Are you able to use the complex facilities available in Access, Word, Excel and PowerPoint?

This is an Advanced Level competition that gives you the opportunity to test your skills in one of these areas. This competition is open to all those working and studying across the UK using these applications and gives the opportunity to gain recognition for your skills on a national level and the possibility of achieving a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal.

The competition will be judged at two stages:

Stage one: Register and complete an online test in any one of the four topic areas.

Email your answers to the competition organiser by the 30th April 2009.

Stage two: The ten highest scoring competitors will be invited to the UK final to compete against the best in the country in a live UK final in June 2009.

The IT Office Software Applications Challenge is also an International WorldSkills competition. Competitors that surpass the national standard may have the opportunity to represent the UK and compete internationally at WorldSkills London 2011.

To find out more about WorldSkills UK visit www.worldskillsuk.org

To enter the WorldSkills 2011 Competition, competitors must be born on or after 1 January 1989.

If you think you have the skills to compete at an international level register now!