Microsoft Applications

Microsoft Office Access: Part 2

In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design,promote quality input from users, improve database efficiency, promote data integrity, implement advanced features in tables, queries, forms, and reports. This course is the second part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access 2019/2021.

Microsoft Office Access: Part 1

Data is everywhere. Most job roles today involve some form of data management. Virtually everyone is affected in some way by the need to manage data. A relational database application such as Microsoft Office Access can help you and your organization with this task. This course is the first part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access.

Microsoft Office Access: Part 3

This course is the third part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform basic database design and development in Access 2019/2021. This course focuses on managing the database and supporting complex database designs, including import and export of data; using action queries to manage data; creating complex forms and reports; macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and tools and strategies to manage, distribute, and secure a database.

Microsoft Office Excel: VBA

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) enables you to enhance and extend the capabilities of Microsoft Excel and other applications in the Microsoft 365 application suite. You can use VBA to perform tasks that would be difficult or impossible to do using only worksheet functions, and you can automate a wide range of tasks so they can be performed faster, more consistently, and with less effort than performing them manually. This course will give you a good foundation for understanding, creating, and using VBA in your own Excel workbooks. You will learn how to use the macro recorder effectively, as well as how to write your own VBA code from scratch. You will use tools built into Excel to explore and learn VBA's capabilities and to optimize and debug your code.

Microsoft Office Excel: Accessible Spreadsheets

The objective of this course is to immerse students into accessibility issues and how to create easy to read and accessible Excel spreadsheets.

Microsoft Office Excel: Part 3

Microsoft Office Excel: Part 2

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft Office Excel: Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.

Microsoft Office for Web: Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive

This course is an introduction to Microsoft 365 in a cloud-based environment. Using the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity apps online, users can easily communicate and collaborate through Microsoft Teams messaging and meeting functionality and Outlook email. When you create a team, the Microsoft SharePoint team site provides a central storage location for accessing and modifying shared documents. Each user also receives individual document storage through OneDrive for Business. Teams can provide a central hub for working with shared documents in the familiar apps?Word, PowerPoint, and Excel?as an alternative to installing the Microsoft 365 Desktop applications.

Microsoft Office Access: Part 1

Data is everywhere. Most job roles today involve some form of data management. Virtually everyone is affected in some way by the need to manage data. A relational database application such as Microsoft Office Access can help you and your organization with this task. This course is the first part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access.

Microsoft Office Access: Part 2

In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design,promote quality input from users, improve database efficiency, promote data integrity, implement advanced features in tables, queries, forms, and reports. This course is the second part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access 2019/2021.

Microsoft Office Access: Part 3

This course is the third part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform basic database design and development in Access 2019/2021. This course focuses on managing the database and supporting complex database designs, including import and export of data; using action queries to manage data; creating complex forms and reports; macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and tools and strategies to manage, distribute, and secure a database.

Microsoft Office Excel: Data Analysis with PivotTables

Advances in technology have made it possible to store ever-increasing amounts of data. Being able to harness the power of advanced PivotTable features and create PivotCharts will help you to gain a competitive edge.

Microsoft Office Excel: Data Analysis with PowerPivot

This course will empower you to analyze large amounts of data quickly using Power Pivot in Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Office Excel: Dashboards

Today's world runs on data more than ever before and that's a trend not likely to change, or even slow down, any time soon. With the tremendous amount of available data, the ability to make sense of it continues to be an ongoing challenge. You already know how to use Excel to perform simple calculations and modify worksheets to make them easier to read, interpret, and present to others. But Excel is capable of doing so much more. To gain a truly competitive edge, you need to be able to extract actionable organizational intelligence from your raw data, and present it in a visually compelling format that enables decision makers to view key trends and gain insights. And that's exactly what this course aims to help you do.

Microsoft Office Excel: Part 1

This course aims to provide you with a foundation for Excel knowledge and skills, which you can build upon to eventually become an expert in data manipulation. Excel can help you organize, calculate, analyze, revise, update, and present your data in ways that will help the decision makers in your organization steer you in the right direction. It will also make these tasks much easier for you to accomplish, and in much less time, than if you used traditional pen-and-paper methods or non-specialized software.

Microsoft Office Excel: Part 2

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft Office Excel: Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.

Microsoft Office Excel: Part 3

Microsoft Office PowerPoint: Part 1

How do you grab and maintain an audience's focus when you're asked to present important information? By being clear, organized, and engaging. And, that is exactly what Microsoft Office PowerPoint can help you do. Today's audiences are tech savvy, accustomed to high-impact multimedia content, and stretched for time. By learning how to use the vast array of features and functionality contained within PowerPoint, you will gain the ability to organize your content, enhance it with high-impact visuals.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint: Part 2

Meetings, instruction, training, and pitches are all part of our daily lives. We are often called upon to deliver presentations with little notice, at multiple venues, and with varying requirements. Given all the variables, it may seem an overwhelming task to deliver your content on time, to all audiences, and to only those who need to see it. Oh, and by the way, you need to make it interesting, informative, and memorable. Microsoft PowerPoint provides you with all these tools that can help you.

Microsoft Office Word: Part 1

Microsoft Word is designed to help you move smoothly through the task of creating professional-looking documents. Its rich features and powerful tools can make your work easy, and even fun. In this course, you'll learn how to use Word to create and edit simple documents; format documents; add tables and lists; add design elements and layout options; and proof documents.

Microsoft Office Word: Part 2

In this course, you will work with features such as formats, styles, and templates to create professional documents with a consistent look and feel. You will add visual interest to your documents by using the tables and charts features. Quick Parts and templates provide efficiency and consistency when adding content, and long complex documents can be simplified and managed in Master Documents. Finally, you will use the mail merge feature to automate sending individual letters to customers.

Microsoft Office Word: Part 3

Microsoft Word enables you to do far more than simple word processing. Word includes advanced image manipulation tools, collaboration features, cross-referencing and linking tools, entry forms and data collection, security features, and tools to automate document production.

Microsoft Office OneNote

Microsoft Office Outlook: Part 1

Microsoft Office Outlook: Part 2

In this course, you will customize command sets, configure mail accounts, set global options, perform advanced searches, apply filters to intercept mail and control spam, create rules to automate mail management tasks, work with calendars and contacts, manage tasks, preserve data with archives and data files, as well as share and delegate access to your Outlook items.

Microsoft Power BI: Data Analysis Practitioner

Creating data-backed visualizations is key for data scientists, or any professional, to explore, analyze, and report insights and trends from data. Microsoft Power BI software is designed for this purpose. Power BI was built to connect to a wide range of data sources, and it enables users to quickly create visualizations of connected data to gain insights, show trends, and create reports. Power BI's data connection capabilities and visualization features go far beyond those that can be found in spreadsheet.

Microsoft Power BI: Data Analysis Professional

Creating data-backed visualizations is key for data scientists, or any professional, to explore, analyze, and report insights and trends from data. Power BI was built to connect to a wide range of data sources, and it enables users to quickly create visualizations of connected data to gain insights, show trends, and create reports. Power BI's data connection capabilities and visualization features go far beyond those that can be found in spreadsheets, enabling users to create compelling and interactive work

Microsoft Project: Part 1

Welcome to Microsoft Project 2019/2021: Part 1. This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment. This course covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project during the planning phase of a project. In other words, if your supervisor assigns you to lead a project, this course will enable you to draft a project plan with Project and share it with your supervisor (and others) for review and approval.

Microsoft Project: Part 2

This course covers the advanced knowledge and skills a project manager needs to update a project plan in Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project. In other words, once your project plan is approved by the project sponsor, this course will enable you to manage the project so that it is completed on time, within budget, and according to scope.

Microsoft Office Publisher

Microsoft Publisher for Office 365 is a desktop publishing software application capable of producing greeting cards, certificates, newsletters, and other printed publications. Publisher offers a large selection of ""building blocks"" that can be dragged into your documents, helping you to create page elements such as calendars, newsletter sidebars, and borders. Publisher integrates online sharing and mail merge features, which are handy when you need to send publications.

Microsoft Office Teams: Business Users

This course is designed to help you master Microsoft Teams, the key communications tool in the suite of Microsoft 365 productivity apps. Microsoft Teams enables individuals and organizations to chat, share ideas, collaborate on files, and essentially, work together. You can use Teams to have a quick chat with a colleague, participate in a virtual meeting, make an online call, and share files and resources. The Microsoft Teams app is available in three versions: a desktop app, a web app, and a mobile app. Once you are familiar with the Teams desktop app, you can easily transfer that knowledge and work in the web and mobile apps to take advantage of connecting through Teams wherever your work takes you.

Microsoft Visio: Part 1

From the earliest eras of human existence, visual images have been used to represent knowledge, data, and information. Beginning with the Paleolithic cave paintings and continuing to today's most complex computer networks, these images leverage the ability of the human brain to rapidly perceive patterns and trends from visual representations. In today's workplace, visual diagrams are an essential part of communication, from road maps to sales flows to process charts.

Microsoft Visio: Part 2

Microsoft Visio stands out among similar applications because of its unique ability to draw a wide variety of diagrams, flowcharts, workflows, and organization structures anything that can be represented by shapes connected by lines. Today, Visio is well integrated with other members of the Office family as well as Microsoft's cloud-based services. This greatly enriches the sharing and publishing of Visio drawings.

Microsoft Windows 11: Using Windows 11

Whether you're new to computers or have used them in the past, this class will help you become more comfortable using Windows 11 by familiarizing you with the Windows 11 user interface and its basic capabilities. In this course, you will explore Windows 11 and learn how to work with locally installed apps and cloud-based apps, browse the Internet, and manage basic Windows 11 settings.

Getting the Most from Your Documents and Presentations with GenAI

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini™, and Claude have revolutionized the way business users approach their work. These tools enhance productivity by speeding up tasks and offering creative solutions.

Getting the Most from Your Spreadsheets with GenAI

No matter what spreadsheet software you use, what the data is about, or how it's structured, you can use freely available generative AI tools to enhance your productivity and help you find solutions to problems that can guide crucial business decisions.

Microsoft Planner and Forms

In this course, you will learn to effectively organize tasks and gather data using Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Forms.

Mastering Microsoft Outlook - Working Smarter

Audience: Professionals seeking to optimize their time and task management using Outlook

Mastering Microsoft PowerPoint – Working Smarter

By the end of the course, professionals will be equipped to deliver presentations that inform, persuade, and inspire.

Mastering Microsoft Word – Working Smarter

By the end of the course, professionals will be able to produce polished, high-impact documents tailored for business, academic, or technical environments.