Available Courses

• Absolute Beginners 101

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  Using the mouse: Most beginners to computing fail to understand and perform basic mouse commands and these flow onto future problems in using the computer.

  Get to know the parts of the startbar, learn about short-cuts and icons, using the mouse (including left click, double-click, right-click, click & drag) to launch programs, get properties, select icons and move and resize.
  RESULT: Confidence with the mouse and how to use it to perform simple commands with Desktop icons. 

  Mastering Windows: resizing & moving windows, maximise, minimise, restore, starting & using a program and closing it down. You'll also learn about the terms used in Windows like Title bar, menu bar and many more...
  RESULT: You will understand how to launch programs, switch between programs, understand active and inactive Windows and close a program when you are finished with it.

  Dialog boxes: Understanding the parts of a dialog box and when they are used, including drop-down lists, scroll bars,
  RESULT: You will end up customising the display properties of your computer, including screen savers, wall paper and Colour Schemes

• Beginners 102

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Using a program: In this course you will start to use Paint (basic image editing software) to create a drawing and use a variety of different tools within that program, including drawing shapes, using a spray can and different brush styles.

  Saving files: Once you have created a drawing you will learn how to save a file including, filenames and where files are stored, type of image files (bitmaps). You'll also learn how to look into folders to open files and recognise the files (drawings) that you have already created.

  Files: You learn how to delete, rename and restore files, looking into your recycle bin and understand that files can be viewed a number of different ways. You see that files have different sizes depending on the type of file and that the computer keep track of when files are created and saved.

• Beginners 103

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Windows: Confirm the ability to launch 5 programs and switch between them with ease, also maximise, minimise and understand active and inactive windows, arrange desktop icons and use Auto Arrange, creating shortcuts for programs on the desktop and QuickLaunch bars.

  Using a Word Processing program: Understanding how to change the view of a word processing program and get around it, type a basic letter using text wrapping and save the file.

• File Management 104

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Introduction to the My Computer icon, including different drives, looking at a files in My Computer that was created using Word, understand CD's and AutoPlay, looking at the contents (files and folders) of a CD, transfer files from a CD to Hard disc using the Winzip Self-Extractor (that comes with this course), understanding the folders and contents panel, different ways to view files (especially image files and office documents), understanding the path of files and the address toolbar, navigating to the path using the Open dialog box in programs like Word and Paint.

  Opening files using My Computer or a specific program, understand how not all programs can open all files (incompatible program errors), using click and drag and copy and paste to move files from one place to another. Searching for files by filename or for keywords.

• Internet (Web sites) 105

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Internet Explorer: Getting around the program and changing the view, understanding the address bar, go button, status bar, understand the concepts of home pages, getting around a website using hyperlinks, getting to other websites using hyperlinks, opening pdf documents using links, understand the purpose of Adobe Acrobat reader, links to email addresses, moving backwards and forward between "visited" websites, understanding the concept of frames.

  Websites: Understand the concept of waiting for website files to download, stopping a website from downloading, refreshing and revisiting websites and why they appear faster the 2nd and subsequent visits. Error messages and incorrect website address messages, understanding how popups work and how to deal simply with them, domain names and how they can change (beyond your control), adding a webpage to your favourites and setting your home page.

  Searching: Understanding the concept of search engines, the search button and searching MSN, using the address bar to search, searching online directories, search for website domain names, using the Google search engine, refining your Google search, searching the Internet for images, performing a search within a search, Smarter searching using multiple windows.

  History and Favourites: Understand how Internet Explorer keeps track of website and the webpages within a website in history, this is a great way of visiting a site that you have been to before even if you can't remember the website address, adding a website to favourites using the toolbar and the menu bar options, and where to find added favourites, organising your favourites into folders, organising existing favourites, changing the names of favourites and more...

• Internet (email) 106

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Email systems: Understand the difference between web-based and computer based email (hotmail vs Outlook Express), understand the layout of Internet Explorer and how to change it, sending an email, using the tab key to move from field to field, understanding the Send/Receive button, Opening, reading, replying to and forwarding an email, Understanding message priority and message status icons.

  Attaching files: How to attach one or many files to an email, attaching different types of files, how to open an attachment, and working with files that you cannot open on your computer.

  Address book: Adding names to your address book, Creating a new entry from scratch or "on the fly", understanding CC and BCC, how to delete messages permanently.

  Understanding how to use hotmail, add contacts and send email messages.

• Microsoft Word (module 201)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  The Screen: Get to know the name of all the different parts of the screen and what they do, including toolbars, menu bars, task pane, status bar etc. Customise your screen so that it is familiar to your preferences, including turning toolbars on/off.

  Change the measurement units, recently used documents and personalised menu settings. Change the zoom and understand that it only affects how you see things on the screen as opposed to how the document prints out.

  Understanding the Open dialog box and how to look into different folders to find a file and open it. Once the file is open you'll learn how to get some fundamental information about that document, including how many pages and sections are in the document.

  Editing Text: Understanding the mouse and text cursors and where text appears when you start typing. Move the text insertion point using both the mouse and keyboard, and move even faster where you want the text cursor using the Ctrl key in combination with the direction keys (also called Arrow keys).

  Use the page up, page down, home and end keys to move around your document even faster. Learn how to edit and delete text using the Backspace and Delete keys,

  Non-Printing Characters: Learn how the Enter, space bar and tab keys put a "non-printing" character on the screen. These characters do not print, but can be edited just like normall letters and numbers (in other words the can be deleted).

  Saving: Understand how to save files, where files are stored and file names, also learn the keyboard shortcuts for this command. Understand the principles involved in saving a file for the first time, subsequent saves and using Save as.

  Selecting text: Learn how to select text using the mouse, keyboard and the Select All command. Learn how to undo any changes you make because new users to Word will often accidentally delete text and the best way to get it back is to Undo it. Learn about the 3 ways of Undoing.

  Understand where the selection bar is and use it and a combination of clicks, double-clicks and tripple clicks to select words, paragraphs and the entire document. Learn also about some common problems that people encounter when selecting text.

  Use the SHIFT key on the keyboard to select text and combine it with other keys to select large amounts of text quite quickly. The more you learn to use the keyboard shortcuts, the faster it will be to create and edit your documents.

• Microsoft Word (module 202)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Formatting: Text formatting effects individual characters that first need to be selected (highlighted). You'll learn about changing the font, font size, style, colour, how to make characters bold, italic and underlined and how to make several of these changes at the same time using the mouse via the formatting toolbar and the Font formatting dialog box that is accessed via the menu bar.

  Learn about default settings, in particular how to change the default font that is used in most "Normal" documents and learn how to use Format Painter to make formatting a breeze.

  Page Formatting: Learn about the various page setup options and how to change the default Page Settings for "Normal" documents.

  This section will show you how to make the page print sideways (landscape) or tall (portrait) - this is called Orientation and how to change your side and top and bottom margins (distance that text appears from the edge of the page).

• Microsoft Word (module 203)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Paragraphs: This topic is one of the hardest concepts to master for those starting out using Microsoft Word, yet it is a fundamental skill that helps you master other like tabs, indenting, and even advanced tools like styles and templates.

  Topics include understanding how the Enter key separates each paragraph and that a line with nothing in it except the enter character (also called carriage return) can contain paragraph formatting. You'll learn how to select paragraphs to change their paragraph formatting (different from font formatting).

  Line spacing and the amount of space before and after a paragraph can also be applied using paragraph formatting tools.

  Borders and Shading: This is a very simple tool to use initially, but it can get more confusing depending on "what" you want to apply the formatting to. You can apply the formatting to text, paragraph(s) or entire pages.

  Topics Covered: Understanding the tool buttons on the borders and shading toolbar, applying borders to paragraphs that contain indenting, and to several paragraphs at once.

  You also learn about different shading options (again, you can get different formatting for text and paragraphs) and learn how to combine text and paragraph shading for that added effect in your documents.

  Bullets and Numbering: These tools provide a great way to make the information in your document easy to read. It also helps to highlight the main points and can show you main topic headings and sub-categories.

  You'll learn: How to start using bullets and numbering using some automatic tools (this is an easy way to get started and it also teaches you how to deal with automatic bullet and number formatting if it happens and you don't want it to).

  Change the type of bullets or numbering used (including the use of letters), edit and existing numbered list (to insert points in the middle) and get an introduction to how numbering styles are used (Styles are covered in more detail in a later Word module).

  Learn how to change the spacing between the margin and the bulletted list and between the bullets and the text. This is particularly important if you are going to work with large bullets.

• Microsoft Word (module 204)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Tabs: Tabs are primarily used to provide structed spacing across the page in Word documents. It is ideal where you have a list of information like a price list or a database of names. Tab is a "non-printing" character (similar to space) that doesn't print, but it makes your text cursor line up at a given marker, that you can see in the ruler.

  You should have a solid understanding about paragraph formatting before you attempt this module.

  You will learn: There are default tab markers in the ruler (usually set at every 1/2 inch) and how to use the tab key to make text line up. You'll learn about the difficulties that people have understanding the tab character and how to delete tabs to fix most common problems.

  Just like the good 'ole manual typewriter, you can actually set tabs where you want them so that you don't have to continuously press the tab key to make text line up. It also gives you much more control for when you want to change how the text lines up.

  You'll learn about the many different type of tabs that you can set and when to use them (for example, you can make a column of dollar figures line up to the decimal point). You'll learn how to use the menu bar option to set and change tabs using the tabs 'dialogue box'. This is a great tool if you get stuck and simply want to remove all 'set' tabs.

• Microsoft Word (module 205)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Tables: Tables are a great tool to help you structure your data. The concept of tables is similar to using tabs (yet much more powerful in terms of layout) and a simpler than using a spreadsheet (eg. Excel).

  There are more formatting options in relation to borders and fill colours that make Tables very powerful and you can incorporate images into each of the cells of the table.

  You'll learn: How to insert a table using the menu bar and toolbar methods, how to choose the number of rows/columns you want in your table and deleting cells/columns and rows that you don't need.

  You'll learn how to resize parts of a table visually using your mouse or using a dialog box and you'll learn how to select the various parts of a table to then apply formatting or edit the contents.

  You'll learn: how to enter information into cells, how to alter the text and  paragraph formatting within a cell using the Table properties dialog box.

  How to merge cells (ideal if you want to create a heading or have large areas within your table for information) and split them to further structure your data.

  These skills give you complete control over the more intricate tools that are available within a table.

  You'll learn how to apply text formatting to individual cells and use the format painter option to make it much easier to duplicate. You'll learn how to change vertical as well as horizontal justification (alignment).

  Table gridlines can be turned on or off for viewing and border formatting can also be applied if you want lines to appear when printing your table.

  You can also apply shading and bullets within each cell of a table and you'll learn how to perform these actions.

• Microsoft Word (module 206)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Office Clipboard: This tool enables you to "collect" many pieces of information from any office program that is running so that you can then paste them all in one document it you want to. It also enables you to collect many pieces of information (text, images etc) and then have them available for you when you are ready to paste. It takes the concept of copy and paste to the next level.

  You'll learn how to make the Office clipboard appear automatically, copy and paste text using the office clipboard and deleting all information that is stored on the office clipboard onces you have finished with it.

  Learn about: Page breaks to help keep headings at the top of the page. You can use both the mouse (an menu bar options) or keyboard shortcuts to insert page breaks and you will also learn how to view the page breaks and delete them when they are no longer neede.

  Symbols are used to produce a creative effect in documents and especially when using bullets. There are symbols that represent commonly used information like Telephone, fax and email symbols.

  You'll learn: How to insert symbols and understand symbol subsets. There are literally hundreds of symbols and you can even use keyboard combinations to make symbols appear on your screen. A good example of when these symbols are used is foreign language symbols.

  Some common symbols are © and ® and you'll learn how to get these and many more symbols like them into your document.

  Headers and Footers: This tool enables you to insert text or symbols in your document. they normally appear at the very top and bottom of your document and contain information about the document such as filename, page numbers, copyright information etc.

  You'll learn: How to move from the document to the header/footer and back to the document, how to switch between the header and footer and how to quickly move around these areas using your mouse.

  Use tabs in the header/footer to professionally align the information and insert very quickly some document information with only a couple clicks. Information like the current date/time, total number of pages, filename and many more.

  Templates: this tool enables you to create professionally laid out documents once, and use them over and over again without accidentally changing them. The most common examples are letterheads, fax headers, reports etc. Word actually comes with a large range of templates but you can also create as many as you want of your own.

  You'll learn: Where Word gets the page settings when it creates a blank new document. Where to find the many 'pre' created Word templates that come with the program, and how to start building your own professional templates.

  You'll understand the commom mistakes that people believe about templates and use them more effectively in your workplace, own business or even in a schooling environment to create professional documents over and over.

  Best of all, the great work you produce will be consistantly professional.

• Microsoft Word (module 207)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Customising toolbars: If you are familiar with the current standard and formatting toolbars you'll be happy to hear that you can do much more with them. You can turn unused buttons off and put buttons on the toolbars for tools that you use more frequently. This is a great way to put all your commonly used tools on the screen in one place.

  You'll learn: How to completely customise your toolbars, turn buttons on and off using the toolbar options button. Put a button on any toolbar for virtually any command from the menu list options. 

  Learn how to turn "Screen Tips" function on, show shortcut keys in the menu list and display each font (from the font drop down list) in it's own style. These customisations just help to make your life little easier when using Word.

  Learn how to apply your own keyboard shortcuts to commonly used commands (this is available for literally hundreds of commands and if you really want to save time by using your keyboard or impress someone in your office this tool is very handy).

  Learn how to put a button in the toolbar that inserts the date in the format of your choice. These skills can be used to put other buttons on the toolbar.

  Automatic Features: There are many automatic features in Word and many of them are turned on automatically when Word is installed on your computer. Some of these features include: AutoCorrect for spelling mistakes, initial capitalisation (THis is an example), Accidental use of Caps Lock (eg. aLBATROSS), automatic conversion of 1/2 to ½ etc etc.

  You'll learn: Where to go to see the features that have been turned on and how to turn them off if you find them too annoying. You'll learn what these features are called and how to use them in more detail to make your life much easier. For example if you work in a doctors surgery or a legal firm where you constantly use long names, you can type in an abbreviation instead and Word will fill the rest of the name in.

  You'll learn how to quickly make common symbols appear like the copyright and trademark symbols, how to convert 1st to 1^st how to make sure that Word uses smart quotes (eg. replace "testing" with “testing”). You'll also learn how to make sure that when you type an email address or website address that Word DOESN'T convert it into a hyperlink.

  These skills will give you trememdous confidence and bring you to an intermediate skill level in Word.

  Program Options: This is the point where you can really make some substantial changes to how Word operates, from simple turning on and off of some view options, converting the measurement in your rulers to centimetres or inches or points etc, change the number of recently used files that you see in the File menu, to more advanced Text editing options like turning drag-and-drop on/off etc.

  You'll learn how to take complete control of Word, using features that you may never have thought you could have control of. These names may not make sense but after you have completed this module it will:

  • Typing replaces selection
  • INS Key for paste
  • Smart Cursoring
  • Smart paragraph selection
  • Smart cut and paste etc etc

  You'll learn how to turn spelling and grammar on and off and customise the rules it uses when performing these actions, and how to change the user information.

• Microsoft Word (module 208)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Symbols & clipart: Learn about Webdings, windings, ZapfDingbats and many other fonts that are actually specific fonts used to show symbols. These symbols are used in bulletted lists as well as throughout text. Also learn how to use Clipart to make your document much more colourful.

  You'll learn: How to insert symbols by choosing from a large range of options and understand that these symbols can be formatted just like text. You can enter many symbols in one go and then drag and drop them around the document to where-ever you want them.

  Clipart: Learn about the insert clipart pane and how to search for clipart using keywords. Learn how to use the Clipart organiser to accumulate any images that are currently on your computer so that you can manage those images, plus any clipart that came with the software in the one place.  Learn how to get to clipart images online. Learn how Images/clipart appear when they are first inserted into your document and much more...

  Image Files: These images are files that have either been downloaded from the Internet, taken with a digital camera or scanned from a photograph and they are full colour images (although they can also be black and white and greyscale) that are stored on your computer as a file. A good example of this is a logo. Your logo can be stored on your computer and then used in templates or fliers and brochures and price lists.

  You'll learn: How to insert images that are stored on your computer as a file, how to resize and re-colour them, plus change their contrast and brightness. These changes are only applied to the photograph while that photo is within your document (it doesn't change the actual image file). Learn how to turn the Picture toolbar on and off and also how to crop and rotate an image.

  Compress an image to make the file smaller so that the Word document can be sent faster via the Internet. Learn how text wraps around images and change it. You'll learn about "in line with text" and how an image when initial inserted acts just like any other character. Learn how to change the text wrapping to Square, In front of text and even behind the text as a watermark.

  You can now start to use these skills and the previous modules to create professional and colourful documents using images. If you want to know a bit more about how to edit images, see our module 109 and 109a.

• Microsoft Word (module 209) - Workbook only

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  This course will teach you about using the large range of drawing tools that are available with Microsoft Word. Tools like inserting charts, callouts and banners, block arrows, organisational charts, flow diagrams and connectors and much more.

  The workbook for this course is available now ...

• Microsoft Word (module 210)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Data: Understand the structure of data, fields & records, Creating a data table, forms for working easier with data tables, table and form views, creating new records, data formats including tab and comma delimited text, Sorting data and deleting rows.

  Mail merge: Mail merge basics, connecting to data sources, inserting merge fields, filtering and selecting data, editing merge recipients data, previewing merged results, different merge options, merging to a new document, saving changes to merge files.

  Labels and envelopes: Customise your label, text formatting within the label, label size options, create new label templates for future use, printing addresses on envelopes, adding an envelope to your document and more...

• Microsoft Word (module 211)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

• Microsoft Word (module 212)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

• Microsoft Excel (module 301)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  The Excel screen including toolbars, formula bar, name box, column and row headings, sheet tabs… uses for Excel (Worksheet, Database & Charting).

  Getting around a spreadsheet using keyboard & mouse, moving between workbooks. Selecting (or highlighting) cells, columns and rows & entire spreadsheets.

  Entering information into workbooks and resizing columns.

• Microsoft Excel (module 302)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Completion: 5-8 hours

  Selecting information: Understanding the mouse cursors used within Excel, how to select cells, columns and rows and multiple ranges of information, how to select cells using the keyboard.

  Copy and Paste: Drag and drop, cut, copy and paste in a worksheet and from one worksheet to another and even between different software programs.

  Editing cells: Typing and entering information, editing existing information and entering the changes, using the status bar information, escaping out of cells. Changing column width and row height for single and multiple columns as well as making all the columns the same width and using AutoFit.

  Database: Creating a simple database, understanding simple database structure (ideal knowledge for mail merge with Microsoft Word), Inserting and deleting columns, using Undo and redo options.

  Autofill: Automatically fill numbers, dates, number patterns, days, months and years and much more. The fast way to insert sequential numbers and words. Understanding date formatting (this forms the basis for future calculations based on date format),

• Microsoft Excel (module 303)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Completion: 5-8 hours

  Formulas: Entering formulas using the keyboard, arrow keys and the mouse, understand the importance of relative cells references, common formula errors, using multiplication and division and how to combine two formulas in one.

  AutoCalculate: Get quick additions and basic functions quickly without having to enter formulas.

  Functions: Introductions to functions and function syntax, Autosum, Autosum for several and selected ranges and an introductions to other basic functions like Maximum, Minimum, Average and more...

  Functions: Sum function in more detail, using the formula bar and editing functions, using the F2 key, using Autofill to save a lot of time copying (or filling) functions using relative cell references.

  Formatting: This effects the way your spreadsheet looks, everything from lines, colours, shading, and even the format of text and numbers. Topics include: Currency formatting, date and text formatting, merging cells and centering, Alignment formatting and text control within single and  merged cells, fill colour, font colour and Borders.

  Advanced formatting: Autoformats that allow you to quickly make your spreadsheet look very professional, repeat last action, and format painter make it faster for you to duplicate commands and formatting, using format painter with entire spreadsheets to apply multiple formatting in just a couple clicks.

• Microsoft Excel (module 304)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Completion: 5-8 hours

  Views: There are several ways you can view your spreadsheet on the screen and each has its own purpose. The most important thing to note is that none of these views affect the way your spreadsheet prints. Topics include: Zoom (set and custom), Print Preview and page break preview versus Normal view.

  Page Setup: Including page orientation, Scaling and margins, and changing these settings.

  Print areas: Setting and clearing defined print areas, understanding the difference between default and set page breaks, Inserting and moving page breaks, Changing the print order of pages, centering the spreadsheet when printing and showing/hiding gridlines and headers.

  Introduction to headers and footers, using preset and custom headers and footers, including the use of file information and common fields.

  Freezing panes when viewing so that certain information headers remain on the screen while you scroll through lists, and Repeating rows so that when the information is printed rows or column headers are repeated.

  Printing options.

• Microsoft Excel (module 305)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Completion: 5-8 hours

  Charting: Creating a simple chart and learning that charts are dynamic and based up on the information stored somewhere else within the spreadsheet, Inserting labels for heading, the x & y axis, values and more. Learning how to chart mutliple rows and columns

  Charting: Organising your sheet tabs, especially for new chart sheets, changing the data range within the chart wizard, charting several separate data ranges, charting options and different types of charts (pie charts)

  Chart formatting: Understanding chart objects for the purpose of formatting, understanding the buttons in the chart toolbar, and using right-click to format. Formatting a data series, and parts of a pie chart, having 2 different data formats within the one chart and how to get charts into Microsoft Word documents.

• Microsoft Excel (module 306)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Number and percentage formatting: Understanding the various ways of formatting, including the understanding form percentages to better use them in formulas and functions.

  Understand that cells can be formatted (even without data in them) so that when you enter data, it can look completely different to what you expected to see.

  Sometimes cells can be formatted in such a way that even though you enter numbers, a date may be shown. Learn about why in this section.

  Relative and Absolute Cell references: Understand how relative cell referencing works to help you copy formulas and functions quickly. Also understand where they don't work and why.

  Absolute cell referencing is a powerful way to reduce the amount of calculations you have to create and can save several columns or rows of typing. Learn the different types of and how to use absolute cell references in this section.

  Learn and understand some fundamental mathematical functions that will help you perform most formulas and functions. These are fundamental skills that will help make more complicated functions easier to understand.

  Understand how to combine two formulas into one and as a result write much better formulas and get to know the order of mathematical calculations.

  Using Functions like Maximum, Minimum and average

  Getting to know the "Insert Functions dialog box", how to search for a particular function and understand the concept of "arguments" (or syntax) in functions and function categories such as financial, Date and time, maths and trig, etc.

  Understanding and constructing an IF Statement.

  Comments: Understand the uses for comments. Insert comments that help to explain the purpose of a cell, choose the size and location of the comments and control the way they appear on the spreadsheet.

  Edit comments and change the formatting within a comment, change the name of the person who made the comment, and make sure that the comment appears all the time or only when you move the mouse to it.

  Show/Hide Columns/Rows: Learn how to hide columns or rows that contain confidential information. This way you can print the spreadsheet out without the confidential information, but use the confidential information to perform the necessary calculations.

• Microsoft PowerPoint (module 401)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Start creating great looking presentations within 2 hours. This module takes you through the fundamentals of slides, the outline pane, notes pane, plus slide transitions and how to navigate through and control a presentation.

• Microsoft PowerPoint (module 402)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Once you understand the basics of PowerPoint, this course will take you through how to format text and all the contents of text frames, how to select multiple frames and apply broad formatting, understand bullet formatting and how to customise bullets and change indenting using the ruler. You'll learn about using tabs in PowerPoint (slightly different to using Microsoft Word) and also Format Painter to repeat existing formatting much faster.

  You'll insert a PowerPoint chart and see the why this is more beneficial than copying and pasting a chart from Excel (much better for visually showing different components of the graph to your audience).

  You'll learn how to use the Outline Pane to create a powerpoint presentation quickly, and the function of promoting and demoting as well as re-arranging various parts of a presentation.

  Slide Sorter to arrange the slides in your order of preference and also how to very quickly give a presentation a professional appearance with the use of Design Templates. These can also be created for companies so that all presentations have the same look and feel.

• Microsoft Outlook (701)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  

  Microsoft Outlook is used more and more by both small business and corporate users because it incorporates some tremendous time management and people management resources.

  This course takes you through the different tools that are available in this program including: Emailing, Contact Management, Calendar and managing appointments, Tasks and Notes.

  Learn how to change how you view these tools on the screen and turn panes and toolbars on and off.

  Learn how to store information about your contacts (suppliers, clients, friends etc) and how to categorise and group them for some excellent reporting.

  Learn how to create appointments, block appointments in your day, include details about other people who will be at those appointments, and much much more.

• Setting up emails (module 600)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  Once you have a domain name (like www.ezylearn.com.au) and a 123ezy webserver space, there are many things that you now have the power to do and one of these things is to setup your own email addresses. No more need to call your ISP, you can now do it yourself.

  This module shows you how to set your email address up on the server and allocate a storage quota (which you can change in future) and also how to setup the email address on your email "client" program (like Outlook Express).

  You'll also learn about webmail and how to benefit from it.

• Using the Zen Sitebuilder (module 601)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  This course takes you through the basics of how to create your website using a template and progresses through the creation of new pages and renaming of them, plus the creation of submenus within pages (you can have literally hundreds of web pages within your website).

  You'll also learn how to edit the text within various parts of your website and how to insert images (plus understand a bit about image file types and sizes of image files). This section includes the information on how to upload images to your 123ezy webserver space.

  The layout can be changed completely and you have complete control over it so even if you choose a template you'll learn how to re-arrange it completely.

  Inserting links to other wbsites is simple and this too is covered, along with how to set your website up for Search Engine optimisation. Giving each page a name, description and the keywords that will help people find it.

• Uploading PDF files and linking to them (602)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  A common question that people have regarding their website is if they can get application forms and brochures onto their website. This course will teach you how to do it the simple way.

  You'll start to understand a bit about how the web server filing system works too, which is always handy.

• Inserting royalty free images into your 123ezy webpages (603)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  Finding images for your website will make your pages much more interesting to look at and convey your message much quicker.

  Finding royalty free images can be time consuming and may involve the expense of purchasing images.

  We'll show you how to get images from Microsoft Office Clipart (and online) and upload them to your website server, plus how to position them neatly in your webpages so that text wraps around them.

• Mastering Page Masters and Menu Box properties (604)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  Page Masters ensure that every page in your website looks consistent. Page masters effect the font style and formatting, paragraph spacing, location of Page data boxes and the formatting of Menu Bars (vertical and horizontal menu bars).

  This workbook will give you a valuable insight into how to make better use of this powerful website development tool.

• Publishing Excel & html files to your webserver (605)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  This course will teach you how to incorporate Microsoft Office type files into your website. Convert Word or Excel files to website format and then publish them.

• Customise and Use PHPlist for your email newsletter (606)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  You can now take complete control of your internet marketing for no extra cost than you 123ezy hosting package. Learn how to customise Subscription pages, add fields for information you want to gather, customise the screens to show your logo, built HTML email templates, import a database of email newsletter members or add them one at a time. Understand the concept of ANTI-SPAM regulation with regard to confirmations, and then organise a broadcast to all your clients about what is going on at your business.

  You can use this tool to increase your business sales by up to 30%.

• Adobe PhotoShop Elements - Quick Fix (801)

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  This course aims to show you some of the powerful yet simple tasks you can perform with one of the leading image editing software programs in the world.

  Although the original quality of all photographs you take is very important to produce a quality image, there are tools in PhotoShop that enable you to brighten, change the contrast of and even change the colour saturation, hue, tints and more. This course will show you how to use these tools and get around the software.

• Create PDF files from Word Documents

  • Administrator: Richard Dabba

  Want to create a PDF file from a Microsoft Word document. Well with this great new software program you can actually create a PDF file for free from most programs that allow you to print.

  Many people believe that you need to use the Save command to create a PDF file when infact you use the Print command. Before you do ofcourse, you need to install the software program mentioned in this Workbook, when you do, creating a PDF is very simple.