In only 8 hours of study time at Pitman Training, London (High Holborn or Notting Hill) and Manchester, you can learn to produce the highest quality typed text to prepare you to take the OCR Text Production examination at level 2 (mandatory unit of the Text Processing Certificate or Diploma)

This course is aimed at those seeking secretarial training in business letter layout to enable them to prove their excellence in document production to existing or potential employers and recruitment agencies.

Working at your own pace under the guidance of our frendly trainers, you'll enjoy 4 key lessons before taking an exam. On passing your exam, you'll receive a handsome Pitman Training certificate.

The course covers 4 key lessons:

• Lesson One: Keying in a business letter using the correct layout, keying in a memo and a report, recognising spelling errors and correcting them, correctly expand abbreviations, changing line spacing within a document, emphasising text as instructed

• Lesson Two: Recognising and interpreting amendment and correction signs in order to produce correct copy, producing a letter and memo that include a special mark, locating and incorporating a forward date, keying in a report with a change of line spacing.

• Lesson Three: Producing documents from written draft that includes special marks and continuation pages, recognising and correcting errors of agreement, transposing text vertically, inserting missing punctuation, locating and correctly inserting text not included in the written draft, being aware of the importance of consistency of style in relation to figures

• Lesson Four: Keying in a letter, memo and report observing all instructions, locating and correctly inserting information contained in another document. Completing the three documents within 1¼ hours. Revision of all topics covered in the course.