Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Access, SharePoint)

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Get hands-on experience with the most widely used computer programs in the world, and take away the skills to create professional documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Discover the power of Microsoft Excel to create, edit and manage spreadsheets, master the art of professional document creation with Microsoft Word, and bring your proposals and presentations to life with Microsoft PowerPoint. Software Used: It is recommended for ease of learning that you have Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook) but they are not needed to pass the class.
 

  • Excel document creation
  • Excel format & merge cells
  • Excel formulas and functions
  • Export Excel tables and charts
  • Word create, format and present documents
  • Word advanced features and functionality
  • Word management and sharing
  • PowerPoint creation
  • PowerPoint populate, format and present slides
  • PowerPoint advanced features and functionality
  • Manage PowerPoint documents
  • And much more…

 
Certificate includes the following courses. Click on the title for course overview.
 

 

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These online courses are offered in partnership with UGOTCLASS.

  • Certificate programs consist of 2 or 3 individual courses bundled together (reduced fee when bundled vs. individual courses)
  • Available 24/7 within the month of the course offering. No set day or time.
  • Courses consist of online readings, audio presentations, and written online discussion boards with instructor and participants.
  • After enrolling expect an invitation email by Wednesday before scheduled begin date from teacher@ugotclass.org. Check “Junk” email folder.
  • Certificates will be emailed from UGOTCLASS within 3 weeks after successful course completion.

Enroll by clicking the “Register Now” button above. Questions: ceonline@dmacc.edu.

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You’re ready to take a computer class, but which one? The first place to start is with the course description and if you want additional information, click on the Table of Contents for the book that’s used.​

Microsoft Office Excel courses offered at a DMACC campus

  • Excel Basic
  • Excel can help you organize, calculate, analyze, revise, update, and present data to aid in decision-making. It also makes these tasks much easier for you to accomplish, and in much less time. In this introductory Excel course topics include entering and editing data, performing worksheet calculations, formatting cell contents, managing multiple worksheets, using functions in formulas, and creating charts.
  • Excel Intermediate
  • This course will take your Excel skills to the next level by building on the foundational skills learned in Excel Basic. Topics include advanced workbook formatting; date functions and conditional formatting; financial functions and What-If analysis; conditional functions using IF criteria, nested functions, 3-D cell references; and LOOKUP functions.

  • Excel Advanced
  • Are you an experienced Excel user who wants to learn about Excel's advanced features? This course will help you develop the necessary skills by building on the skills learned in Excel Basic and Excel Intermediate. Topics include: working with tables and special table features.

Microsoft Power BI course offered at a DMACC campus

  • Power BI was built to connect to a wide range of data sources, and allows you to quickly create visualizations of connected data to gain insights, show trends, and create reports. Its data connection capabilities and visualization features go far beyond those that can be found in spreadsheets, allowing you to create compelling and interactive worksheets, dashboards, and stories that bring data to life. In this course, you will analyze data with self-service BI, connect to data sources, perform advanced data modeling and shaping, visualize data, enhance data analysis, model data with calculations, and create interactive visualizations.​

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​Computer Basics course offered at a DMACC campus



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​Courses Available (but not limited to):​

  • AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
  • AZ-900 & 104: Microsoft Azure Fundamental & Administrator
  • AZ-900 & 500: Microsoft Azure Fundamental & Security Technologies
  • Crystal Reports
  • IC3 Digital Literacy GS5
  • Microsoft Access Certification
  • Microsoft Excel Certification Training
  • Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Associate Certification
  • Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Expert Certification
  • Microsoft Outlook Certification Training
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Certification Training
  • Microsoft Project
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Microsoft Word Certification Training

These online self-paced courses are offered through a partnership with ed2go.

  • Available 24/7
  • Dedicated ed2go student advisor
  • Payment plan option available through ed2go, call 855-520-6806 for details

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Courses Available (but not limited to):

  • Access
  • Accounting with MS Excel
  • Excel
  • Excel – Pivot Tables
  • Master VLOOKUP in Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office Value Suite
  • Microsoft Project
  • Outlook
  • PowerPoint
  • Publisher
  • SharePoint
  • Word

These online courses are offered through a partnership with ed2go.

Two Class Types:

  • Instructor-Moderated 6-week courses
    • Available 24/7. No set class day or time
    • 2 lessons released each week (4 hours per week of work)
    • Written online discussion board with instructor and participants
  • Self-Guided 3-Month Course
    • Available 24/7
    • NO discussion with instructor or participants

If final test score on 1st attempt is 70% or better, student prints certificate.

Enroll by clicking the “Browse online courses” link above. Questions: ceonline@dmacc.edu.

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DMACC Continuing Education
1111 East Army Post Road
Des Moines, Iowa 50315

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