Basic admin course

[CommanderBurnham]

Hi all. A bit embarrassing. As I do a fairly manual clinical job, I've never really used a PC for anything more than basic life admin.

I've just taken up an office based position linked to my role and to be honest, my paperwork is atrocious. My inbox is disorganised, my calendar doesn't link up. I have stuff on computers at work and at home.

I'm trying my best but I need some sort of formal basic training on organising emails, calendars etc.

I have Dropbox and have set up folders on that.

I have outlook email addresses, a gmail account and I use iCal for my calendar 🙄

Any online courses or books that you'd recommend? It's time to face my demons and sort myself out.

I did my Microsoft office diploma at Pitman

It was roughly £280 per unit ie word, excel, outlook.

Otherwise there’s priy loads of videos on you tube

Honestly I wouldn't bother with a course, just dwdicate some time to getting organised so you are not constantly fighting a losing battle. If there is something you want to do but don't know how to then Google it. The best way to learn to be good at admin is to do it.

There are lots of training videos and how to's on YouTube.

Google is absolutely your friend here - I switched jobs last year and went from using a database and word to suddenly having to understand / use / produce spreadsheets and reports.

Work bought me a book on Excel but I mostly google anything I need to know.

If you do want to compete a course, look at your local college and library. A lot of them had courses to help with this kind of thing (here anyway - I'm in Wales).

You tube is great or of you want a course the MOOCs like edx etc. are helpful. Also just find someone knowledgeable and nice and ask them.

Thanks everyone. I guess I need to set aside a day to go bog eyed on google and YouTube!