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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…]

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…]

Basic Computer Training – Identifying Parts of an Application Window

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Basic computer training

When learning anything new there is always new terminology and as with all new things it is essential when learning about computing that you understand terminology as part of learning your computer skills and this basic computer training tutorial helps by identifying the parts of an application window. The basic computer lesson is suitable for any beginner, senior, novice and for anyone looking to qualify in The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) the lesson covers elements 3.1 and 3.3 of the Equal skills section.

The computer lesson shows an ordinary WordPad document and explains the various parts of the WordPad window, the title bar, the menu bar, WordPad toolbar (also known as the Ribbon), scroll bars and the status bar.

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