What you'll learn:
- Basic data entry skills necessary for todays work environment and employer perspective
- Using Microsoft word - using pdf and basic functions , conversion to word and to pdf
- Using Microsoft excel- basic functions and formatting, conversion of pdf to excel
- Practice files to practice to update your skills
Welcome to the data entry course for beginners. This course is going to teach you basic data entry skills that will help you become a data entry professional, virtual assistant, or someone who is ready to enter the work force for clerical positions.
I am Padma Vaidyanathan, the developer and instructor of this course. I am an employer and I have been in business for over 25 years. During that period, I have hired and trained a lot of data entry professionals. Some of the staff that I had to trained lacked the basic skills that they needed to hit the ground running. It is out of that experience that I have decided to create and teach this course to enable intending data entry professionals to learn the basic skills before seeking employment.
I am going to teach you how to complete some basic data entry tasks that will immediately qualify you for data entry jobs in any industry. These are the basic skill sets we look for when we hire you as an employee or remote hire. This will allow you to have confidence in your basic skill so you too can apply for entry level data entry positions.
At the end of the course, you will be able to do the following with the skills you will learn:
Convert a PDF/image file into word
Edit and format in Microsoft Word or other word processors
Create custom headers and footers or insert prepopulated ones such as the date function
Create tables in Microsoft Word and use watermarks in your documents
Create an excel data base from PDF files
Use web research to create a Microsoft Excel data base
Perform page setups and print preview functions in Microsoft Excel
Files are provided for your practice.
After watching and working along with me with each segment, you will get the confidence to move forward and start looking for basic data entry skill jobs.
