsoft Word	Tuesday, January 5, 2010 or Thursday, February 18, 2010 or Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Fundamentals (9:00 a.m. – noon) Learn how to create and edit Word documents. Cut, copy and paste. Format fonts with bolding, bullets, numbers. Use shortcut features like AutoCorrect, Find, and Replace. Learn save and print options. Work with margins and tabs. Create tables. Advanced (1:00 - 4:00 p.m.) Columns, headers and footers; use drawing objects, ClipArt, borders, hyperlinks, graphics. Work with long documents: tables of content, references.
Session II ••• Excel	Tuesday, January 12, 2010 or Thursday, February 25, 2010 or Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Fundamentals (9:00 a.m. – noon) Learn how to design, format, save and print simple spreadsheets, using formulas for adding, averaging, etc. Create charts. Advanced (1:00 - 4:00 p.m.) Sort and filter lists, pivot tables, create IF statements, electronic checkbooks, and advanced formulas.
Session III ••• PowerPoint	Tuesday, January 19, 2010 or Thursday, March 4, 2010 or Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Fundamentals (9:00 a.m. – noon) Learn how to create and save a presentation, design and enhance slides with customized fonts, colors, objects, charts, drawing tools, and ClipArt. Advanced (1:00 - 4:00 p.m.) Create a screen show for presentation, with transitions, animation, and links; learn consistency with Slide Master; templates.
Session IV ••• Access I	Tuesday, January 19, 2010 or Thursday, March 11, 2009 or Tuesday, May 4, 2010 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Full day workshop (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) Learn how to work with and maintain a database. Design and create queries, reports, and forms. Link to other Microsoft applications Create a database: table design, importing from external sources, table relationships.
Session V ••• Microsoft Office 2007 (the new environment)	Tuesday, February 2, 2010 or Thursday, March 18, 2010 or Tuesday, May 11, 2010 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Word and Excel: (9:00 a.m. – noon) Learn your way around all the new toolbars and features of these two essential computer applications. PowerPoint and Access: (1:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.) In addition to learning your way around the new 2007 environment, major changes in these two applications will be covered.