Want to improve your Microsoft Office skills?

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Want to improve your Microsoft Office skills?

Whatever your preferred method of learning, the IT Services Training and Documentation Team can help.

Scheduled, tutor-led courses

Our range of courses covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, and Skype for Business.

And if you simply don’t have enough hours in the day, why not come along to one of our Focus on... workshops. These short, one hour sessions focus on specific aspects of MS Office applications, breaking down learning into bite-size chunks. Choose from:

Focus on… Word

  • Fillable Forms
  • Mail Merge to PDF

Focus on… Excel

  • Summarising and analysing data with Pivot Tables

Focus on… Outlook

  • Managing your Calendar

Visit the University’s Course Booking System and search for IT Skills to view forthcoming courses and to book online.

Custom courses

In addition to our scheduled courses, we can also create custom courses to meet the specific needs of your team or group. So whether it’s Outlook Delegate Access or Word Mail Merge, PowerPoint Slide Masters or Excel Pivot Tables, we’ve got it covered!

Contact us at tad@abdn.ac.uk to find out more.

Prefer to learn in your own time?

We publish a wide range of workbooks suitable for self-study. These are available for you to download as PDF files. Our current catalogue includes Office 2016, Office 2013, and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

Or sign up for SkillPort e-learning which offers staff and students FREE access to web-based training courses covering MS Office, Acrobat, Photoshop and more!