PTI offers a variety of individual classes to meet the needs of beginners, professionals or hobbyists. All courses can be taken from the convenience of your home PC or at our facility.
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Basic Computers for Beginners
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This course is for the ABSOLUTE beginner to computers. We will show you how to turn on the machine, log into your account, get on the internet to research anything that is of interest to you. In addition, we can assist your with any other personalized training that you may need, including setting up personal banking online, shopping on eBAY, paying bills online, etc.
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| Basic Typing Skills |
~ 20 hrs
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Learn to type correctly and fast. PTI has a modular approach towards improving your typing skills. A beginner can learn to use the right fingers for each key. Intermediate typists can learn to improve their speed. PTI will issue a Typing Certificate that is recognized by city, county and state agencies.
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Adobe InDesign
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~ 80 hrs | InDesign by Adobe Systems is widely regarded as the page layout/publishing program for the new millennium. It gives you creative control over the layout and design of your documents or articles, posters, and other print media. InDesign is popular with users of many backgrounds, levels, and needs--from small DTP shops to graphics professionals to large corporations.
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| Adobe Illustrator |
~ 60 hrs |
Adobe Illustrator is a drawing package that allows users to create sophisticated artwork, technical illustrations, graphics, and page designs for print, multimedia, and the Web. Illustrator offers a full range of drawing and painting tools, as well as typographic control. Illustrator offers nondestructive drop shadows, feathering, and inner and outer glows for easier button creation and much more.
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Adobe Photoshop
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Adobe Photoshop is a photo editor for paper-based printing. Its market segment includes amateur photographers, hobbyists, and business users who want a simple-to-use, yet powerful digital-imaging solution.
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ESRI
ArcGIS |
~ 2 day Workshop |
ArcGIS is a full featured GIS software for visualizing, creating, managing and analyzing geographic data. (Note: This program is 2-day workshop offered by a contractor)
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| Intuit QuickBooks |
~ 40 hrs |
QuickBooks is an accounting software package that has become the market leader in the United States due to its low price and ease of use for small businesses. Businesses use it to track expenses, prepare and send invoices, prepare financial statements, track inventory levels, and many other jobs needed to stay successful.
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| Adobe Dreamweaver |
~ 60 hrs |
Dreamweaver is the leading software tool for the creation of Web sites and other HTML interfaces. It enables both the first-time and experienced web designers to bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. It's remarkably capable to deal intelligently with everything from fonts and images to JavaScript for client-side data validation and embedded Java applets.
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Adobe
Fireworks
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~20 hrs |
Fireworks is the complete solution for creating, optimizing, and integrating great-looking Web graphics. Fireworks MX gives Web developers control to quickly create original Web graphics and interactivity, from sophisticated rollover effects and pop-up menus.
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Adobe
Flash
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~ 80 hrs |
Flash is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. With Flash Professional, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.
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| Microsoft Office |
Varied |
Microsoft Office Standard is the essential software suite for homes and small businesses that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and manage e-mail. The latest release features the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface that exposes commonly used and familiar commands, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, new time management tools to help manage your schedule, and more reliability and security such as an improved junk e-mail filter to reduce spam e-mail. PTI offers training on each component of Office 2010 including Word 2010, Excel 2010, Access 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010.
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| Microsoft Access |
~ 80 hrs |
Access is a relational database management system that allows you to create ad-hoc customized systems. Professional developers use Access for rapid application development, but its ease of use gives the non-professional programmer a lot of power with little effort.
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| Microsoft Excel |
~ 80 hrs |
Excel is a spreadsheet program with an intuitive interface, programmable calculation and graphing tools which have made Excel one of the most popular computer based applications to date. Excel is the dominant spreadsheet application for both business and home use.
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| Microsoft PowerPoint |
~ 60 hrs |
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Windows operating systems. It is widely used by businesspeople, educators, and trainers. PowerPoint is the established leader in this technology with an estimated 30 million PowerPoint presentations being made daily.
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| Microsoft Project |
~ 80 hrs |
Project is used to develop project plans, assign resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads. Resource, such as people, equipment and materials can be shared between projects. These basic capabilities have made Microsoft Project a standard project management tool used in businesses today.
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| Microsoft Publisher |
~ 40 hrs |
Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application for entry-level publishing. Normal office publications include newspaper ads, flyers, invitations, newsletters, etc.
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| Microsoft Outlook |
~ 20 hrs |
Outlook is a personal information manager that includes email, calendaring, contacts list and tasks. Used in conjunctions with Microsoft Exchange Server to provide enhanced functions making Outlook a core application at most large businesses today.
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| Microsoft Word |
~ 20 hrs |
Word is a word-processing application that allows you to create documents, letters, forms and more. Word supports customized usage and is fully integrated into Microsoft’s Office Suite. Various Word tools, such as Mail Merge and Document Collaboration have become critical for small and large businesses alike.
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| Microsoft Windows 7 (as User) |
~ 20 hrs |
Microsoft Windows 7 is the current client version of the Windows operating system. The most common edition is Windows 7 is Home Edition, which is targeted at home users. Microsoft Windows 7 Professional has additional features and is for the power users and business clients. Windows 7 brought greater stability and efficiency due to its pure 32-bit kernel. |
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
(For IT Professionals) |
~220 hrs |
70-680 - Windows 7 Configuration -
The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) credential is a nationally recognized certification that identifies you as a professional who has the skills to successfully implement a Microsoft product or technology as part of a business solution in an organization. This program will prepare you to successfully take and pass the windows 7 MCTS exam.
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Microsoft Windows 7 or Vista (tm)
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~ 20 hrs |
Windows 7 or Vista is Microsoft latest operating system that is
faster and easier than ever to find, use, manage, share, and enjoy information—on your PC and on the web. This class offers you all you need to know to find your way around on Windows Vista.
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Quark QuarkXPress
- Intermediate
- Advanced |
~ 40 hrs
~ 60 hrs |
QuarkXPress is a powerful layout and prepress program that lets you combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output. Although Adobe InDesign has outsold QuarkXPress in recent years, QuarkXPress' market share is still eight times that of InDesign (according to Merrill Lynch).
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