Getting the Most from Your Documents with GenAI

Getting the Most from Your Documents with GenAI

This course is part of Maximize Office Productivity with GenAI Specialization

Instructor: Bill Rosenthal

Access provided by The Adult Learning Department at DCPL

4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Brainstorm fresh ideas and choose the right AI assistant to kickstart your next writing project.
Generate high-quality text, structure documents, and quickly revise existing content or fill content gaps.
Create eye-catching AI images, seamlessly import them into Word, and automatically generate descriptive alt text.
Learn by doing. Perform guided, step-by-step hands-on activities on your own computer.

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

Details to know

Shareable certificate

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Assessments

1 assignment

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Maximize Office Productivity with GenAI Specialization

When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.

Learn new concepts from industry experts
Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 4 modules in this course

Business users have found many ways to take advantage of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini™, and Claude. These tools can help you get work done faster and more efficiently. This includes the authoring of content within word processing tools like Microsoft® Word, Google Docs™, and LibreOffice® Writer or desktop publishing tools such as Adobe® InDesign®, Microsoft Publisher®, and QuarkXPress. GenAI tools can help you brainstorm ideas to inspire your writing and can help you create and revise text and image content for a wide range of writing and documentation projects. And all these tasks can be accomplished using free online AI tools.

This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently create and edit documents to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of word processing and desktop publishing applications by leveraging freely available generative AI tools. In this course, you will: select and use generative AI tools to generate ideas for your written documentation, use generative AI tools to develop text content for your word-processing documents, and use generative AI tools to produce images and design ideas you can use in your documents. This course assumes the use of Microsoft Word for document-related tasks, but other document programs like Google Docs should be sufficient. You also need access to free accounts for major genAI services like ChatGPT and Gemini.

Most writers, at some point or another, have faced the problem of writer's block. You have to compose a letter, paper, speech, or business proposal and are daunted with the task of what to write about or where to even begin. Now, with generative AI tools such as Copilot, Gemini™, and ChatGPT, you have an ever-ready team of creative partners to help get you started in the process of brainstorming, research, and writing.

What's included

6 plugins

Chatbots are based upon a learned ability to make sense of words and language. You might consider the ability to read written text in a prompt and respond with their own written text to be the very heart of what chatbots do.

What's included

5 plugins

Popular word processing applications enable you to create a wide variety of visually interesting documents, including marketing slicks, flyers, brochures, proposals, newsletters, web pages, posters, and so forth. You can use the image-generation capabilities of generative AI tools to create custom images that you can include in such documents or to generate visual ideas that you can develop further in your image editing applications.