* This list was compiled in April 2017. We endeavour to keep this list as up to date as we can. If you notice anything that is no longer current please email BYOL and we'll update it. If you run an Excel course and it's not listed here please email us the details and we'll add it to the list.
Bring Your Own Laptop
AUCKLAND: Level 2, Building 10, 666 Great South Road, Greenlane
COURSE TITLE: Word 2016 Essentials Training
LOCATIONS: Auckland, Wellington
SUMMARY:
If you have no previous experience in Word, or you know your skills fall short, Bring Your Own Laptop have an entry level course that, in their words, takes you from ‘zero to hero’ by giving you the essential skills to making the most of Microsoft Word.
The Word 2016 Essentials training assumes no previous experience, just as long as you can work with a Windows or Mac computer. And if you’re self-taught, you will benefit from filling in all the missing bits and learning the best way to use Word.
Bring Your Own Laptop teaches Word by guiding you step by step through real world projects – opening and editing existing documents without destroying them. Formatting the page, creating tables and importing text or graphics. Templates, and how to get along with the grammar check are all included. There is also a terrific package of after course support.
DURATION: 1 Day
PRICE: $373 (INC GST)
DISCOUNTS: Early Registration Discount: $317.00 EARLY BIRD
CLASS SIZE: 8 (MAX)
QUALIFICATION: Certificate of completion
AFTER COURSE CARE: Customised videos that match the entire course, notes, free email support for 1 year and a course resit if needed.
EMAIL WEBSITE MAP CONTACT PAGEAce Computer Training
Level 3, 46 Brown Street, Ponsonby, Auckland 1021
COURSE TITLE: Word Essential Skills
LOCATIONS: Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch
SUMMARY:
If you already know how Windows works, but Microsoft Word is a mystery, then Ace Computer Training offer you ‘Word Essential Skills’ to give you the tools to create and edit short documents. There are 8 other courses as part of a suggested learning path, so this course will naturally be the ‘start from the very beginning’ offering and lasts a whole day.
The Microsoft Word training includes getting familiar with the menus, tools and screen layout of Word. You are then guided through typing a document, navigating and editing and setting up a document correctly.
Formatting and the often fraught with danger ‘envelopes and labels’ production are usefully included.
What’s not mentioned, so we assume not included, is any sort of after course care or tech support, so be sure to ask about that if you think you’ll need it. Also, consider that the Ace Computer Training ‘suggested learning path’ takes 10 days of training where many courses take 3, and a lot of 1 day courses cover a lot more ground. But if you are a complete beginner, the topics listed are certainly valuable ones.
DURATION: 1 day
PRICE: $325 + GST
DISCOUNTS: Not stated
CLASS SIZE: Not Listed
QUALIFICATION: Course can be applied towards Microsoft Certification
AFTER COURSE CARE: Not Listed
CONTACT PAGE WEBSITE MAPArdito Corporate Training
COURSE TITLE: Word Introduction
LOCATIONS: Hamilton
SUMMARY:
As common as Microsoft Word is there are plenty of people who’ve never used it or, like most of us, you are self-taught and have a few gaps in our knowledge. Ardito Corporate Training in Hamilton offer as a solution their ‘Word Introduction’ course designed for the completely new user, or the user that suspects they’re missing something. The only prerequisite is a working knowledge of Windows. If you found this page online, you’re ready.
The course objectives promise to get you opening and saving new and existing documents, edit and check text, make use of the actually very good ‘help’ features built into Word, change the page layout, manage tables and graphics and finally print or publish the end result to a professional looking standard.
There does not seem to be any after course tech support, but there are an intermediate and advanced course to move on to.
Auldhouse
ADDRESS: Three Lamps, 338 Ponsonby Road, PO Box 214, Auckland 1140
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft Word - The Essentials
LOCATIONS: Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
SUMMARY:
Auldhouse offers a blistering array of training options, and for Microsoft Word, there are 3 courses offered, and if you need it, private tuition is available. The course we are looking at here is the first offering, Microsoft Word - The Essentials.
The course requires you know the basics of Microsoft Windows and how to use a web browser. The course objectives (which double as the contents of the training) mention the important basics: opening and saving files, printing and navigating the tools and menus.
Beyond that is learning time saving tools such as Find and Replace, creating tables and inserting graphics. You will also cover the essentials of formatting the page size, and using the spell check and grammar tools properly.
There is no mention of any after course support, though your time can be counted towards your Continuing Professional Development.
Catch-Up Training
ADDRESS: 358A Matangi Road, R D 4, Hamilton, 3284
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft Word Courses
LOCATIONS: Hamilton
SUMMARY:
Hamilton area’s Catch-Up Training offers 5 two-hour courses designed to teach you Microsoft Word by function – if you want to know how to do something, check the course title.
Company principle and well qualified tutor Heather Wickham comes to you so you can learn Word in the comfort of your own environment, with your own computer at your own pace.
The courses listed include ‘Tables and Tabs’ an area of great consternation for the newcomer, ‘Mail Merge’ another common conundrum inducing function, ‘Styles’ and ‘Templates & Forms’ will have you working without the repetition of making the same changes over and over, and ‘making the most of word’ includes instruction some of Microsoft Words’ power tools that many don’t know exist.
There is no mention of any post course support.
Computer Competence
ADDRESS: 20 Konini Street, Nelson 7010
COURSE TITLE: Word Beginners
LOCATIONS: Nelson
SUMMARY:
If you know how to use a computer and a mouse, but not how to use the world’s most prolific word processor, then Nelson based Computer Competence has a ‘Word Beginners’ course for you.
You’ll finally know what the tools do, which menu the important ones are hiding in and how to format the paragraph, the page, or just the font to suit you.
While the course outline is very brief, it’s backed by a very experienced instructor and the small class sizes mean you’ll get your questions answered and all the attention you need.
There is an intermediate and advanced course to follow the ‘Word Beginner’s training, but no mention of any additional after course support.
Computer-Training.co.nz
ADDRESS: PO Box 244-66 Royal Oak, Auckland 1103
COURSE TITLE: Word Course
LOCATIONS: Your location in Auckland
SUMMARY:
Starting with opening documents, selecting text (more efficiently), cut copy and paste, you move on to saving and salvaging your work. That last one is in section D – Saving Your Sanity. Topics then spread out into using templates, formatting documents, creating tables and lists, and you eventually arrive at more advanced topics like printing labels and doing a mail merge.
There are no mentions of after course support, so ask before you book. You can get a certificate that mentions what level of training you have achieved.
Excel At Work
ADDRESS: P.O Box 195, Waimauku, Auckland 0842
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft® Word Mastery
LOCATIONS: Your location
SUMMARY:
According to Excel At Work, attendees of their Microsoft Word Mastery course will be able to confidently utilise the power of Word to create professional polished documents. This is backed by a nicely sized course outline that does indeed take you from how to open and save a document all the way to working with large documents and making changes that ripple through.
Excel At Work come to your location and offer either a group training experience in Word, or one on one coaching, with room for customising the training according to you or your team’s needs.
There is no mention of after course care, but if you ask, you can get a certificate of attendance good for your CPD (Continuing Professional Development).
Link IT Group
ADDRESS: PO Box 46045, Herne Bay, Auckland 1147
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft Word
LOCATIONS: Auckland
SUMMARY:
Though very short of details, such as course costs or a physical location, Link IT Group offers a range of Microsoft training courses, including Microsoft Word. The course appears to be offered in 90 minute ‘Quick Byte’ sessions as a minimum, however the outline suggests 3 or 6 hour units for a total of 36 hours of training. You can ask about them coming to you or customising the course.
The website has a very thorough outline that covers all the essential Word skills and usage: the basics of word processing, formatting and text alignment, creating forms and templates and enhancing your documents with graphics.
You do get course notes, but no other after course care is listed. Given the lack of detail on the website, you’re really going to have to call to get firm details.
MasterIT
ADDRESS: 17 Riverhead Point Drive, Riverhead, Auckland City 0820
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft Word
LOCATIONS: Auckland
SUMMARY:
MasterIT specialise in one on one coaching and training at your location and cover a range of Microsoft programs including Word. The website lists several topics that help with the more complicated tasks such as creating and editing sections for large documents, and augmenting that with styles and document wide applications such as the header and footer.
Some of the more fundamental skills are also mentioned, and it’s apparent that your training will be customised to your current abilities and the skills you need to acquire for the day to day use of Microsoft Word in your own work environment.
MasterIT trainers are Microsoft certified to ‘expert’ level and there is after training support.
DURATION: Not listed
PRICE: Not stated
DISCOUNTS: Not stated
CLASS SIZE: One on one
QUALIFICATION: Not stated
AFTER COURSE CARE: FREE Follow-up Telephone Help – after training, you may telephone your tutor at any time for answers to your questions as they arise.
FREE Written Step-By-Step Guide to the programme functions, that you can keep for reference afterwards
ADDRESS CONTACT WEBSITENew Zealand Institute of Highway Technology
ADDRESS: 5 Young Street, New Plymouth
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft Word - Documents
LOCATIONS: Invercargill, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch
SUMMARY:
Trying to help you create better documents, The New Zealand Institute of Highway Technology offers Microsoft Word training with a focus on tenders, health and safety, contracts, and business proposals.
The training is suitable for beginners or intermediate users who know they still a few things to learn. Its’ a hands-on course which seeks to impart a practical understanding of how to create documents while exploiting many of Microsoft Word’s advanced tools and automation. The basics are also covered from importing graphics and text from other applications, to creating and managing templates so you work is consistent and you’re not doing the same tasks over and over.
There is no mention of any certification or after course care.
Professional Development Training
ADDRESS: Vero Centre, Level 31, 48 Shortland Street, Auckland 1140
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft Office 365 Word Essentials Training Course
LOCATIONS: Not stated
SUMMARY:
Professional Development Training offers their Microsoft Office 365 Word Essentials Training Course for beginners as either a group training experience at your location or as a classroom based course. No price or dates are available when you try to book, you have to call according to the booking form.
The course includes a ‘top trainer,’ a certificate of attendance and a paper or electronic version of the course notes. Also included is the PDTraining exclusive ‘Orgmenta App’ that’s described as ‘augments our instructor led courses by engaging learners before, during and after training’ by the website.
The course outline is replete with everything a beginner could wish to learn and includes working with styles, and the not often seen ‘viewing web app documents.’
Ripped Orange
ADDRESS: 3 Morton Street, Auckland, Phone + 64 9 972 1035
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft Word Training Courses
LOCATIONS: Team Orange trainers are based in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown.
SUMMARY:
The Microsoft Word training courses at Ripped Orange are available in groups up to 8 at your location, or as one on one training sessions. There are three Word courses listed, the first being Introduction to Word. This is for people that want to become more proficient at Word so your documents look right, and your results are more consistent.
The Working with Large Documents training is for people that want to leverage the smart tools within Word to make wholesale changes, such as headers and footers, to a document or to implement a style across an entire project.
For the power user, there is Creating Templates so you can develop and apply your teams style across a variety of document types.
Software Solutions
ADDRESS: Bushy Park, 627 Pyes Pa Road, Pyes Pa, Tauranga New Zealand 3173
COURSE TITLE: "The Essentials" Stage One
LOCATIONS: Tauranga
SUMMARY:
Software Solutions based in Tauranga provides three levels of training for Microsoft Word. The ‘essentials’ being the first in the series is aimed at not just the beginner, but the self-taught Word user who may have gaps in their knowledge holding them back from making the most of Microsoft Word.
The basics are all covered from changing the fonts to formatting a page, but there is also a great deal of detail in the course outline about how to use the different views of a document, getting tables to behave and using shortcut keys to speed up your work.
There is no mention of any after course care or certification, but there are a number of options regarding how the training can be run, and there are also online versions supposed to be available in 2017.
The Knowledge Academy
ADDRESS: 71 Mayoral Drive, Cnr Vincent Street, Auckland 1010
COURSE TITLE: Microsoft Word 2016 Introduction
LOCATIONS: Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch, Napier, Dunedin, Wellington
SUMMARY:
Offering luxury locations and a best price guarantee, The Knowledge Academy can hook you up with Microsoft Word training at only 5 times the price of other local training providers! You get email support (described as 24/7!) before and after the course and a certificate of attendance. Refreshments are also included.
There are training dates listed on the website, but pick the wrong day and you could be paying nearly $500 more. We strongly urge you to ask about that price guarantee before you book.
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