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Our training fees vary based on whether we are doing training or course preparation.  Our MS-Office training fees vary for novice classes, refresher classes, advanced classes, and private 1:1 training.  Also, if your company or association has a large, on-going training need we will be glad to discuss a volume discount.

TechSpectrum does custom training assignments.  We can learn your custom company software and teach it to your staff.  We have taught custom software in health care, the stock market, and manufacturing. 

Finally, TechSpectrum provides advanced niche technology training for unusual hard to find classes.  We find author/experts on advanced niche technology topics and find training for them.  It's a growing part of our business.

Our classes include outlines and books whenever possible.  We provide the outlines and you provide the books (you can buy them at cost using our publisher discounts).

The training will be at your site using your computer lab or conference room with your computers.  Our training modules are normally 3 hours in length unless the client wishes to lengthen them.

Novice MS-Office Classes

A novice class is a beginner type course for Windows 98/2000/XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, or the Internet.  We already have outlines built in these areas.

Our novice sequence for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access is normally 9 hours.  So, for the entire Word sequence it would be modules Word I, Word II, and Word III for a total of 9 hours.  Our introductory Windows and Internet classes are of shorter length.  You decide on what modules your staff needs.  We'd be glad to discuss your needs at your convenience.

Listed below are two general outlines.  The detailed outlines average about 15-20 pages per outline.  They are designed to be used with books.

Word Module I General Outline

Excel XP Module II General Outline

Refresher MS-Office Classes

What is a refresher class?  Sometimes if you ask your staff if they know Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access they'll say something like:  "I know it.  I'm not an expert.  But I know enough to use it."  People become comfortable with their computer skills and sometimes a bit rusty with their skills.

Our refresher courses are 9 hours of material taught in 6 hours with more questions asked of the clients.  For example, we will take our novice modules Excel I, II, and III and teach them in one day.  This refresher training may be what it takes to re-excite your staff about computers again and eliminate their rusty computer skills.

As a manager, if you're sensing that your staff's computer skills aren't what they need to be, you could try a refresher class on them for one day.  They will come away with better software skills and hopefully improved productivity on the job.

Advanced MS-Office Classes

We offer our advanced MS-Office training in the areas of Word and Excel.  We have never had an advanced training demand for PowerPoint and the advanced training for Access we just call Access consulting for a client.

Does your staff need advanced Word training?  The answer becomes yes when your staff begins building longer, complex documents with tables of contents, indexes, and extensive footnoting.  If your staff needs to understand technical writing and Word for training manuals and documentation then they may need us also.

Perhaps the greatest demand for advanced MS-Office training is in the area of Excel training.  We believe that 20% of all Excel spreadsheets either have errors or are being used inefficiently.  You hope that your financial analysts, budgeting personnel, and new project specialists know Excel at an expert level.  Your company's future may depend on the accuracy of your Excel spreadsheets.

Would you like to take a more advanced Excel quiz to see what we mean when we talk about advanced Excel concepts?  Here's the advanced Excel quiz if you would like to look at it.

Private Training

TechSpectrum offers executive training. Top executives prefer private, directed training that meets their schedule, and their location.  The session is totally private. The executive gets answers to his/her specific questions. The class takes place when and where the client wants training.

Custom Training

TechSpectrum does custom training.

Sometimes a client asks us to learn their custom software, to possibly create a training manual for the software, and then to train staff in the use of this software.

TechSpectrum has done this type of custom software training in healthcare, manufacturing, and the stock market.  Since these projects are short term in nature it often makes sense for managers to outsource these projects rather than assign full-time staff.

Advanced Niche Technology Training

This is a growing part of our business that's been exciting.

Here's an example.  One company in Chicago needed JCL (Job Control Language) training for their computer operations staff.  They telephoned TechSpectrum because they had used us in the past for MS-Office training.  TechSpectrum found an author/expert on the topic of JCL.  The JCL author/expert came in and taught wonderfully.

Does your company or local user group need an author/expert to train an advanced niche technology topic?  Why not contact us.  We'll find one for you.