Lessons in All Four Programs in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access

The gcflearnfree.org website has videos and lessons that train you in many different computer skills, including the four programs in MS Office. You can learn basic skills or more advanced skills in any of these programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access (the last program is for data entry and management and is used by many businesses).

My suggestions: Click on the first link below and then click on whatever version of Office (2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, etc.) is on your computer. Click on the second link if you know you want to work on the 2016 version (which is on the classroom computers). I also suggest you click on the third link, which will take you to PowerPoint lessons. If you already know the basics, try lesson 5 (Slide Basics) and lesson 6 (Text Basics).

LINK 1: Choose your version of Office to go to the lessons

LINK 2: Click on one of the four programs in Office 2016

LINK 3: PowerPoint 2016 Lessons--beginning and advanced

Test your computer skills at Northstar Digital Literacy

For these quizzes, make sure you are NOT using the Firefox browser (the quizzes won't work on Firefox). After you click on the purple LINK below  the pictures, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on this picture (first picture on the left). Then click Basic Computer Skills:

                     

When the lesson loads, you will see this picture and you may hear sound:
 

                 

Use headphones or turn off your computer's sound while in the computer lab.

Click NEXT, then click SKIP ORIENTATION (unless you want to go through the orientation).

Then you will be at the Module 1: Basic Computer Skills page. Click Start Now to begin the quiz. Questions are at the top of each page--follow the instructions. The quizzes are interactive--you click, drag, or do whatever actions you would do on an actual computer screen.

LINK: Quiz on basic computer knowledge

To test yourself on your knowledge of Microsoft Word, click the link above and scroll to the bottom of the page, to the middle picture (copied below):
                           

Then click on the Microsoft Word button.

If you see a message that says "Right-click to allow Adobe Flash Player to run" (this is software that plays images and video), click the right-hand button on your mouse. Then left-click on the word "Allow" to go to the Microsoft Word quiz. After you click "Next" and "Skip Orientation, click the "Start Now" button.



Below is a screenshot of the first question on the MS Word quiz:

Practice Computer Mouse Skills

The links below takes you to a library website. You can practice a series of mouse skills that become progressively more challenging, even for experienced computer users (e.g., double-clicking, scrolling, highlighting, and dragging and dropping text). Don't let that mouse beat you!

My suggestion: Try both of these links to help you become more skilled with a mouse!

LINK: Start Mousercising!

LINK: Take a complete mouse tutorial

Identify Computer Parts and Practice Drag and Drop--at the Same Time!

We've learned some computer vocabulary, and we've practiced some mouse skills. Now try combining the two things!

My suggestion: Click on the link below to play a game in which you drag the correct name to the  picture of a computer part or accessory.

Link: Drag the Computer Words to Match the Pictures

Computer Skills Practice

Seniornet.org has how-to videos and instructions for some basic computer skills, including those at the links below.

My suggestion: Click on any link below to get to that lesson:

• LINK: Hiding the Task Bar
• LINK: Adding or Deleting Task Bar Icons
• LINK: Minimizing Windows
• LINK: Arranging Windows
• LINK: Copying Text
• LINK: Moving Text