The Community School of New Hope-Solebury

Microsoft Excel 2007 for Beginners

Learn the basics of this most popular Microsoft Office Suite software; it’s for people who want to better store, organize, and analyze both numerical and text information. You will learn how to manage data, perform calculations and present professional looking results; applications include home and business. Whether you are new to spreadsheets, or currently use 2003 or 2007 Excel versions, you will learn how to create workbooks that incorporate formulas, functions, and charts; you will learn how to set up tables and databases and then efficiently manage, sort, and filter data to give you the information and results you want. Formatting and printing professional looking output will be stressed. Your personal and/or business decision making processes can be dramatically enhanced. Most businesses use Excel in some way; it is an important job skill as well as a powerful and useful personal tool. Bring a 2G flash drive to first class.

Fee: $115

Course: RCOAP 1530 Sec. C80

4 Tues., Mar. 13- Apr. 10, 7-9 pm (no class 4/3)

Instructor: Dennis Haggerty

Act 48 Hours: 8

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 for Beginners

Learn to prepare professional looking and persuasive multipage slide presentations including photos, graphics, charts, external and internal hyperlinks, and more. You will gain insight to the “rules” regarding the best slide content, format, and style for the intended audience as well as insight about how to develop and use a confident and effective oral presentation style.  Class includes the option for student oral presentation practice.  Slide templates, animation and transition, video and sound will be included in presentations for maximum impact to help retain your audience’s attention, but with care to not going over the top.  Publishing the presentation as a useful audience handout and in other forms will be addressed. PowerPoint is the overwhelming leader as the software choice for virtually all businesses, educational, and other organizations. More and more businesses expect employees to at least be acquainted with PowerPoint. Bring a 2G flash drive to first class.

Fee: $115

Course: RCOAP 1070 Sec. C80

4 Mon., Mar. 12- Apr. 16, 7-9 pm (no class 3/26 & 4/2)

Instructor: Dennis Haggerty

Act 48 Hours: 8

Microsoft Publisher 2007 for Beginners

Learn to create and produce brochures, flyers, newsletters, postcards, etc. for print, e-mail, or web viewing. Microsoft Publisher 2007 is a powerful desktop publishing tool that can be used to create visually attractive and professional looking marketing and advertising material for your personal, organizational, or business purposes.  Includes insight on the importance of font styles and their uses as well as exposure to the color wheel. Requires some familiarity with Microsoft Word; you will produce great looking results relatively easily with the many alternative templates and automated design schemes. Publishing in a variety of formats and on various paper qualities will be explored.  Microsoft Publisher is available within the Microsoft Office Professional Office Suite 2007 (not the Standard Suite 2007) or as a separate program. Bring a 2G flash drive to first class.

Fee: $105

Course: WCOAP 4504 Sec. C80

4 Tues., Apr. 17- May 8, 7-9 pm

Instructor: Dennis Haggerty

Act 48 Hours: 8

Microsoft Word 2007

Course: RCOSY 0025 Sec. C80

QuickBooks for Beginners

Learn the basics of business accounting using QuickBooks.  In this hands-on course, you’ll learn to generate receipts and statements, set up a chart of accounts, create reports and invoices, build estimates, and reconcile checking accounts.  We’ll cover other basic QuickBooks functions like tracking receivables and payables.  Upgrade your job skills by learning the bookkeeping procedures for every business.   Must have basic computer knowledge- we’ll cover basic accounting terms.  E-book provided.

Fee: $130

Course: WCOAP 1609 Sec. C80

3 Thurs, Mar 15-29, 6:30-9 pm

Instructor: Gita Faust, Advanced Certified QuickBooks Proadvisor