Microsoft Office Essentials
Master the world's most widely used business and academic productivity suite. Learn to draft clean formatted documents in Word, design compelling presentations in PowerPoint, and organize data with formulas and charts in Excel.
Prerequisite: No Prior Knowledge Needed
🟢 No Prior Knowledge — Anyone can start without previous experience.
Core Areas Covered
Practical Capstone Project
Mini business/school report pack (document + spreadsheet + slide summary).
What You'll Master
Format academic and business documents with styles, tables, and citations
Create engaging slide decks with transitions, audio, and visual pacing
Perform calculations using SUM, AVERAGE, IF, and create analytical charts in Excel
Per-Hour Syllabus & Course Curriculum
Instructional Pacing
12 Hours Recommended (8 hrs minimum accelerated)
Flexible teaching units with hands-on labs and tangible milestones
What Word/PowerPoint/Excel are each for, shared interface conventions, file formats and saving.
Open all three apps, create and save a blank file in each with a proper name.
Choose the right Office app for a task and save files correctly.
Typing and editing text, font formatting, paragraph alignment/spacing, page setup.
Type and format a one-page sample document.
Create and format a simple, readable document.
Bulleted/numbered lists, inserting tables, inserting and positioning images.
Add a list, a small table, and an image to the sample document.
Enrich a document with lists, tables, and images.
Headers/footers, using templates, spelling/grammar tools, exporting/printing.
Apply a template, run proofing tools, export the document as PDF.
Finish and export a polished document independently.
Slide layouts, adding text and images, applying design themes.
Build the first 3 slides of a presentation using a theme.
Create clean, on-theme slides with text and images.
Slide transitions, simple animations, adding speaker notes.
Apply transitions/animations to the deck and write speaker notes for two slides.
Add basic motion and presenter notes to a deck.
Structuring a presentation narrative (intro/body/conclusion), timing and pacing.
Complete a short 5–6 slide presentation start to finish.
Build a complete short presentation independently.
Spreadsheet structure (cells, rows, columns), entering and editing data.
Build a simple data table (e.g. a small budget or attendance list).
Enter and organize data correctly in a spreadsheet.
Basic formulas (SUM, AVERAGE), understanding cell references.
Apply SUM/AVERAGE formulas to the data table from Hour 8.
Write and apply basic formulas to calculated data.
Sorting and filtering data, simple conditional formatting.
Sort/filter the data table and apply a conditional formatting rule.
Organize and visually highlight data patterns in a spreadsheet.
Chart types and when to use each, creating a chart from data.
Generate a chart from the Excel data table and label it properly.
Turn raw data into a clear, correctly-labelled chart.
How the three apps combine into one polished deliverable.
Assemble a mini 'report pack' — a Word summary, an Excel chart, and a short PowerPoint recap.
Independently produce a small combined Office deliverable.
Flexible Course Pacing & Extension Guidelines
⏱ Extend if: Learner wants deeper Excel formulas (VLOOKUP/pivot basics) — add 4 hrs, new total 16 hrs.
Hour blocks are modular teaching units. Sessions can be merged into 90–120 min deep-dives or split into shorter focused sessions for younger learners while preserving every learning outcome.
Equipment & Prerequisites
Computer with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or Office 365 installed
Internet connection for weekly live classes
Target Price (Upon Launch)
₦4,000/hr
$3.02 USD/hr international
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