General Administrative Assistant Concentration

To prepare for the Office Technology (OFAD) Office Proficiency Assessment & Certification (OPAC) test, the General Administrative Assistant concentration student must be able to successfully perform the following tasks:

• Edit and format from rough draft
  • Bold
  • Center
  • Copy
  • Delete
  • Hard page break
  • Hard return
  • Indent
  • Insert
  • Move
  • Print
  • Spell check
  • Underline
• Prepare a spreadsheet
  • Change amounts
  • Insert a category
  • Key in a formula
  • Change a label
  • Insert a system date
  • Save a modified file
• 5-minute straight-copy keyboarding (at least 45 words per minute [wpm] with 95 percent accuracy)
• 10-key data entry (8,000 keystrokes per hour with 95 percent accuracy)
• Format a letter
  • Create a letter including all appropriate letter parts
  • Insert files to create the body of a letter
  • Spell check
  • Print
  • Save
• Alphabetic filing
• Numeric filing
• Proofreading
  • Read copy and make corrections in spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation

Remember to check the Office Proficiency Assessment and Certification (OPAC) Testing website for all updates.