Here is an excellent Free Microsoft Word Course that gives you 11 lessons to learn this important word processor application. Each lesson, or section, provides several tutorials on how to perform the features and functions being discussed. These Word course tutorials cover beginning and more advanced topics, such as mail merge and creating a Word macro. 

Word Course Lessons:

1. Get Started with  Word
2. Document Formatting
3. Cut, Copy and Paste
4. Clip Art
5. Multi-Page Documents
6. The Drawing Toolbar
7. Word Art
8. Letterheads, Templates
9. Mail Merge in Word
10. How to design a Form
11. Creating Tables in Word
12. Create a Word Macro

Popularity: 17% [?]

Along with its integrated Web tool application, ImageReady, Adobe Photoshop provides its users a rich, integrated application for graphics designers, Using Photoshop, you can develop intricate and professional images for print, the Web, wireless devices, and other media. Photoshop gives users access to a great tool set for retouching, painting, drawing, and Web graphics, along with features like the History palette and editable layer effects.

This online Photoshop Help Book will teach you many of the new capabilities and features of Photoshop 7.0, including the following: File Browser, Healing brush, Web transparency, Enhanced Web output, WBMP support, Rollovers palette, Workspaces, Tool presets, Auto Color command, and Data-driven graphics.


Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Help Book

• Introduction
• An Overview of Adobe Photoshop
• What’s New in Photoshop 7.0
• Looking at the Work Area
• Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady
• Working with Color
• Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop)
• Making Color and Tonal Adjustments
• Selecting
• Transforming and Retouching
• Drawing
• Painting
• Using Channels and Masks
• Using Layers
• Applying Filters for Special Effects
• Using Type
• Designing Web Pages
• Creating Rollovers and Animations (ImageReady)
• Preparing Graphics for the Web
• Saving and Exporting Images
• Printing (Photoshop)
• Automating Tasks
• Macintosh Shortcuts
• Windows Shortcuts

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One of the best ways to learn how a software application works is to watch it being used via screen videos. Teach-ICT.com provides many Free Video Tutorials on various software applications. Here are their training videos covering Photoshop. These will help you learn how to perform the following functions using Photoshop: editing, drawing, painting, manipulating images, and effects. Learn Photoshop by watching what happens in these videos, and then try it yourself. 


Photoshop Topics:

• Starting off
• Editing with Photoshop
• Doing Drawing & Painting using Photoshop
• Photoshop Effects
• Manipulating Images with Photoshop

Photoshop Video Tutorials

	Starting off
	Starting a new project
	Opening a saved picture
	Editing
	Rotating an image
	Flipping an image
	Sharpening an image
	Drawing and Painting
	Drawing a line using the brush tool
	Preset brush effects
	Making your own unique brush from an image
	Preset paint fill effects
	Gradient fill effects
	Filling a background of a picture with colour
	Filling a shape with colour
	Making a repeating background pattern
	Effects
	Bubbles
	Emboss
	Graphics pen
	Lens flare
	Lighting effects
	Liquify
	Mosaic tiles
	Neon glow
	Pop Art effect
	Rainbow effect
	Stained glass
	Starburst
	Textured text effects
	Twirl
	Watercolour painting
	Wind
	Manipulating Images
	Changing the colours of an image (large file, 37mb)
	Combining parts of two different photos to create a new one

Popularity: 18% [?]

Here is an excellent Free Microsoft Excel Course that gives you 12 lessons to learn this important word processor application. Each lesson, or section, provides several tutorials on how to perform the features and functions being taught. These Excel course tutorials cover many topics and features of this spreadsheet application, including Charting, Math Operators, Functions, Conditional Logic, Scenarios, Goal Seek, Pivot Tables, Data Validation, and Web Integration. 


Microsoft Excel Course Lessons

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Here is my blog post about the Web Design Library,  which offers a large collection of Web Design Tutorials using Phothoshop, Flash, HTML, CSS,  PHP, and Javascript. Also check out the Editor’s Picks.

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One of the best ways to learn how a software application works is to watch it being used via screen videos. Teach-ICT.com provides many Free Video Tutorials on various software applications. Here are their training videos teaching you how to use some of the features of PowerPoint. These will help you learn how to perform the following functions using PowerPoint: creating a new slideshow, adding a new slide, formatting bullet points, adding the date and time to footers, adding animation, performing slide transitions, and creating hyperlinks.

7 PowerPoint Video Tutorials

	Starting Off
	Creating a new Powerpoint slideshow
	New slide – adding one
	Formatting
	Bullet points – changing the style
	Date and time – adding to footers
	Developing Your Presentation
	Animation – adding to text and images
	Slide transitions
	Hyperlinks to other slides

Popularity: 19% [?]

One of the best ways to learn how a software application works is to watch it being used via screen videos. Teach-ICT.com provides many Free Video Tutorials on various software applications. Here are their training videos teaching you how to use the features of Access, Microsoft’s Office Database application. These will help you learn how to perform the following functions using Access: field and input validation, creating simple and complex queries, creating a report from a query, designing and using tables, filtering and sorting tables, and creating and customizing forms and subforms. Using these training videos, you can learn Access by watching what happens on the screen, and then try it yourself. 

Microsoft Access Video Tutorials

	Starting off
	Creating a new database
	Validation
	Validation rule and text - To allow a specific choice of options e.g. male or female
	Required Field
	Basic Input Mask
	Queries
	Creating a query from one table
	Creating a query from more than one table
	Adding a field to an existing query
	Creating an ‘OR’ query
	Creating a ‘NOT’ query
	Creating an ‘IS NULL’ query (to find blank records)
	Creating a query to search between two dates
	Creating a query using a WILDCARD
	Reports
	Creating a report from a query
	Tables
	Creating a table
	Data types – setting appropriate ones
	Design view – change from datasheet view
	Field length
	Indexed Field
	Primary Key
	Drop down list
	Records - adding new
	Relationships - creating
	Relationships - deleting
	Required Field
	Filter
	Sort
	Forms
	Creating a new form using the Wizard
	Customising your form
	Adding macro buttons
	Field - adding a missing one to a form
	Records - adding new
	Subforms
	Creating a Switchboard Form
	Setting the Switchboard to be the opening screen

Popularity: 17% [?]

Here are Teach-ict.com’s training videos teaching you how to use the features of Word, which is the word processor in Microsoft’s Office Suite of applications. These videos will help you learn the following Word features: footers, page numbers, bullet points, mail merge, tabs, and table of contents. Learn these Word topics by watching what happens on the screen, and then trying it yourself. This site offers many Free Video Tutorials on various software applications.

8 Word Video Tutorials

	Formatting
	Adding a footer with a file name and path
	Inserting page numbers
	Inserting bullet points
	Customizing bullet points
	Mail Merge
	Mail merging from a database
	Mail merging from a spreadsheet
	Additional Features
	Tabs
	Table of Contents

Popularity: 18% [?]

Here are Teach-ict.com’s training videos teaching you how to use the features of Frontpage, Microsoft’s GUI Web Site Editor. These videos will help you learn many Frontpage features related to: formatting, content, images, hyperlinks, backgrounds, and tables. Because one of the best ways to learn how a software application works is watching it being used, by using these training videos you can learn Frontpage by watching what happens on the screen, and then try it yourself. This site offers many Free Video Tutorials on various software applications.

Learn these Frontpage Topics:

• Setting up a new site
• Formatting
• Content
• Images
• Hyperlinks and Menus
• Backgrounds
• Tables

FrontPage Video Tutorials

	Setting up a new site
	New site – setting one up
	New pages – adding more pages
	Opening pages
	Viewing how pages look
	Saving your work
	Formatting
	Bullet Points
	Font Colour
	Horizontal Line
	Content
	Adding content
	Marquee
	Images
	Images - adding one
	Page Banners
	Hyperlinks and Menus
	Menu - creating one from a theme
	Menu - interactive menu buttons
	Hyperlinks to a page in your site
	Hyperlinks to external sites
	Changing the colours of hyperlinks
	Backgrounds
	Theme - adding a theme
	Theme - removing a theme
	Theme - customising a theme
	Coloured background
	Tables
	Setting up a tables
	Adding a coloured background
	Merging cells in a table
	Table borders
	Text alignment in tables

Popularity: 20% [?]

Homeandlearn.co.uk provides some excellent free computer training, including this Web Design Course and these Cascading Style Sheet Tutorials. These course lessons and tutorials will teach you how to create web pages using HTML and CSS. To begin, first read their Introduction to the Web Design Course to see more about what you will learn, and to download their free HTML editor.

Web Design HTML and CSS Topics:

• A first Web Page
• Images and the Web
• HTML Text Formatting
• Adding Links with HTML
• HTML Tables
• HTML Forms
• HTML Frames
• CSS - How to Set Up a Style Sheet
• CSS – Formatting Text with Style Sheets
• Stylesheet Reference

Popularity: 19% [?]