Google Workspace Conversion

Course Overview

What you will learn

This one-day course is designed for anyone who would like an overview of what Google Workspace (formally G Suite) can offer, or who is familiar with Microsoft Office but is moving over to Google Workspace.

Course timetable

The timetable listed below is the suggested outline, but it can be customised to suit your organisation's requirements.

Session One: Getting Started

• Accessing your apps and signing in
• The Docs Editor home screen
• Saving documents to Google Drive
• Accessing documents saved to Google Drive
• Using folders
• Searching files and folders

Session Two: Google Docs

• Creating a Google Docs document
• Editing and formatting documents
• Uploading an existing Word document
• Find and replace
• If there’s time: Using Styles, sharing and collaborating, emailing a document as an attachment

Session Three: Google Sheets

• Creating a Google Sheets document
• Uploading an existing Microsoft Excel document
• Laying out and editing a spreadsheet
• If there’s time: Formulas in Google Sheets

Session Four: Gmail and Calendar

• Sending and receiving emails
• Adding attachments to emails
• Adding and updating email signatures
• Setting up an Out of Office auto reply
• Creating a Calendar appointment
• If there’s time: Inviting people to a meeting, creating a new Calendar, recurring events

This course can be delivered in the classroom or remotely via Zoom. Contact us for availability and pricing.

The Small Print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of four 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the training session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

Mac Users

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Coronavirus Policy

In light of the current Coronavirus outbreak we want all of our customers to be reassured that we are working to maintain the highest standards of Health and Safety. We are monitoring the situation closely and are following all current Government guidelines.

Please see our Coronavirus Policy for more details and the latest information.

If you have any questions or concerns, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.