Recommend good courses around GTA to improve computer skills? (Office, Excel..etc)

[Crisqo]

Looking to advance my computer skills..

Haven't been in school for a while now, need to update myself..
Not sure where to begin with courses offered outside of schools during nights and weekends..

Thx

[mulambo187]

i went to george brown for office 2003 and excel 2003, they really did help a lot, especially excel, a little more expensive and time consuming, then some places but i think i got my moneys worth. check it out you can go to there website for a continuing education catalogue to be sent in the mail

[Legend24]

Why not just offer some high school kid $10-15/hr to teach you some basic (or advanced) Microsoft Office stuff. It's not so complicated that you should have to sign up for courses.

I'd do it but I work all day and I'd like to think that my free time is worth more than $10/hr. I also have a thing against meeting people from the internet... you never know who's on the other side of the screen.

I would suggest that you learn it yourself. Word, Excel and Powerpoint are pretty easy. Just fool around with stuff, read the help guide and you'll pick it up as you go along. If you want to get into Access or maybe Publisher, then you might want to get someone to help you out with those. I'm sure there are plenty of people here, including myself, who wouldn't mind helping you out via pm as well.

[ben_liu]

Why not just offer some high school kid $10-15/hr to teach you some basic (or advanced) Microsoft Office stuff. It's not so complicated that you should have to sign up for courses.

I'd do it but I work all day and I'd like to think that my free time is worth more than $10/hr. I also have a thing against meeting people from the internet... you never know who's on the other side of the screen.

I would suggest that you learn it yourself. Word, Excel and Powerpoint are pretty easy. Just fool around with stuff, read the help guide and you'll pick it up as you go along. If you want to get into Access or maybe Publisher, then you might want to get someone to help you out with those. I'm sure there are plenty of people here, including myself, who wouldn't mind helping you out via pm as well.

+1, I'll teach you $15/hour.

[phyrefly]

Unless you want to learn advanced VBA, there isn't much point in enrolling in a Office class unless you're uncomfortable with computers and software. A decent book will teach you much more than a class will.

[IBOPM]

I have extensive MS excel/access/project/visio experience. I will offer my services for $14/hr :D

I also have extensive VBA coding experience too. Have used excel/access/project/visio at the university level. SQL coding, relational databases, solver/goal seek, linear programming, statistical simulation, etc...

Unless you NEED this knowledge, I don't see why you can't learn these programs yourself.

[mulambo187]

guys, i dont know what this guy requires, and yeah the text books are great, the ones that we used in the course, and are more then enough to use alone to get your excel and word blackbelt, im not a noob when it comes to computers, and honestly yeah when i was in high school, i figured out enough by myself how to use both those programs, but even at that, the training i received in word, was from someone who wrote business letters and financial statements, among other things all day. and the excel was done by another guy who worked at some computer company, i seriously doubt that you are going to find someone with their proficiancies in those programs to teach you personally for $14 an hour.

on top of that these books are basically 150 page long tutorials, with a lot of repetitive time consuming exercises, they are good to use, but you can learn a whole lot easier and more efficiently i find just watching a pro use the program.

[LostNite]

You can find tutorials and other help for Microsoft Office (2003 & 2007) programs at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/FX100565001033.aspx. I haven't really looked at them myself (yet), so I cannot comment on their use. But from a quick browsing through the website and after hearing from others about it, I think it should suffice for your needs. The big bonus is that it's free.
Hope this helps.

[thephenom]

You can find tutorials and other help for Microsoft Office (2003 & 2007) programs at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/FX100565001033.aspx. I haven't really looked at them myself (yet), so I cannot comment on their use. But from a quick browsing through the website and after hearing from others about it, I think it should suffice for your needs. The big bonus is that it's free.
Hope this helps.

Yep, I learned pivot tables with the online tutorials. Unless you want to learn some REALLY in-depth knowledge about office, the online tutorials will be enough to get you started.

[Dark-Colonel]

Just make sure you learn Office 2007, you wouldn't want to learn 2003 and then switch over to the retardedly (I know its not a word, but it should be :evil: ) changed interface of the 2007 suite works.

And remember this, always Save As/Office 1997-2003 document because if you save by default, it will save as a .docx which no other version other than 2007 can read.

I had to learn this the hard way . . . the final day of an assignment in the school's library with Dell's that run Office 2003 . . .