Microsoft Office - any come across any good free training.

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My sone (age 19) is trying to improve his CV and is looking for a good free online tutorial.

Mainly Word, Excel and Outlook with a business administration emphasis.

We have found loads of different ones with search, but hard to know which is best.

Thanks, Patrick
 
unfortunately not to any extent, like so many others I seem to have just evolved with Office, although I have used it a couple of times when looking at specific problems. Having said that I know of one company that uses it for training
 
Don't know about free training, though youtube normally has lots of stuff on just about anything.

If possible, he could sign up to an Office 365 account which is I think £4 or £6 a month and will get him a licensed version of office, later version. Best way is to use it anger.

A touch typing course right help also - quite a few free online ones.
 
Ultimately they are just a word processor and spreadsheet. I'm a bit lost as to what the actual objectives are. I mean they are just tools, they are not the end goal.

Is the goal to be an expert in those tools or understand how to apply what when?
 
dejongj said:
Ultimately they are just a word processor and spreadsheet. I'm a bit lost as to what the actual objectives are. I mean they are just tools, they are not the end goal.

Is the goal to be an expert in those tools or understand how to apply what when?
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Have to say I agree with this.

I'm also rather shocked that a19 year old should need training, they learn MS Office as part of the National Curriculum. But the teachers are so scared of putting them off, that they concentrate on building ugly presentations and newsletters rather than how to make some very useful tools work for the kids in meaningful ways.

I'm not one for slagging off our education system, but the idea that a 19 year old in 2015 needs MS Office training is as bad as a 7 year old who can't hold a pencil.

Off the soapbox, what exactly does he need to know?, I'm self taught (books, Google, asking mates) and I use most of the MS Office suite to VBA level (not a great programmer, but Google usually has the answers), courses would need to be very specifically aimed at his skills gaps to make them worthwhile.
 
PatrickO said:
My sone (age 19) is trying to improve his CV and is looking for a good free online tutorial.
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Completing a free online tutorial course won't improve his CV if you're looking to list it as training.

I'm mostly self-taught, but when I did need specific training (Access) I found a local evening class that was very reasonably priced and included a semi-formal assessment. and a bit of paper that at least had a credible name at the top. No, I don't list it on my CV..

The best way to learn is to have something you want to achieve and then set out to learn how to do it.
 
Why not find a course that completes with the European computer driving licence, so he has a qualification afterwards.
 
And saw these links today:

Excel is fun: https://www.youtube.com/user/ExcelIsFun#p/p
Contextures: http://www.contextures.com/
The spreadsheet page: http://spreadsheetpage.com/
Excel hero: http://www.excelhero.com/
Mr. Excel: http://www.mrexcel.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/bjele123
Excel exposure: http://excelexposure.com/ Excel central: http://excelcentral.com/
Improve your excel: http://www.improveyourexcel.com/
Excel easy: http://www.excel-easy.com/
Excel function dictionary: http://www.xlfdic.com/
Chandoo: http://chandoo.org/
Subdomain of About.com: http://spreadsheets.about.com/
Duke University: https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~pecklund/ExcelReview/ExcelReview.htm http://www.myexceltutorial.com/
Excel tip of the month: http://isaacgottlieb.com/tip-of-the-month
Allen Wyatt's excel tips: http://excelribbon.tips.net/
Exceljet: https://exceljet.net/keyboard-shortcuts
GCF LearnFree: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/excel2010
Free training tutorial: http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/
Howcast: http://www.howcast.com/guides/573-How-to-Use-Microsoft-Excel/
Excel forum: http://www.excelforum.com/
Ozgrid: http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/forum.php
Excel Listserve: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/excel-g.html
Allexperts: http://www.allexperts.com/browse.cgi?catLvl=3&catID=1059
Google groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/microsoft.public.excel
PC world: http://www.pcworld.com/article/229504/five_excel_nightmares_and_how_to_fix_them.html
PC world: http://www.pcworld.com/article/220782/use_microsoft_excel_for_everything.html
 
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