Mel’shunum Office Assistant Program

  • Wednesday, 14 August 2024

    Objective: To complete any unfinished work, develop reference materials as a class, and complete a final typing test. List of Topics Mel’shunum Office Assistant – Review Topics.docx



  • Tuesday, 13 August 2024

    Objectives: To experience using Microsoft Designer & Canva, learn and practice basic features listed below: Topics: A great overview/tutorial on how to use Microsoft Designer: https://heyzine.com/how-to/use-microsoft-designer/ Activity Using Microsoft Designer, create an 8.5” x 11” (A4 Portrait or A4 Landscape) … Continue reading →



  • Class 12 – Thursday, August 8, 2024

    Objectives: To practice using Excel features including conditional formatting, freezing panes and view options, charts, and printing. OCFP – Excel Lessons.docx OCFP – GCF Global – Excel Activities.docx Mel’shunum Shared Documents – Colin Practice Typing



  • Class 11 – Wednesday, August 7, 2024

    Objectives: To practice using Excel features including named ranges, sorting and filtering with tables, and conditional formatting. OCFP – Excel Lessons.docx OCFP – GCF Global – Excel Activities.docx Mel’shunum Shared Documents – Colin Practice Typing



  • Class 10 – Tuesday, August 6, 2024

    Objectives: To practice using Excel features including cell references, basic functions, absolute and relative cell references, sort, filter, tables. OCFP – Excel Lessons.docx OCFP – GCF Global – Excel Activities.docx Mel’shunum Shared Documents – Colin Practice Typing



  • Class 9 – Thursday, August 1, 2024

    Objectives: To practice using Mail Merge in Word and develop an understanding of how to use the basic features of Excel. OCFP – Mail Merge Practice Activity.docx OCFP – Excel Lessons.docx OCFP – GCF Global – Excel Activities.docx Practice Typing



  • Class 8 – Wednesday, July 31, 2024

    Collaborating on a Microsoft Document https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-onedrive-work-or-school-10f5c3fd-b0f6-40e2-9059-04735ffe01b7 – A good introduction to OneDrive. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/introduction – Everything you want to know about Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint and a lot more. Mail Merges For information on using GroupWise for mail merges in Word … Continue reading →



  • Class 7 – Tuesday, July 30

    Practicum Week Work Review We’ll start today by reviewing the work that you completed during the practicum week. I understand that with my absence due to illness things were a bit confused and for that, I apologize. Objective: Collaborating on … Continue reading →



  • Practicum Week – July 23-25, 2024

    Objective: If you can complete any of these skills in your job, then please do so. The more authentic your practice the better. It would also be beneficial to your classmates to learn about how these skills are used in … Continue reading →



  • Class 6 – Thursday, July 11, 2024

    Word Skills Quick Parts Working with Templates Creating a protected form Information on Microsoft Signature services Saving Default Settings – the Normal template (“normal.dotm”) Finding and Importing a Custom Dictionary Collaborating on a Word Document Using 365 Word Activities Activity … Continue reading →



  • Class 5 – Wednesday, July 10, 2024

    Word Skills Working with Paragraphs Check Spelling and Grammar Enable revision tracking in a document Accept or reject a revision Insert a comment in a document Delete a comment from a document Customize the Ribbon Bar Word Activity Download the … Continue reading →



  • Class 4 – Tuesday, July 9, 2024

    Word Topics Covered in Week One Keyboard shortcuts: Word Practice Activity Create a new Word Document and complete the instructions below. Read the sample email exchange below: Negative communications can be tricky to navigate. How would you have delivered the … Continue reading →



  • Class 3 – Thursday, July 4, 2024

    Create and Edit Tables Work with Styles Modify Page Layout Use Graphics Activity #1 Recreate a Word document to look exactly like the image below using the features that we practiced yesterday. (You don’t have to use keyboard shortcuts unless … Continue reading →



  • Class 2 – Wednesday, July 3, 2024

    File Management File Management Terminology File Management Activity Beginner Word Skills Move, Copy and Find and Replace Text Format Characters and Paragraphs Word Keyboard Shortcuts <Ctrl> + C = Copy <Ctrl> + X = Cut <Ctrl> + V = Paste … Continue reading →



  • Class 1 – Tuesday, July 2, 2024

    Welcome to the Mel’shunum Office Assistant Program! On the first class we will start to get to know each other. See Colin’s biography and education statement. Classes will typically balance some Office skills with technology skills. Specific topics will be … Continue reading →



Colin’s Email Address: colin.cameron@viu.ca




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