By:
Jocelyn P. Alvarez
ZAMBOANGA
CITY,
June 19 (PIA)- - Government workers
from various agencies get an update on
office applications as the National Computer Center-Field Operations Office
(NCC-FOO) conducts today a whole day Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
training for free.
The training was divided into two parts-
the morning and afternoon session and held at the NCC-FOO Computer Laboratory here.
Session one was focused on Microsoft Excel:
advance features, functions and formulas.
The first session which was held 8a.m to 12
noon and attended by 25 government employees was geared at improving the
participants’ work ability as far as creating, processing and analyzing reports
using MS Excel is concern.
Second session was held 1pm to 5pm and attended
by another set of 25 participants focused on Open Office Calc.
The afternoon session was geared at
assisting participants coming from offices that does 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/charts.
The ICT training is one of the activities
of the NCC-9 month-long celebration of the “2012 National ICT Month” this June.
(JPA/NCC/PIA9-ZBST)