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This file explains how you can automate the process of printing labels on your computer.

This file will help you create many letters that have similar information, but need to be personalized for each recipient. The information can be entered into one form letter automatically by the computer, and you can print all the letters quickly and easily.

Picture Fill Fonts

Spruce up your writing by adding pictures to your lettering.

Checking Sudents' Work in MS Word

this turtorial will show you how to electronically mark and return student papers. Save a Tree!!!

Decorating with Graphics and Text effects

This is a tutorial to help you create more appealing documents using graphics and special test effects.

Creating a Document Outline

This tutorial will help you create a document in outline form, and will help you work with outline form and view.

Inserting and Positioning Graphics

This tutorial will help you insert graphics and get them to stay where you want them in your documents.

Word’s Special Features

This tutorial helps you use handy features in word, including word count, etc.

Using MS Excel

Simple instruction book explaining how to use Excel to automate many tasks. Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to work with math, or to create tables like this index of files.

MS Excel

Making Simple Graphs

Graphing information is easy on the computer. This is the instruction sheet for making simple bar, pie, and line graphs on the computer.

Making Complex Graphs

This is a simple instruction sheet on how to make graphs quickly and easily on the computer. This file is like the next file, but it includes instructions on creating three dimensional graphs using detailed information.

How to Use Lists

This tutorial helps understand lists and can greatly aid the entry and use of data in a spreadsheet.

Rounded Corner Boxes

Sometimes we want to create rounded corners on forms to make them unique. Follow these instructinos to acchieve this effect..

Basic Instructions

This is an easy-to-use instruction book on making presentations in PowerPoint.

MS PowerPoint

Creating Mirrored Text

Instructions to create mirrored images of text in PowerPoint slides. This s a creative way to draw attention to entered text.

Using PowerPoint to Teach

This presentation will give pointers on the most productive use of PowerPoint presentations in the classroom. It will help you avoid distractions in your presentations. See how you can improve students’ learning with PowerPoint.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Sometimes using the keyboard is faster than using the mouse. This is a lest of common tasks that are accessed by keyboard shortcuts.

MS Producer

This is a presentation on ways to add sound and video to PowerPoint presentations.

Picture Backgrounds

You can change the background on your slides by adding a custom picture to the background. This tells you how to do that.

Task Cards

This is a task card master on how to link thumbnails to full scale images in your slide shows.

Create a Master Slide

Instructions on creating a master slide in PowerPoint is easy. Follow these steps to accomplish this task.

Using Two Monitors on One Computer

These instructions will enable a presenter to have two different monitors on the same computer. One will include presentation notes.

Create a Portfolio

A tutorial that shows you how to create Portfolios using PowerPoint.

Creating Great PowerPoints

Creating great legal PowerPoints is easy. This vidoe will show you how to do it within the limits of the law.

Preset and Custom Animations

This is a tutorial that will show you how to make animation a part of your PowerPoint presentations.

Sound in Presentations

This tutorial will help you add music or sound files to your presentations, and will help you have them play when and where you want.

Packaging for CDs

This tutorial will help you create a CD of a presentation that contains all the files needed to run the presentation on any computer.

Quick Reference Card for Excel

This is a quick reference card for great PowerPoint features. It can be read on line or printed.

Hyperlinks in Presentations

There are times that it is nice to jump to different areas of a presentation. These instructions help you create the links you need to go to other areas quickly.

Creating Text Buttons

Sometimes you need to create a text button to help move you through a presentation. This helps create and format the button.

Creating a simple Poster

This file will help you create simple posters (and other Print documents) that are flashy and effective.

MS Publisher

Make an Award Certificate

Create simple award Certificates for your students using Microsoft Publisher.

Create a Banner

This is a tutorial to help you create a banner.

Create a Newsletter

This is a visual tutorial on how to create a newsletter quickly and easily using publisher.

Create and Publish a Website

This is a visual tutorial that will assist you to create a webpage and publish it to the web.

Using MS Access

This is a presentation that show the basics of Microsoft Access and what can be done with it.

MS Access

Make a Website with Front Page

This is a tutorial that shows you have to create a webpage using Microsoft FrontPage.

MS Front Page

Front Page Features

This tutorial will help you use some of the features of FrontPage to help you create WebPages.

Quick Reference Card

This is a printable quick reference card for the Microsoft FrontPage program.

Filling Forms with Word

This is a presentation that will help you fill in printed forms using a scanner and Microsoft Word quickly, neatly, and easily.

Filling Studend Planners with Word

These instructions will help you enter text into an image of a student agenda for students to copy.

MS Office 2007

This is an overview of the new 2007 Microsoft office suite. We do not have this suite, but you may want information before making a personal purchase.

Other MS Files

Condensed Open Office Review

This is a form that briefly tells the features of the Microsoft Office substitute, Open Office Suite. (To see more about this product, search Open Office on the web.)

Posters Made in Excel

This tutorial will show you how to create posters of any size in Excel. It creates a spread sheet that is printed on many sheets, and then are glued together. There is NO limit on Poster size.

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MS Word Instructions

Instructions on using word to create printed documents.

Adding Page Borders

Adding a page border can enhance any poster. Use these instructions to add page borders and create a poster.

Microsoft Office Suite

MS Word

Making 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 Booklets

Instructions on making simple folded booklets in MS Word

Making Calendars

Instructions to help you easily format and print calendars using Microsoft Word.

Calendaring in Word

This is a tutorial that shows you step by step how to do the above task of creating a useful calendar using MS Word.

Importing Pictures into Word

These instructions help you add pictures to your written documents.

Adjusting Image settings in Word

Often when images are inserted in a Word document, it is not in the locations you wish to have the picture, or you may wish to rotate the picture for your document. To set the way pictures are loaded into Word, follow these instructions.

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Presentation Tips

Sometimes you need to create a text button to help move you through a presentation. This helps create and format the button.

Address lists made in Access

This is a presentation shows how to create address lists in Microsoft Access.