Malaysian student emerges world champion in MS word 2010

Updated on: Wednesday, August 03, 2011

A Malaysian student emerged world champion after he won a competition in mastering Microsoft Word 2010.

Clement Ng Chwin Chiat bagged a USD 5,000 scholarship in the 2011 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office that attracted about 228,000 participants from 57 countries who competed to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products.

Certiport, the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery and programme management services, and organiser of the competition named the student as the winner at a ceremony in San Diego, California, yesterday.

It also announced the champions for other categories, namely Chen Xing of China in Microsoft Excel 2010, Japanese Mizuki Terao (Microsoft Word 2007), Briton Rebecca Rickwood (Microsoft Excel 2007) and Taiwanese Liao Yu-Xuan (Microsoft PowerPoint 2007).

In a statement emailed to Bernama, Certiport said the participants competed to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products and 79 student finalists from 29 countries participated in the final round of the competition.

In the concluding round of Microsoft Word 2010, competitors participated in timed, unique tests to demonstrate their ability to create documents for the information presented in the Word.

And, Ng took the first spot in the last top 10 Microsoft Word 2010 finalists who included students from Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, the United States, China and Thailand.

Malaysian student emerges world champion in MS word 2010

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