Microsoft® Word

Word Basics

Great to get you started if you can't spare the whole day! Word processing to help you create documents, letters, labels, reports and more.

8 - July 9a - Noon Metamora Fee: $40

Introduction to Word 2007

Learn how to make professional-looking documents with Word. This course introduces the beginner to creating, modifying, and formatting a document in addition to using Word’s writing and drawing tools. Book included in fee.

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Intermediate Word 2007

Take your knowledge of Word to the next level! This seminar covers intermediate editing and formatting techniques, tables, columns, styles, templates, setting up outline documents, producing a report, and using Word Internet features. Book included in fee.

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Advanced Word 2007

Learn to save even more time with Word. This seminar covers advanced editing and formatting, tables, report techniques, charts, pictures, performing a mail merge, creating a Word form, and introduces macros. Book included in fee.

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Microsoft® Excel

Excel Basics

Great to get you started if you can't spare the whole day!

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Introduction to Excel 2007

Learn the basics of Excel by creating and modifying a worksheet, enhancing the worksheet’s appearance, controlling printed output, and creating formulas. Book included in fee.

29 - June 8:30a - 4p Toledo Fee: $135
13-July 8:30a - 4p Archbold Fee: $135

Intermediate Excel 2007

Further your knowledge of Excel by learning to use absolute and relative cell references, financial functions, logical functions, date/time functions, charts, linking, and controlling the worksheet display. Book included in fee.

13-July 8:30a - 4p Toledo Fee: $135
20 - July 8:30a - 4p Archbold Fee: $135

Advanced Excel 2007

Are you ready to take your Excel skills even further? This level covers naming ranges, lookup functions, templates, auditing, databases, analyzing data, importing, exporting, and using workgroup features. Book included in fee.

20 - July 8:30a - 4p Toledo Fee: $135
27 - July 8:30a - 4p Archbold Fee: $135

Excel 2007 Macros

This course covers the basics of writing macros in Excel. From using the macro recorder to working in the Visual Basic Editor we will learn the steps to recording macros, storage locations and methods of activating the macros. Book is included in fee.

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Excel Formulas

Further your knowledge of Excel by learning all about formulas. You will learn to use absolute and relative cell references, financial functions, logical functions, and date/time functions. Recommended audience: people with some Excel experience who have not written many formulas. Book included in fee.

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Microsoft® PowerPoint

PowerPoint Basics

Great to get you started if you can't spare the whole day! Make your presentation shine with style and simplicity.

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Introduction to PowerPoint 2007

Learn the easy way to make professional looking presentations. This seminar covers creating text slides, tables, clipart, design templates, speaker notes, and producing a slide show. Book included in fee.

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Intermediate PowerPoint 2007

Are you ready to take your presentations to the next level? This seminar covers sharing data with Microsoft Excel and Word, charts, adding special effects to text, adding sound and motion clip files, inserting action buttons, and working with AutoShapes. Book included in fee.

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PowerPoint with Pizzazz

Don’t have time for a full day class? Already know the basics of PowerPoint? This class is designed with you in mind. We will learn how to pull together a professional looking PowerPoint presentation using transitions, animations, action buttons and other tools of the trade. Book included in fee.

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Microsoft® Publisher

Need to create professional looking publications on a small budget? Then this may be the software for you! In this course you will create a letterhead, flyer, newsletter, and other publications. Also, you will work with various Publisher features such as shapes, tables, and WordArt. Book included in fee.

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Microsoft® Visio

Diagramming with Visio

If you are responsible for presenting information in a graphic format, Visio could be your answer. In this course you will use Visio’s drawing tools, create basic diagrams, format drawings, and use the reporting features to help you design organization charts, flow charts and, process diagrams. Book included in fee.

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Introduction

If you are responsible for representing information in a graphic format, Visio could be your answer. In this course you will use the drawing tools, create basic diagrams, format drawings, use the custom properties feature, and the reporting features to help you design organization charts, process diagrams, maps and network diagrams. Book included in fee.

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Intermediate

In this course you will learn to create cross functional flowcharts, create technical layouts, manage drawings, and data, customize shape designs, create custom templates, and create a presentation. You will also learn how to link, embed, and export your work. Book included in fee.

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Moving to Office 2007

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Microsoft® Access

Introduction to Access 2007

This course is designed for those who are new to the world of databases. The seminar covers setting up a new database by creating a table and form, displaying selected records by applying filters, creating queries, creating and modifying a report, and importing spreadsheet data. Book included in fee.

27- July 8:30a - 4p Toledo Fee: $135
10- Aug 8:30a - 4p Archbold Fee: $135

Intermediate Access 2007

In this seminar you will further your knowledge of databases and of Access. We will cover working with relating tables, creating custom forms, queries, reports, Access Internet features, and compacting and repairing a database. Book included in fee.

10 - Aug 8:30a - 4p Toledo Fee: $135
17-Aug 8:30a - 4p Archbold Fee: $135

Advanced Access 2007

This level covers working with data access pages, transferring data between Access and other applications, creating a many-to-many relationship and a one-to-one relationship between tables, and creating a switchboard. Book included in fee.

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Macros

This class looks at working with code in access, both through macros and through VBA. Students will create dialog boxes, switchboards custom toolbars, menu bars and work with looping structures. Book included in fee.

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Microsoft® Expression Web

Introduction to Expression Web

Create a website on a limited budget. Students will learn to create and add content to a website, format a web page using CSS, work with links, and how to add interactivity to web pages.

9 - July 8:30a - 4p Toledo Fee: $150

 

Microsoft® Outlook

Outlook: Email made Easy

Learn the basics of using MS Outlook as your email program. In this course students will learn to send and receive emails, work with attachments and how to organize their emails with folders.

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Outlook: Appointments and Feeds

Further your knowledge of Outlook by learning to use the Calendar and RSS Feeds areas of the program. In this course students will learn how to set appointments, create meeting requests and subscribe to feeds from their favorite news blogs.

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Outlook: Customers, Meetings & Tasks

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Outlook: Contact Management

Outlook can help businesses manage their contacts. In this course students will create contacts, learn how to categorize them, create V-cards and distribution lists. We will also work with the journal capabilities so that participants will learn how to track sales and other activities with their contacts.

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Introduction

Outlook is more than just email it is a time management program. This seminar will look at the basics of using Outlook including email, appointments, meetings, contacts, tasks, journals and notes. Book included in fee.

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Intermediate

Learn to effectively manage your time and your contact information in this course. Topics include organizing mail, customizing the calendar, contact management, task management, distribution lists, archiving and customization. Book included in fee.

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Microsoft® Project

Introduction to Project

Learn to identify the steps in project planning by building a project, developing a project plan, defining goals, requirements, tracking the progress of a project, resolving resource over-allocation problems, reporting the progress of a project, and evaluating a completed project. Book included in fee.

18 - June 8:30a - 4p Toledo Fee: $135

Intermediate

This level covers sorting and grouping project information, creating custom group options, filters, tables, custom views, baseline plans, updating a project schedule, comparing the actual and planned progress of a project, Gantt charts, workgroup features, macros, custom forms, and using the organizer. Book included in fee.

25 - June 8:30a - 4p Toledo Fee: $135.

Moving to Windows 7

This course is designed for people who have used Windows XP and are now upgrading to Windows 7. Shortcuts, file management, and new tools will be covered in this informative session.

28 - June 9a - 11a Toledo Fee: $50
6 - Aug 9a - 11a Archbold Fee: $50

Introduction to Acrobat

Would you like to be able to created electronic documents that cannot be changed? Would an electronic form help in gathering information from your customers? In this course, students will learn to create and modify PDF documents, create bookmarks and links, apply document security, create interactive PDF forms, and prepare PDF documents for professional print production. Book included in fee.

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Creating Web Pages with Dreamweaver

This course is an introduction to basic Web and HTML concepts and how to use DreamWeaver tools to design a Web page. Students will learn how to create, save and import text into Web pages and sites. They will also learn how to format text and paragraphs, create tables, and add text and images to tables. Book included in fee.

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Introduction to Fireworks

Use this program to further enhance your digital images. In this course you will learn to create, edit and optimize images for the web. Book included in fee.

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Introduction to Flash

Ready to add some excitement to your website? This course teaches the fundamentals of using Flash to design animations for the Web. Students will examine creating and editing shapes, applying colors and line styles, combining shapes, importing bitmaps, and converting bitmaps to vector shapes. Book included in fee.

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Introduction to Photoshop

This course covers the basics of selecting and modifying images, and creating and manipulating layers and other effects. Participants will also learn how to retouch and resize images, and prepare images for use in print and on the Web. Book included in fee.

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Intermediate Photoshop

This course continues your work with Photoshop tools. Participants will be creating and manipulating layers and other effects and will learn how to retouch and resize images.

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Digital Picture Editing with Photoshop Elements

Use the tools and features of Adobe Photoshop Elements to enhance and share your photographs. Students will learn how to transfer photos, apply corrections to photos, create special effects by applying enhancements and how to create an album.

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AfterEffects

Introduction to AfterEffects

Create special effects for your videos

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Illustrator

Introduction to Illustrator

Design and create vector graphics.

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InDesign

Introduction to InDesign

Professional desktop publishing.

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Beginning Excel Charts

Learn to create interesting and easy to read charts with Excel.

17 - June 1p - 2p Fee: $25

Brochures & Newsletters Made Easy

No time or budget to have a professional designer create your company newsletter? Learn about the great templates available in Word and create your own professional looking advertising materials and newsletters.

24 - June 1p - 2p Fee: $25.

Excel Pivot Tables

1- July 1p - 2p Fee: $25

Excel List Management

Sorting, filtering and subtotals make list management a snap.

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Word Mail Merges

Letters, envelopes and labels can be made directly from Word or by using Word and Excel.

8 - July 1p - 2p Fee: $25 .

Purposeful PowerPoint Presentations

Take your PowerPoint to the next level and learn how to clear out the clutter for more effective presentations.

22- July 1p - 2p Fee: $25

A+ Certification Training

Can you disassemble and reassemble a PC? Install and uninstall components? Do you know how to maximize PC memory usage? Can you diagnose hardware and software problems and troubleshoot system components? If you would like to, then this program is for you. This intensive 40-hour class, hands on training, is designed to aid experienced PC individuals in preparation for the A+ certification tests. Book, materials and one free certification test voucher included in fee.

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Computer Maintenance & Troubleshooting

This course is designed for the person who would like to maintain a computer for home or small business use. The seminar will cover installing hardware and operating systems, identifying and installing the internal components of a PC. Also, learn troubleshooting skills you can use to identify and fix problems.

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Managing a Windows Server

This course will help you to learn how to manage and install Microsoft Windows XP & Windows Server 2003. The course is designed to prepare you for MCSE Exams 70-270 and 70-290. Bookmaterials included in fee.

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Senior Series: Intro to PC's

This course will lead you through the basics of using the computer beginning with the fundamentals of using the keyboard and mouse through a brief overview of the Windows operating system on a PC. Book included in fee.

17-Jun 9a - Noon Metamora Fee: $40

Senior Series: Intro to Windows

This course covers working with Windows, managing files, folders, performing disk operations, working with Windows applications, sharing data between programs, using accessories, and modifying system settings. Book included in fee.

24-June 9a - Noon Metamora Fee:$40

Senior Series: Intro to Internet/Email

This course will cover browsing and searching the Internet, using electronic mail, transferring files from the web, and security on the Internet. Designed for people who are new to email and the internet. Book included in fee.

1-July 9a - Noon Fee:$40

Senior Series: Intro to Word

Learn how to make professional-looking documents
with Word. This course introduces the beginner to creating, modifying, and formatting a document in addition to using Word’s writing and drawing tools. Book included in fee.

8- July 9a - Noon Metamora Fee: $40

Building a LinkedIn Profile

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Building a Facebook Profile

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Creating a Facebook Page for your Business

In this introductory session you will learn how Facebook works and how to create a company page.

15- July 1p - 2p Fee: $25

Flickr

Flickr and Snapfish are two popular photosharing websites. Learn how to set up a profile and how to upload your files.

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LinkedIn I

LinkedIn is a popular business networking tool. Learn how to create your profile, join groups and find contacts.

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LinkedIn II

LinkedIn is a popular business networking tool. Learn how to create your profile, join groups and find contacts.

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MySpace

You have probably heard of this tool, but have you actually used it? Learn to create a profile on MySpace and how to find profiles of people you know.

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Twitter: I Just Don't Get It?!

Learn to set up a twitter account and how to use it to IM many people at once, plus update your other social networking sites.

29 - July 1p - 2p Fee: $25

Online Skills

Take an Online Class

Nervous about taking an online class? In this session we will look at webinars versus online classes and learn some tips on sucess for both!

6 - July 7p - 8p Perrysburg Fee: $30
8 - July 9a - 10a Archbold Fee: $30

Record & Upload a Video to YouTube

YouTube rivals Google as a frequently used search engine. Learn how to use this tool to search for videos and upload your own.

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Use Skype

Free long distance & video calls. Learn how to install and use Skype on your computer.

20 - July 7p - 8p Perrysburg Fee: $30
22 - July 9a - 10a Archbold Fee: $30

Create a Blog

Short for Web Logs, blogs are a popular tool for sharing information and engaging others in conversation. We will learn about two free blog creation tools in this class.

13 - July 7p - 8p Perrysburg Fee: $30
15 - July 9a - 10a Archbold Fee: $30

Seach for Information Online

What is the difference between Bing, Google and Yahoo? See how you can find the results you want when searching for information online.

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Computer Skills

Find & Organize Files on Your Computer

If you have ever uttered the phrase, "I thought I saved that File but now I can't find it" Then this is the class for you!

15 - June 7p 8p Perrysburg Fee: $30
17 - June 9a - 10a Archbold Fee: $30

Work with Email Attachments

Can't open the spreadsheet that your boss sent you of the pictures from your cousin? Learn how to send and open files.

22 - June 7p - 8p Perrysburg Fee: $30
24 - June 9a - 10a Archbold Fee: $30

Create Envelopes and Mailing Labels

Simplify your next mailing and learn how to use Word for label creation.

29 - June 7p -8p Perrysburg Fee: $30
1 - July 9a - 10a Archbold Fee: $30

Upload Music to an MP3 Player

Learn how to sync your MP3 player so that you may download music and other programs.

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In the Classroom: Smartboards

Smartboard Basics

Learn how to effectively use the Smartboard as an educational tool. Discover techniques for PowerPoint, Excel, and Smartnotebook.

23 - July 9a - 11a Toledo Fee: $50
29- July 9a - 11a Archbold Fee: $50

In the Classroom: Wikis

Wikis are great collaborative tools to use when teaching team projects. Learn how to set up a wiki for your class and how to teach students to use this tool. We will also have a relevant discussion on the most famous wiki -- Wikipedia!

30 - June 9a - 11a Toledo Fee: $50
5 - Aug 9a - 11a Archbold Fee: $50

In the Classroom: Camtasia

Lessons on Video with Camtasia

Learn how to combine voiceover and PowerPoint to create educational videos for your students with this powerful tool.
7- July 9a - 11a Toledo Fee: $50
12 - Aug 9a - 11a Archbold Fee: 50