By Mohamed Bah · Kolonell, a digital agency in Dakar
Clean, well-structured, credible letters, CVs and reports, produced twice as fast with styles and templates
50,000 FCFA · 76 €
Programme
Wave / Orange Money payment, access within 24 business hours
Word skills are required in almost every secretarial and assistant job posting in Dakar and Abidjan. They also open the door to extra income: formatting theses, reports or CVs, usually billed at 5,000 to 15,000 FCFA (about $8 to $25) for a CV and 1,000 to 2,500 FCFA (about $1.70 to $4) per page for a thesis or report (rates seen in Dakar in 2026, depending on complexity and clientele).
Indicative estimate, depending on your market, pace and work. No income is guaranteed.
Your instructor
Founder of Kolonell, a digital agency in Dakar. A former CTO, he has trained administrative and sales teams on office software and built business applications for SMEs in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Dubai.
See Kolonell’s work →For most exercises, yes. A few features (advanced section breaks, .dotx templates, some table of contents options) are more complete in the desktop app: each lesson shows the alternative whenever this applies.
If you still line things up with the space bar, bold your headings by hand or rebuild your table of contents after every edit, yes. Module 3 on styles alone will change the way you work.
About ten hours: roughly 5.5 hours of lessons, the exercises after each lesson and two projects (one hour for the letterhead, an hour and a half for the final report). With three sessions a week, you finish in three to four weeks.
The CV lesson presents the format expected in Dakar and Abidjan, then the adjustments for an application in France, Canada or an international organization (photo, age, length).
Yes, a Kolonell Academy certificate that can be verified online, once you pass the quizzes of all five modules and your two projects are approved.
Level 3, Practical Excel, for tables, calculations and analysis. Together, Word and Excel cover most office work.
Via Wave or Orange Money. After enrolling you receive a pro forma invoice by email with the number to pay. Send the proof on WhatsApp: your access is activated within 24 business hours.
For life, updates included. Learn at your own pace and revisit lessons as often as you need.
Complete the lessons, pass each module quiz with at least 70% and submit your final project: an instructor reviews and approves it (feedback within 5 working days). The certificate is then generated, with a unique number and a public verification page.
A CV rejected in ten seconds, a quote that makes clients doubt you, a report whose page numbers break with every edit: in Word, poor layout is expensive. This course is for assistants, secretaries, job seekers, students and SME managers. It teaches you to produce credible documents twice as fast, using styles and templates.
You begin with solid foundations: paragraphs, indents, tabs and PDF export. Next you build a real business page with margins, headers, footers, page numbers and section breaks, then structure long documents with styles and an automatic table of contents. Images and tables finally stay where you put them, before a last module devoted to the CV, the cover letter, the formal administrative letter and the report.
The course runs 10 hours across 5 modules and 23 lessons, with 54 exercises and module quizzes. Two projects graded against a rubric mark the way: your letterhead and standard letter in module 2, then your complete professional portfolio as the final project. A Kolonell certificate, verifiable online, is included.
You leave with a letterhead carrying your NINEA and RCCM numbers, a .dotx letter template, a business-ready CV, a cover letter, an 8 to 12 page report with an automatic table of contents, and your own reusable style set. Word skills are required in almost every secretarial and assistant job posting in Dakar and Abidjan, and formatting also sells as a side service: usually 5,000 to 15,000 FCFA for a CV and 1,000 to 2,500 FCFA per page for a thesis or report (rates seen in Dakar in 2026, depending on complexity and clientele; no income is guaranteed).
Level 2 of 5 in the Office and productivity track: it follows Master your computer, your files and your email, and opens onto level 3, Practical Excel, where your numbers move from the notebook to the workbook.
Who it is for: Assistants, secretaries, administrative staff, job seekers, final-year students, entrepreneurs and SME managers who write letters, quotes, reports or CVs and want a professional result without spending hours on it.
A module-by-module path: lessons, exercises, quizzes and projects to submit.
Module 1· 12 exercises
Type and format cleanly, using Word's tools rather than the space bar.
Module 2· 12 exercises
Build the page of a business document: reliable margins, headers, footers and page numbers.
Module 3· 9 exercises
Structure a long document so that it updates itself.
Module 4· 12 exercises
Insert images and tables that stay in place and make the document easy to read.
Module 5· 9 exercises
Produce everyday documents in the format employers and administrations expect.
Certificate included
A numbered certificate with your validated skills, a public page and a verification QR code. Add it to LinkedIn in one click.
Certificate of skills
Your name
has completed and validated the course
Professional Word: CVs, reports and documents that inspire confidence
Skills developed
Number KOL-CERT-2026-XXXXX
Mohamed Bah
Founder, Kolonell Academy
After the course
Each certificate has a number anyone can verify online, and you can add it to your LinkedIn profile in one click.
Upload your CV from your profile: our team reviews it and helps you make it clearer and more convincing.
Learners who complete the course can join the Kolonell talent pool. Entry is earned: course completed, exercises submitted. Kolonell also draws on it for its own hiring.
Optional services, free for learners. This is not a promise of employment.
Download the poster to print it, send it to your employer or share it with colleagues. The full programme details every module.
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