"Intermediate" level proficiency in MS Office?

[tyred]

I have a job interview on Monday, for part of which I will need to demonstrate "intermediate" level proficiency in MS Office. What level is this likely to be? I would be pretty competent in Word (although on the older versions, I have never really used the up to date ones, we still had Word 97 in my last job and I use Abiword on my own computer for quite a few years now. I have a good basic working knowledge of Excel but am definitely no expert. Powerpoint is something I haven't used in years although I'd still know the basics.

I don't even have access to a computer with MS Office installed to practice on (and I'm too stingy to buy it!).

 

[DCLane]

I'd suggest downloading a 'test' version - 1 month free download - and familiarise yourself with the current version.

 

[Chromatic]

They'll probably be impressed if you can turn the computer on and open up a document or spreadsheet.

 

[r04DiE]

Yeah, I think by saying 'intermediate', they just want somebody that's not completely clueless. Good luck with the interview!

 

[KneesUp]

When I used to teach people to use Office the intermediate Word course had Styles and tables on it as I recall. That wasn't a standard thing though, I was an internal trainer doing courses created in house. Have a look at the ECDL course content, that will give you a good idea. Good luck.

 

[TheDoctor]

You did your CV in Word, didn't you? Say so, and mention using Excel for... I dunno, working something out.

 

[tyred]

The job will be to process medical claims so I'd imagine spreadsheets would be used a lot. I can certain create basic spreadsheets and enter info, format it etc but that would be as far as my Excel knowledge would go.

 

[annedonnelly]

The job will be to process medical claims so I'd imagine spreadsheets would be used a lot. I can certain create basic spreadsheets and enter info, format it etc but that would be as far as my Excel knowledge would go.

You might need some simple formulae - maybe to add up the values in a couple of cells to make the total of the claim.

 

[bikingdad90]

Sounds data intensive so I would Familiarise yourself with vlookups, pivot tables and a new fancy filter tool called a slicer.

Also learn how to find duplicates with the duplicate tool.

 

[tyred]

This actually turned out to be quite basic. I didn't get to demonstrate anything on a computer. It was just a print out of some basic questions with multiple choice answers.

 

[raleighnut]

I'd assume they wanted someone with the ECDL level 1 which is pretty easy to pass. I struggled with the level 2 but managed to get through it.

 

[Chromatic]

me and @r04DiE assumed correctly.