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12 Word and Mail-Merge Video Tutorials

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:47:05 +0000

Here are 12 Word Video Tutorials from mistupid.com. Five of these Word tutorials will show you how to do a mail-merge, the others demonstrate Word features such as Table of Contents, Fill-in Forms, AutoCorrect, Print Preview editing, and repeating Table Headings.

7 Word Video Tutorials

- Table of Contents

- Fill-in Form

- Label Mail Merge

- AutoCorrect

- Editing in Print Preview

- Insert Random Text

- Repeat Table Heading Rows

5 Word Mail Merge Tutorials

These mail-merge video tutorials teach you how to setup a spreadsheet of names and addresses in Excel and then use this as input for generating form letters and labels in Word for each name/row in the spreadsheet.

- Create a Data File in Excel

- Create a Form Letter in Word

- Merge the Files

- Label Mail Merge (XP)

- Word Tips, Techniques and Tutorials, from 599cd.com. These learning pages will assist you in becoming a better and more effective Word user in the following areas: Mail Merge, Document Columns, Styles, Headers and Footers, Clipart, Tables, Date codes, and Images.

Word Tips and Techniques:

How to use Mail Merge
How to use Columns properly
How to use Styles to format your document
How to Cut, Copy, and Paste with Word
How to make a Header and Footer
How do I insert Clipart into my documents?
Laying Out Your Page with Tables
Inserting Automatic Date Codes in Word Documents
Formatting a Section of your Document with Columns
Inserting a Horizontal Line in your documents
Stop Pictures Moving Around on the Page
Making Word NOT automatically create hyperlinks
Changing Word's Startup Documents Folder

Word Tutorial Articles:

Word: Different Headers & Footers
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12 Excel Tips and Articles

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:39:04 +0000

Here are 12 Excel Tips and Learning Articles, from 599cd.com, that will help you learn the the following Excel functionality: VLOOKUP / HLOOKUP Functions, IF Function, Autosum Button, Sorting, Working with Dates and Times, String Concatenation, and a Button to Change Values.

6 Excel Tips:

Using VLOOKUP / HLOOKUP to find a value
Using the IF function to calculate sales tax
Dealing with ZIP codes that start with zero
Autosum Button not always working
Sorting Data in Excel

6 Excel Learning Articles:

Excel: Separating Time & Date
Excel: Aged Accounts Receivable
Excel: Days Between Dates
Excel: String Concatenation
Excel: Button to Change Value
Excel VLOOKUP Function

Tips and Articles for Microsoft Access

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:34:38 +0000

Here are several informative, free Access Tips, Techniques, and Articles for Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Microsoft Access users, from 599cd.com, which is a fee-based training site. These will help you learn how to use many important features and functions of Access so you can manage and present your data more efficiently. Some of these include: Parameter Queries, Forms Control, Calculated Query Fields, Time/Date Differences, Update Queries, Working with Relational Tables, Aggregate Queries, Using Two Combo Boxes, the DLookup Function, the IIF Function, and Many-to-Many Relationships.

Beginner Access Tips:

Creating a Parameter Query
   Entering criteria at run-time
String Concatenation
   FirstName & LastName together
Different Form Controls for Gathering User Input
Calculated Query Fields
   LineTotal: Price * Quantity
Form Control Wizards Not Starting

Intermediate Access Tips:

Number of Months Alive
   DateDiff, DateAdd, IIF, Round
Form Footer Totals
   Sum up the values on a form
Time/Date Differences
   Calculate the difference between two times/dates
How to Insert Video into your PowerPoint Presentation. It is provided by the Center for Educational Technology at Emory University, which provides informational software tutorials to assist faculty, students, and staff. To include video files in Powerpoint you must have them in a digital video file format. Although Powerpoint claims to support various dv formats, .avi files are the most reliable when playing on PCs. This 9-step PowerPoint tutorial is in pdf format and is 256kb in size.

78 Free Excel 2007 Tutorial Videos

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:19:06 +0000

Here are 78 Free Excel 2007 Tutorial Videos (in Flash format) from Officesessions.com. These are well done training tutorials for the following functionality in Excel 2007: Add-Ins Tab, Data Tab, Formulas Tab, Home Tab, Insert Tab, View Tab, Inspect and Encrypt the worksheet, Edit Fonts, Formta Cells, Find and Replace, Spell Check, Using the Thesaurus, Protect Sheets and Workbooks, Insert Pictures, Insert Clipart, Insert Shapes, Create Charts, Create Headers and Footers, Update the Theme, Display Sum of Cells, Change the Background, Undo and Redo, and the Quick Access Bar..

Excel 2007 Video Tutorials:

1.About the Add-Ins Tab
2. About the Data Tab
3. How to Delete a Cell
4. How to Delete a Column
5. How to Delete a Row
6. About the Formulas Tab
7. About the Home Tab
8. About the Insert Tab
9. How to Create a Document
10. How to Open a Document
11. About the Page Layout Tab
12. How to Print ..

60 Free Word 2007 Tutorial Videos

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:24:36 +0000

Here are 60 Free Word 2007 Tutorial Videos (in Flash format) from Officesessions.com. These are excellent training modules for learning these features and tasks in Word 2007, including editing the fonts, creating a chart, adding clipart, creating headers and footers, home tab, insert tab, mailing tab, paragraph alignment, updating themes, using the thesaurus, add comments, tracking changes, adding graphics, creating tables, updating the style, performing a spell check, encrypting a document, creating bookmarks, make columns, and using watermarks.

Word 2007 Video Tutorials:

1. About the Add-Ins Tab
2. How to Change the Background Color
3. How to Make Font Bold
4. How to Change the Font
5. How to Change the Font Size
6. How to Create a Chart
7. How to Add Clipart
8. How to Change The Text Color
9. How to Create a Document Compatible with Microsoft Word 97-2003
10. How to Copy Text
11. How to Create a New Document
12. Rai OpenCourseware offers freely available course content, or courseware, which is literally a "treasure trove of knowledge and related resources". Their Computing Courses provide higher education and learning for Information Technology to all students and professionals who like to study and learn on their own. Educational institutions can also use this free course content.

Here is Rai OpenCourseware's Desktop Publishing Training, that will teach you important publishing features and tasks of Word, PowerPoint, Pagemaker. These free desktop publishing training tutorials are well illustrated and provide step-by-step instructions for using these applications. They are also available here, here, here, and here.

Desktop Publishing: An Introduction

- Principles Of Layout And Design
- Grids And Columns Layout
- Creating, Saving, Navigating And Viewing A Word Document
- PowerPoint Training Tutorials from the University of California. These will show and teach you how to use many features of PowerPoint, as shown and linked to below. The first document is a comprehensive PowerPoint Guide with 9 screen video tutorials. This free training document will take you through practices and recommendations for creating and using PowerPoint presentations. This tutorial guide was created using PowerPoint XP and 2003, but many of the specific instructions are also applicable to version 2000. The remaining PowerPoint tutorials are available in several formats: .doc, .pdf, and video.

PowerPoint Tutorials from the University of California:

PowerPoint Guide
- Introduction to the PowerPoint Guide (0.9mb)
- Creating a Blank PowerPoint Presentation (1.67mb)
- Inserting Text, Images, and New Slides (1.61mb)
- Inserting Tables and Graphs in Your PowerPoint Presentations (2.83mb)
- View Modes in PowerPoint (4.48mb)
- Rai OpenCourseware offers freely available course content, or courseware, which is literally a "treasure trove of knowledge and related resources". Their Computing Courses provide higher education and learning for Information Technology to all students and professionals who like to study and learn on their own. Educational institutions can also use this free course content.
  
  Here is Rai OpenCourseware's Microsoft Office Training, that will teach you several important features of using Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access. These free Office training tutorials are well illustrated and provide step-by-step instructions for using these applications. The course tutorials are in pdf format and are also available here, here, and here.
  
  Basic Concepts Of Computers
  
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  - Operating System
  - Microsoft Office Overview
  - Introduction Word Processing