Microsoft Office Plus Diploma

Learning these skills is easy with Pitman Training. Our tried and trusted methods are the best available and are designed for speedy results.

You work at your own pace in our comfortable premises, helped by experienced tutors as required. The atmosphere is relaxed and non-competitive.

You choose your own hours, working when it suits you and keep the reference books and training manuals when the course is over.

The subjects covered are shown below. Together, they will equip you to start a secretarial career with complete confidence.

On completion of your final exams, you will receive a b that is recognised nationally and internationally by employers.

Invest in yourself

Acquiring these vital business skills and your Pitman Training Diploma to prove it will repay the cost in improved employment opportunities and job advancement potential. What better investment in your own future?

The sooner you start, the sooner you will benefit.

Why Pitman Training?

No-one has helped more people gain valuable business skills than Pitman Training. That unbeatable experience is your guarantee of success. Our teaching methods are proven; our course materials are the best of their kind. There are no hidden costs. The Diploma package includes certification fees and all training. A Pitman Training Diploma is an industry standard; your passport to a better career.

Designed for individuals who wish to validate their skills using the most popular Microsoft Office applications.

Core Subjects

Microsoft Word Proficient
Introductory and intermediate word processing skills to a good employable standard. This course will enable you to create professional looking documents, produce tables, insert pictures and much more.

Microsoft Excel Proficient
Introductory and intermediate spreadsheet skills to a good employable standard. This course will enable you to create a spreadsheet, entering text, numbers and formulas and creating charts.

Microsoft PowerPoint
Gain competency in creating slide presentations. Areas covered include formatting, inserting tables, pictures, sound, hyper links, applying transition and timing effects for a slide show

Microsoft Access
Develop database skills from initial design stage to running reports and queries.

Microsoft Outlook
Learn how to share, manage and schedule information electronically. Covers the use of email, electronic calendar, scheduling meetings and appointments, creating and assigning tasks, creating address lists.

Recommended Electives - choose 2

Keyboard Skills
Learn how to touch type accurately, using the correct keyboard technique. This will help to reduce the risk of RSI (repetitive strain injury).

Microsoft Word Expert
Learn advanced word processing skills including mailmerge, creating graphs, creating and running macros, creating an index and table of contents to mention just a few.

Microsoft Excel Expert
Learn advanced spreadsheet skills, covering areas such as importing and exporting data, creating and using templates, linking workbooks, data management, using analysis tools and pivot tables.

Windows Operating System
This course is for complete beginners and will teach basic computer skills from using a mouse to file management; using the internet and email, creating and printing a document in WordPad.

Microsoft FrontPage
Learn web page design skills using this Microsoft programme. Create a website adding text, pictures, tables, hotspots, search forms etc.

Microsoft Publisher
Learn desktop publishing skills using this Microsoft programme. Create various publications, inserting text, pictures, frames and tables.