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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…]

What is Excel – Working with Excel Cells Computer Lesson

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What is Excel

This computer lesson for What is Excel takes a closer look at how to use Exel Cells. The online video tutorial demonstrates how to select multiple cells, how to merge cells and how to resize columns and rows to fit Excel labels or text. The beginners Excel computer lesson continues to show how to selcect entire excel columns and excel rows before demonstrating where the commands are to insert additional rows and columns. By learning how to use excel cells enables easy editing and helps with Excel layout, important for topics later in our Excel computer course.

The online computer lesson is suitable for anyone worldwide who is trying to improve their computer skills, particularly those looking to learn Excel for Work. [Read more…]

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 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…]

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 – Tabs and Commands

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The next of our Word Tutorials continues our computer courses for beginners and seniors with a computer lesson about the tabs and commands on the Microsoft Office Word Ribbon. The tutorial follows on from the previous computer lesson about the layout of Microsoft office word 2010 and 2007 by demonstating the other Tabs along the Office Word ribbon. Key commands are pointed out on each tab and we also demonstrate that information about commands is easily available when moving your computer mouse. [Read more…]

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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World Wide Web – What is a Search Engine – Using Google to Search the Web

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Seniors & Beginners Computer Lesson – What is a Search Engine?

In this seniors computer lesson we ask what is a search engine? For the answer we take a look at the search engine Google, currently the most popular search engine and we see how we can use Google to search the web. We use the UK Google site in this online tutorial however Google does have many regional sites around the world as explained in a later online tutorial for beginners. If you click on the “About Google” link on any Google search page you can find out lots more information about Google.

This tutorial is of use to anyone learning online worldwide and for those looking to gain computer skills and qualify in The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) this lesson covers elements 7.11 and 7.12.

Level: Beginner

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