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Basic Computer Training – Document Creation in Wordpad

Written June 14th, 2011
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Basic computer training - Document creation

Basic computer training – Document creation

Basic computer training

Everyone who switches on a computer, will, at some point, want to create documents and our free basic computer training for beginners and seniors shows how to get started. The online tutorial shows how to find wordpad, a word processing software, in your computer. The computer training then explains about font icons, shows how to change font style and size as well as text colour, before showing how to print and save the document. The tutorial is suitable for any beginner or senior and continues through element 4 for those looking to qualify in The European Computer Driving License (ECDL).

Being able to create documents is an important part of developing computer skills and this learning online tutorial is designed to get beginners started. More computer lessons in Microsoft Office Word, a more advanced software are available elsewhere on our website. Read the rest of this entry »

World Wide Web – Changing the Browser Home Page in Internet Explorer – Senior Tutorials

Written February 6th, 2011
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Online tutorials for beginners home page icon

Online tutorials for seniors and beginners

Continuing with our free basic computer training, the next one of our online tutorials for seniors and beginners will demonstrate how to change your home page using Internet Explorer 8. There are three main ways to change the home page, this is the page that your browser will start on when you first go on to the internet, called your home page. We have already demonstrated by changing our home page to Google as home page, but any web page can be set as your home page, although Google is probably the most common. The online computer lesson will demonstrate differnt commands from the control panel and on your browser helping beginners find their way around their computer.

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Internet – World Wide Web – Using The Browser Address Bar Computer Lesson

Written January 15th, 2011
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The next of our online computer lessons for seniors shows you how to get the most from your browser address bar. The address bar can be found toward the top of the browser and it can be used for searching or going directly to a website. This sneiors and beginners computer lesson follows on from our basic computer training tutorial about web browser basics as the lesson explains what a Uniform Resource Locator or URL is and how to navigate to your chosen websites using the address bar.

This computer lesson is ideal for the complete beginner who is new to using the Internet and the WWW (World Wide Web) and helps to get beginners using different parts of the web browser.

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World Wide Web – Saving Favourites in Internet Explorer – Meganga First Click Courses

Written February 7th, 2011
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First Click Courses Add Favourites to browser

Online computer courses for seniors and beginners

To complement our basic computer training course we have added a tutorial about saving favourites, in this the next of our online computer courses for seniors and beginners we demonstrate how you can save your favourite websites to your browser. In this tutorial for beginners we use Internet Explorer, the most poular browser. Saving favourites enables you to find your favourite websites quickly and easily. As with all our computer lessons for seniors the step by step guide will show you how to personalise your Internet Explorer browser and forms part of the Meganga first click courses. Once you have viewed the tutorial why not save www.meganga.com to you favourites to enjoy more of our online computer courses for seniors and beginners.

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Basic Computer Training – Using My Email

Written January 7th, 2012
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Using my email

Basic computer training for seniors and beginners

Our basic computer training for beginners and seniors continues with an online computer tutorial, using my email. The tutorial takes a look at a basic Gmail account and talks through the email folders including my email inbox, sent mail and how to organise your email received mail.

The beginners computer training then shows how to compose email or create e-mail showing where to add email recipients and those mail recipients intended for information. The seniors online tutorial talks about adding file attachments to your emails and the limitations to consider.

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Basic Computer Training – Using My Email Part 2

Written January 12th, 2012
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Basic computer training - Reply to my email

Reply to my email

Basic computer training

This basic computer training tutorial continues on from our lesson called using my email. The computer lesson for seniors and beginners demonstrates the reply to email, forward emails and print email commands frequently used when using webmail and an email client.

The tutorial is one of our basic computer lessons and shows, using a Gmail account and Hotmail account, how to use firstly, the reply to e-mail command followed by how to forward emails and finally points out the print icon for printing emails, the beginners lesson also demonstrates the seperate menus where all three basic computer commands can be found.

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