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    Hi,
    I'm looking to get a Microsoft Office Certification.
    I'm not professional, but I know just enough to do just about everything I need to do.

    I'm not looking for a college (ex: Hawaii Business College, Heald), but an institute.

    Thanks in advance!

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    Re: Microsoft OfficeCertification Institute?

    Originally posted by jungbum View Post
    Hi,
    I'm looking to get a Microsoft Office Certification.
    I'm not professional, but I know just enough to do just about everything I need to do.

    I'm not looking for a college (ex: Hawaii Business College, Heald), but an institute.

    Thanks in advance!
    How much are you willing to spend? Here's one "institute" that offers MCSE bootcamps in Honolulu, but it's spendy. Do you want the certification, or just the knowledge it takes to be certified? If you only want the knowledge, there are all kinds of online MCSE training classes you could get, too, which would probably be a little cheaper and which you could take at your leisure.

    Miulang
    "Americans believe in three freedoms. Freedom of speech; freedom of religion; and the freedom to deny the other two to folks they don`t like.” --Mark Twain

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      Re: Microsoft OfficeCertification Institute?

      Online is a good option, depending on the operator and how interactive the "classes" are. I've had friends and coworkers go through KnowledgeNet/Thomson programs. A good place to read up on all these sorts of things is Cram Session. To do this stuff on your own, at home, self-paced, though, takes a lot of discipline. I know I ain't got it.

      In Honolulu, I've taken courses at New Horizons, which is an international franchise. I'd recommend them.

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        Re: Microsoft OfficeCertification Institute?

        First of all, thank you for the great information.

        I checked the New Horizon, but it seems that it is a daily course for at least 2-3 months?

        I know the basic stuff (know enough to have no problem using the MS Office), but I want to get certified. I don't want to get into deep into it though.

        But would it be beneficial? Office 2007 is coming out soon.

        I will be going to school starting January, so I don't know if the class schedule will conflict.

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          Re: Microsoft OfficeCertification Institute?

          D'oh. I thought you were talking about Microsoft's many professional certifications, like MCSE. I don't know anything about "Microsoft Office certifications." I didn't even know there was any such thing (though apparently there are "specialist" certifications).

          Microsoft Office is a basic office tool, and you are either proficient in it or not. I'm not sure what a "certificate" is worth, but it can't be much more than a "certificate" from your 7th grade typing teacher affirming that you really can type 80 w.p.m. Your job performance will pretty much be how your employer ultimately judges your value.

          Having taken some computer training courses myself, I know some are valuable, some are just to get that piece of paper, and some are pure moneymakers for the school.

          You can and could and perhaps should take classes to get better at using Microsoft Office, and there are certainly advanced skills that most users aren't familiar with. But I'd take those classes just to know more, not to get a piece of paper.

          Will Office 2007 change things substantially? Perhaps, from what I'm reading about how there are several UI and other changes in Vista. So if you're not in a hurry, you can wait. Just remember Microsoft's track record in delivering scheduled updates! Becoming obsolete is part of life. Sure wish my once ninja-like proficiency with WordPerfect 5.1 was still worth something!

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            Re: Microsoft OfficeCertification Institute?

            Originally posted by pzarquon View Post
            Will Office 2007 change things substantially? Perhaps, from what I'm reading about how there are several UI and other changes in Vista. So if you're not in a hurry, you can wait. Just remember Microsoft's track record in delivering scheduled updates! Becoming obsolete is part of life. Sure wish my once ninja-like proficiency with WordPerfect 5.1 was still worth something!
            Here's a snip of the new Office 2007 "ribbon" as they call it. It replaces the main "File, Edit, ..." menu. I've been using Office 2007 for about 3 months now and I really like it. I don't think there will be a problem learning the new UI, since it's organized very well. As long as you're proficient in the old Office, the new one shouldn't be a problem.



            -Arturo

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              Re: Microsoft OfficeCertification Institute?

              Here's some info off the MS website about the requirements and resources for gaining certification as an "MS Office Specialist".

              As far as taking the plunge now and getting certified on MSOF2003 v. waiting until MSOF2007 is released, it may depend on whether you want to leverage a certification into a job or promotion right away or not.

              Even though the corporate version of Vista has been released as of this month, I seriously doubt many large companies are going to be migrating over to Vista for a couple of years, for a couple of reasons: One, it's going to cost beaucoup bux for companies to pay for the multiseat (or site) licenses to install Vista. Second, once you upgrade to Vista OS, you also have to upgrade all your productivity applications to be compatible, too. So for a 100% MS shop, that means not only Vista, but upgrades to Word, Outlook, Access, Project, Visio, etc. Not exactly small change for a company with hundreds of desktops/laptops. Third, most companies don't like being on the leading edge of technology, especially not when they just managed to upgrade their last PCs to WinXP last year!

              So getting an MSOF certification on the Win2000 or XP platform would probably still be valuable and it would give you a good background for the next release of the Office suite, too.

              Miulang
              "Americans believe in three freedoms. Freedom of speech; freedom of religion; and the freedom to deny the other two to folks they don`t like.” --Mark Twain

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                Re: Microsoft Office Certification Institute?

                Thanks for the screenshot.

                I've actually used MS Office 2007 for about 2 months, but I ended up uninstalling it, because it was too complicated. It's nice and very organized, but can be complicated for someone who has never seen Office 07.

                Well I will try call CompUSA tomorrow and see what I should do.

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