Can anyone recommend a good course or course provider for refreshing on word and excel, not looking to spend a week or two on it just a couple of hours two or three evenings.
Or go to Hodges Figgis or Eason's and buy a couple of books - there are many tutorial books for these applications. Much more flexible than signing up for a course, but you have to be disciplined!
There are plenty of good computer course prividers out there; you should do the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) which is internationally recognised and is more than sufficient to cover most Excel, Word functions etc; there is also an advanced version.
I did the basic ECDL a few years ago; it is not too difficult particularly if you have plent of Excel/Word knowledge already