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• Learn quickly at your own computer from expert teachers and users. 

Speedlearn Computing Booklets

• Quick and easy computer how-to's 
• Step-by-step booklets--demystify confusing software manuals and online help files.

Productivity templates

• Management tools (on disk)

Marketing templates

• Concept-to-completion (on disk)

Web Design.Your Web Presence

Common Sense and Sense Appeal 

How Web Publishing Works
Intro to the Internet, World Wide Web, browsers. View the HTML code that determines how a web page appears in a browser. Readable fonts and "web-safe" colors.

Easier Web Creation by Design
Plan now or cry later. Organize website with files and tables. Simple HTML code troubleshooting. Make your site visible to automatic search engine spiders.

Build Your Home Page
Insert and format text, graphics, and tables. Link text and images to other pages on your web, other web sites, or your email address.

Sophisticated Simplicity
Quickly duplicate page design with custom styles and templates. Rollover and hover button effects. To frame or not to frame?

Simple Codes, Scripts, and Add-Ons
Use HTML to map image coordinates. Write simple JavaScripts for forward and back buttons, evaluation and redirection, and look-up tables. Form and database basics.

Word Processing.Documents with Class

Express Yourself! 

Write Professional Letters, Reports, and Resumes
Bold, italics, color, fonts, margins and text alignment, edit text by cutting, copy and paste, print, insert date and time

Create Your Own Newsletters and Flyers
Clip art, borders, drawing tools (2D and 3-D shapes, fill colors, shadows, lighting, etc.), WordArt, newsletter columns

Boost Your Productivity
Tabs, indents, paragraph spacing, bullets and numbering, format painter, AutoCorrect, non-printing characters, spelling and grammar checks, Thesaurus

Manage Your Own Mass Mailings
Mailing lists, form letters and mail merges; envelopes, return addresses, and labels

Streamline Your Work
Tables, forms, and macros (automated shortcuts for repeated actions)

Spreadsheets.Calculations and Charts

Better, Faster, Easier Numbers 

Organize Data in Spreadsheet Tables
Enter, edit, cut, paste, and move numerical data and text labels. Create simple formulas to add, subtract, multiply, and divide figures. Print spreadsheets.

Create Professional Spreadsheets
Format text and numbers for clarity. Insert, delete and name sheets. Size columns and rows.

Boost Your Productivity
Name cells and ranges, protect and hide data, simple functions (average, count, round)

Easy Numbers Gymnastics
Advanced functions: look up values, calculate monthly payments, perform operation on numbers that match criteria (if, then); find and replace data

Streamline Your Work
Invoices, templates, macros (automated shortcuts for repeated actions), freeze titles, freeze titles

Databases.Data Organization

Keep Important  Information at Your Fingertips

Design a Basic Database 
Create tables, queries, forms and reports to efficiently organize, enter, analyze, and report your data.

Streamline Data Entry
Minimize costly errors and shorten entry time by setting field properties and using data input masks. Speed from one part of the database to another using a start-up switchboard and push buttons based on simple macros.

Make Your Database Work for You
Use advanced filters and queries to gather and analyze data, make calculations, and combine fields from multiple tables. Relate the tables in your database to maximize reporting capabilities.

Professionalize Forms and Reports
Use advanced formatting techniques to enhance forms and reports for legibility and appeal. Paste logos and other clip-art objects or link graphics to individual database records.

Database Applications
Set startup properties. Create macros (automated shortcuts) and custom switchboard forms. Protect the database and controll data entry.

Contact Management.Opportunity Databases

Keep on Track with Important Contacts 

Start the Act!ion
Create and get around in a new Act! database. Customize fields and layouts. Speed data entry. Add or import new contacts. Attach notes to a contact record.

Make Contact
Change single or multiple contact records. Move and copy contact information between fields. Categorize and delete contacts. View, sort, find, and group contacts.

First Things First
Schedule from a contact record or calendar. Set basic alarms activity reminders, priorities, and colors. Schedule recurring activities and resolve schedule conflicts.

Keep in Touch
Edit and create letter and report templates, fields and labels. Write letters and memos to single or multiple contacts. Produce mailing labels and envelopes.

Your Own Communications Central
Set up the Act! dialer to make and time telephone calls. Create and send fax cover pages and documents. Email messages to Act! contacts and groups. Record histories.

Graphics.Visual Presentation

Strut Your Stuff with Slides, Photos and Pictures

Picture This!
Use a graphic arts program or drawing toolbar in Microsoft or Corel programs to create, copy, texturize, color, rotate, flip, size, move objects. Recolor clip art, put borders around objects, etc.

Say It With Slides
Use Microsoft PowerPoint or Corel Presentations to create slides, choose background design, enter/edit text, add/rearrange/delete slides from a presentation.

Add Sizzle to Your Presentation
Create animated text and graphics to make your presentation or Web page shine. Add slide timings and sounds to PowerPoint or Corel Presentation shows.

Flaunt Your Facts
Tables, graphs, org charts in graphics applications. Import text to graphics applications and use outline view to easily edit and rearrange text in slide presentations.

Graphics to Go
Export graphics files into formats such as jpeg, gif, pdf, etc. for use in a variety of situations. Change color and text templates; create branches from one presentation to select for different audiences. "Pack and Go" your presentation, even where there is no PowerPoint program available.

email.Information Management

Armchair Communications Go Global

You've Got Mail!
Add contacts to the Outlook or GroupWise address book. Use Outlook or GroupWise to send, forward and reply to emails.

A Time and Place for Everything
Create and delete calendar appointments and schedule meetings. Create task lists, journal items, notes.

Every Purpose Under the Sun
Organize Outlook data by categories, colors, folders, and views. Find contacts and use the advanced Find features to search for any type of data or by multiple criteria.

Put Your Best Font Forward
Create custom forms and email stationeries. Assign tasks to contacts and create letters to contacts. Mail merge labels or envelopes.

Getting It Together
Attach files to Outlook objects. Embed objects in data form. Create new documents from within Outlook. Use Outlook to connect with contacts via auto-dialer. Maps, favorites, and folders on the Web.

Desktop Publishing.Page Layout

Create Artful Communications with Design

Behind the Scenes
Set up document, master pages, layout guidelines, the toolbox, page numbering, running headers and footers.

Words, Words, Words
Create and adjust text objects. Create and balance columns. Easy font and paragraph formatting using the Control palette. Use tracking to change letter spacing.

Give It All You've Got
Import graphics, text, spreadsheets, databases, tables, or HTML files. Link text and graphics to the publication to save space. Edit original linked objects. Create hyperlinks and prepare PDF files.

Picture Perfect
Draw and edit basic lines and shapes. Duplicate, delete, rotate, group and ungroup, crop, and change the stacking order of objects. Wrap text around objects.

Finishing Touches
Insert and delete pages. Rearrange sequence of pages without cutting and pasting. Create and apply styles formats. Edit and trap colors. Change the shape of rectangles and polygons.

Accounting.Business Bookkeeping

No-Tears Money Management 

Out the Starting Gate
Learn basic accounting principles and choose bookkeeping methods. Use the Easy Step Interview to create a company file. Work with the Chart of Accounts, QuickBooks Navigator, and Quickbooks Icon bar.

Who, What, Where, When Lists
Change the Chart of Accounts to add or delete new customers, vendors, employees, sales items, bank accounts, etc. Create sub accounts to those accounts. Track invoices by customer job.

Sold!
Prepare invoices, edit, void, delete a sales form, record a cash sale. Create a credit memo. Record payments and make deposits.

The Check's in the Mail
Record and pay bills. Set reminders. Use the accounts payable register, pay sales tax. Write checks, use credit cards, balance the checkbook.

Payday
Create an employee template, set up payroll information, and write payroll checks. Pay payroll taxes.

Windows.Operating Systems

Open the Windows Wide

Do Windows
Move around using the mouse, keyboard, toolbars, and scrollbars. Work with multiple windows. Size, minimize, and maximize windows.

Personalize Windows
Change the color and appearance of your desktop. Adjust the speed of your mouse and keyboard. Select a screen saver.

Toolbars and Views
Use the Start menu to open a software program. Open one of the last 10 documents you saved. Find a file by name, date or text contained in it.

Clean Out Your Windows Filing Cabinet
Use My Computer or Windows Explorer to copy, paste, and delete files. Create new folders and move files into them. View and sort files by name, date, size, or location.

Accessorize
Create bitmap graphics with MS Paint. Use the standard or scientific calculator. Find out how to do something with Microsoft Help. Discover built-in games like Solitaire, Hearts, Minesweeper, and FreeCell.

Maximize MS Office.Office Links

Built-in Tricks to Coordinate Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access

As You Like It
Add buttons to toolbars to suit your work style. Put the Office Assistant to work. Use built-in templates to standardize a "look" for all your Office productions. Use MS Binder to combine various Office applications in one presentation.

Special FX
Create AutoShapes and rotate an object using OfficeArt. Use WordArt to achieve special effects with text. Connect your document with pictures and files to update both simultaneously. Use hyperlinks to jump within and between documents and software programs.

Connect Words, Calculations and Charts
Link Excel worksheets and charts to Word documents. Create Word tables from excel worksheets. Link Word text to Excel worksheets.

Build a Presentation Fast
Link Word text to PowerPoint slides. Link PowerPoint slides to Word documents. Create PowerPoint presentations from Word outlines.

Flaunt Your Numbers
Link Excel worksheets and charts to PowerPoint slides. Change the display of a linked object. Embed Excel worksheets on PowerPoint slides. Link PowerPoint slides to Excel worksheets.

Ta-Dah! Marketing Templates

Drop-In Newsletter
Unique, sleek design, customizable format, built-in links to visual data: columns, charts, graphs, pictures.

Winning Proposals and Reports
Persuasive style and attractive looks to customize for success.

Best Impressions Brochure
Create an unforgettable impact with dynamic text layout, graphics and advertising punch.

Slide Me A Presentation
Customizable master presentation to weave your own story and image into. Use it for slide shows, posters, handouts.

Office-in-a-Box Productivity Templates

On-Line Self-Assessment  
Self-ratings on computer competencies and interests of staff for planning strategic training. Print summary data for all respondents. Detailed instructions included.

Job Skills Assessments
Test applicants' skills on basic and advanced computer tasks before you hire them. Combine with interview impressions for more accurate candidate profiling and comparisons. Comes with "cheat sheet" for scoring.

Timesheet Database
A Microsoft Access database to track employee hours. Automatically calculates vacation time, sick days, comp time and more Detailed instructions included. (Note: Customizable for multiple workers.)