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Microsoft Office for Mac for Creative Professionals

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Overview

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Using Microsoft® Office®  for Mac can be daunting — but Excel algorithms and interactive PowerPoint presentations don’t have to seem like foreign languages. Join Alicia Katz Pollock for an introduction to everything creative professionals need to know to take advantage of Microsoft Office for Mac’s full potential to manage every creative project.

Alicia will teach you the fundamentals of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to organize, communicate, brainstorm, create, and present a variety of different creative projects. You’ll learn everything in Word from opening and formatting simple documents to creating complex manuscripts to using its desktop publishing functions to make flyers, advertising materials and more. You’ll learn how to create a budget in Excel. You’ll use PowerPoint to create a dynamic presentation to promote your latest project. And all along the way, Alicia will share tips and tricks for making Microsoft Office for Mac run more intuitively, quickly, and efficiently, giving you the time you need to focus on your creative pursuits.

Syllabus

  • Microsoft Office - The Basics
  • Segment 2 - Desktop Publishing - Using Word Pt 1
  • Segment 3 - Desktop Publishing - Using Word Pt 2
  • Segment 4 - OneNote for Mac
  • Segment 5 - Outlook - Basics and Tasks
  • Segment 6 - Outlook - Using Email
  • Segment 7 - Outlook - Communication Tools
  • Segment 8 - Outlook - Calendars
  • Segment 9 - Excel - Budgeting Your Project
  • Segment 10 - Excel - Formatting a Spreadsheet
  • Segment 11 - Excel - Charts & Conditional Formatting
  • Segment 12 - Word - Basic Text Formatting
  • Segment 13 - Word - Additional Formatting
  • Segment 14 - Word - Line & Paragraph Spacing
  • Segment 15 - Word - Page Layouts Part 1
  • Segment 16 - Word - Page Layouts: Part 2
  • Segment 17 - Word - Watermarks & Tables
  • Segment 18 - Word - Intermediate Techniques
  • Segment 19 - Word - Adding Spreadsheets, Lines, & More
  • Segment 20 - Mailmerge in Word
  • Segment 21 - Mailmerge Labels & Powerpoint
  • Segment 22 - Word - Dictation & Symbols
  • Segment 23 - Excel - Data Tables
  • Segment 24 - Excel - Pivot Tables
  • Segment 25 - Excel - More Intermediate Techniques
  • Segment 26 - Powerpoint - The Basics Pt 1
  • Segment 27 - Powerpoint - The Basics Pt 2
  • Segment 28 - Powerpoint - Animations
  • Segment 29 - Powerpoint - Transitions & Video
  • Segment 30 - Powerpoint - Uploading Presentations
  • Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Office for iPad: Word Pt 1
  • Microsoft Office for iPad: Word Pt 2
  • Microsoft Office for iPad: Excel & Powerpoint

Taught by

Alicia Katz Pollock

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