Create and post your very own Web site on the Internet in this extensive, hands-on, six week workshop.

First, you'll learn about the capabilities of the World Wide Web and the fundamentals of web design.

Then, with your instructor's patient guidance, you'll plan the content, structure and layout of your Web site, create pages full of neatly formatted text, build links between the pages and to the outside world, and add color, backgrounds, graphics, tables, hot buttons, and animation.

You'll also learn critical and timely information on securing the best possible location in search engine listings, and powerful no-cost or low-cost web marketing strategies.

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This course is designed to get you operating and productive using AutoCAD, the industry standard in computer drafting software. This is an excellent introductory course beneficial for commercial and residential contractors, industrial tradesmen, high school students interested in drafting and design, engineers, architects, interior designers, landscape designers, and residential house plan drafters.

Elements learned in this course include, the AutoCAD interface, drawing objects, dimensioning objects, annotating drawings, plotting or printing drawings, using blocks and attributes, and using tool palettes.

2.0 CEU/20 PDH

*Attendance is Important* Each class builds from the previous and time does not permit backtracking for absent students.

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Learn how Microsoft's powerful and award-winning database can help you manage, store, search, analyze, and display important information you've collected about your business, home, community, or any other entity. In this practical and project oriented hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to create tables filled with fields and records. You'll build relationships between the tables to eliminate redundancies and slash data entry time. You'll discover how to achieve huge reductions in data entry errors by setting default values, creating validation rules, and building input masks. You'll find out how to make your database more user-friendly with custom data entry forms, smart lists, and other sophisticated controls. You'll learn how to retrieve exactly what you need from your database with powerful queries and reports, and you'll even start automating routine tasks with labor-saving macros.

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If you work with numbers, you need to know Excel. In Introduction to Excel, learn the skills needed to create, edit, format, and print basic worksheets. Along the way, use the Fill Handle and the AutoSum tool. Insert columns and rows. Add comments to cells. Polish the worksheet by formatting numbers, applying attributes (bold, italics), changing fonts, adding borders, and adjusting column width.

Prerequisites: Keyboarding skills, Basic knowledge of Windows,and Use of the mouse

Limited Enrollment!

Expand on the skills learned in Introduction to Excel, Learn to add, delete, and rearrange worksheets within a workbook. Add names and color to worksheet tabs. Learn to view more than one worksheet at a time and to move worksheets between workbooks. Harness the power of the Group command. Work with lists. Understand the importance of relative and absolute cell references. Link data between worksheets and workbooks and create 3-D references. Refine printing techniques by setting and clearing Print Areas and inserting and removing page breaks.

Prerequisite: Level 1

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Follow up on the Introduction to Excel or Working with Multiple Workbooks courses by learning to utilize the most frequently used Excel functions-Sum, Average, Minimum, Maximum, Count, Count Numbers,and Count Blank. Learn to use the PMT function to calculate loan payments. Understand the importance of working with cell names. Learn how to sort data and use the Search and Find features. Finish by discovering how to protect your worksheets and workbooks.

Prerequisites: Levels 1 & 2

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Do you find yourself creating the same worksheet over and over? If so, it's time for a template. Templates increase accuracy by reducing repetitive tasks. Learn how to use templates to combine specialized formatting, standardize text such as headers and footers, and formulas in a special workbook upon which new workbooks are based. Styles work hand-in-hand with templates. Discover how to use styles to stream line your work.

Prerequisites: Levels 1, 2, & 3

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Take Excel to its fullest potential by learning to work with Data Tables, Scenarios, and Goal Seek–techniques frequently referred to as Excel’s What-If analyses tools. Learn how to use the Subtotal function to analyze large worksheets and Data Validation to protect worksheets from inexperienced users.

As your proficiency with Excel increases, so does your productivity. Learn how to use Excel's logical functions to help make decisions while mastering conditional formatting to draw attention to worksheet problems and increasing accuracy. Inserting hyperlinks into worksheets allows you to move efficiently from one worksheet to another. Learn how to handle calculations that involve time.

Prerequisites: Levels 1, 2, & 3

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Discover the skills necessary to create, edit, format and run a basic slide show. Work with text and graphics, add tables and charts, apply design templates, add color schemes, and apply transitions and timing.

Prerequisites: Keyboarding skills, Basic knowledge of Windows,and Use of the mouse

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Expand on the skills learned in the Creating a Presentation course. Work with the Drawing toolbar to customize graphics and add WordArt. Learn to animate text and objects. Discover the power of master pages. Add Speaker Notes and use the Meeting Minder to create Action Items. Print handouts. Work with the Organizational Chart feature.

Prerequisite: Level 1

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Follow up on the Refining the Presentation course with the Advanced Topics course where you will learn to incorporate Word and Excel documents into PowerPoint. Create Action Buttons and insert hyperlinks. Publish a presentation to the Web and use the Pack-and-Go Wizard. Set up a self-running presentation. Insert animated GIFs and add sound.

Prerequisites: Levels 1 & 2

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In Introduction to Word, learn the skills needed to create, edit, format, and print a basic document. Customize the document by bolding and italicizing text. Change margins. Discover the difference between underlining text and adding borders to paragraphs. Take advantage of the power of AutoText and Word's integrated grammar and spelling checker.

Prerequisites: Keyboarding skills, Basic knowledge of Windows,and Use of the mouse

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Follow up on the skills covered in Introduction to Word. Learn to create automatically numbered and bulleted lists. Use the Undo and Redo command to quickly avoid errors. Discover the power of the Format Painter. Move words, sentences, and paragraphs around the document as well as from one document to another. Understand the when, where, and why of setting tabs. Work with basic printing techniques.

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Prerequisite: Knowledge of Word, Level I.

Expand on the skills learned in the Introduction to Word and Formatting courses. Recognize the difference between AutoText, AutoCorrect, and AutoComplete. Know which one to choose and when. Understand why it is important to know the difference between character and paragraph formatting. Reveal the type of formatting a paragraph contains. Learn how to use the Find and Replace features to speed work. Add page numbers and header and footer text to a document.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of Word, Levels I & II.

Word tables have a wide variety of uses. Learn how to create tables that will enhance your documents and how to utilize the MailMerge Wizard to optimize your work.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of Word, Level 1 & 2.

Primavera Project Planner (P6) is the premier computer project scheduling software in the world and is required for many federal vendor contracts.

Topics that will be covered will be: (1) a basic introduction to project scheduling and the Critical Path Method (CPM), (2) starting and working with P6, the menus, buttons, and controls, (3) how to input activities onto P6 and how to output a schedule, (4) organizing the P6 schedule, (5) inputting resources into the schedule, (6) using filters to further organize the schedule, (7) inputting and controlling costs using P6, and (8) using P6 with the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Version: Primavera 6

CEU's 0.8 each course

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Go beyond the fundamental of scheduling a project by transferring project data, cutting and pasting, storing and retrieving fragments and using imports and exports. In addition, global change and custom data items will be used to modify activity data. Learn to enhance your presentation by including objects and symbols and post this information on your company Intranet using the Web Publishing Wizard.

You will become proficient at using the power of P6 for maximum control of your projects. You will be creating schedule reports, resource and cost reports as well as P6 presentation quality graphics. Hands-on workshops will provide you the framework for creating each type of report and graphic.

CEU's 0.8 each course

An introduction to QuickBooks, students will learn company setup, organization of chart of accounts, and file security for multiple users. Setup of customers, processing of credit and cash sales transactions, receipt of cash, processing of bank deposits and generation of statements and other receivables reports. In addition, setup of vendors, processing of purchases, processing of checks and generation of payables reports will be taught.

Prerequisites: Keyboarding skills, Basic knowledge of Windows,and Use of the mouse

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Students will learn how to setup employees, track time, and process payroll. Students will also learn how to set up inventory, pay sales tax, create estimates, and use progress invoicing. In addition, you will learn how to customize forms, write QuickBooks letters, and analyze financial data using reports and graphs.

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Do you control your computer or does the computer control you? This will help you master the skills needed to use your computer with enjoyment instead of frustration. The knowledge learned in this class is useable in all software, e-mail programs, and internet surfing. Cut, copy and paste, drag and drop, save your work and photos and find it again. You will learn how to personalize your computer with photos, folders, short cuts to the calculator, games and programs that you use. Learn to use your computer as a personal journal. Learn to stop spyware and pop-up ads.

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