Program Goals and Outcomes

Microsoft® Office Certificate Program Goals and Outcomes

Our online Microsoft® Office Certificate Program is designed to help students gain the fundamental skills to work with Microsoft® Office applications. Students will learn how to use Microsoft® Office applications Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®, as well as how to integrate Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.

Microsoft® Office

Certificate

4 months

As low as $50/mo

1-800-275-4410 (9AM - 9PM ET)

Program Goal

The goal of this program is to provide detailed instruction to students about how to use Microsoft® Office applications Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®, as well as how to integrate Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.

Upon completion of the program, students will be able to...

  • Demonstrate the fundamental skills needed to use the Microsoft® Wordâ„¢ word-processing application
  • Create new Wordâ„¢ documents, edit and format existing Wordâ„¢ documents, add graphics and tables to Wordâ„¢ documents, and merge Wordâ„¢ documents
  • Demonstrate the fundamental skills needed to use the Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet application
  • Create an Excel® spreadsheet; apply design and formatting to make worksheet data easier to understand; produce calculations using formulas and functions; incorporate useful charts and graphs; add, delete, sort, and lay out table data
  • Demonstrate the fundamental skills needed to use Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation application
  • Explain the basic elements and fundamentals of Microsoft® PowerPoint®; create a presentation; develop presentations with slide transitions, animations, graphics, and media files; work with PowerPoint® tools, tables, and charts; apply Slide Master; and insert hyperlinks
  • Demonstrate the skills necessary to integrate an Excel® spreadsheet into a Wordâ„¢ document
  • Identify the tools used to integrate Wordâ„¢ and Excel® files, embed an Excel® worksheet into a Wordâ„¢ document, embed an Excel® chart or graph into a Wordâ„¢ document, explain the difference between object linking and embedding, describe the procedure for linking an object to a Wordâ„¢ document, develop a form letter with form fields, and merge a spreadsheet with a form letter
  • Demonstrate the skills necessary to integrate a Wordâ„¢ document and table, and an Excel® chart with a PowerPoint® presentation
  • Identify the tools used to integrate Wordâ„¢, Excel®, and PowerPoint® files, create PowerPoint® presentations, place and manipulate clip art in a PowerPoint® slide, work with themes and templates, add notes to a PowerPoint® slide show, set the slide transitions for a PowerPoint® slide show, embed and link Wordâ„¢ and Excel® material in PowerPoint® presentations, and create a photo album slideshow

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