Nat’l Computer Center trains gov’t workers on computer apps

Wednesday 20th of June 2012

ZAMBOANGA CITY, June 20 (PIA) -- The National Computer Center (NCC) has conducted free whole day training on the latest computer and office applications training to government workers from various agencies.

NCC-Field Operations Office (FOO) held the training into two parts, the morning and the afternoon session at the NCC-FOO Computer Laboratory.

The first session, focused on Microsoft Excel, its advanced features, functions and formulas, was held from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. A total of 25 government employees attended the session, aiming to improve their ability in creating, processing and analyzing reports using MS Excel.

The second session was held from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Another set of 25 participants attended the session, focused on Open Office Calc.

The afternoon session was geared at assisting participants coming from offices that do not have the budget to purchase licensed software but still requires the use of spreadsheet software for their reports as Calc is an office application which can be downloaded for free.

Calc is similar to Microsoft Excel with a thoroughly equivalent range of features and is capable of opening and saving most spreadsheets in Excel format. It provides a number of features present in Excel including a system that automatically defines series for graphing based on the layout of the user’s data and is also capable of writing spreadsheets directly as Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet and productivity tool developed by Microsoft Corporation which enables us to calculate data and present them through graphs and charts.

The information and communications technology (ICT) training is one of the activities of the NCC-9’s month-long celebration of the “2012 National ICT Month” this June. (NCC/JPA-PIA9 ZBST)