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Windows XP

Windows 7 (and Vista)

   

Beginners Guide to Going Wireless

Outlook Express Email

   

Excel  2007 to 2010 Tutorials  

Section One - Make a Start with Excel

Section Two - A more complex Spreadsheet

Section Three - Excel Charts

Section Four - Formulas in Excel

Section Five - Functions in Excel

Section Six - Conditional Logic in Excel

Section Seven - Processing Data in Excel

Section Eight - Advanced Excel

Microsoft Word  2007 to 2010 Tutorials

Section One - Get Started with Microsoft Word

Section Two - Document Formatting

Section Three - Copy and Paste

Section Four - Clip Art

Section Five - Multi-Page Documents

Section Six - How to Create a Booklet

Section Seven - Word Shapes

Section Eight - Letterheads and Templates

Section Nine - Mail Merge

Section Ten - Microsoft Word Tables

Section Eleven - Document Collaboration

Section Twelve - Word Options

   

Windows 7 Backup 

 

 

> Windows XP Tutorials   > Windows 7 (and Vista) Tutorials  
 
1 The Windows XP Desktop

2  Exploring the Start Menu

3 How to Create a Desktop Shortcut

4 The Hard Drive Explained

5 How Big is your Hard Drive?

6 The Windows Explorer tool

7 How to Create a New Folder

8 Moving Folders on your Hard Drive

9 Copy from a CD to a Hard Drive

10 Finding Files with Windows XP

11 Windows XP and Wallpapers

12 How to change your Screen Saver

13. Zip and Unzip files with WinZip


1 The Windows 7 Desktop

2 Desktop Wallpaper

3 The Taskbar

4 Setting the Date and Time

5 Toolbars

6 The Windows 7 Start Button

7 Share your computer with others

8 Setting Parental Controls in Windows 7

9 hard drives explained

10 The importance of file extensions

11 Copying Pictures to a New Folder

12 Adding Information to an Image

13 Sorting Images

14 How to take a Screenshot in Windows 7

 
 

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> Beginners Guide to Going Wireless

   


1 The Basics of Going Wireless

2 Wireless Adaptors - you need one!

3 Wireless Routers Explained - all the Jargon!

4 What are wireless signals?

5 Are Wireless Signals Dangerous?


6 Going Wireless - What to Buy

7 Belkin Wireless G+ MIMO Modem Router

8 US Robotics Wireless MAXg

9 Belkin Broadband Wireless Router

10 Buffalo AirStation G54 High Power

 

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> Outlook Express Email Tutorials

   


1 How to Set up a new email Account

2 How to Add Email Attachments

3 How to Backup Emails in Outlook Express

4 How to Restore your Outlook Express Emails

5 Backup an Outlook Express Address Book


6 Backup an Outlook Express Email Account

7 Setup a Second Outlook Express Account

8 Add a Signature to all outgoing Emails

9 Outlook Express Stationary

10 Create your own Stationary

 

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> Section One - Make a Start with Excel

   


1 A first look at Excel 2007/2010

2 Excel Rows and Columns

3 Enter text and numbers in a Cell

4 How to Edit text in a Cell

5 How to Center text and numbers

6 Font Formatting in Excel 2007/2010


7 How to change the color of a Cell

8 How to Save your work in Excel

9 Currency Symbols in Excel 2007/2010

10 How to Merge Cells

11 Review Number One

 

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> Section Two - A more complex Spreadsheet


1 Introduction to Section Two

2 How to use AutoFill in Excel 2007/2010

3 Entering Simple Addition Formula

4 The SUM Function in Excel

5 The SUM Function Continued

6 Copy and Paste


7 How to use Paste Special

8 How to Multiply in Excel 2007/2010

9 Finishing your spreadsheet for this section

10 How to Add a Comment to a Cell

11 Review Number Two

 

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> Section Three - Excel 2007/2010 Charts


1 How to Sort Data in Excel

2 Create an Excel Chart

3 Move and Resize your Chart

4 Chart Styles and Layouts

5 Chart Titles and Series Titles

6 Chart Layout Panel in Excel 2007/2010


7 The Format Chart Panel

8 Create a Pie Chart in Excel

9 Add Labels to a Pie Chart

10 Format Pie Chart Segments

11 Create a 2D Line Chart in Excel

12 Format your Axis Titles

 

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> Section Four - Formulas in  Excel 2007/2010


1 The SUM Function

2 How to Multiply in Excel

3 Subtract and Divide


4 Combining the Arithmetic Operators

5 Budget Spreadsheet

 

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> Section Five - Functions in  Excel 2007/2010


1 The Average Function

2 The Date Function

3 Time Function in Excel


4 A TimeTable Project

5 Financial Functions

6 The Student Average Project

 

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> Section Six - Conditional Logic in  Excel


1 The IF Function

2 Conditional Formatting in Excel


3 CountIF

4 SumIF

 

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> Section Seven - Processing Data in  Excel


1 Data Tables in Excel

2 A Second Data Table

3 Excel Scenarios

4 Goal Seek


5 Absolute Cell References

6 Named Ranges in Excel

7 Excel Pivot Tables

8 Pivot Tables, Part Two

 

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> Section Eight - Advanced Excel


1 Data Forms in Excel

2 Drop Down Lists in Excel

3 Add your own Error Messages

4 Excel and Web Integration


5 Hyperlinks in Excel

6 Object Linking and Embedding

7 Reference other Worksheets

8 Insert Drawing Objects

 

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> Section One - Get Started with Microsoft Word


1 How to Open Microsoft Word

2 Finding Your Way Around

3 Typing Your First Letter

4 How to Save Your Work


5 Highlighting Techniques

6 Opening Word Documents

7 Add an Address To A Letter

8 Spelling and Grammar Checking

 

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> Section Two - Document Formatting


1 Crime Statistics Document

2 Bold Text

3 Italics and Underline

4 Setting Tab Stop Positions


5 Creating Bulleted Lists

6 Working With Fonts

7 Setting Up Page Margins

 

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> Section Three - Copy and Paste


1 Techniques for Cutting Text

2 Cut and Paste Techniques


3 Copy and Paste Techniques

 

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> Section Four - Clip Art


1 Inserting Clip Art


2 How to Resize and Move Clip Art

 

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> Section Five - Multi-Page Documents


1 Downloading a Text File

2 Setting Up Page Margins and Tab Stops

3 How to Insert a Text File


4 Setting Up Headers and Footers

5 Print Preview in Word 2007 and 2010

 

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> Section Six - How to Create a Booklet


1 Downloading the Stories

2 Creating Your Own Word Style

3 Page Breaks and Section Breaks

4 Adding a Cover Page


5 Adding a Contents Page

6 Working With Section Breaks

7 Headers And Section Breaks

 

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> Section Seven - Word Shapes


1 Word Shapes - Create a Logo

2 Logo Continued


3 Word Art

4 Completing The Logo

 

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> Section Eight - Letterheads and Templates


1 Create a Letterhead

2 Adding Columns to a Page


3 Saving Word Documents as a Template

 

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> Section Nine - Mail Merge


1 Create a Mail Merge Data Source


2 Create a Mail Merge Letter

 

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> Section Ten - Microsoft Word Tables


1 Tables in Microsoft Word


2 Table Styles

 

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> Section Eleven - Document Collaboration


1 Document Collaboration


2 Accepting and Rejecting Changes

 

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> Section Twelve - Word Options


1 Displaying The Word Options

2 Changing The Language Settings

3 Proofing Options


4 Advanced Options

5 The Quick Access Toolbar

6 Keyboard Shortcuts

 

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