Jan 13, 2010 through Jan 15, 2010 8:30 am - 3:30 pm W, R, F | Word 2007: Light (2686-03) Are you looking for a Word 2007 course to quickly update your skills? This introductory course will cover essential skills and topics including extensive formatting, speller, thesaurus, autocorrect, DOCX files, creating reports, mail merge, and much more. PREREQUISITE: After Intro (2620) or equivalent experience along with keyboarding 20+ GWPM. |
| Feb 1, 2010 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm M | MS Publisher Tips and Tricks (2699-01) Have you been working with MS Publisher, but some things just do not behave correctly? Does the new version of MS Publisher 2007 hide some of your tools? Can you make your story flow from one page to another without cut and paste? Do you know that you can change from one type of publication to another by clicking a single button? Learn how to save publications in PDF format or XPS format. Learn to insert pictures without having to spend hours resizing them. |
Feb 2, 2010 8:30 am - 3:30 pm T | Important Basics - In a Day (2601-02) This great introductory course will not only get you comfortable using the mouse, but will explain the keyboard, introduce the Windows environment, and show you valuable short cuts. Before you decide to skip this course because you already know how to point and click, ask yourself how many keyboard short cuts you know. Do you know what to do if your mouse stops working or you should right click? |
| Feb 4, 2010 through Feb 9, 2010 8:30 am - 3:30 pm T R | Intro to Computers (2615-01) This course will introduce the four key elements of computers: operating system, hardware, application software, and the Internet. For many people, this is the course that fills in many holes in their computer experiences. Over 75% of this course is hands-on to prepare you for more intense use of software in the next course, "After Intro". The objective of this course is not to make you an accomplished user, rather to give you a good foundation to develop more computer skills and the confidence to continue to more advanced features. Good follow-up courses are After Intro or Keyboarding Skills. PREREQUISITE: Important Basics, Mouse 101 and/or some computer and mouse experience. |
| Feb 5, 2010 8:30 am - 11:30 am F | Windows 7 - Only What's New (2640-02) The title says it all. The new Windows upgrade offers many new and enhanced features like an improved taskbar, Jump Lists, Desktop enhancements, Window Search, Internet Explorer 8, better device management, and HomeGroup. PREREQUISITE: Previous operating system experience required. Not for a novice. |
Feb 8, 2010 through Feb 22, 2010 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm M W | Access 2007: Essentials (2684-01) If you want a real edge, know how to setup and utilize Access, the world's most widely used database. If you have tried to learn Access on your own, you have already discovered that Access is non-intuitive, dense, and frustrating for anyone but a programmer. Valuable insights and down-to-earth explanations will guide you through the essentials of building a database, manipulating and modifying tables and creating relationships, querying a database, customizing input forms and reports, and integrating projects. This is a beginners class, but if you are currently using MS Access 2003 and are going to convert to MS Access 2007, you might still want to take this class. PREREQUISITE: After Intro, and/or basic editing skills and familiar with the Windows environment. |
| Feb 11, 2010 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm R | MS Publisher Tips and Tricks (2699-02) Have you been working with MS Publisher, but some things just do not behave correctly? Does the new version of MS Publisher 2007 hide some of your tools? Can you make your story flow from one page to another without cut and paste? Do you know that you can change from one type of publication to another by clicking a single button? Learn how to save publications in PDF format or XPS format. Learn to insert pictures without having to spend hours resizing them. |
Feb 16, 2010 through Feb 23, 2010 8:30 am - 3:30 pm T R | After Into - Express (2620-02) This course has been praised for pulling the fundamentals of operating a computer into a comprehensive and practical sequence. Limited and new users - this course is vital in establishing your readiness to move on to other programs. If you just finished Introduction to Computers, or know the basics of editing and getting into software, you are ready for this course. After Intro will provide extensive hands-on experience in saving and creating files and folders, while introducing word processing and spreadsheets to learn essential editing and operation techniques. After Intro will not make you an expert in any one application, but will make you comfortable with basic procedures required in almost all computer programs. If you have had some software experience and are unsure whether you have the essential fundamentals to proceed toward further computer skills, take this course. Good follow-up courses are any beginner or Level 1 software courses like Word 2007, Excel 2007, Access 2007 or either level of Top Job Market Skills. PREREQUISITE: Introduction to Computers or not a novice to computers and saving files. |
| Class is held once a month for three months: Feb 20, 2009 Mar 20, 2009 Apr 17, 2009 9:00 am - 12:00 pm S | Free Websites for Beginners (2660-01) Are you a small business without a website? Do you need a website, but have a problem with limited funds and no idea of how to go about developing one? Microsoft will register your domain name and host the website for FREE. Microsoft Office Live Small Business will be used to build your site. NO experience is necessary and there are no special programs to buy. Your domain name will be register during the first class, so come prepared with your user name and an alternative in case the first one is already taken. Prerequisite: The ability to use a mouse. |
| Feb 26, 2010 8:30 am - 11:30 am F | MS Graphics - Above Average (2683-01) Take your graphics up a few notches! Microsoft has built in some awesome graphic capabilities most people don’t know exist. Can you make the ball bounce across the screen in PowerPoint? Does the tail on your WordArt clash with the fill you used? Are your graphics plain and dull? Join this info filled 3-hour course and learn some great tricks for graphics in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher. |
Mar 4, 2010 through Apr 1, 2010 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm R | Access 2007: Intermediate (2685-01) You have that MS Access 2007 database started, but you are still having to do too much work. Take this class to learn how to get the machine to do more of the work. Enhance those forms. Automate some of the data entry. Make those queries work for you. Learn how to create macros. We will even include a little bit of VBA coding that you can insert into your databases. |
| Mar 8, 2010 through Mar 10, 2010 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm M W | MS Publisher 2007: Basics (2681-02) Microsoft® Publisher 2007 is Microsoft's desktop publishing program. Publisher lets the novice desktop designer create documents quickly without sacrificing power, while still offering product flexibility for more experienced users. Learn how to automatically build a preformatted layout in minutes to create brochures, newsletters, memos, postcards, envelopes, and webpages. This is also a great program for creating pages with all kinds of design elements, such as formatted text, photographs, lines, and pictures. If you want professional-looking publications, Publisher is a must. PREREQUISITE: Experience using Word and/or other Microsoft software. |
| Mar 9, 2010 through Mar 16, 2010 8:30 am - 11:30 pm T | MS Publisher 2007: Basics (2681-01) Microsoft® Publisher 2007 is Microsoft's desktop publishing program. Publisher lets the novice desktop designer create documents quickly without sacrificing power, while still offering product flexibility for more experienced users. Learn how to automatically build a preformatted layout in minutes to create brochures, newsletters, memos, postcards, envelopes, and webpages. This is also a great program for creating pages with all kinds of design elements, such as formatted text, photographs, lines, and pictures. If you want professional-looking publications, Publisher is a must. PREREQUISITE: Experience using Word and/or other Microsoft software. |
| Mar 10, 2010 through Mar 24, 2010 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm W | Files and Folders - Now I Get It! (2637-01) Are you still uncomfortable saving files or do you have difficulty finding documents? "Aha!" moments come when you finally understand the organization, extensions, properties, and rules for folders and files! PREREQUISITE: After Intro, and/or some experience saving files. Not for a novice. |
Mar 11, 2010 through Mar 18, 2010 8:30 am - 11:30 am R | Important Basics (2601-09) This great introductory course will not only get you comfortable using the mouse, but will explain the keyboard, introduce the Windows environment, and show you valuable short cuts. Before you decide to skip this course because you already know how to point and click, ask yourself how many keyboard short cuts you know. Do you know what to do if your mouse stops working or you should right click? |
| Mar 12, 2010 through Mar 26, 2010 9:00 am - 12:00 pm F | MS Office for the Home User (2621-01) Become inspired to further utilize Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, and even Outlook. Some of the great, practical applications to be covered are utilizing tables for lists, recipe conversions, medication lists, designing a photo album, and setting an appointment calendar. |
| Mar 18, 2010 through Mar 25, 2010 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm R | Outlook 2007 - Essentials (2647-01) This crash course in the use of Outlook will cover the basics for email (including attachments), contacts (including groups), and the calendar. This is another one of those courses where you hear a lot of "I didn’t know that!" or "Wow, that’s nice." PREREQUISITE: Not for a novice to computers and emailing. |
| Mar 23, 2010 through Apr 1, 2010 8:30 am - 11:30 am T R | Intro to Computers (2615-04) This course will introduce the four key elements of computers: operating system, hardware, application software, and the Internet. For many people, this is the course that fills in many holes in their computer experiences. Over 75% of this course is hands-on to prepare you for more intense use of software in the next course, "After Intro". The objective of this course is not to make you an accomplished user, rather to give you a good foundation to develop more computer skills and the confidence to continue to more advanced features. Good follow-up courses are After Intro or Keyboarding Skills. PREREQUISITE: Important Basics, Mouse 101 and/or some computer and mouse experience. |
| Mar 30, 2010 through Apr 13, 2010 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm R | Advanced Excel - Level 3 (2693-01) Do you need to better understand complicated formulas and spreadsheets and tools like Goal Seek and Pivot Tables? Learn some secrets to using advanced functions such as embedded Ifs, Error functions, and Financial functions. Make Excel help you figure out and understand why your formulas are not working. |
| Apr 12, 2010 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm M | MS Graphics - Above Average (2683-02) Take your graphics up a few notches! Microsoft has built in some awesome graphic capabilities most people don’t know exist. Can you make the ball bounce across the screen in PowerPoint? Does the tail on your WordArt clash with the fill you used? Are your graphics plain and dull? Join this info filled 3-hour course and learn some great tricks for graphics in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher. |
| Apr 12, 2010 through Apr 26, 2010 8:30 am - 3:30 pm M | After Into - Express (2620-06) This course has been praised for pulling the fundamentals of operating a computer into a comprehensive and practical sequence. Limited and new users - this course is vital in establishing your readiness to move on to other programs. If you just finished Introduction to Computers, or know the basics of editing and getting into software, you are ready for this course. After Intro will provide extensive hands-on experience in saving and creating files and folders, while introducing word processing and spreadsheets to learn essential editing and operation techniques. After Intro will not make you an expert in any one application, but will make you comfortable with basic procedures required in almost all computer programs. If you have had some software experience and are unsure whether you have the essential fundamentals to proceed toward further computer skills, take this course. Good follow-up courses are any beginner or Level 1 software courses like Word 2007, Excel 2007, Access 2007 or either level of Top Job Market Skills. PREREQUISITE: Introduction to Computers or not a novice to computers and saving files. |
| Apr 20, 2010 through May 4, 2010 6:00 am - 9:00 pm T | MS Publisher 2007: Intermediate (2682-01) Now that you are comfortable with the basics of Publisher you are probably anxious to discover the many other tools awaiting you. Design fantastic newsletters, HTML text, and learn how to transmit a Publisher file even though the receiver does not have Publisher. Prerequisite: Experience using Publisher and/or previous course Microsoft Publisher 2007 Basics. |
| Apr 22, 2010 through Apr 29, 2010 6:00 am - 9:00 pm R | Outlook 2007 - Essentials (2647-02) This crash course in the use of Outlook will cover the basics for email (including attachments), contacts (including groups), and the calendar. This is another one of those courses where you hear a lot of "I didn’t know that!" or "Wow, that’s nice." PREREQUISITE: Not for a novice to computers and emailing. |
| Apr 29, 2010 through May 6, 2010 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm R | Outlook 2007: Intermediate (2648-01) Become a power user by making Outlook work for YOU. Join us to learn how you can make several calendars, have Outlook sort your incoming emails into folders, assign tasks to others, invite people to a meeting and tally up who will attend, and how to import contact information from an Excel spreasheet into Outlook. |
| May 4, 2010 through May 18, 2010 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm T | MS Office for the Home User (2621-02) Become inspired to further utilize Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, and even Outlook. Some of the great, practical applications to be covered are utilizing tables for lists, recipe conversions, medication lists, designing a photo album, and setting an appointment calendar. |
| May 19, 2010 8:30 am - 3:30 pm W | Important Basics - In a Day (2601-12) This great introductory course will not only get you comfortable using the mouse, but will explain the keyboard, introduce the Windows environment, and show you valuable short cuts. Before you decide to skip this course because you already know how to point and click, ask yourself how many keyboard short cuts you know. Do you know what to do if your mouse stops working or you should right click? |
| May 24, 2010 through May 26, 2010 9:00 am - 4:00 pm M W | Intro to Computers (2615-06) This course will introduce the four key elements of computers: operating system, hardware, application software, and the Internet. For many people, this is the course that fills in many holes in their computer experiences. Over 75% of this course is hands-on to prepare you for more intense use of software in the next course, "After Intro". The objective of this course is not to make you an accomplished user, rather to give you a good foundation to develop more computer skills and the confidence to continue to more advanced features. Good follow-up courses are After Intro or Keyboarding Skills. PREREQUISITE: Important Basics, Mouse 101 and/or some computer and mouse experience. |
| Jun 2, 2010 through Jun 9, 2010 9:00 am - 4:00 pm M W | After Into - Express (2620-08) This course has been praised for pulling the fundamentals of operating a computer into a comprehensive and practical sequence. Limited and new users - this course is vital in establishing your readiness to move on to other programs. If you just finished Introduction to Computers, or know the basics of editing and getting into software, you are ready for this course. After Intro will provide extensive hands-on experience in saving and creating files and folders, while introducing word processing and spreadsheets to learn essential editing and operation techniques. After Intro will not make you an expert in any one application, but will make you comfortable with basic procedures required in almost all computer programs. If you have had some software experience and are unsure whether you have the essential fundamentals to proceed toward further computer skills, take this course. Good follow-up courses are any beginner or Level 1 software courses like Word 2007, Excel 2007, Access 2007 or either level of Top Job Market Skills. PREREQUISITE: Introduction to Computers or not a novice to computers and saving files. |
| Jun 7, 2010 through Jun 14, 2010 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm M | Outlook 2007: Intermediate (2648-02) Become a power user by making Outlook work for YOU. Join us to learn how you can make several calendars, have Outlook sort your incoming emails into folders, assign tasks to others, invite people to a meeting and tally up who will attend, and how to import contact information from an Excel spreasheet into Outlook. |
| Jun 15, 2010 through Jun 17, 2010 8:30 am - 11:30 am T W R | Files and Folders - Now I Get It! (2637-02) Are you still uncomfortable saving files or do you have difficulty finding documents? "Aha!" moments come when you finally understand the organization, extensions, properties, and rules for folders and files! PREREQUISITE: After Intro, and/or some experience saving files. Not for a novice. |
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| Mouse 101 (2601) This great introductory course will not only get you comfortable using the mouse, but will explain the keyboard, introduce the Windows environment, and show you valuable short cuts. Before you decide to skip this course because you already know how to point and click, ask yourself how many keyboard short cuts you know. Do you know what to do if your mouse stops working or you should right click? |
| Vista Vitals (2639) Did you buy a computer with Vista and need a crash course on how to used it? If you can use a mouse, you can use Vista. Join us to learn the terminology, how to create simple documents, and the rules for files and folders. Discover the toys Microsoft added, how to manuever through the menus, find lost files, etc. Course will be taught using LAPTOPS. Students may bring their own if desired. |
| | Vista: What's Changed (2638) Microsoft Vista and the similarities and differences to XP and the differences between the versions of Vista and how each operates as opposed to XP are covered. This information-packed presentation will include much more than the prep, differences, costs, and benefits of moving to Vista operating system. PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a Microsoft Vista TRAINING course and will be taught using laptops |
| MS Office 2007: A Quick Glance at What's New (2679) Where is my toolbar? I can't find File on my menu. Sound like you? Microsoft has created the Fluient User Interface consisting of Ribbons, MS Office Button, contextual tabs, galleries, and Live Preview. Wouldn't it be great if you had some idea of how to navigate MS Office 2007? Join us for a fun session of exploration. You'll hear lost of "There it is!" |
| MS Publisher 2007: Intermediate (2682-01) Now that you are comfortable with the basics of Publisher you are probably anxious to discover the many other tools awaiting you. Design fantastic newsletters, HTML text, and learn how to transmit a Publisher file even though the receiver does not have Publisher. Prerequisite: Experience using Publisher and/or previous course Microsoft Publisher 2007 Basics. |
| Word 2007: Light (2686-02) Are you looking for a Word 2007 course to quickly update your skills? This introductory course will cover essential skills and topics including extensive formatting, speller, thesaurus, autocorrect, DOCX files, creating reports, mail merge, and much more. PREREQUISITE: After Intro (2620) or equivalent experience along with keyboarding 20+ GWPM. |
| MS Graphics Know How (2683) Take your graphics up a few notches! Microsoft has built in some awesome graphic capabilities most people don't know exist. Can you make the ball bounce across the screen in PowerPoint? Does the tail on your WordArt clash with the fill you used? Are your graphics plain and dull? Join this info filled 3-hour course and learn some great tricks for graphics in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher, |
| Files and Folders - The Key! ( ) You are not alone! Understanding the "what and why" of Windows files and folders is generally the major stumbling block to most users. Yet, files and folders are what computing is all about. Join this unique course to hear in clear simple terms various methods of making folders and finding lost files, problem-solving techniques, how to copy a file without moving it from a vital location, and much more. This course is highly recommended for Outlook and Internet users. PREREQUISITE: After Intro, and/or some experience saving files. Not for a novice. |
| MS Outlook 2007 - A Must Have! ( ) Did you realize that this little email program is also a personal information manager? It maintains your contacts, calendar of events (appointments and reminders) and even maintains a log (journal) of events or uses of other programs. Where else could you go and visit any number of totally different email boxes? If you are connected to a server, do you know what extra features it can offer? Need to keep a to-do list, write a lot of post-its, or would you like to enhance your email with stationary? Outlook does all this and still filters out junk mail. And don't forget about the address book which is used in other Microsoft programs. Did you know that the contact data maintained in your address book can be made personal so others on the system can't see it? Or that your calendar can schedule and notify selected contacts about a meeting or event and even get RSVP's? Don't confuse this with the home version "Outlook Express", it offers much more. PREREQUISITE: Not for a novice to computers and emailing. |