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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.

You will need a high-speed Internet connection to properly view these videos. If that is a problem, you can purchase them on disk.

 

Topic Description Date Recorded Minutes
Free Mouse Basics How to Point, Click, Drag, Double-click, Right-click 12/8/06 6.5
Free Window Basics How to Open, Close, Maximize, Minimize, Move among Mulitple Windows 12/8/06 5.5
Members Only Basic Text Editing Using a Word Processing program to create a letter. Type, Erase, Insert, Wordwrap, and change fonts. 12/8/06 6
Members Only 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
Members Only 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
Members Only Wallpaper Setting the Wallpaper 7/5/06 5
Members Only Creating Shortcuts How to create Icons, shortcuts and Quick Launch 7/5/06 5.3
Free Web Basics - Part 1 What is the Internet? What is the Web? How do you 'browse' around the web? 9/15/07 7
Members Only 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
Members Only Saving your work Using WordPad, how to Save, Save As, File Open 12/13/06 8
Members Only Using 'My Music' Playing music CDs and copying music to your computer. 3/8/07 5.8
Members Only 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
Members Only 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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