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If you require special accommodations to fully participate, please contact Laurie Leonard at
lleonard@mca.org
or call 312-384-1220.
COMPUTER SKILLS
- BCS
NEW!
BCS 108 ­ Excel and Access
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
9 a.m. ­ 12 p.m.
Directions Training Center, Oak Brook
Ginnie Floraday
Access allows users to manage lists of information.
Upon completion of this course participants will be
able to manipulate the information stored in Excel
data fi les or other database program fi les. This class
will not teach how to design an Access application,
but rather how to generate quick reports from an
already existing database or Excel fi le. Many of the
features of the data commands are common to
Excel, but Access has added power.
BCS 206 ­ Excel II
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
9 a.m. ­ 12 p.m.
Directions Training Center, Oak Brook
Ginnie Floraday
The introduction of advanced formatting techniques
and the analysis tools will enable users to become
more effi cient spreadsheet users. Topics will include
spreadsheet formatting, absolute cell references, the
Solver procedure, and the Outline procedure which
will allow users to hide detail rows in spreadsheets
and graphs.
NEW!
BCS 207 ­ Intermediate PowerPoint
(2003 Version w/laptop)
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
9 a.m. ­ 12 p.m.
MCA Construction Education Institute
®
, Burr Ridge
Ginnie Floraday
Participants will be building upon basic concepts of
Microsoft PowerPoint. Learn more about manipulating
graphics, importing spreadsheets, enhancing a slide
show and additional printing features. This course
will also cover creating organizational charts,
adding animation to pictures, enhancing movement
between slides, changing formats and printing
thumbnail sketches of each slide.
*
Please note that you must bring a laptop to complete
this course! This course is limited to 16 participants.
NEW!
BCS 210 ­ Overview to Offi ce
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
9 a.m. ­ 12 p.m.
Directions Training Center, Oak Brook
Ginnie Floraday
This course will give an overview to the updated
versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Some of the new features to be reviewed will be
the Ribbon (the replacement for the toolbar), the
Mini Toolbar, Document Themes and Quick Styles in
Word. Excel enhancements include improvements
to Pivot Tables, Filters, and Advanced Formatting.
NEW!
BCS 245 ­ Excel ­ Merging
with Other Applications (w/laptop)
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
9 a.m. ­ 12 p.m.
MCA Construction Education Institute
®
, Burr Ridge
Ginnie Floraday
In this course, participants will learn how to capitalize
on sharing Excel workbooks with PowerPoint, Word
and Access. The power of Excel is realized when its
features are utilized in other programs. This course
will cover:
· Using Excel in Word documents: merging address
lists from Excel into a form letter or labels; the four
methods of displaying an Excel worksheet in a Word
document; and hyperlinks that will allow users to
open an Excel workbook from within Word.
· Using Excel in Power Point: creating charts in
PowerPoint and merging into Excel and inserting
Excel workbooks into PowerPoint.
· Using Access in Excel: designing reports in
Access using Excel data.
*
Please note that you must bring a laptop to complete
this course! This course is limited to 12 participants.
CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION INSTITUTE
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