Be comfortable and time-efficient using the computer, and not be afraid to “break something”

Organizing your Computer Memory (Files&Folders) Using MSWindows
Basic features of computers

Save, retrieve, organize, copy, and move documents or pictures

Organizing your Computer Memory (Files&Folders) Using MSWindows
Basic features of computers, but not Photoshop or MS Word

Attach documents/pictures to email messages

Save attached documents/pictures from emails received

Organizing your Computer Memory (Files&Folders) Using MSWindows
Basic features of computers, but not Internet Explorer

Deal with screen savers and customization of desktop wallpaper, mouse, keyboard, colors 

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Organizing your Computer Memory (Files&Folders) Using MSWindows
Basic features of computers

Have a general idea of: the Internet and how it works; how to use a browser (Internet Explorer), send and organize email messages, perform Internet searches

Internet Explorer

Format (NOT type) text quickly and efficiently, margins, paragraphs, page numbers, printing, tables

Select/copy/move blocks of text

Check spelling/grammar

Set up a language, headers and footers

Use footnotes/endnotes, style boxes, format painter, table of contents, AutoText and AutoCorrect, AutoSummarize

Advanced MS Word

Determine what are Excel types of data

Create a spreadsheet (e.g. of your home budget), charts

Use format techniques, print preview and setup, printing techniques

Add / delete/resize columns and rows

Move/copy data, undo, insert pictures

Fill in a series of data

Create formulas

Name, select and manipulate ranges

Use functions with 3-dimensional references, relative and absolute references

Copy formulas with cell references

Advanced MS Excel

Understand general database concepts

Create a database of friends’ addresses or birthdays, or of a book/wine collection to be able to search and filter records quickly in the future

MS Access, not MS Excel

Create a unique presentation on any topic

Use animation in a slide show

Print the presentation and notes

MS Power Point

Create a basic web site with in-depth HTML knowledge

Web Page Creation, Part 1

Understand some advanced Web-design topics such as frames, CSS, styles, templates

Web Page Creation, Part 2

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