Discover a range of Microsoft Office classes designed to enhance productivity across Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. These sessions help professionals work smarter and communicate effectively.
Become proficient in Microsoft Excel and go from beginner to pro with our hands-on Excel Bootcamp. Learn functions, formulas, Pivot Tables, macros, and time-saving techniques to conquer all the key skills needed to excel in Excel.
Join us for a beginner Excel workshop where you'll learn the essentials of Microsoft Excel, including calculations, basic functions, graphs, formatting, and printing. This comprehensive course is perfect for those with limited experience looking to expand their proficiency.
Learn intermediate Excel functions like VLOOKUP and SUMIFS, and how to summarize data with Pivot Tables, Sort & Filter databases, and split and join text. Gain the skills needed to utilize complex Excel functions and prepare for more advanced training.
Learn advanced Excel functions, macros, and data analysis to improve efficiency and manage complex data in any job setting. This advanced course is ideal for Excel power-users.
Learn to clean, organize, and reshape data quickly with Power Query, a powerful tool built into Excel and Power BI. This hands-on course will teach you how to streamline your data preparation process for analysis and reporting.
Take your PowerPoint skills to the next level with our accelerated course. Learn everything from the basics of creating presentations to more advanced features like custom themes, animations, and managing large presentations.
Learn the essentials of PowerPoint in this introductory course. Create dynamic presentations, add text, images, shapes, transitions, and more. Suitable for beginners or those looking to enhance their skills. Become a more effective PowerPoint user.
In this advanced PowerPoint class, you’ll learn how to create reusable PowerPoint themes and templates to control the design of entire presentations using Slide Master. Add excitement to your presentations with animations, gain greater control over charts and tables, and much more.
Learn essential Microsoft Word skills, from basic formatting and text editing to advanced features like mail merges and custom templates.
Learn essential shortcuts and techniques in this hands-on Microsoft Word class. Gain skills for improving productivity and efficiency, including mass emails, formatting fixes, and time-saving shortcuts. No prior Word experience needed.
Take your Microsoft Word skills to the next level with our advanced training course. Learn how to automate tasks, create custom styles and templates, and efficiently work with long documents. By the end of this course, you'll be able to expedite your workflow and become more productive in your everyday Word usage.
Learn basic through advanced Outlook skills, including contact and group creation, calendar management, working with mailboxes and activities, and using automations.
Learn how to customize Outlook settings, automate tasks, search for items, manage messages, format messages, create and manage calendars, appointments, meetings, and events, create and manage notes, tasks, and journals, and manage contacts and groups in this beginner Outlook class.
In this course, learn how to configure mail accounts, perform advanced searches, control spam with filters, automate tasks with rules, and develop advanced calendar and contact management skills. Customize your communication system to suit your work style.
Learn to manage projects more efficiently, track costs, allocate resources in Microsoft Project, and review essential project management concepts in this beginner class for PC users. Increase efficiencies and effectively manage multiple projects with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project Professional.
Enroll in this advanced Microsoft Project class to gain the knowledge and skills to manage projects effectively and efficiently, track costs, and allocate resources. Perfect for project managers looking to increase efficiencies and better manage project costs and resources.
Learn the fundamentals of the essential Microsoft Office programs in this 4-day bootcamp. This package includes our beginner Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook classes at a 15% discount.
Develop intermediate and advanced Microsoft Office skills in this immersive course. Master Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook to speed up your workflow and boost your productivity.
Learn all the Microsoft Office programs in-depth in this bootcamp. This package includes three levels of Excel, two levels of PowerPoint, two levels of Word, and two levels of Outlook classes at a 15% discount.
Boost your resume with a Microsoft Excel Certification. Our program offers three courses, private training, the Specialist Exam fee with free retake, lifetime access to Excel video courses, and free exam proctoring.
Prepare for the Microsoft Excel exam and become an Excel expert with our certification program. Learn formulas, functions, Pivot Tables, charts, and more through group classes, private training, and an exam with a free retake.
Enhance your resume with the Word Specialist Certification package, featuring Microsoft Word training and certification at an affordable price. Includes exam costs, proctoring, and benefits like free class retakes, private tutoring, and the official study guide.
Advance your Microsoft Word skills with the Microsoft Word Expert Certification Bundle, which includes both Level I and Level II classes. Prepare for the official Microsoft Word Expert Exam with included free retakes, private tutoring, and exam proctoring.
Prepare for the PowerPoint Specialist Certification Exam with our comprehensive certification program. This package includes group classes, private training, and the exam with a free retake, along with study materials.
Get certified in Microsoft Office suite with this comprehensive program: group classes, private training, and exams in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. The affordable price includes 7 group classes, 6 hours of private training, and 4 certification exams. Free retakes, MOS study guides, and instant digital certificates are included.
Originally a suite of productivity applications developed by Microsoft, Office was first released in 1990 but has since expanded into a family of software and services included as part of Microsoft 365. The original Office applications were Word, a word processing program; Excel, a spreadsheet editor; PowerPoint, a slideshow presentation creator; Outlook, a combination of an email client, calendar, task manager, and address book; Publisher, a desktop publishing program; and Access, a database management system including tools for graphical interface and additional software development. Additional online and server-based applications and services have been part of Office in the past and are now included in Microsoft 365’s business versions; some examples are Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Forms, and Visio. All of these programs are mutually compatible and share common features such as spell-checking, data integration, and Visual Basic for Applications, a scripting language. Office programs are used in most workplaces using Windows PCs, but these applications are also available on macOS, iOS, and Android devices and in web-based versions, making them easily accessible and widely used by employers and personal users. Some businesses also use additional Microsoft 365 services to manage their data storage, security, and productivity due to their convenient integration with Office programs.
By design, Office applications have a broad range of potential uses for both personal and professional projects. While Word is centered around its word processing functions, you might also use it for desktop publishing, webpage design, or business form templates. An employer might use Excel not only to maintain financial or customer records, but also to perform statistical analyses, generate visual displays like charts or tables, or even build custom functions to automate these tasks. You might be familiar with Access as a record-keeping system for customer accounts or inventory management, but it can be adapted for use as a point-of-sale register, mailing list manager, or scheduling center.
You can also use Office programs together to accomplish more complex tasks, thanks to their integrated functions and data sharing. You can reference an Excel database to create a table in a PowerPoint presentation, provide data to an Access application, or fill forms in a Word document or an Outlook email. You can also automate these functions so that one document or program calls on another, enabling you to work more efficiently. If your workplace uses the wider Microsoft 365 suite, this integration can extend to functions like collaborative workspaces, online services, and data security across a network.
This wide utility makes Office skills valuable both for personal needs and for professional duties. Depending on your career, your workplace might process customer accounts in Excel or Access, create and sign contracts in Word or Forms, manage employee schedules and workflow in Outlook or Flow, or request presentations in PowerPoint or Visio. If you run your own business, you might track your schedule in Outlook, create advertising materials in Publisher, or maintain a budget in Excel, using that data to generate financial reports in Word. For those seeking employment, you can keep a list of potential employers in an Excel database, then create application letters and mailing labels in Word or send email applications in Outlook. The same programs can also organize your holiday mailing list, recipe collection, or club membership records.
You might want to use Office programs for your personal projects such as managing your finances, organizing records like recipes or collections, or creating signs, flyers, or websites. Many people do learn to use Office software first for personal needs, but more intentional coursework is often necessary to improve these skills for professional duties. You might need to be fully fluent in Word to manage administrative tasks like correspondence, reporting, or documentation, or to create promotional literature. Your employer might use Excel for accounting, data entry and analysis, or general record-keeping. A strong grasp of multiple Office programs improves your qualifications for these positions. Understanding their integrated functions makes you an even stronger candidate. Studying Office applications can expand your effectiveness with each program and the full suite, by revealing unfamiliar but useful functions. If your career is in IT or system security, you might need in-depth knowledge of Office programs or the full Microsoft 365 suite to support its users.
Almost all Office classes begin with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, the core Office applications. Due to its frequent use in work spaces, many introductory classes also add Outlook. In addition to Word’s familiar word processing uses, students learn to use pre-built templates to generate standard document types like form letters, labels, contracts, and various reports. Some courses also teach how to merge lists from Word or Excel with templates to create filled form documents. More advanced classes address Word’s features for graphic design, web design, collaborative writing and proofing, and citation. Classes on Excel begin with its standard use to build, format, and edit spreadsheets, and most courses progress to the use of formulas, filters, and functions to further transform data. More extensive or data-focused classes teach Excel’s data visualization features, used to create tables, graphs, and other representations of data, and may even teach data analysis techniques with pivot tables and statistical formulas. PowerPoint lessons first address its use to create slideshow-style presentations but may also discuss how to embed documents, databases, visualizations, custom animations, and interfaces within those presentations. Advanced courses in PowerPoint discuss its value for storyboarding and prototyping designs, including websites and other user interfaces.
Some Office courses focus more particularly on collaborative work, communication, and networking. These courses will include Outlook and likely also Teams and SharePoint, illustrating each application’s value for shared and distributed workplaces, individually and in combination. A course focused on Outlook will teach its primary email functions and then discuss its utility for voice communications, scheduling, hosting groups, and automating certain daily tasks. Courses including Teams cover its utility for voice, video, and text chat and its integration with other Office applications, particularly in conjunction with SharePoint.
For professionals learning Office to support a specialty area, courses might add further applications or focus on particular aspects of the core programs. For example, an Office class for managers and administrators could include Office applications that aid in workplace organization, like Planner, Flow, and Forms. These classes might also emphasize the suite’s features for data protection and security. IT Professionals studying Office might seek a class focusing on networking and server utilities in Microsoft 365 and maintaining and troubleshooting Office programs within this environment. Users interested in Office’s data management and user interface capabilities should select a course including instruction in Access. Basic Access training discusses how to use and modify the interfaces built in this program, while more advanced coursework describes how to build such interfaces and integrate them with other Office applications. Other data functions in Office, geared toward analysis and visualization, could be emphasized for professionals in finance, research, sales and marketing, or government. Such classes focus on Excel and Access in more depth, but could also include training with visualization programs like Power BI and Visio. Finally, users interested in Office’s graphic design and web design functions should seek classes that cover these capabilities in Word and PowerPoint, as well as more specialized design applications like Publisher or Sway.
Within many industries, Office programs support human resources needs. Microsoft Outlook and Teams facilitate communication and help with recruiting, interviewing, and evaluating candidates. SharePoint assists with the onboarding process through the sharing of contracts, forms, and informational documents, all potentially created using Word. Human resources staff can also use SharePoint to store and access employee records like staffing lists, schedules, attendance, vacations, and payroll—records they can create and maintain using Excel. SharePoint and Teams can be useful for training and the facilitation of shared workspaces. Finally, human resources staff may need to train employees on the Office applications used for their duties.
From storefront to backroom, retail operations may employ Office programs at any level. Sales associates might use an Access database as a point-of-sale register, could review sales data as an output to Excel, or might use Outlook or Forms to receive and process purchase orders. A manager can then analyze sales, track inventory, and place new orders to vendors, separately in individual Office applications or using an integrated dashboard built in Access. Most retailers maintain a web presence, and some offer a virtual storefront or operate exclusively online. These businesses can use Word and PowerPoint to design and test websites and manage their virtual storefront using Office’s database management and cloud computing resources. Finally, an owner or supervisor could use Office to coordinate employee schedules, manage payroll and other expenses, and communicate with employees, customers, clients, and vendors.
Financial service providers, whether directly managing money or advising and facilitating investments, may employ Office throughout their operations. In particular, financial institutions benefit from the secure information storage and exchange available through SharePoint to protect their customers’ accounts and privacy. Financial advisors also find uses for Excel’s data analysis and visualization tools, both to display and understand past financial activity and to predict future trends and accurately advise their clients. Both Excel and Access can store, analyze, and report complex financial records, improving the efficiency and accuracy of these functions. Financial institutions can also facilitate transactions, internally and with customers, using the communications tools in Outlook and Teams.
Many people’s first familiarity with the Office suite began in school, whether in their early grades or higher education. For some students, this instruction was also their introduction to computer literacy. Educators often encourage or require students to use Office programs: Word to write essays or maintain study journals, Excel to practice mathematics or record laboratory results, PowerPoint to prepare class presentations, and Outlook or SharePoint to submit assignments. Teachers use these same programs to create instructional materials, present lessons, and communicate with students, parents, and administrators. As an addition to classroom or virtual instruction, SharePoint and Teams can create virtual classrooms and study spaces to exchange information and collaborate on assignments. Similarly, school administrators and teachers may use these resources to develop course materials and teaching tools, discuss lesson plans, coordinate schedules, and maintain student records.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office is beneficial for any position including clerical duties like word processing, data entry, postal or email correspondence, record management, scheduling, or communications. These functions apply to a vast number of careers but are particularly relevant to office workers like administrators, administrative assistants, bookkeepers, clerks, and service representatives. Such support positions often require proficiency with one or more Office programs, and some employers expect experience with the entire Office suite. Administrative staff coordinate operations for one or more other workers, using Office to create and share documents, manage accounts, or coordinate operations. In Sydney, the duties and income of an Administrative Assistant can vary widely, but yearly salaries typically range from A$44,000 to A$65,000 for a Junior Administrative Assistant, up to A$54,000 to A$79,000 for a more experienced Administrative Assistant. An Office Administrative Assistant or Office Administrator, responsible for supporting multiple workers, earns more, with A$61,000 to A$84,000 being a usual range. An Office Manager, whose duties might include the technical management of employees in addition to direct use of Office applications to coordinate their work, can earn an average of A$75,000 to A$90,000 per year and often more.
Clerk positions, by comparison, are more focused on data entry and record-keeping and would make more use of the data management and reporting aspects of Office. A general Clerk or Office Clerk in Sydney might average around A$41,000 per year, while more specialized positions earn more: A$43,000 to A$63,500 for a File Clerk, A$50,000 to A$55,000 for a Data Entry Clerk, or A$51,000 to A$83,000 for a Receiving & Shipping Clerk.
More specialized careers also use one or more Office applications and benefit from expertise with these programs. Similar to administrative assistants, specialized assistants perform clerical functions for professionals in expert fields. One example is a Legal Assistant, a position with a typical salary between A$70,000 and A$85,000. In finance, accountants and advisors may use Office programs to record and track customer accounts and to advise those clients. In Sydney, an entry-level Accountant might earn A$77,000 to A$100,000, depending on their employer, while a more experienced Senior Accountant could earn A$111,000 to A$120,000 or more per year. In sales and marketing, knowledge of Office is helpful not only for recording forms and figures but also for data analysis, communication with clients, and internal reporting. Salaries for professional Sales Representatives in Sydney average A$74,000 per year, including larger sales operations and business-to-business sales.
Separately, businesses and workers using Office applications need technical support staff to create their systems, set up and advise new users, troubleshoot problems, and build custom interfaces. The most specific position requiring thorough Office expertise is Microsoft 365 Administrator, with an average salary between A$100,000 and A$120,000 per year in Sydney. An IT Support Agent or IT Help Desk Support role might be partly or entirely employed to manage the Microsoft 365 or Office environment for one or more clients. In Sydney, this position typically earns A$66,500 to A$91,000 per year, increasing with broader experience and training. Specialized technical positions with wider responsibilities and expertise will also include Office among their knowledge requirements. For example, a Technical Support Specialist in Sydney earns between A$70,000 and A$90,000 per year, on average, while a Support Team Lead can earn around A$115,000 or more. Other positions implement and manage computer networks, operations supported by Office’s networking and online services. A Network Administrator can earn around A$97,000 per year, while a Systems Administrator’s pay increases to an average of A$102,000 per year.
Noble Desktop’s Complete Microsoft Office Bootcamp is available to you anywhere, through live online instruction. In this course, you will learn a variety of useful functions for the most popular Office programs—Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint—and how these programs can be integrated to accomplish more. This Bootcamp includes 56 hours of instruction over nine days, including in-depth practice projects for each application. If you need more condensed instruction, the ||CPN661||, only 28 hours over four days, presents a similar overview but focuses on the core functions of each application. Both courses are introductions, suitable for beginners. For students already familiar with Office basics, Noble Desktop also offers a Microsoft Office Intermediate Bootcamp to provide more advanced instruction for these same programs. In the five-day Intermediate course, you will learn more about templates, automation and programming, customization, and data transfer in Office. For all three courses, your enrollment fee includes training materials, supplemental reference materials, a certificate of completion, and a one-year free retake offer.
The University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education holds Microsoft Office courses both live online and in-person at its campus in Newtown, NSW. Microsoft Office with 365 Course: Essentials, a one-day class, is currently available only in-person, but covers word processing in Word, spreadsheets in Excel, presentations in PowerPoint, multiple functions in Outlook, data sharing between Office applications, and file sharing with OneDrive. The Microsoft 365 Course: Collaborative Tools, which includes a live online option, is also a one-day course, but focuses on web-based Office applications and collaborative work through OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint. While there are no prerequisites, the Collaborative course assumes students have some prior familiarity with the core Office applications.
Also hosting classes both online and at their center in Newtown, The Knowledge Academy offers a complete Microsoft Office 365 Masterclass geared toward professional users. This one-day course begins with refresher lessons on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, then explains a variety of workplace uses for Forms, Teams, and OneDrive.
Partnered with Microsoft, Nexacu is currently scheduling two levels of classes on Microsoft 365, Beginner and Intermediate. Both courses are available either live online or in-person at their campuses in multiple cities, including Sydney. Both courses take one day and are capped at 5–10 students per session for more direct instructor attention. The Microsoft 365 Beginner course, for users with little or no prior experience, introduces students to Office Home Page, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, ToDo, Planner, and the online versions of Word and Excel. Microsoft 365 Intermediate builds upon the Beginner course with deeper training in Teams and instruction with Forms, Flow, Sway, and Power BI.
As another online-only option, Advanced Training offers two levels of instruction in Office 365. Office 365 For The End-User is a one-day course intended to provide broad fluency in Office for many users, focusing on collaborative work through Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, and Skype. Microsoft Office 365 Power User, through three class days, deepens users’ abilities with the core Office applications, introduces these programs’ online versions, and builds familiarity with Groups, Teams, Stream, Delve, Sway, Yammer, Power BI, PowerApps, Flow, and Forms.
Managers, administrators, and technical support staff for a workplace that uses Office applications—or a full Microsoft 365 environment—not only need to know individual Office applications, but also how to install, connect, and troubleshoot these programs. Knowledge of network architecture and security also helps to ensure efficient and safe use of the shared resources within Office. For some IT staff, Office is their introduction to concepts like network setup and file sharing. In turn, greater computing literacy improves users’ understanding of these programs' interactions, security features, and potential for customization.
Studying data science and data analytics gives professionals greater insight into Office’s data management tools, particularly Excel, Access, and Power BI. These programs are often used in data science lessons as convenient tools for data entry, management, analysis, and visualization. Learning more about the underpinnings of data programs also helps when considering their applications in fields like finance, scientific research, and marketing. Even for uses at a smaller scale, data science helps to understand the data transfer and visualization capabilities built into the Office suite. Programming in Access particularly benefits from greater understanding of data management.
Communications is another major use of Office programs, both as individual tools to create messages and as an integrated system aiding communication within workplaces and between workers and customers. Studying communications alongside these Office programs improves their use. For example, training about the ideal organization of information aids document creation in Word, construction of presentations in PowerPoint, or design of graphics in Excel, Power BI, or Visio. Further, communication tools like Outlook, Teams, and Flow may be used to greater effect with better knowledge about group dynamics and instructional techniques.
An Office certificate or certification program is a structured course that includes complete instruction with multiple Office programs and their integrated use. Going beyond the familiarity of casual use, these programs ensure that students have practiced varied and in-depth functions of each application, often through sample projects modeled on real tasks. By demonstrating their skills through the completion of projects and examinations, students demonstrate their mastery of each program and the Office suite as a whole, confirming their ability both to themselves and to their potential or current employers.
Office certification verifies demonstrated ability with Office programs and services, based on a standardized set of criteria often monitored by a national organization. An Office certificate, by comparison, confirms only that a student has completed a particular course of study, including regular attendance and completion of required coursework and evaluations. These evaluations may include examination grades but do not necessarily need to meet any specific standard. Similarly, a certification course may also include class attendance and the completion of assignments, but these tasks are typically focused on the skills needed to meet the certification’s testing requirements. Some certifications also allow a professional to cite a title after their name such as Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS).
In general, any professional certification demonstrates to employers that the candidate is committed to personal development and technological literacy, assets that improve their standing for hiring or promotion. Office certification confirms significant skill with particular programs and their combined uses. This confidence and knowledge improve an individual’s ability and productivity, for themselves and in the workplace. They also increase a worker’s value to any employer that uses Office, further increasing their likelihood of employment or promotion. Some managers and IT staff need to maintain Office certification to remain qualified to support Office programs and services. Similarly, supervisors, human resources, and IT staff may benefit from Office certification, which ensures that they can guide other workers in learning and using Office applications.
For most positions, Office certification is not required, even for workplaces that regularly use Office applications. There may be exceptions for specialized office managers and IT staff who need to support Office use directly. However, many employers will expect some familiarity with one or more Office applications, and certification in Office will make candidates stand out for hiring, both for those specific skills and for their ability to complete a professional certification. For businesses built around the Microsoft 365 environment or that use Office programs frequently, Office certification is an especially valuable asset and will greatly improve a candidate’s standing.
Noble Desktop can provide live online courses leading to your certification in individual Office applications or a comprehensive certification across the Office suite. You can choose between two program options, each focused on a separate capstone application. The Microsoft Master Certification Program with Access prepares you for certification in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access, while the Microsoft Master Certification Program with Outlook teaches the same material for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, but finishes with Outlook. Both courses include seven class sessions, six additional hours of individual training, supplemental reference materials, and four proctored certification exams, one for each application learned. If needed to refresh your skills, you can retake each class once for free, for up to one year, and can retake each certification exam once if needed. You will also receive a final course certificate upon completion.
Spoclearn offers live online courses across Australia. Their four-day Microsoft Office Specialist Course is designed to prepare students for the Microsoft Office Specialist 2019 certification exams for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook, using Microsoft-accredited course materials. Participants also receive additional one-on-one coaching and career support after course completion, as well as reference materials and a course completion certificate.
TAFE SA, a service of the Government of South Australia, provides self-paced online Short Courses for MOS Associate and Expert certification. The Microsoft Office Specialist: Associate course, which may be completed over six months, includes each enrollee's choice of three of four application courses, among Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The Microsoft Office Specialist: Expert course adds two advanced-level courses, for Word and Excel, also with six months to complete these lessons. While these courses are geared toward completion of the corresponding MOS certification exams, they do not include these exams or confer certification.
In addition to their certificate courses for individual Office applications, EzyLearn offers two comprehensive packages of self-paced video courses granting an Office certificate upon completion. The Certificate in Data Entry & Microsoft Office Essentials Training Course Package covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. This course requires 32 hours of coursework and includes seven training workbooks, multiple exercise files, and course support and access for up to 12 months. The Microsoft Office Academy Complete package expands this introduction to more in-depth study in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, plus instruction in Forms. This course offers 89 hours of coursework, 21 workbooks, hundreds of exercise files, the same course support, and 12 months of access.
The Career Academy’s Certificate in Microsoft Essentials is a self-paced certificate course covering Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Ten hours of classes may be taken as needed over six months, supplemented by unlimited live tutor access.