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Tutorials on Essential 'Basic' Computer Skills

Things you would have learned in school, if there had been computers when you were in school !

Many RV Travelers are new to computers, but even if you've been using them for a while, you probably never learned some of the essential skills.

 

Seminar Topic Description Date Recorded Minutes
Essentials Mouse Basics How to Point, Click, Drag, Double-click, Right-click 12/8/06 6.5
Essentials Window Basics How to Open, Close, Maximize, Minimize, Move among Mulitple Windows 12/8/06 5.5
Essentials Basic Text Editing Using a Word Processing program to create a letter. Type, Erase, Insert, Wordwrap, and change fonts. 12/8/06 6
Essentials My Documents Learn how to navigate thru File Folders. Where to save your documents and how to find them again. 12/13/06 6.8
Essentials Cut, Copy, Paste How to Cut, Copy, Paste with text, pictures and between programs. Copy from the web, paste into your document. 10/4/06 9.5
Essentials Wallpaper Setting the Wallpaper 7/5/06 5
Essentials Creating Shortcuts How to create Icons, shortcuts and Quick Launch 7/5/06 5.3
Essentials Web Basics - Part 1 What is the Internet? What is the Web? How do you 'browse' around the web? 9/15/07 7
Essentials Web Basics - Part 2 Using Internet Explorer to browse the web. Using the Back button and using Tabs. Setting your home page. Creating a 'Favorite'. 9/15/07 6
Essentials Saving your work Using WordPad, how to Save, Save As, File Open 12/13/06 8
Essentials Using 'My Music' Playing music CDs and copying music to your computer. 3/8/07 5.8
Essentials Using 'My Pictures' The My Pictures folder is where all your digital photos should go. Learn how to navigate and how to email and backup your pictures using the help feature. 3/8/07 7
Essentials Internet Explorer version 7: First Look Take a look at some of the new features of Internet Explorer 7 1/27/07 5.9

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