Complete Data Entry Skills Course - Learn Data Entry Skills

Welcome to the data entry course for beginners. This course is going to teach you basic data entry skills that will help you become a data entry professional, virtual assistant, or someone who is ready to enter the work force for clerical positions.

I am Padma Vaidyanathan, the developer and instructor of this course. I am an employer and I have been in business for over 25 years. During that period, I have hired and trained a lot of data entry professionals. Some of the staff that I had to trained lacked the basic skills that they needed to hit the ground running. It is out of that experience that I have decided to create and teach this course to enable intending data entry professionals to learn the basic skills before seeking employment.

I am going to teach you how to complete some basic data entry tasks that will immediately qualify you for data entry jobs in any industry.  These are the basic skill sets we look for when we hire you as an employee or remote hire.   This will allow you to have confidence in your basic skill so you too can apply for entry level data entry positions.

At the end of the course, you will be able to do the following with the skills you will learn:

• Convert a PDF/image file into word

• Edit and format in Microsoft Word or other word processors

• Create custom headers and footers or insert prepopulated ones such as the date function

• Create tables in Microsoft Word and use watermarks in your documents

• Create an excel data base from PDF files

• Use web research to create a Microsoft Excel data base

• Perform page setups and print preview functions in Microsoft Excel

Files are provided for your practice.

After watching and working along with me with each segment, you will get the confidence to move forward and start looking for basic data entry skill jobs.