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Microsoft Word Level 1
Creating and Editing a Word document
Formatting a document
More formatting, Tables and Creating Web Pages with MS Word
Starting and customizing Word, How to enter text, Saving a document. Changing the margins, How to adjust the line spacing, Headers and Footers. Selecting and replacing text, Autoformat as you type.
Formatting paragraphs and characters. Shortcuts, Hyperlinks, Moving text, Smart tags,Finding and Replacing Text. Changing color of text, Setting Tab Stops, Clearing formatting.
Inserting and manipulating Clip Art, Printing a document and Correcting errors. Indentation and Page Breaks, Footnotes and Styles, Sorting paragraphs. How to insert the current date, Creating an Autotext Entry.
  How to use Word Count and inserting symbols. Creating and inserting data in a Table, Bulleting a list.
Hanging Indentation, Finding and inserting synonyms and How to check the Spelling and the Grammar. Addressing and printing envelopes and mailing labels.

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Microsoft Word Level 2
Advanced Tables, Charts and Watermarks
Mail Merge
Professional looking Newsletters
Inserting Word documents into a new document, Creating advanced Headers and Footers. Working with AutoShapes, How to create the Data Source, Adding records to the Data Source. How to create the nameplate of a Newsletter, WordArts, Formatting a document into multiple columns.
Formatting and Charting a Table, Drawing an empty Table, Formatting the Table. Modifying Fields, How to insert Merge Fields in the document, The If Merge Field. Formatting a letter as a Drop Cap, How to insert Column Breaks, Adding a vertical rule between columns.
Inserting and manipulating Clip Art, Printing a document and Correcting errors. Displaying and Printing Field codes, Merging the document and printing the letters, Merging the labels and printing them. How to create a Pull-Quote, Balancing Columns, Creating a Diagram.
Finding a format, Creating and Applying a Character Style, Customizing Bullets in a list. How to Merge all data records to a directory. The Format Painter Button, How to add a page Border, Animating Text.
Creating a Watermark and How to reveal a Formatting   How to change a document's background, How to Link an MS Excel Worksheet and chart its data in MS Word.
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Microsoft Word Level 3
How to create an online form
Macros
Working with a Master Document and XML
Designing the form, creating a template, entering Form instructions. Protecting and unprotecting a document, how to set up the security level. How to create an outline, inserting and creating subdocuments in a Master Document, How to build an index.
Tables in a Form, Text Form fields, Drop-Down Form fields, Check Boxes. Recording and executing a Macro, Automatic Macros, How to edit an automatic Macro. How to create a Table of Contents, Bookmarks, Using the Document Map.
Inserting and manipulating Clip Art, Printing a document and Correcting errors. Create a Macro using VBA, How to plan and write a VBA procedure. How to summarize a document, Using Readability Statistics.
How to format the Form fields, how to protect a Form, how to save data on the Form. How to add Activex Control to a Form, How to attach a digital signature to a document. Password-Protecting a file, Working with an XML Schema.

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Microsoft Excel Level 1
How to create a Worksheet and an embedded chart
Formulas, Functions and more Formatting
The IF Function, What-If Analysis and Large Worksheets
What's a Worksheet, How to select a cell, Entering Text. How to create Formulas, How to calculate the Average of a range. How to create a Series, The Format Painter Button,Copying a range of cells.
Headings, Column Titles, Row Titles How to calculate the Highest Number in a range, How to calculate the Lowest Number in a range,. How to insert and delete cells, Freezing the worksheet titles, Absolute and Relative references
How to enter numbers, How to calculate a sum, The Fill handle. How to display and print the formulas version of a Worksheet, changing the Worksheet names. The IF Function, How to Format a Worksheet III, Creating and manipulating 3-D Pie charts.
How to format a Worksheet I, Creating a Chart, Printing a document and How to Correct errors. How to format a Worksheet II, checking the spelling of the Worksheet. How to rename and color the tabs of a Worksheet, What-If Analysis, Creating Static and Dynamic Web pages with MS Excel.

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Microsoft Excel Level 2
Data Tables and Hyperlinks
Lists in MS Excel
Templates and Multiples Worksheets and Workbooks
Creating cells names based on row titles, How to create a Data Table. How to create a List, Data Validation, Entering records in a List. How to create a Template, Formatting the template, using Templates to create Workbooks
Formatting the Data Table, adding hyperlinks, protecting a Worksheet. The VLOOKUP Function,Sorting a List, How to display Automatic Subtotals in a List. Creating 3D cylinder charts, Printing the Workbook, Page Breaks.
How to check Formulas, Printing sections of a Worksheet. Use a data Form to find records, Querying a List using AutoFilter,Creating a Criteria Range. The Find and Replace command, How to consolidate data by linking Workbooks.
How to format a Worksheet I, Creating a Chart, Printing a document and How to Correct errors. Querying a List using the Advanced Autofilter, How to Extract Records, Using Database functions, The SUMIF and COUNTIF Functions. How to create a Workspace, Linking an Excel Worksheet and Chart to a Word document.
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Microsoft Excel Level 3
Macros and VBA in MS Excel
Formula Auditing, Data Validation, Goal Seek, Solver and working with Scenarios
PivotCharts, PivoTables, Trendlines and Importing Data to Excel
How to record a macro and assign it to a button and Menu command. Formula Auditing, Data Validation, How to use Trial and Error to solve a Complex problem. How to import: text files, Access Tables, Data form XML, Data from a Web Page.
Creating a VBA procedure from scratch. Using Goal Seek, How to use Solver to Find the Optimal Solution. Creating a PivotChart, Adding data to the PivotChart, Working with PivotTables.
  Creating and working with Scenarios, Summarizing Scenarios. Merging Workbooks, Trendlines in a chart, How to create a PivotTable List Web Page in Excel.

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Microsoft PowerPoint Level 1
Creating a Presentation using a Design Template & Text slide Layout
Create a Slide Show using Clip Art and the Tab outline.
Adding Visuals to a Slide Show
What's PowerPoint?, Choosing a Design Template, How to create a Title slide. Working with the Outline tab, Text Slides with Multi-level bulleted lists. How to import text files, create a custom Background, modify Clip Art.
Changing the Text Attributes, How to add a new slide, how to create a Text slide with a Single_Level bulleted list. The Slide Sorter View,Working with Clip Art, Headers and Footers. Use graphical customized bullets, Working with Tables, and how to create and Organizational Chart.
Ending a presentation with a black slide, Slide Show View, Checking the Spelling, printing a Presentation.

Animation Schemes,Animating Clip Art Running and Printing a Presentation created on the Outline Tab.

Printing Slides as Handouts, Creating and Presenting a Custom Show.

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Microsoft PowerPoint Level 2
Changing Visual elements and Presentation Formats.
Macros and VBA.
Self Running Presentation and Shapes
Working with WordArts, Grids, Adding Sound effects, Adding a Chart to a slide. Creating a toolbar, customizing a toolbar by adding buttons,create a Macro using the Macro recorder. Inserting sides from another presentation, inserting and formatting AutoShapes.
How to insert an Excel Chart, adding a Table from Word, Hyperlinks, Changing the Presentation color Scheme. Customize a Menu, create a Form to customize a presentation, create a user interface. Apply a motion path animation effect to an AutoShapes, Inserting, sizing, and formatting a Venn diagram.
Action Buttons, Slide Transition Effects, Timing.

Adding controls to a form, assign properties to controls, write VBA code to create a unique presentation.

Create and start a self-running presentation.
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Microsoft Windows
Essentials & the Windows XP Desktop
Windows XP Explorer and Transforming the Desktop
Control Panel and Advanced File Searching
Launching Windows XP, the Windows XP Desktop, Keyboard Shortcuts, Windows Help. My computer window, organizing open windows, copying, moving and deleting files, Windows XP Explorer. How to customize the Keyboard and the Mouse, User Accounts and Privileges.
How to create and save a document, storing documents in the My Documents folder, Creating folders. Copying, moving, renaming,and deleting files with Windows Explorer, My Pictures Window, Finding files and folders. Solving problems using a troubleshooter, adding and removing programs,given maintenance to your computer.
Opening and modifying documents within a folder, working with User Accounts.

Changing the desktop appearance, customizing the taskbar, working with toolbars on the Taskbar, the Notification area and the Start Menu.

Advanced file searching, Searching for documents files, The recycle bin.

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Microsoft Access Level 1
Start creating and using a Database
Queries
Giving maintenance to a Database
Creating a Database, How to create a Table, Adding records to the Table. Creating and Running a Query, Text data in Criteria, Wildcards, Parameter Query. Updating Records, how to Filter records, making changes in the Structure of the Database.
How to Preview and Print a Table, A basic Query, Creating a Form. Using Numeric Data in a Query, using Comparison Operators, Compound Criteria Query, AND & OR Queries. Enhancing the look of a Datasheet, Update Queries, Delete Queries, Validation Rules.
Using a Form, Datasheet and Form View, Creating a report.

Sorting Data in a Query, Joining Tables, Calculated fields in a Query, How to calculate Statistics, Crosstab Queries

The Lookup field, Referential Integrity, Ordering Records, Indexes, Converting Data from other applications to Access, Copying data from Access to other applications.

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Microsoft Access Level 2
Creating Reports and Forms.
Enhancing Forms, Subforms.
PivotTables, PivotCharts and Switchboards
Creating Reports, Controls, Labels, Adding Totals and Subtotals. The Input Mask Wizard, Date Fields, Memo Fields, Hyperlink Fields Creating a Macro, running and editing a Macro. Creating additional Macros.
How to use multiple tables in a Report, removing unwanted controls, changing Headings. OLE Fields, Creating a Form with a Subform, Modifying the Form Design. Creating a Switchboard, creating and modifying Switchboard pages.
Creating Forms, Calculated fields, Combo Boxes, Enhancing a Title.

Moving and resizing Fields, Changing and Aligning the Labels, Tab Stops, Changing the Tab Order.

Adding more Tables,relating several Tables, PivotTables, PivotCharts.
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Microsoft Access Level 3

Advanced Reports and Forms.

VBA and Multi-page Forms
Administering a Database System
Creating Queries for Reports, Adding a Subreport, Modifying the Subreport. Procedures in VBA, updating the Controls, creating a Form load event procedure. The Table Analyzer, the Performance Analyzer, the Documenter, checking errors.
Adding the Date and Page number to a Report, creating and printing mailing labels. Creating a function to run a Query, creating code to update the Controls. SharePoint services, setting passwords, encoding a Database, removing a password.
Formatting a form with command buttons, modifying the buttons and the combo boxes.

Using Tab Controls to create a multi-page form, inserting charts, adding ActiveX control.

Creating a Replica, Splitting the Database, creating and using an MDE file, the User-Level Security wizard.

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Microsoft Outlook

E-mail

Contact Management & Schedule Management

The Inbox, Opening and Reading e-mail message, Printing, closing, replying, forwarding, deleting e-mail messages.

Creating a contact list, organizing and finding contacts, Distribution Lists, Tracking Activities for contacts.
E-mail signatures, composing a new e-mail, formatting an e-mail message, attaching a file. The Calendar, entering appointments, editing appointments, moving appointments to a new time, a new date, a new month.
Sending an e-mail message, flagging, sorting, and filtering E-mails, setting e-mail message importance, sensitivity and delivery options.

Creating events, How to create a task list, meeting and task management, scheduling resources, customizing calendar settings, printing a calendar

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