Long formatted report
Deliverable: A twenty-page report using styles throughout, with an automatic table of contents, correct section breaks, page numbering and captioned figures, and no direct formatting.
Course
MS Office
The four applications every Indian office runs on, taught around the tasks you will actually be judged on rather than as a tour of every menu.
- Duration: 3 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Produce long Word documents with styles, sections and an automatic table of contents
- Run a mail merge from an Excel list without manual repetition
- Build working spreadsheets with lookups, conditional logic and PivotTables
- Present data in charts that answer a question rather than decorate a slide
- Build presentations with a consistent master and a readable structure
- Manage email, calendar and tasks in Outlook rather than drowning in the inbox
- Collaborate on shared documents with tracked changes and comments
Who this course is for
- Students and graduates preparing for office roles
- Working professionals whose Office skills were never taught formally
- Shop and business owners producing their own documents
- Basic computer familiarity is needed; our Computer Basics course covers it
Syllabus
7 modules · 3 months
Module 1. Word for real documents
- Styles, and why direct formatting causes the problems people blame on Word
- Headings, navigation pane and an automatic table of contents
- Page setup, sections, headers and footers
- Tables, images and controlling how text flows around them
- Track changes, comments and reviewing someone else's document
- Templates for documents you produce repeatedly
Module 2. Mail merge and automation
- Building a clean data source in Excel
- Letters, labels and envelopes from one list
- Merging into email
- Conditional fields for personalised content
Module 3. Excel foundations
- Workbook structure, references and the dollar signs that confuse everyone
- Formulas, operators and order of evaluation
- IF, IFS and nested conditional logic
- VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP and INDEX-MATCH
- Text, date and time functions for real data
- Error handling, and diagnosing why a formula returns nothing
Module 4. Excel for analysis
- Sorting, filtering and data validation
- PivotTables and PivotCharts
- Conditional formatting that highlights exceptions
- Charts, and choosing one that answers the question
- Printing a spreadsheet so it is actually readable
Module 5. PowerPoint
- Slide master and why consistency is a design decision
- Structuring a deck around an argument rather than topics
- Text, hierarchy and the readability limits of a slide
- Charts, images and SmartArt used sparingly
- Transitions and animation, and why less is better
- Presenter view, notes and rehearsal
Module 6. Outlook
- Email organisation with folders, rules and search
- Calendar, meetings and scheduling across a team
- Tasks and follow-up flags
- Writing email that gets a reply
- Signatures, out-of-office and shared mailboxes
Module 7. Working together
- OneDrive, sharing and permissions
- Co-authoring and resolving conflicts
- Version history and recovering earlier drafts
- Google Docs and Sheets equivalents for offices that use them
Tools and technologies you will use
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- OneDrive
- Google Docs and Sheets (equivalents covered)
Projects you will build
Mail merge campaign
Deliverable: A personalised letter and email merge produced from a cleaned Excel list of at least fifty records, including conditional content that varies by recipient.
Working office spreadsheet
Deliverable: A spreadsheet reconciling two data sets with lookups and conditional logic, a PivotTable summary and validation preventing bad input, with error handling on every formula.
Presentation with a single argument
Deliverable: A ten-slide deck built on a consistent master, structured around one argument, with charts that each answer a stated question and speaker notes for delivery.
Where this course can take you
- Office Executive
- Administrative Assistant
- Data Entry Operator
- MIS Assistant
- Front Office Executive
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 3 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Share your details and an advisor will confirm the current fee.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Most people were never actually taught this
Nearly everyone in an Indian office uses Word and Excel daily. Very few were taught either, and it shows in specific, repeated ways.
A hundred-page report formatted by hand, where changing one heading size means changing forty. A spreadsheet where the same total is calculated three different ways and none of them agree. A presentation with eleven bullet points on a slide nobody at the back can read.
None of that is a lack of intelligence. It is a lack of anyone ever showing them styles, lookups, or the readability limit of a slide.
Styles are the whole Word course
If you take one thing from the Word modules, take styles.
Direct formatting — selecting text and clicking bold, then size, then colour — is why long documents become unmanageable. Nothing updates together. The table of contents has to be typed by hand. A change of house style means reformatting every page.
Styles fix all of it at once. Headings become navigable, the contents page generates itself, and a global change takes one click. The first project explicitly forbids direct formatting for that reason.
Excel, at working level
This is not the Advanced Excel course, and it does not pretend to be.
It covers what an office role needs daily — references, conditional logic, lookups, PivotTables, validation and charts that answer a question. That is enough to be visibly useful and to stop making the errors that quietly produce wrong numbers.
If your work is genuinely reporting and analysis, Advanced Excel with Power Query is the better investment, and doing this course first makes it easier.
Presentations that argue something
A deck is not a document projected on a wall.
We teach structuring a presentation around one argument, keeping a slide within what a person at the back can read, and using a slide master so consistency is a decision rather than an accident.
The project is ten slides with a single argument and speaker notes. Most people find writing the notes changes the slides, which is exactly the point.
Questions
MS Office — frequently asked questions
How is this different from your Advanced Excel course?
This covers all four applications at a working level. Advanced Excel goes considerably deeper into Excel alone — Power Query, dashboards, VBA and AI-assisted analysis. If your role is broadly administrative, take this. If your role is reporting and analysis, Advanced Excel is the better investment, and many people do this first and that second.
Is an MS Office course still worth doing?
For office roles in India, yes, because most people's Office skills were never actually taught. They can type in Word but cannot use styles, so a hundred-page document becomes unmanageable. They can add numbers but cannot build a PivotTable. Being visibly competent at the tools everyone uses badly is a genuine advantage.
Which version of Office do you teach?
Current Microsoft 365, and we point out where older versions differ, since plenty of Indian offices still run Office 2016 or 2019. The concepts are stable across versions. We also cover the Google Docs and Sheets equivalents, because many workplaces use those instead.
Do I need to buy Microsoft Office?
Not for the course — you practise on centre machines, and online live learners can use the free web versions or a trial for most exercises. We will tell you what the genuinely cheap legitimate options are rather than assume you can buy a full licence.
Will this help with government exam or job requirements?
Many clerical and administrative roles list computer proficiency in Office as a requirement, and this course covers that ground. We do not issue any government-recognised certification and do not claim to. Check the exact certificate your target employer or examination requires before enrolling on that basis.
Enquire about MS Office
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
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