Our Microsoft Office Specialist training courses are designed to increase your efficiency and confidence using the Microsoft software applications.  Our Office training covers a wide range of software titles including Excel (spreadsheet), Access (database), OneNote (digital notebook), Outlook (email communication), Word (documents), and PowerPoint (presentations).

Some basic benefits for attending the MOS courses:

  • Courses are designed to help prepare students for industry-recognized certification.
  • Microsoft Office products help improve work efficiency
  • Learn the computing skills companies are looking for.
  • Boost your workforce résumé.

Potential career opportunities:

  • Administrative/Executive Assistant
  • IT Technical Trainer/Office Manager
  • Project Coordinator
  • Data Management/Entry Specialist
  • Research Analyst
  • Accounting/Financial Analyst

Coastal currently offers the following Microsoft Office Specialist training courses:

  • Office 365 Boot Camp – Level 1
  • Office 365 Intermediate – Level II
  • Office 365 Advanced Course

Microsoft Excel Training Courses

Having a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel is extremely valuable to employers and can increase your chances of getting hired by showing employers that you have great analytical skills.  For this reason, many employers specifically request Excel knowledge as part of the job specification.  Excel can be used to organize data in an easy-to-navigate way, do basic and complex mathematical functions so you don’t have to, turn data into helpful graphics and charts.  In these courses, students discover how to visualize, manipulate, and analyze data.

Coastal currently offers the following Microsoft Office Specialist Excel training courses:

  • Introduction to Office 365 Excel with AI
  • Intermediate to Office 365 Excel with AI
  • Microsoft Excel Advanced Data Analysis Tools
  • Data Visualizations using Office 365 Excel
  • Introduction to Data Analysis using Office 365 Excel
  • Microsoft Excel and Access Integration

Microsoft Access Database Training Courses

Microsoft Access is an information management database tool that helps you store information for reference, reporting, and analysis.  Microsoft Access helps you analyze large amounts of information, and manage related data more efficiently than Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet applications.  Microsoft Access is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office software applications.  While Excel provides worksheets that are flat or non-relational, Access provides tables that are relational at multiple levels.

Coastal currently offers the following Microsoft Access database training courses:

  • Access Database Design for Security
  • Microsoft Access Database Design to Delivery
  • Microsoft Access Queries, Reports and Macros
  • Access Database: Customizing Forms, Reports, Tables and Action Queries

Microsoft Copilot and AI Training

Microsoft Office and Artificial Intelligence (AI) generate conversations between the user and the computer with everyday tools such as Microsoft 365. With Artificial Intelligence, employees and students can find effective ways to manage tentative tasks such as analyzing data, coding, customer service, and administrative automations. Students and employees are utilizing AI to further generate projects, documents (Word), presentations (PowerPoint), data (Excel), documents (Word), meetings (Teams) and emails (Outlook). Microsoft Copilot’s purpose use to ensure that boundaries and compliance are met with the company potential students or employees can work in.

Coastal currently offers the following Microsoft Copilot and AI training courses:

  • Introduction to Microsoft Copilot
  • AI Fundamentals in Support of Education
  • Integrating Office 365 Apps with AI
  • Microsoft 365 Ecosystem
  • Introduction & Intermediate Excel with AI