Unit 1: Introduction to Windows 8.1
- Overview of the Windows operating system
- Basic computer operations:
- Personalizing the desktop: setting background, screen saver, themes, date and time
- File management: creating, copying, renaming, moving, and deleting files and folders
- Shortcut creation and use
- Working with accessories:
- MS Paint
- Notepad
- WordPad
- Windows Media Player
- Calculator
- games
- Math Input Panel
- Language settings: adding, removing, or configuring new languages
- Using Control Panel to manage devices, software programs, fonts, and performance
- Protecting your computer against viruses
Unit 2: Modern Office Activities and Software
- Introduction to office automation suites and their components
- Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, and database applications
- Comparison of various office suites: Apache OpenOffice, Libre Office, Calligra Suite, WPS Office, KOffice, Google Docs, Microsoft Office
- Introduction to MS Word (2013), its features, and areas of use
- Working with MS Word: menus, commands, ribbon, toolbars, buttons, shortcut menus, wizards, and templates
- Creating new documents, different page views and layouts, text enhancements, formatting text and documents, auto-format, paragraph and page formatting, line spacing, margins, borders and shading, tabs and indents
- Text editing using various features, bullets, numbering, styles, printing, and spell checking
- Working with headers and footers
Unit 3: Advanced Features of MS Word
- Spell check, thesaurus, find and replace, files, autotext, symbols, etc.
- Working with columns, tabs, indents, margins, and space management in documents
- Page, column, and section breaks
- Adding references, using footnotes and endnotes in documents
- Creating an automatic table of contents
- Using themes, watermarks, inserting equations and symbols
- Importing graphics, clipart, pictures, shapes, and SmartArt in documents
- Using drawing features, drawing objects, and text in drawing
- Taking and inserting screenshots in documents
- Using WordArt and drop cap features in documents
- Working with templates, template types, and exploring and modifying templates
- Mail merge in MS Word: mail merge concept, envelopes and mailing labels, importing and exporting to and from various formats
- Macros in MS Word: macro introduction and their use, recording macros, editing macros, and running a macro
Unit 4: MS Excel Spreadsheet Basics
- Concepts of workbook and worksheets
- Getting started, creating a new worksheet, using wizards
- Various data types, selecting cells
- Entering and editing text and numbers
- Removing and resizing columns and rows
- Entering and editing formulas
- Referencing cells, moving cells, copying cells
- Sorting cell data, inserting rows and columns, inserting cells
- Deleting parts of a worksheet, clearing parts of a worksheet
- Different views of worksheets
Unit 5: MS PowerPoint and Outlook Express
· Introduction to MS PowerPoint and its use
· Working with MS PowerPoint, creating a new presentation
· Using wizards, slides, and their different views
· Inserting, deleting, and copying slides
· Working with notes, handouts, columns, and lists
· Adding graphics, shapes, screenshots, Smart Art, and charts to presentations
· Adding sounds and movies to a slide
· Working with PowerPoint objects
· Designing and presenting a slide show
· Changing slide backgrounds, slide size, and using animation and transitions
· Advanced slide options: manual and automatic
· Printing presentations, notes, handouts with print options
· Slide master, handout master, and notes master
· Introduction to Outlook Express and its features
· Configuring and using Outlook Express for accessing emails in the office
· Adding email accounts to Outlook
· Creating, sending, and receiving emails in Outlook