One on one - at your office/home or our office. Small groups of up to three - at your office/home or our office. Groups of up to 12 - in a computer lab. Please note the minimum number of students required for a course to run in our lab is six. Discounts are available for students providing relevant paper work from an approved organisation. 

A 12 computer lab right in the heart of Tauranga. We also have three computers in our office set up for training small groups or one on one.

Note: if you don’t see a schedule for training you are interested in please call (07) 5431314

At the completion of this course participants will be able to:

• identify the key components of your computer
• navigate the Windows 2000 Professional desktop
• manipulate windows to suit your needs
• use dialog boxes and navigate multiple windows
• use the Windows Explorer to locate and organize files and folders
• create, manipulate, and delete folders and folder hierarchies
• use a wide range if techniques to manage your files effectively
• use the Recycle Bin to manage deleted files and folders
• create and use shortcuts to applications, folders, and files
• print documents using the print queue
• use the Windows 2000 Professional help system.

At the completion of this course participants will have been instructed in the following:

• Getting Started, Word Overview, Screen Layout, Menus, Shortcut Menus, Toolbars, Customizing Toolbars, Document Views, On-line Help
• Working with files, Create a Document, Open an Existing Document, Search for a Document using the “Open Dialogue Box”, Save, Rename and Close Documents, Work on Multiple Documents
• Working with text, Typing and Inserting Text, Selecting Text, Moving, Copying, Pasting and Deleting Text. Undo, Redo, The Clipboard, and Click and Type
• Formatting text,  Using the Formatting Toolbar, Add and remove character enhancements, Use Format Painter
• Document navigation,  Using Go To, Find and Replace Text, Keyboard Shortcuts
• Paragraph formatting,  Includes Creating Columns, Converting Text to Columns, Using Indents, Bullets, Numbering and Creating Tables
• Page formatting, Page Margins, Tabs, Headers and Footers
• Styles, Applying a Style, Create and Modify a Style
• Graphics, Add and Edit Clipart
• Wordart, Insert and Edit WordArt, Use the Drawing Toolbar
• Spelling and grammar, Using AutoCorrect, Spelling and Grammar Check, Synonyms, and Thesaurus
• Printing, Using Print Preview, other options to Print a document and  Canceling  Print Jobs.

At the completion of this course participants will have been instructed in the following:

• Starting Excel including spreadsheet basics, Microsoft Excel screen elements, adding and renaming worksheets
• The standard toolbar including open, save, print, print preview, cut, copy, paste, and format painter, undo and redo, insert hyperlink, autosum, function wizard, and sorting
• Basic spreadsheet maths including operator precedence, use of parentheses, evaluate a nested formula
• Modifying a worksheet including moving through cells, adding worksheets, rows and columns, resizing rows and columns, selecting cells, moving and copying cells, freeze panes
• Formatting cells including format cells dialog box, styles, create a new style, format painter, autoformat functions
• Formulas including linking worksheets, relative, absolute, and mixed referencing, basic functions, function wizard, autosum,
• Sorting and filling, including complex sorts
• Autofill including, alternating text and numbers with autofill, autofilling functions
• Graphics including adding clip art, add an image from a file, editing a graphic, autoshapes
• Charts including chart wizard, chart formatting toolbar, copying the chart to Microsoft word
• Page properties and printing including page breaks, page setup, margins, header/footer, sheet, print preview
• Keyboard shortcuts including all short cuts list for future reference

Extras:

An additional feature of our training is the establishment of an online discussion group for the students and the instructor to converse throughout course and after the course has finish. The discussion group is hosted by www.worldcrossing.com 

Each student recieves a logon and can use this to start a discussion with the instructor on any points they are having trouble with. The instructor will remain active in the discussion group for seven days after the completion of the course with a "best effort" approach to answering as many questions as possible. After this time the discussion group will remain active as a location for students to converse and help each other with issues they may be experiencing.

Below is an example of how a discussion forum works.