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Smartphones – What is an Iphone ?

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What is an iPhone? This is a short video aimed as an introduction to one of the most popular smartphones, the Apple iPhone. The iPhone has been around since 2007 and now we have the sixth generation the iPhone 5 but for many seniors and beginners new to computing, trying to keep up with technology is difficult, especially when many have only just mastered cell phones or mobile phones and now the world has smartphones. The computer lesson explains that an iPhone may be used as a normal cell phone but has lots of additional features made possible through apps or applications, demonstrating email, music, maps, games news and social media.

The lesson is elementary and suitable for beginners or seniors not yet aware of smartphones.

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How to use Excel – Printing in Excel Computer Lesson

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Our course in how to use Excel for beginners and seniors continues with a computer lesson about printing in Excel. The Excel print area is not as straightforward as Microsoft word and some thought and planning needs to be applied to get the best Excel print area. The beginners Excel tutorial talks through the commands for printing in excel showing that there are options for printing the active excel worksheet, printing the entire workbook, selecting several worksheets or just choosing the excel print area. During the Excel computer lesson the different orientations are demonstrated, portrait or landscape, collated printing is explained and scaling the Excel print area is shown.

The Printing in Excel computer lesson is suitable for any beginner looking to understand how to use excel and for those looking to gain a formal qualification the online computer tutorial will help with excel spreadheets sections, printing in excel and understanding excel print area. [Read more…]

How to use Excel – How to use Simple Excel Formulas in a Spreadsheet

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How to use Excel Formulas in a Spreadsheet

We move on in our computer lessons for Excel with quite a long video tutorial showing how to use Excel Formulas in a spreadsheet. We use a simple Excel spreadsheet to calculate the profits from running a special steam train service. The computer lesson for excel beginners demonstrates how to change currencies to a single Excel cell and also multiple Excel cells before concentrating on how to use Excel Formulas. The online tutorial shoes how to multilpy cell and then repeat the calculation by dragging the Excel Formula down to the Excel row or rows below. The computer lesson also uses Auto sum to calculate totals and shows how to place a calculated total in to another Excel cell.

Understand Excel Formulas

Anyone wishing to improve their basic computer skills and learn how to use Excel this computer lesson will help to understand Excel Formulas and Excel spreadsheets better whether for work or home. [Read more…]

What is Excel – Understand How to Use Excel Worksheets

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How to use Excel

Our What is Excel course of computer lessons for Excel continues with an online video tutorial, Understand how to use Excel worksheets, helping beginners, seniors and those looking to learn Excel for work. The computer lesson explains why we may need a number of Excel worksheets for different projects. The online lesson then continues to show how to rename, colour code, drag and copy worksheets before demonstrating how to use Excel worksheets grouped togethor to make alterations. The tutorial also demonstrates how to keep headings in view when scrolloing large Excel worksheets before saving the work to file.

The computer lesson helps to understand what is Excel and is designed in an easy to follow format being suitable for seniors, beginners and anyone looking to improve their basic computer skills and learning Excel for work. The computer lesson follows a sequence in an Excel course and should be viewed in conjunction with other videos from our course. [Read more…]

How to use Excel – What is an Excel Cell on a Worksheet

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What is an Excel Cell on a worksheet

Our computer lessons on how to use Excel continue with an online video tutorial, What is an Excel Cell on a worksheet. Following on from the start of our Excel computer course, this lesson recaps on topics learnt, on the Excel layout, looking at columns and rows before moving on to identifying Cell Addresses or Cell References. The computer lesson for Excel beginners then talks about the three types of data that can be added to cells, labels, values and formulas. The lesson builds up a very simple worksheet to demonstrate the three types of data being added and also introduces Excel beginners to the Name Box and the Formula Bar, two areas essential to understand for anyone who wants to know how to use excel.

The computer lesson on Excel is suitable for anyone worldwide wishing to improve their computer skills and particularly those learning Excel for work and looking at spreadsheets.

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How to use Excel – What is Excel – A First Look at Excel

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How to use Excel – What is Excel – A First Look at Excel

We start a fresh computer course for beginners by asking What is Excel ? This computer lesson about Microsoft Excel will take a first look at excel answering the question of what is excel? It starts by giving a definition and then demonstrating the type of tasks undertaken with Microsoft Office Excel by looking at the types of templates available through your Microsoft Office software. The online video computer lesson talks through the similarities between Excel and Word with the layout and The Ribbon, the excel tutorial then introduces beginners to the workbook, worksheets, columns, rows and cells.

Our computer course on how to use Excel has easy to follow step by step video computer lessons making it particularly suitable for those learning Excel for work.

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Computer Lessons for Office Word – Creating a Newsletter

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Computer courses in Microsoft Office Word

Our computer course for beginners in Microsoft Office Word continues with a computer lesson creating a simple newsletter in Office Word. The tutorial starts by showing there are plenty of templates to choose from through your Microsoft Office Word software before demonstrating through a step by step online tutorial how to create a simple newsletter from scratch.

The computer lesson for beginners, seniors and anyone looking to improve their basic computer skills shows how to build a title, add the date and fit columns to a document, before going on to insert a photograph and a table. The online learning tutorial reinforces lessons already learnt and adds some other office word commands and techniques. [Read more…]

Computer Courses – Word tutorials – Creating a Simple Table

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Microsoft Office Word Tutorials

One of the great tools available in Microsoft Office Word is the ability to create a simple table quickly and easily, whether the table is for delivery times, membership numbers or in this case a football league, tables are a great way of showing data. This computer lesson for beginners and seniors demonstrates from scratch how to create a simple table by selecting the table parameters, adding the data, adding additional rows and adding a title to the table. The online word tutorial then changes the font, style and size to create a simple table easy to understand. [Read more…]

Computer Courses – Word tutorials – Creating Business Letters

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Office Word Computer Courses

Our word computer course continues with a computer lesson about creating business letters. The online tutorial for Microsoft Office Word takes a look at creating a business letter using a template before creating a UK business letter from scratch. The computer lesson for beginners and seniors demonstrates how to position using the Tab Key and also how to use the bullet list command, when talking through how to create a UK business letter. [Read more…]

Computer Courses – Office Word Tutorials – Working With Templates

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Microsoft Office Word Tutorials

Our Microsoft Office Word Tutorials continue with a computer lesson for beginners about working with templates in office word. The word tutorials are part of our computer courses giving basic computer skills for seniors and beginners. In the computer lesson we demonstrate where to find the pre-loaded templates when working with Word 2010 and explains where in Word 2007, the tutorial then shows templates may be downloaded from Microsoft Office online where a huge number of templates are available for all sorts of office word tasks.

The computer lesson demonstrates how to alter templates for individual use and finishes by showing templates are also available when searching online. [Read more…]

Computer Courses – Office Word Tutorials – Working With Pictures

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Office Word tutorials

Our computer lessons for beginners and seniors continue with an Office Word tutorial, working with pictures in microsoft word, part of our computer courses for microsoft office. The online tutorial demonstrates how to place a picture in the text of a word document, resize the picture, crop the picture and wrap text around the picture. The computer lesson also shows the Picture Tools menu and some of the commands available when working with pictures in Microsoft Office Word. [Read more…]

Word Tutorials – How to Cut Copy and Paste

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Microsoft Office Word Tutorials

Our Microsoft Office Word tutorials continue with a computer lesson showing how to cut, copy and paste in Word 2010. The online computer lesson is for seniors and beginners learning how to use Office Word. The online lesson shows how to select text in order to cut and paste it within a document, explaining that all types of data can be altered using the commands cut copy and paste. The computer word tutorial then talks about paste options demonstrating later in the lesson and covers copy and paste along with using the clipboard. The differences between Word 2010 and Word 2007 regarding paste options are spoken about. [Read more…]

Office word tutorials – Mini toolbar Quick access toolbar and help button

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Microsoft Office Word Tutorials

We continue our Office Word Tutorials for seniors and beginners with a short computer lesson about the mini toolbar, quick access toolbar and help button, this is part of our computer courses for beginners. The computer lesson demonstrates what the mini toolbar is and how to use it, shows the quick access toolbar and points out the office word help button. The online tutorial also shows how to customize the quick access toolbar in different ways. [Read more…]

Office Word tutorials – Creating a simple flyer with word

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In the next of our Free Microsoft Office Word tutorials we show how to create a simple flyer using word. This computer lesson for seniors and beginners is part of our word computer course and starts to demonstrate how easy it is to create pieces of work with a little planning and an understanding of the Office Word commands.

The computer lesson demonstrates how to make a flyer by producing a lost cat poster. We start with a simple bit of text which, using the word commands, we change by altering the font type, creating a title, headings and changing the font size. The online word tutorial demonstrates how to select text for altering and uses some basic word commands before running a spell check and sending the flyer for printing and saving. [Read more…]

Computer courses for beginners – Word tutorials – The layout

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The next of our computer courses for beginners and seniors takes a look at productivity and we start with Word tutorials, how to use Microsoft Office Word. This computer lesson demonstrates the layout of Microsoft word, because when you break down the layout and understand how Microsoft Word is arranged it becomes a lot easier to use.

In this word tutorial we demonstrate how the Ribbon is broken down into the three basic elements, Tabs, Groups and Commands. The tutorial then goes on to look at the home tab and the file tab, talking about the Microsoft Office button for those using word 2007, as the online computer lessons about Microsoft Office Word are shown using Microsoft Office Word 2010 but any differences with Word 2007 are pointed out. [Read more…]

Basic Computer Training – Using My Email Part 2

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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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Basic Computer Training – Using My Email

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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 – What is e-mail

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Basic computer training

What is e-mail? We continue our basic computer training course for seniors and beginners with an online tutorial answering the question, what is e-mail? The short computer lesson starts by explaining about email before going on to show how an email address is obtained using an internet service provider and a webmail provider. The tutorial is an easy to follow computer lesson for seniors or beginners and is the first of our basic email lessons.

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Basic Computer Training – Filling Forms and Logging In

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We move on in our basic computer training for seniors and beginners with an online learning tutorial about filling forms and logging in to websites. As you move on and gain more confidence and better computer skills you will want to register on websites, whether for social networking, reading media or shopping, whatever the reason at some point you will need to fill out an online form. This computer lesson for beginners takes a look at two well known websites and just runs through the information you need to provide, in order to log in, along with talking about providing computer passwords.

The lesson is suitable for any beginners or seniors learning online and for those looking to qualify in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), this lesson covers elements 7.7 and 7.10. [Read more…]

Basic Computer Training – Web Browsers the Basics

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Online computer lesson

Following on in our basic computer training for seniors and beginners we have an online computer lesson pointing out the basic elements of web browsers, using the most common browsers, internet explorer and mozilla firefox. The lesson explains the what the home page is, what is meant by the term URL and goes on to explain about browsing history, bookmarking and favourites. Important for anyone learning new computer skills.

The computer tutorial is suitable for any beginner and those beginners looking to qualify in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) the lesson covers elements 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 7.5 of the computer basics course.

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Basic Computer Training – Files and Folders

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Basic computer training

In this basic computer training lesson for seniors and beginners we take a look at files and folders, how we save files and how we organise our files and folders within our computer.

The computer tutorial is suitable for any beginner, senior or novice and for those looking to learn online and qualify in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) this follows our online computer course and covers element 5, file handling.

The computer training lesson points out files and folders and then demonstrates saving a Wordpad document as a file before moving the file in to a new folder.

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Basic Computer Training – Document Creation in Wordpad

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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 more…]

Basic Computer Training – The Taskbar

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Basic computer training

Our basic computer training course continues with a lesson explaining about the taskbar and some of the features of the task bar. The tutorial is suitable for any beginners and for anyone looking to learn online and qualify in The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), this tutorial will cover Equal skills elements 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6.

The lesson uses screen capture software to demonstrate the taskbar, icons associated with the task bar and how to pin favourite programmes to the taskbar, as well as opening applications from your desktop. Seniors, beginners and computer novices will benefit from this basic computer training tutorial which also demonstrates how programmes remain running and available for use from the task bar. Understanding about the taskbar is essential for improving computer skills. [Read more…]

Basic Computer Training – Personalising Your Computer Desktop

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Basic computer training

In this basic computer training lesson we demonstrate how easy it is to personalise your computer desktop if you know the right commands for your computer. The tutorial, aimed at seniors, beginners and computer novices, shows the three main areas to personalise on your desktop, the background picture, icons and gadgets. We demonstrate in this basic computer training lesson that with a few simple commands you can easily change the appearance of your desktop to make your computer much more personal to you and at the same time develop your computer skills.

The lesson starts be showing an easy way to change the back ground picture before creating an icon for a piece of work and then selecting a gadget. The basic computer training lesson is an ideal starter lesson for seniors and beginners showing how to use commands and menus that make a visible difference.

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Basic computer training – Your desktop and icons

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Basic computer skills

To continue our basic computer training course for seniors, beginners and novices, we move on to a tutorial explaining the layout of your computer desktop and an introduction to desktop icons. The lesson is suitable for anyone learning online worldwide and for those looking to qualify in The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) this lesson will cover Equal Skills, desktop, elements 2.1 and 2.2.

The lesson demonstrates a conventional computer desktop and lists the three main areas, icons, gadgets and taskbar. The computer lesson then goes on to explain about desktop shortcuts and how they are identified fundamental for improving your computer skills.

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Basic Computer Training – Your Keyboard

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Basic Computer Training

We continue our basic computer training for beginners, seniors and novices with a tutorial demonstrating you can use your computer keyboard for much more than just typing. The basic computer lesson is suitable for anyone worldwide and for those looking to learn about computers and qualify in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) the basic computer training covers Equal Skills computer basics 1.9 and 1.10.

The tutorial explains how your keyboard is divided and demonstrates different keys and their functions, a core part of elementary computer skills.

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Basic Computer Training Understanding Your Cursor

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Basic Computer Training

Continuing our basic computer courses for seniors, beginners and computer novices, we have a lesson about understanding your cursor. Your cursor behaves differently as it interacts with webpages and software, it is therefore important to understand what your cursor is telling you so that you can follow hyperlinks and type text where you need to. This basic computer training lesson will help you to identify the different appearances of the mouse or cursor.

The lesson is suitable for anyone learning online worldwide and covers elements 1.7 and 1.8 of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) qualification in EqualSkills, Computer Basics.

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Basic Computer Training – Your Computer

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Basic Computer Training

This is the start of our basic computer training course for seniors, beginners and complete novices. The computer lesson will answer questions about your computer, what is a chip, what is a processor, what is ram and what is a hard drive?

Designed to improve computer skills, the course is suitable for anyone worldwide and for those looking to learn about computers and qualify in The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), this lesson will cover EqualSkills computer basics elements 1.1 and 1.2, looking at your computer.

The lesson will demonstrate different personal computers and there various parts, talk about adding accessories before giving a brief description about some of the components inside your computer including the processor, RAM and hard drive.

 

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World Wide Web – Global Google – Courses for Seniors

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Online computer course for seniors and beginners

In earlier tutorials we have talked about using the biggest search engine, so using Google, in this online learning tutorial, the next in our courses for seniors we demonstrate what a true phenomenon global Google has become. We demonstrate that Google has sites catering for populations all over the world and show you just how sophisticated using Google has become. We appologise but because of the speed that Google improves and evolves this video tutorial may well look out of date by the time you get to watch it!

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

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Computer Basics – The Start Menu – Meganga First Click Courses for Seniors

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Computer Basics

The main navigation for all windows computers is through the start button in the bottom left of the computer screen, this computer lesson for beginners and seniors talks through the basic navigation of your computer.

As part of Meganga’s first click courses for seniors we have provided a tutorial demonstrating the elements that make up the start menu in Windows 7, the central navigation to any computer. The online learning tutorial for beginners shows you how to use the search box, where to find your programmes and shows you where your frequently used computer applications can be found. Learning to navigate around your computer avoids frustration when trying to find programmes and applications later on.

Level: Beginner

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

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Online Computer Courses for Seniors and Beginners – Saving Favourites In Internet Explorer

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.

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

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Desktop – Computer Lesson for Seniors – Adding Desktop Gadgets to your Desktop

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Computer lessons for seniors and beginners

In this computer lesson for seniors and beginners we demonstrate how to customise your desktop display by adding desktop gadgets such as a clock, news feeds and weather from around the world. The computer tutorial uses the windows 7 operating system although gadgets can also be displayed using Window Vista.

Gadgets are the handy little applications that let you know the time, the weather for home or your next holiday destination, exchange rates, latest news items and lots more. This online learning tutorial for beginners and seniors will demonstrate about gadgets, making your computer desktop much more personal to you and helping to enhance your own computer skills. The computer lesson is suitable for anyone worldwide wishing to learn about computers.

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

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Internet – World Wide Web – What Are Hyperlinks Lesson

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Basic Computer Training – What Are Hyperlinks Lesson

Continuing our basic computer training for beginners and seniors we have a short online lesson explaining what are hyperlinks and how to recognise a link or hyperlink. The world wide web is navigated by clicking on hyperlinks to take the user from webpage to webpage. The seniors and beginners computer lesson goes on to cover how webpages can be opened in a new window, so as not to leave the webpage being viewed.

This online tutorial demonstrates how the world wide web is navigated which is essential for beginners starting out on the internet and by understanding how hyperlinks or links work anyone can understand how the world wide web is bound together. [Read more…]

Your Computer – Desktop – Create Desktop Shortcut Computer Lesson

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Computer Lessons for Seniors and Beginners

This computer lesson for seniors and beginners shows you how to create desktop shortcut and desktop icons. This lesson also shows you how to delete icons from your desktop. When learning computer skills it is considered good practice to keep your desktop as free as possible of icons and shortcuts as it does tend to slow your pc’s performance. However, there are times when you need to create desktop shortcuts in order to save time and make programmes and work easy to find. This computer lesson for seniors and beginners is aimed at teaching how to maintain your desktop and organise your computer, the lesson is suitable for any beginner new to computing and wanting to learn basic computer skills.
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Your Computer – Desktop – Using The Recycle Bin Online Lesson

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Computer lessons for seniors and beginners

Using The Recycle Bin And Deleting Desktop Icons Free Online Computer Lesson For Seniors and Beginners

Recycle Bin and Icons

Learning Objectives

  • How to delete
  • How to restore deleted items
  • Understanding Desktop icons

Target Audience:
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