Intro
to PC Troubleshooting
Don't spend your hard-earned cash on expensive PC repairs! In this feature-packed
interactive workshop, you'll take a look under the hood of a typical PC, learning to
identify, by appearance and function, each of your computer's components. Then, you'll
discover dozens of proven preventative measures you can take to protect your valuable
electronics and irreplaceable data from disaster. You'll learn what to do when disaster
strikes, learning how to deal with power problems, BIOS and CMOS RAM glitches, drive and
file problems, and boot failure. You'll also learn all about configuring and usingmemory
and preventing Windows General Protection Faults.
Windows File & Disk Management
Confused by the hodgepodge of folders and files cluttering up your hard disk? Having
trouble finding downloaded files? This online workshop is for you! In this six-week online
class, you'll learn how to find files you thought you'd lost, copy and move files, remove
documents and applications from your system, work with the recycle bin, organize your hard
disk with folders, maintain and troubleshoot your hard disk, add and remove items from
your start button, customize your right-click menus, force programs to start automatically
every time you start Windows (or prevent them from doing so), and create desktop icons and
other shortcuts to give you immediate access to your favorite programs and documents.
Quicken for Windows
Learn how Quicken can help you organize tax receipts; track investments; amortize loans;
balance your checkbook; categorize, subcategorize, split and schedule transactions of any
type; print checks; pay bills electronically; download stock quotes; and more.
Introduction to QuickBooks
QuickBooks is designed for the small to midsized business owner who enjoys Quicken's ease
of use but prefers a more traditional approach to accounting. Learn how this well-designed
program can make it a snap to set up a chart of accounts, reconcile your checking account,
create and print invoices, receipts, and statements, track your payables, inventory, and
receivables, create estimates, and generate reports.
Intro to Microsoft Word
Learn to use the word processor PC Magazine ranked as one of the "strongest and most
intelligent programs ever written." In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to
add, move, through, and edit text; move words from one part of your document to another;
work on two or more documents simultaneously; change the size or appearance of text;
change margins and tab settings; automatically center, right align, justify, and indent
text; run the integrated grammar and spelling checker; use the thesaurus; and save,
retrieve, copy, organize, and print your documents.
Intermediate Microsoft Word
Take advantage of Word's WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing capabilities to
easily create flyers, newsletters, and other heavily formatted documents. Set up columns
and tables within your documents; insert, reposition, edit and resize graphic images; draw
lines; surround your text or graphics with borders; achieve dramatic effects by varying
the size, appearance, and orientation of your text, and more.
Advanced Microsoft Word
Make Word work for you! Learn how to build time-saving macros, customize your toolbars,
create shortcut keys, crank out form letters and mailing labels, perform queries, make
your own templates, use the style gallery, and much more.
Intro to Microsoft Excel
Work with numbers? Then you need to learn Excel. In this unique six-week online workshop,
you'll discover dozens of shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets
quickly and efficiently. You'll also learn the secrets behind writing powerful
mathematical formulas, using the function wizard to quickly and automatically calculate
statistics, loan payments, future value, and more. You'll also learn the best ways to sort
and analyze data, create custom charts and graphs, create 3-dimensional workbooks, build
links between files, endow your worksheets with decision-making capabilities, and automate
oft-repeated tasks with macros and buttons.
Intermediate Excel
Have you been using Excel to its fullest potential? Learn how to work faster and more
productively. Discover how the Pivot Table and AutoFilter can help you rapidly create
reports and analyses. Learn advanced graphing techniques and how to use functions to get
Excel to perform complex math, make decisions, and look up values in a table.
Intro to Microsoft Access
Learn how to use Microsoft's powerful and award-winning database to store, locate, and
print just about any type of important information. In this six-week online workshop,
you'll learn how to create tables, relationships, custom data entry forms, queries,
reports, mailing labels, and macros. You'll also learn how to merge the data in your
Access tables with Microsoft Word form letters.
Intermediate Microsoft Access
Learn how to build a fully automated database management system complete with your own
custom data entry forms. You'll also learn how to add graphics, sound, and macros to your
database, and some advanced reporting techniques.
Intro to Microsoft PowerPoint
Learn to use Microsoft PowerPoint, one of the best presentation programs on the market.
PowerPoint is easy to learn and fun to use. Create overhead transparencies, 35-mm slides,
and electronic slide presentations from a drab set of facts and figures. Dazzle your
audience with your awesome multimedia slides, charts, outlines, and graphs. Learn how to
add clip art, hypertext links, and special effects to your presentations. You will also
learn how to get help and download new templates from Microsoft's web site.
WordPerfect
Increase your productivity by learning to take advantage of WordPerfect's more advanced
capabilities! Make WordPerfect automatically print presorted and professional looking form
letters, envelopes, mailing labels, and spreadsheets. Simplify and automate complex word
processing tasks by learning how to create fast and easy to use WordPerfect macros. Also
learn how to create styles, table of contents, indexes, and web pages with Corel's
Internet Publisher. Please note: This course covers some of WordPerfect's more advanced
features and is not designed for beginners. You must already know how to create, edit,
save, and print a document in WordPerfect before you take this course.
Keyboarding
Using the computer software program FasType for Windows, you will learn the basic skills
of touch-typing. If you already know how to type, this course will help you improve your
typing speed and accuracy. When you are finished with the course, continue to use FasType
for Windows to improve your keyboarding skills with its intermediate and advanced lessons.