Topic: Learn Free
Your local community college wants how much to teach you the basics of Word or Excel? Oh, and then there are advanced classes for another chunk of change. Not to mention the gas to get you to class. I'll let you in on a little secret. Microsoft will teach you to use their Office products. Free. On-line. At your pace. In your underwear.
Go to the Microsoft Office website.
On the left-hand side, click on Training.You will get a list of Microsoft Office programs for which the site provides tutorials. Currently available are:
Access 2003
One Note 2003
Publisher 2003
Excel 2003
Outlook 2003
Viseo 2003
Front Page 2003
Power Point 2003
Word 2003
InfoPath 2003
Project 2003
Click on the link for the program you want to learn. Up pops a list of tutorials.
The only problem is that the tutorials are not listed in any helpful order. You have to glimpse each tutorial and judge which to take first.
Each tutorial is designed to be taken in one sitting and will inform you of the approximate time it will take you - usually 25-50 minutes. You go at your own pace and can stop when you like and resume later. Just remember where you left off.
The tutorials are divided into several lessons and you can skip forward or back as you need. Each lesson gives basic, step-by-step explanations and instructions and helpful illustrations and page views. At the end of the lessons you have the option of downloading a practice session.
If your home computer does not have Microsoft Office installed, you will not be able to use the practice sessions. These are very helpful, but by no means necessary to learn what you want to learn.
Each lesson ends with a brief overview of the lesson and an optional quiz to test your comprehension.
