Microsoft Office Courses

Northern Training Division
Campus: Distance

Our Microsoft Office Courses are completed online and at your own pace.

Courses can be completed in less than a day while giving you in-depth and robust training and practice in the many functions of each Microsoft Office software program. The courses are delivered virtually and can be done at your own pace.  You will have up to 1 year to complete this course upon registering.

All Microsoft training courses start at a beginner level, if you would like to enhance your Microsoft Skills, please email training@northern.on.ca. Please note that alternative training options are available upon request.

For more information, please contact training@northern.on.ca or call 705-235-3211 ext. 2174.

 

Courses

In this online training course, students will learn how to use Word 2019 to create and edit simple documents, format documents, add tables and lists, add design elements and layout options, proof documents and more!

Program Length: 4 Hours

Price: $112.99 HST Included ($99.99 +HST).

What you will learn:

You will understand how to create and edit simple documents, format documents, add tables and lists, add design elements and layout options, proof documents in Word 2019.

You will learn how to work with various types of data in Word using Tables, advanced Copy and Paste commands, and Charts. You will also learn how to review advanced document layout options in Word and various collaboration tools.

 

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Word 2019 BeginnerWord 2019 IntermediateWord 2019 Advanced

Microsoft Excel is one of the major workhorses in the Microsoft Office suite of applications and arguably the most widely-used Office product.

A solid understanding of how to use this program is vital to nearly everyone in most industries today. This course is designed specifically to teach you the fundamentals of Excel and give you the skills you need to begin to create and manipulate worksheets.

Program Length: 5.5 Hours

Price: $112.99 HST Included ($99.99 +HST).

What you will learn:

Specifically, you will understand how to create, save, enter data, and print spreadsheets in addition to learning how to create formulas and use functions to calculate in Excel.

You will learn how to enter data, format spreadsheets, manipulate columns and rows, add headers and footers, and use page setup options to prepare them for printing. You will also learn how to handle large worksheets or multiple workbooks, use styles and themes, insert various graphic objects, and options for proofing your workbooks.

 

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Beginner Excel CourseIntermediate Excel CourseAdvanced Excel Course

In this online training course, students will learn how to use Outlook to send, receive, and manage email messages, manage contact information, schedule appointments and meetings, create tasks and notes, and customize the Outlook interface.

Program Length: 3.75 Hours

Price: $112.99 HST Included ($99.99 +HST).

What you will learn:

  • Create an appointment or event
  • Invite others to meetings
  • Use Quick Steps
  • Create tasks
  • Flag emails
  • Save attachments
  • Create inbox folders
  • Arrange email by date or by sender
  • Create new messages
  • Ignore conversations
  • Utilize sorting and filtering views

 

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Outlook 2019 BeginnerOutlook 2019 Advanced

In this online training course, students will learn how to use the vast array of features and functionality contained within PowerPoint 2019, they will gain the ability to organize their content, enhance it with high-impact visuals, and deliver it with a punch.

Program Length: 5 Hours

Price: $112.99 HST Included ($99.99 +HST).

What you will learn:

  • Customize the interface
  • Save and share presentations
  • Run a slideshow
  • Build an outline
  • Format text
  • Work with photos
  • Incorporate video, audio, and animation
  • Create 3D images
  • Format tables
  • Utilize SmartArt

 

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Microsoft PowerPoint

Using best practices in project management can be difficult in the real world. This course combines both concepts to help with the understanding of what Microsoft Project software is doing in the background and how to utilize it for your projects.

Program Length: 2.5 Hours

Price: $112.99 HST Included ($99.99 +HST).

What you will learn:

  • Setup a project
  • Setup the schedule and calendar
  • Create and work with tasks
  • Add and work with resources
  • Update durations and track performance
  • Monitoring and controlling your project plan and providing reports to stakeholders
  • Better understand master projects, work with sub-projects, and create resource pools

 

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Microsoft Project

Teams is a chat-based workspace that keeps a team’s important communication and files in one place. It works with Microsoft 365 and features threaded chats to help everyone converse and collaborate more effectively.

Program Length: 1.7 Hours

Price: $112.99 HST Included ($99.99 +HST).

What you will learn:

Students will learn to create teams, add users, manage a team, start a team conversations, reply to a conversation, and add files.

In addition, students will explore channels, create new channels, add favorites, create and share files, work with meetings, schedule team meetings, integrate with SharePoint, add tabs to keep files, notes and apps available, and connectors to access content and get updates.

 

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Microsoft Teams

This online training course includes a deep dive into how to understand, interact, and utilize the Microsoft SharePoint app. Specifically, this course covers sites, apps, pages, lists, libraries, calendars, and more!

Price: $112.99 HST Included ($99.99 +HST).

What you will learn:

  • Navigate and interact with SharePoint sites
  • Add and remove Apps
  • Add and edit pages
  • Add, edit, sort, and filter Lists
  • Better understand Libraries and how to utilize them
  • Add, edit, update, delete and view Calendars
  • Create and manage alerts
  • How to search and setup search alerts
  • Utilize workflows

 

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Microsoft Sharepoint

This online training course includes a deep dive into how to stay organized and manage projects with Microsoft Planner, a planning and project management app for Office 365!

Microsoft Office Planner on 365 is a scheduling software that follows a Kanban or task board approach. You can easily collaborate with a group you create or invite others to join your project. With simple buckets you can schedule, update, attach documents, flag as urgent and collaborate with other 365 apps easily. This short course will give you all the information you need to effectively begin planning, scheduling and collaborating with your groups and be up and running within an hour.

Program Length: Half-Hour

Price: $112.99 HST Included ($99.99 +HST).

What you will learn:

  • Plan an event
  • Create and manage notifications
  • Create, manage, and interact with documents
  • Prioritize and flag documents
  • Collaborate with other Office 365 applications, like SharePoint
  • Export work to Excel

 

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Microsoft Planner

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