Handouts and Tutorials

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Below is a selection of handouts and tutorials to help you get the most out of your computer.

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• Web Site Quiz
• Know your Silver Surfers Website Quiz
• PC Basics
  • I’m Afraid I’ll Push The Wrong Button
  • Windows Standard Keyboard
  • Your Mouse explained
  • Switching the computer on
  • Switching the computer off
  • The desktop explained
  • Opening a program
  • Icons
  • Working with Files and Folders
  • Working with Files and Folders Exercise
  • Using Your Memory Stick
• Web Access
• Accessing Government Web Sites 
• Microsoft Word
  • Starting with Word
  • Starting with Word - exercise
  • Formatting Your Documents
  • Standard Toolbar
  • Formatting Toolbar
  • Working With Text
  • Selecting Text
  • Labels in XP
  • Labels using Word 2007
• Word Processing Tutorials
  • Starting Up Your Computer
  • The Parts Of A Computer
  • The Muses
  • John Bunyan
    • Picture for exercise
  • Sgt. Pepper
    • Picture for exercise
• Word Processing Exercise
  • Instructions For Exercise
    1. Letter1
    2. The Tortoise and the Hare
    3. White Rabbit
    4. The Emperor's New Clothes
    5. Sea Fever
    6. To be or not to be
    7. The Twilight Zone
    8. The Fab Four
    9. First Lines
    10. Sayings
    11. Thirty-nine Steps
    12. The Time Machine
• World Wide Web
• Introduction To Web Browsing
• Using Yahoo! Mail
• Useful Websites
•  Web Quizzes
• Web Quiz 1
• Web Quiz 3
• Web Quiz 4
• Web Quiz 5
• Digital Photography/Working with Photos
• Using Windows Scanner and Camera Wizard to upload your pictures
• Working with photos in Word
• Printing Pictures
• Writing to CD
• Using Microsoft Photo Editor
• Taking Pictures
• Hints and Tips with your camera