Getting To Grips With Windows, Office And Email

Course Overview

This course will equip new users with a thorough understanding of how to navigate the windows environment and the basics of Microsoft Office - giving users with little experience the confidence to use these programmes in every day tasks

Audience

Those wishing to expand their knowledge of Windows, intending to use e-mail and Microsoft Office

Skills Gained

Delegates will gain:

• Skills to add shortcuts to frequent tasks
• Ability to be organised by creating a personalised filing system and discovering how to find 'lost' files
• The confidence to create professional letters and spreadsheets
• Reduced reliance on paper by learning how to send and receive e-mails, including attaching files

Course Outline

• Windows - Understanding the desktop
• Use the start button and the taskbar
• Use mouse buttons and keyboard shortcuts
• Starting programs and work with two concurrently
• Create, store, find, copy and delete files
• Adding folders and filing
• Introduction to Word
• Utilise the menu bar and toolbar icons
• Creating a letter
• The Excel window
• Insert text, figures and formulae
• Fundamentals of e-mail
• Send, receive, and reply to mail
• Attach files to e-mail
• Delete mail

Getting To Grips With Windows, Office And Email / IWO