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After 12th · 6 Month Certificate · TechCadd Amritsar

Computer Basics & MS Excel course in Amritsar

Computer Basics & MS Excel course in Amritsar
The floor everything else stands on: file discipline, formulas, pivots and dashboards good enough to hand to a manager.
3 monthsAbsolute beginner to confidentClassroom & live online
  • 4.7/5

    Student rating

  • 7

    Structured modules

  • 3+

    Portfolio projects

  • 12th pass

    Entry requirement

Course Overview

TechCadd's Computer Basics & MS Excel in Amritsar is aimed at students who have just finished 12th — whatever they have or have not done before. The early modules cover Computer & OS Basics, Word Processing and Excel Foundations, so nothing later assumes knowledge you were never given. From there you take on Formulas & Functions and Pivot Tables & Analysis. The second half is where it turns practical: you work in MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, Google Docs and Outlook the way a team actually does, against briefs that carry a real deadline. Each module ends in something you have built and a trainer has reviewed, so you finish with a portfolio, a CV built around it and interview practice for Office Assistant, Data Entry Executive and MIS Assistant roles.

Programme facts
  • LevelAbsolute beginner to confident
  • ModeClassroom & live online
  • Eligibility12th pass, any stream
  • BatchesMorning, evening & weekend
  • CertificationTechCadd industry certificate
  • InternshipOptional add-on track

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What the Computer Basics & MS Excel programme actually covers

What the Computer Basics & MS Excel programme actually covers

Almost every office role assumes this and almost no school teaches it properly, so three months here removes the single most common reason a first application is rejected.

The computer basics & ms excel programme runs across 3 months at TechCadd Amritsar and is built for students who have just finished school — no degree, no prior experience and no coding background assumed. Two hours a day, five days a week, in batches small enough that your work is looked at individually.

You can take it as a standalone career course, run it alongside a degree in the evening or weekend batch, or use it to fill a drop year with something a recruiter will actually read. Whichever route you take, the finish line is the same: a certificate, 3 reviewed projects and a portfolio you can talk through in an interview.

  • 12th pass, any stream, and no entrance test
  • Every concept is built before it is examined
  • Mentors are working practitioners, not career trainers
  • Lab access and doubt sessions outside batch hours
Module by module

Open any module and see exactly what happens inside it

Module by module curriculum
7 modules, each ending in something reviewable that goes into your portfolio.
Module 01 of 07Business & Office

Computer & OS Basics

Computer & OS Basics is where the Computer Basics & MS Excel track gets its footing. You work the concepts in the lab first, then carry them straight into the running project rather than leaving them as isolated exercises.

Skills you build

  • Files, folders and naming
  • Shortcuts that save hours
  • Safe browsing and backups

Tools in this module

MS ExcelMS WordPowerPointGoogle Sheets
You finish with

A reviewed piece of work demonstrating files, folders and naming and shortcuts that save hours.

How the programme is paced

Three stages, in the order a working practitioner learns them

Programme stages
Stage one

Foundations

Fundamentals, vocabulary and the first working artefacts. Nothing is assumed; everything is implemented.

Modules 01 03

  • 01Computer & OS BasicsFiles, folders and naming · Shortcuts that save hours · Safe browsing and backups
  • 02Word ProcessingStyles and templates · Tables and mail merge · Print-ready documents
  • 03Excel FoundationsCells, ranges and references · Formatting for readability · Sorting and filtering
Stage two

Core practice

The professional middle of the course. Real tooling, realistic inputs, and mentor review on every submission.

Modules 04 06

  • 04Formulas & FunctionsAbsolute vs relative refs · IF, VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP · Text and date functions
  • 05Pivot Tables & AnalysisBuilding a pivot · Grouping and slicers · Summarising for a manager
  • 06Charts & DashboardsChoosing the right chart · Conditional formatting · A one-screen dashboard
Stage three

Advanced & capstone

Depth, deployment and the capstone build that becomes the centre of your portfolio and your interview answers.

Modules 07 07

  • 07Presentations & EmailSlide structure · Professional email writing · Calendar and scheduling

Finish this computer basics & ms excel programme and you leave Amritsar with more than a certificate from your 12th year: a reviewed portfolio, an internship letter where the track applies, and a first role that is realistic rather than aspirational.

Tools you will actually use

The working stack for Computer Basics & MS Excel

Tools and technologies covered

Every tool below is installed, configured and used by you during the course — not demonstrated on a slide. You leave able to set up your own environment from scratch.

8tools covered

Core
  • MS Excel
  • MS Word
  • PowerPoint
Working set
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Docs
  • Outlook
Shipping
  • Windows
  • Typing tutor
Eligibility

Four kinds of people join this batch. You are probably one of them.

Who this course is for

There is no entrance test and no prerequisite degree. What the programme does assume is that you will show up for the full 3 months and do the project work.

01No experience needed

Straight out of 12th

The programme assumes nothing beyond a 12th pass and comfort with a computer. You start at the actual beginning of computer basics & ms excel, and by month three you are working on a brief rather than an exercise.

02Evening & weekend

Studying alongside a degree

Two hours a day fits either side of a college timetable. You graduate with a computer basics & ms excel portfolio already built instead of starting one after your final semester.

03Fills the year

Taking a drop or gap year

An empty year reads badly on a CV. A certificate, 3 reviewed projects and an internship letter turn it into something you can explain in an interview.

04Applies immediately

Joining a family business

Bring the business you already know and layer computer basics & ms excel onto it. Students in this group usually apply the first two modules inside their own shop or unit before the course has ended.

Where it leads

The roles this portfolio opens

Job titles vary by company, but the underlying expectations do not. Each destination below maps to work you will have already done during the programme.

What you build

Projects that answer the interview question for you

Portfolio projects

Each project is reviewed individually, and the review notes go into your portfolio documentation.

  • Flagship project

    Sales MIS Workbook

    A monthly reporting workbook with lookups, pivots and a summary sheet a manager can read in a minute.

    • PowerPoint
    • Google Sheets
    • Google Docs
  • Attendance & Payroll Sheet

    An automated tracker with formulas that flag anomalies instead of needing manual checks.

    • Google Docs
    • Outlook
    • Windows
  • Business Presentation Pack

    A documented, formatted deck and covering letter produced to office standard.

    • Windows
    • Typing tutor
    • MS Excel
Future scope

Where computer basics & ms excel is headed from here

Where computer basics & ms excel is headed from here

A certificate answers what you can do today. This is the honest answer to what computer basics & ms excel looks like three to five years out, and why the fundamentals this course spends real time on are what carry you there.

  • Demand is structural, not seasonalEvery business, regardless of size, still runs its books, filings and reporting on the software this course teaches — that layer of work does not shrink as a company grows, it multiplies.
  • The skill ladder keeps climbingOffice Assistant is the entry rung, not the ceiling. Once that portfolio is in place, data entry executive is the realistic next step — a promotion earned on the job, not a second course you have to go back and pay for.
  • Tooling changes; fundamentals compoundMS Excel and the rest of the stack will look different in five years — they always do. What does not expire is the fundamentals this course is built around, which is why the syllabus is reviewed each intake instead of frozen once and reused.
  • Remote and hybrid widen the marketA computer basics & ms excel portfolio built in Amritsar competes for the same remote and hybrid roles as anywhere else. Companies hiring for this work are increasingly indifferent to which city the offer letter is posted to.
What you walk away with

The 3 months programme is built around the part that is genuinely in your hands — and you leave holding all of it.

A reviewed portfolio, an industry-recognised certificate and a fundamentals-first foundation you can keep building on. Markets move, as they always have; that foundation is exactly what lets you move with them as accounts and office work around you keeps shifting.

Why choose Computer Basics & MS Excel

Why students choose techcadd

Why students choose techcadd

Two decades of training in Amritsar, in a format that has not changed since: small batches, real projects, mentors who still work in the field.

  • 01

    Practitioner-led teaching

    Your mentor works in computer basics & ms excel for a living. The examples in class come from that work, and so do the shortcuts.

  • 02

    Small, fixed batches

    Batch sizes are capped so a raised hand gets answered in the session it was raised in, not weeks later.

  • 03

    Reviewed, not marked

    Every submission comes back annotated, line by line. The notes are the point — they are what you carry into the interview.

  • 04

    Current tooling

    We teach MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint and refresh the list each intake, because a stale stack is worse than no stack.

  • 05

    Flexible batches

    Morning, evening and weekend tracks, classroom or live online, with recordings either way for revision.

  • 06

    Support that continues

    Resume and portfolio review, mock interviews and hiring-drive access — and it does not stop the day the course ends.

Student reviews

What the last few batches actually said

Computer Basics & MS Excel course reviews

Collected from students who completed the computer basics & ms excel programme at the Amritsar campus, across morning, evening and weekend batches. Hover a card to slow the row right down and read it.

4.7

out of 5

132 verified reviews from Amritsar students

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84%
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I joined the Computer Basics & MS Excel batch with almost no background, and what made the difference was that computer & os basics was taught by building rather than by slides. By the third week I was debugging my own code instead of copying someone else's.
Ritika ChopraOffice Assistant, Amritsar
The project reviews are the real value. My attendance & payroll sheet was picked apart line by line, and those notes are exactly what I ended up talking through in the interview that got me a data entry executive offer.
Mohit KhannaData Entry Executive, Batala
Weekend batches meant I kept my job through the whole 3 months. Anything I missed got re-explained without fuss, and lab access outside batch hours was never a problem.
Aditya VermaMIS Assistant, Chandigarh
MS Word and the rest of the stack were set up on day one, so no week went into environment issues. Batches are small enough that a doubt gets answered the same day instead of piling up.
Rajiv MalhotraFront Office Executive, Gurugram
I had tried learning computer basics & ms excel on my own twice and stalled both times. A fixed batch in Amritsar, a mentor who checks your work and a deadline on every module is the only reason I finished.
Ishita SharmaBack Office Associate, Pune
Placement support was not just a line on the brochure — resume and portfolio review, two mock interviews with people who do the job, and a referral into one of the hiring drives.
Sahil AroraOffice Assistant, Delhi
The syllabus is current. We worked in MS Excel rather than the older tooling most computer basics & ms excel syllabi around here still teach, and that came up directly in my first interview.
Simranjeet KaurData Entry Executive, Amritsar
The balance of theory to lab time is about right: enough to understand why something works, then straight into building. I left with 3 projects I can demo, not just a certificate.
Manpreet KaurMIS Assistant, Ludhiana

Questions we get asked at the admissions desk

Frequently asked questions

If something here is not covered, the Amritsar desk will answer it directly — no call-back queue.

  • Yes. The entry requirement is 12th pass, any stream, and there is no entrance test. Admissions run through the year rather than in a single intake window, so you can start in the gap between your result and college admissions closing.

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