Penn Foster’s Online Microsoft® Office 2016 Certificate Program consists of courses that will cover the basics of Microsoft® Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®. You’ll also learn how to integrate Office applications, including Word,™ Excel®, and PowerPoint®. Additionally, you’ll receive hands-on projects after each course. You will need to buy Microsoft® Office.
To provide detailed instruction to students about how to use the 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...
Learn how to use Microsoft® Word™ to create, edit, and illustrate documents.
This project gives you a chance to use your Word™ skills. Create four promotional documents for a company’s training event: a cover letter introducing the company, a facts sheet highlighting product features, a flier promoting the event, and a registration form.
In this course, you’ll learn about the most widely used spreadsheet program, Microsoft® Excel.® Excel® can perform numerical calculations and is also useful for non-numerical applications such as creating charts, organizing lists, accessing data, and automating tasks.
This project gives you the chance to use your Excel® skills. Create a simple worksheet to calculate the cost of office supplies, and track their increase or decrease in cost over a two-month period. Graph the results.
Microsoft® PowerPoint® is a powerful graphics presentation program for communicating ideas to an audience.
You’ll complete a hands-on project where you will create a PowerPoint® presentation using text, charts, multimedia features, and custom animations.
Your first lesson in integrating Office applications covers integrating Word™ and Excel.®
Microsoft® Word™ and Excel® Project:
You’ll complete a hands-on project where you’ll prepare letterhead for the ABC Engineering Company, you’ll write a memo to a client, and create and embed a worksheet into the memo.
Microsoft® Word,™ Excel,® and PowerPoint® Project:
You’ll complete a hands-on graded project where you’ll create a presentation on world hunger using design templates, add clipart and an Excel® pie chart, and save the presentation as a video.