Microsoft Office Essentials

Microsoft Office has a lot of tools, but they can be hard to find. The goal of this course is to teach you how to be efficient in the office’s different programs and to give you a few tips that will help you save time while using Outlook, MS Excel and Word.

Word

• Creating Documents, Saving and Opening Documents
• Working with Text and Paragraphs
• Formatting Text
• Format Painter – learn how to copy the formats
• Undo and Redo
• Page Breaks
• Headers and Footers
• Cut, Copy and Paste (within documents and to external packages)

Excel

• Overview of Excel screen
• Entering text, numbers and Dates
• Working with the Home Ribbon to format
• Creating Formulas – Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide
• AutoSum
• AutoFill
• Editing Spreadsheets (Sizing, Inserting and Deleting Rows, Columns, Cells)
• Working with Worksheet Tabs
• Printing

Outlook

• Sending, Replying and Forwarding Emails
• Flagging Emails
• Working with Attachments
• Email Management
• Searching Emails
• Creating Contacts
• Working with the Calendar

Virtual Live Classroom

• 30th September 2026
• 1st December 2026

Merseyside Face to Face

• 25th August 2026
• 4th November 2026

Who’s it for?

 This course is suitable for people who are self taught or have little to no experience of using Microsoft office Essentials who wish to get more confident within the package.

What are the Course Requirements?

Delegates will need to be familiar with using personal computers and should have experience using a keyboard and mouse. We would expect delegates to know how to: launch and close applications, navigate, save and open files. 

What will be the Career Path?

• Administrative Assistant​
•  Accountants ​
•  Project Manager ​
•  Data Journalist ​
•  Information  Clerk

Are any Financial Options Provided?

• 0% Interest Free payments available

Reward

Informal assessment will take place through group discussion, class room activities, and questions and answers sessions as guided by your tutor. Course Completion Certificate will be awarded on successful completion of the course.

What is provided with the Course?

• Course Material
• Aftercare Course Support