Des Moines Area Community College.

Continuing Education

Computer Applications

Access 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn how this database can help you manage, store, search, analyze, and display important business, personal, or scientific data. You’ll gain practical, hands-on experience with tables, relationships, custom data entry forms, queries, mailing labels, macros, and more. Increase productivity, reduce data entry errors, conduct comprehensive searches, and produce professionally formatted reports.

Access 2003, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn how to use database to store, locate and print information. Learn to create tables, relationships, custom data entry forms, queries, reports, mailing labels, and macros.

Access 2003, Intermediate
Cost: $89
Learn how to create real-world business databases using Microsoft Access 2003. Master the secrets of making the computer - not people - do all the work. Create tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros for managing contacts, products, orders, invoices and receipts. Pull all the pieces together with a single, easy-to-use switchboard.

Excel 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
Discover dozens of shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets quickly and efficiently.  Learn the secrets behind writing powerful formulas, using functions, sorting and analyzing data, creating custom charts, creating 3-dimension workbooks, building links, and creating macros and custom toolbar buttons.

Excel 2003, Intro to
Cost: $89
Discover the secrets to setting up fully formatted worksheets quickly and efficiently. Create custom charts, 3-dimensional workbooks, building links, creating macros and customer toolbar buttons.

Excel 2003, Intermediate
Cost: $89
Learn how to work more productively by using powerful features, such as the PivotTable, Solver, and AutoFilter. Build worksheets with decision-making capabilities, and learn to use advanced graphing techniques.

Excel 2003, Advanced
Cost: $89
Increase your potential and maximize your value by becoming an expert Microsoft Excel user. Learn how to use scenarios and data tables to quickly perform multiple what-if analyses. Discover a variety of advanced pivot table techniques, like creating calculated fields and calculated items. Use validation to protect the integrity of your worksheets from other, less experienced users. Learn other uses such as consolidating and importing data, etc.

Outlook 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn the essentials of Microsoft Outlook 2007 from an expert instructor who has already helped thousands become productive and confident with previous versions of Outlook. Get up and running quickly with the most important aspects of the program, and even create a Google Gmail account for class assignments and personal use.

Outlook 2003, Intro to
Cost: $89
Kearn the communication and information management power of Outlook. Use the new information views to work with calendar, contacts, research library, etc.

PowerPoint 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to create impressive slide presentations filled with formatted text, images, video, audio, animation, charts, and hyperlinks. Find out how to save your presentations so you can share them with others over the Web or on CDs.

PowerPoint 2003, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn to create impressive slide presentations filled with formatted text, images, video, audio, animation, charts, and links to the web. Also learn to save presentation in HTML, and new features such as package-for-CD, research task pane, and updated PowerPoint viewer.

Word 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn how to create and modify documents in Word 2007, the most popular word-processing program available. You will learn how to add, move through, and edit text, move words from one part of your document to another, work on two or more documents simultaneously, and much, much more!

Word 2003, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn to create and modify documents, how to add, move, through, and edit text, move words from one part of document to another, work on two or more documents simultaneously, and more.

Word 2003, Intermediate
Cost: $89
Take advantage of Word 2003's publishing capabilities to easily create flyers, newsletters, brochures, and other heavily formatted documents.

Word 2003, Advanced
Cost: $89
Learn how to build time-saving macros, customize your toolbars, create shortcut keys, crank out form letters and mailing labels, perform queries, and much more.

Microsoft Project 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
Discover how to effectively plan, implement, and control projects using Microsoft Project 2007. In this hands-on course, you’ll find out how to apply project management software to your needs. You’ll convert lists and schedules into an integrated plan and you’ll see how Microsoft Project can walk you through any project by helping you organize details, sequence tasks, produce a baseline, assign resources and costs, track progress, identify and analyze variances, revise your project plan, create schedules, and share everything with your customers and coworkers.

Microsoft Project 2003, Intro to
Cost: $89
Microsoft Project can take you through any project by helping organize details, sequence tasks, produce a baseline, assign resources/costs, track progress, identify and analyze variances, revise project plans, create schedules, and share with customers and coworkers

Microsoft Publisher 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
You’ll learn how to design, create, and publish a wide variety of stunning documents using Microsoft Publisher 2007. If you’re looking for a quick, easy, and inexpensive way to produce professional brochures, newsletters, flyers, or even a Web site, this course is your solution!

Microsoft Publisher 2003, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn how this comprehensive desktop publishing package can help you create and publish a wide variety of stunning documents. This hands-on project-oriented course will give you valuable experience in designing, developing and publishing newsletters, web sites, and brochures. If you're new to graphic design, you'll receive plenty of guidance in selecting and using images, colors and layouts.

Microsoft Visio 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
Create professional-looking flow charts and diagrams using one of the most popular flowcharting programs on the market. An industry professional will lead you through easy-to-follow projects and exercises that teach you how to design diagrams based on industry standards and best practices. You’ll learn how to use Visio’s many features and functions to make your diagrams pop.

Microsoft Visio 2003, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learning to create professional-looking diagrams in Microsoft Visio 2003 will take your skills to the next level.  You will learn through easy-to-follow projects and exercises to design diagrams based on industry standards and best practices.  You’ll learn how to use Visio’s many features and functions to make your diagrams pop

Quickbooks 2007, Intro to
Cost: $89
Learn how QuickBooks makes it easy to set up a chart of accounts, reconcile your checking account, create and print invoices, receipts, and statements, track your payables, inventory, and receivables, create estimates and generate reports.

QuickBooks 2007, Performing Payroll in
Cost: $89
Learn how to use QuickBooks software to process payroll quickly and easily.  You’ll discover all the steps you need to properly set up your payroll system, troubleshoot common problems, and avoid mistakes.