MS Office Certificate

Gain the organizational, computer and clerical skills to succeed in the office. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook are all valued in the workplace and knowing the features and functionality of the software is becoming increasingly important.

This certificate is eligible for the StrongerBC future skills grant. 

Course Number: CECOMP 928

Campus Offered: Online, Smithers

Cost: $750

Times: 

ONLINE Jan 25 - Feb 9 (2025) Sa/Su 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SMITHERS Feb 20 - Mar 7 (2025) Th/Fr 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hours:  36

Register at: the Register for Continuing Studies page

Students must complete all courses to obtain the MS Office Certificate. 

The courses included in the MS Office Certificate are:

Outlook Essentials

Learners will be able to use Outlook to enhance professional correspondence, create calendars, and schedule appointments.  Participants will create and edit professional-looking email messages, maintain calendars across time zones, and schedule tasks for a variety of purposes and situations including sending email for marketing campaigns, planning staff meetings, and assigning action items from those meetings.

Course Objectives:

  • Connect one or more email accounts
  • Preview, read, reply to and forward messages
  • Process, create, format and check messages
  • Use advanced message options
  • Organize messages
  • Use signatures and stationary
  • Automate replies and organization
  • Clean up and archive messages
  • Create, organize and manage calendars, appointments, meetings and events
  • Create and manage notes and tasks
  • Create and manage contacts and contact groups
  • Customize the Outlook environment settings
  • Print and save Information
  • Perform search operations in Outlook 

This course is part of the MS Office Certificate. Complete all required courses to gain the certificate. 

Course number:
CECOMP 917
Campuses offered:
  • Online
  • Smithers
Times:

ONLINE Feb 8 (2025) 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SMITHERS Mar 6 (2025) 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hours:
6
Register at:
Textbooks & supplies:
Students must supply computer and software for online course delivery (February 2025.)