Basic Computer Skills

INTRODUCTION TO BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS :

Hello everybody welcomes to my page you know probably some of you are out of college or university or you’ve been a blue-collar worker for most of your life and now you want the transformation now you want to start a career as a white-collar in an office environment so most of us have encountered those job requirements in the job ads let’s say IT skills requirements Microsoft Office and similar skills so some of you may wonder what exactly do I need to know or what skills do I need to possess in order to meet those requirements.

Today I will talk about those so basically when we talk about IT skills well I wouldn’t call it IT because It can mean anything and normally when we talk about IT it’s information technology so it can be software development it can be data analysis and a lot of other sophisticated matters the basic computer skills expected from any office worker beat an administrator planner and was just excoriated or whatever are the main Microsoft Office tools.

Let me break it down for you and I think the ones that I will now be talking about are really really useful so having a grasp of these tools will help you not only to start your career but also at all steps of your career that will help you organize your day fulfill your tasks much easier and they will also set a good basis for learning other systems and tools.

MICROSOFT EXCEL :

Microsoft Excel is basically a tool that helps you create different spreadsheets however the software has developed over the course of its existence and just drastically nowadays you can do a lot of things in Excel and this is not just for creating spreadsheets and keeping lists or doing basic calculations you can use Excel for analysis, you can use Excel for accounting you can start from very basic accounting tap up to quite sophisticated financial reporting and analysis and even if you are not working with with the counting you can still use it for reporting for keeping track of your data you can create really good handy lists where you can easily navigate filter and find things

Excel is used in the business very widely so any business from small to the largest even the largest corporation you might walk in there you will find that Excel is being used at all steps you can use Excel as I said for analysis you can create really good graphics bar charts and line charts and you could simply use Excel as a database so Excel goes a long way it comes with the macros and you also find that the user interface of Excel and has been inherited by many other tools out there so I’m not talking about Microsoft tools but other software and doing similar things so having a good grasp of Excel will help you at all steps of your career and it’ll make it easier learn other similar software tools.

POWERPOINT :

PowerPoint well you’ve probably heard about PowerPoint which helps you create slack box now PowerPoint is a really powerful tool for any kind of presentations if you want to pitch an idea if you are facilitating a meeting and you are driving the decision-making Process I have personally used PowerPoint for even creating some kind of graphical content graphical images so I’m not good in tools like a cold roll but I needed some basic very simple graphical images that for my own personal use for business cases I have used PowerPoint that one to other think that PowerPoint actually allows you especially with some add-ins is recording your screen so you can actually create really good tutorials or other material using the PowerPoint.

So I can tell you that PowerPoint will boost your capacity again for making really good really interesting and really catchy presentations it will help you pitch your own ideas or if you’re working for a company or organization it will help you present your material it will make it especially for the executive management who are not very interested in minor detail but they want to see an overall picture of what you’re trying to present in order to make decisions.

PowerPoint will serve you the best in this matter you can use your Excel graphs and charts and you can bring those data even if in the spreadsheets event the tables you can bring them to PowerPoint and use some transitions and animations in order to make it appealing, visually appealing and easy to comprehend and whoever you’re presenting it to I think it will create a really good image of your material thoughtful and also will serve for your reputation.

MICROSOFT WORD :

Microsoft Word is a great tool for word processing so when we talk about Microsoft Word it’s actually the so-called rich text format which lets you format your text by adding a lot of fonts with added pictures again so you can add graphs and you can play with the sizes and phones and colors a lot of things that you can do and apart from that you can have paragraph you can use different page sizes if you’re interested and you should be interested in it because becoming a good word processor then Microsoft where is the one to go now I’m not a Microsoft Word guru and however I have sort of skills and experience using with my little world and I found it very handy

2nd of all you can create material, you can create documents if you’re a document control or if you’re somebody who was expected to create different documents commit processes can be translation turn or translated material by utilizing Microsoft Word to its maximum you can really lay out a very appealing catchy and tidy CV and it’s also good for printing and creating PDFs because PDF is basically a printed image of any kind of document it can be a Microsoft Word Excel or any other it’s also great when you’re using rich text format in your emails because you will find that the same functionality that you have in markets a word is inherited by a lot of other systems including email link and especially when it comes to Outlook talking of which.

MICROSOFT OUTLOOK :

Microsoft Outlook is an emailing tool but the outlook is much more than just managing your emails first of all it can help you manage your day manage your time with its great calendar and it can also help you manage your tasks it can help you with priority management you can prioritize your tasks using the calendar using the tools within outlook and you can prioritize your emails you can follow all you can create follow-ups and nowadays are lots of add-ins for Microsoft Outlook it’s mostly integrated with a lot of unified communication tools like Skype for a business like Cisco jabber it can be it can also be integrated with other things like you can integrate it with your Google Calendar.

I can tell you you will find so many things in Microsoft outlook that you will be amazed you’ll be surprised that actually, this one tool can do so many things first when it comes to email link we’re basically emails are an important part of communication and managing your tasks within most organizations and most companies out there in some organizations emailing can be the primary and sometimes even the major the likely the most major communication tool now I’m thinking about making a separate video about communication management.

TYPING SKILLS:

Quick and precise typing is an attribute that will serve you well no matter where you are taken by your profession. While modern technology has resulted in people typing a lot of thumb or pointer finger messages on smartphones, there is a fair chance that you will be asked to do at least some of your work on a desktop computer or laptop.

The less you need to focus on the specifics of how to type properly and effectively, the more you can concentrate on the substance of what you are typing. With fewer mistakes that need to be corrected later, you’ll produce better work. For various activities, an employee who has mastered typing is versatile and accessible. During a conference, you may be randomly asked to type notes.

You could be flooded with anxiety and tension if your abilities aren’t up to the challenge. Typing is an important office skill, so take some time to practice typing.