Data Mastery Basics
Track Back Office
Duration 60 hours
Skill Level Beginner
Language English

About this Course

Understand basic data entry, formatting, and organization for accurate digital records.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • Basics of Computer Typing
  • Basics of Data Entry and various formats
  • Different Avenues of Computer Typing & Data Entry
  • Career opportunities in the world of Data Entry
  • Let’s Type Something
  • Please type displayed paragraph
  • Few Questions related to typing
  • Why Learn Typing?
  • What is Keyboarding?
  • Need for Typing
  • Typewriters To Computers
  • Types of keyboards
  • Ergonomic Keyboards
  • PDA Keyboards
  • Keyboard Layout
  • QWERTY Keyboard
  • Data Entry
  • What is Touch Typing?
  • What is Muscle Memory?
  • Names of Fingers
  • Finger Placements
  • Practice Makes Perfect
  • Minimise Hand Movements
  • How to Measure Progress?
  • Correct Posture
  • The Space Bar
  • The Enter Key
  • Learning the G and H Keys
  • Learning the Apostrophe Key
  • Using Keys
  • Learning the E and I Keys
  • Learning the W and O Keys
  • Learning the Q and Y Keys
  • Learning the P and T Keys
  • Using Keys
  • Learning the C and Comma Keys
  • Learning the X and Period Keys
  • Learning the Z and Slash Keys
  • Learning the B and N Keys
  • Learning the Tab Key
  • Using Keys
  • Typing Tips
  • Typing Tips
  • Using Number Keys – 1 to 5
  • Using Number Keys – 6 to 9 and zero
  • Learning the Square Brackets and Back Slash Keys
  • Typing Tips
  • Learning the Minus, Equals and Grave Accent Keys
  • Touch Typing on the Number Pad
  • Num Pad Home Row Positions
  • Index Finger Keys
  • Typing Tips
  • Middle Finger Keys
  • Ring Finger Keys
  • Little Finger Keys
  • Google Docs
  • Adobe PageMaker
  • CorelDRAW
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Open Office Calc
  • Open Office Writer
  • Undoing and Redoing
  • Editing Modes
  • Need for Data Conversion
  • Skills Required for Data Entry
  • Types of Data Entry Jobs
  • Data Entry Jobs in Industrial Sector
  • Data Entry Jobs in Medical Sector
  • Related Jobs
  • Types of Data
  • Data Validation
  • Data Categories
  • Data Correctness
  • Compiling Data
  • Data Entry Tools
  • Scanning
  • OCR
  • Data Conversion for the Web
  • Other Conversions
  • Data Entry Pay Scales
  • Factors affecting Pay Scale
  • Legal Documents
  • Other Documents
  • Medical Transcription
  • Stamp Papers
  • Bank Documents
  • KYC Details
  • Loan Applications
  • Form Entries
  • Publications
  • Types of Typists
  • Google Docs - Voice Typing
  • Introduction to Functions, Common Types of Arguments, Parts of Functions
  • Advanced Aspects of Functions, Searching for a Function
  • Using the Functions
  • Using the SUM and AVERAGE Functions
  • Using the IF Function
  • Analysing the IF Function
  • Using the OR Function
  • Using the AND Function
  • Using the OR Operator Function
  • Nesting the IF Statement
  • Analysing the Nested IF Function
  • Using the NOT Function
  • Using the SUMIF Function
  • Using the SUMIFS Function
  • Using the AVERAGE and MEAN Functions
  • Using the MODE Function
  • Using the MEDIAN Function
  • Area and Volume Calculations
  • Rounding Decimal Places
  • MOD and INT Functions and Uses
  • Using the Random Function
  • Using the RANDBETWEEN Function
  • EMI Calculations
  • Calculating Monthly Instalment and Interest
  • Calculating Principal Amount
  • Calculating Balance Amount
  • Using PV Function
  • Using FV Function
  • The CHOOSE Function
  • Using the MATCH Function
  • Using the INDEX Function
  • Using the MATCH and INDEX Functions Working Together
  • The CELL Function and Determining File or Sheet Names
  • Using the ISBLANK Function
  • Error Checking Using the ISERROR Function
  • Error Checking Using the IFERROR Function
  • OFFSET Function: Display the Value in Cell
  • OFFSET Function: Calculating a SUM
  • OFFSET Function: Creating a Dynamic Named Range
  • Using the INDIRECT Function
  • INDIRECT Function to Build Dynamic Formulas
  • Using the LOOKUP Function
  • Using the VLOOKUP Function
  • Using the HLOOKUP Function
  • VLOOKUP in Live Action
  • Lookups Nested Within Lookups
  • Working with Date and Time in Excel
  • Using the YEAR, MONTH, DAY, HOUR, MINUTE AND SECOND Functions
  • Calculation Between Two Dates
  • Calculating Person’s Age Using Excel
  • Using Functions to Serialize Date
  • Using the TIMEVALUE Function
  • LEFT: Text Manipulation
  • RIGHT: Text Manipulation
  • LEN: String Extractions
  • TRIM: String Extractions
  • Changing Case Function
  • CONCATENATE: Building Strings From Multiple Cells
  • REPLACE and SUBSTITUTE: Two More String Manipulation Function
  • Using the FIND and MID Text Functions
  • FIND and MID: Text Functions Working Together
  • Formatting Numeric and Date Values Using TEXT
  • IF ARRAY Formulas
  • Transpose-Shift
  • What-If Analysis Tools
  • Using Goal Seek
  • What are Scenarios?
  • Possible Scenarios
  • Naming Cells
  • Creating a Scenario
  • Second Scenario
  • Third Scenario
  • Viewing a Scenario
  • Quick Access to Scenarios
  • Merging Scenarios
  • Other Scenarios
  • Merging Process
  • The Merge Scenarios Window
  • Types of Scenario Summaries
  • Creating Scenario Summary
  • Understanding Scenario Summary
  • Creating Scenario PivotTable Report
  • Modifying Scenario PivotTable Report
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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