Job Interview: Brushing up on Office skills

Improvolone

I have an interview tomorrow to be an Administrative Assistant. The woman who called clued me in to it being an Excel heavy job and that the skills test I would take tomorrow covers Excel, Word, and PowerPoint from Office 2000.
I'm pretty damned decent at office software, but I'd love to not just wing it. What would be a god way to brush up on these skills? Any particular books or websites?

I do not have means to get hands on with Office 2000 between now and then. Excel is probably my weakest (d'oh), but I'm a fast learner. My most recent experience is with Open Office.

Madpanda

Try to find a study guide for the Microsoft MOUSE cert. I googled a little but their terribly named cert causes a pretty high signal to noise ratio.

Improvolone

What does MOUSE stand for, maybe I can narrow it down (as I too am having trouble)

Madpanda

It's actually MOS I found out,

https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mbc.aspx#tab2

I would also look around for excel help forums, see if they have some intro guides. Or just read some of the problem solving posts to get a feel for it.


I have done a few e-learning courses in excel that my job provides, they are marginally useful. Being able to logically figure out what you are trying to do and being able to effectively use the help system will be very useful when dealing with the horror that is excel.

Improvolone

Thanks.
I also picked up an Office 2003 for Dummies book (no one is carrying 2000) just so I can have something tangible, are they similar enough that the basics are the basics?

Madpanda

Very similar, the only real jump comes when going to 2007, and even that is more of a UI/Added functionality change, fundamentals are still the same.