Different colors, a new font, wider columns, borderlines: Formatting cells in Excel can help make the information easier to understand. In our previous lesson (Excel Spreadsheet Basics Everyone Should Know About), we introduced the parts of a spreadsheet and how…
Many people get nervous when you say the word “spreadsheet.” I love spreadsheets and spend most of my business day working in Excel. Of course, I had to go through the Excel spreadsheet basics. We were all beginners at some…
Curious to learn more about Excel formulas? Spreadsheets can help users find instant results when making calculations. For example, let’s say we are selling fruit at a local Farmer’s Market. Excel could help us calculate the total price if shoppers…
This lesson will introduce headers and footers, so we’ll need several pages of text. Either open a previous document with three or four pages or copy and paste this lesson into a new Word document. In a previous lesson, we…
In this lesson, we want to insert pictures or images in our document, but to do that we need a document full of text. Instead of jumping into inserting an image, let’s create a few pages first. Insert Photos And…
Since the advent of the computer, instructors have had to become very specific with assignments. In college, if you’re writing a paper, often you’ll be given specific guidelines, such as 1.25” margins, 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, paragraph…
In previous Microsoft Word Lessons, I taught you everything from saving to file tabs. Now, we’ve reached the final installment to the series, and I’m going to teach you how to add personality to your documents. Today, we’re going to…
If you’ve been following along with our Word lessons, our letter is almost finished — there are just a few last things to make sure our Microsoft Word layout looks perfect and professional. For example, in this lesson we will…
In our last Word lesson, we added our recipient’s name and address to our letter. If you did the File Explorer lesson you changed the name of your document. Today we are going to expand on that and learn about how…
Before we learn about USB drives and connections, open up File Explorer. In the Navigation pane, click on “This PC.” If you aren’t sure how to do this, go through our last two lessons, File Explorer and This PC. You will…
Learning some of the basic MS Word functions can help with day to day computer skills as well as cut down on the time it takes to do simple tasks. Read on for the third installment of our Word lesson…
So, you’ve mastered the basics of Word and want to move forward. After you’ve successfully begun a word document, it’s only natural to want to perfect it. In this case that means inserting a date, aligning everything just how you…
Microsoft Word and Google Docs are two popular word processing software programs, used for creating letters, stories and reports. MS Word is part of the Microsoft Office package, but a version with limited capabilities is available for free here. Google Docs…
Before we create documents, we should learn how to store or file our documents so we can find them later. Photos, songs, movies, letters, and lists are all “files” that your computer can view, store, or attach to an email.…
To control and know what’s happening on your Microsoft computer, you need the Windows taskbar. It is a treasure trove of software programs, each presented as icons, together with the Windows Start button. In this lesson, you will learn how to…
