Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Open, save, create, move, copy, delete an rename files in a Windows environment
• Recognize and apply common features among Microsoft Office Applications
• Understand and navigate the Microsoft Office Interface (ribbon, tabs, groups, help)
• Create, print and save documents (includes system default file location, why and how to save in different formats)
• Insert, delete, move, copy, find, replace and spell check text (includes Autocorrect, thesaurus, language and date features)
• Format characters, text, paragraphs, and pages (includes page breaks, go to feature, margins, orientation, manual page breaks, page numbering)
• Work with graphics (introduction to images and shapes and text boxes): Describe default settings for graphics in Word, Excel and Power Point
• Understand and apply the order of mathematical operations in MS Excel
• Manage worksheets by inserting, hiding, deleting and adjusting rows and columns
• Use introductory Excel functions such as sum, average, count, max, min, and round
• Create and modify charts in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Define target audiences for your PowerPoint presentation, and select designs, themes, and content appropriate to your audience
• Create, edit, and arrange and print a presentation
• Work proficiently with graphics within PowerPoint
• Create and Edit SmartArt and WordArt in PowerPoint
• Insert, edit, format, and manipulate text boxes, shapes and objects in MS Office Applications
• Apply transitions, animation and sounds to a PowerPoint presentation

Effective as of Fall 2015