What We Teach

All of our classes are listed below.
Costs range from $30 to $85 per hour.
See also our Popular Classes and Costs.

Popular Classes and Costs

Evaluate Your Current Skills

Speech Recognition - Talk, Don't Type

• Just say the words or numbers 
  
• Speed: 80 to 100 words per minute 
  
• No pain -- hand, wrist or neck pain 
  
• All computer programs work with this
  
• Keyboard & mouse still work 
  
• Law/business/med office timesaver
  
• Great for schoolwork, letters, email
  

Brochures, Newsletters

• For business and personal needs
  
• Brochures with 3 or 4 sides 
  
• Flyers -- to print or to email 
  
• Newsletters for work, social, family 
  
• Invitations - weddings, other events 
  
• Greeting Cards 

Microsoft Word - Speed Tricks

• Move around documents quickly
  
• Stop keyboard/mouse time waste
  
• Copy and paste easiier, faster
  
• Move text around faster
  
• Macros and other speed tricks
  
• Keyboard shortcuts
  
• Quick access to favorites
  
• Lists with bullets, numbers, outlines
  

Microsoft Word - Basic Letters & Documents

• Create, save, print document
  
• Insert or delete text easily
  
• Center or indent text
  
• Underline, bold, italics
  
• Change typestyle size or color
  
• Copy and move paragraphs
  
• Page & line formats
  
• Spell check, thesaurus
  
• Envelopes & labels
  
• Correct formats for business
  
• Understand "hidden codes" 

Microsoft Word - Advanced Documents

• Reports
  
• Legal and business docs
  
• Headers & footers
  
• Page numbers
  
• Search replace
  
• Newspaper columns
  
• Tables
  
• Graphic lines, shadings
  
• Adding pictures, clipart
  
• Setting tabs 
  
• Paragraph numbering
  
• Mail merge
  
• Sort databases & lists 
  

MS Word & WordPerfect - Legal Docs

• Proper formats
  
• Caption boxes
  
• Numbered pleading paper
  
• Court-required footers
  
• Table of contents / authorities
  
• Footnotes, endnores
  
• Auto paragraph numbering
  
• Appeal briefs
  

From WordPerfect  to  MS Word

• Word for WordPerfect people
  
• Can  it work like WordPerfect
  
• Hidden codes: where are they?
  
• Control "annoyances" in Word
  
• Converting documents
  
• Strong points of each program
  
• Keyboard shortcuts
  
• Macros, other speed tricks

Power Point - Make your presentation lively

• Present anything to a group
  
• For business, legal, medical
  
• For school, religious, social
  
• Add sounds, music, or a voice
  
• Add video, film footage
  
• Makes info interesting, enjoyable
  
• Better family & friend projects
  
• Show music/ actor/ writer/ project.
  
• Make pictures dissolve, spin, fly onto the screen
  
• Dramatic entrance for any phrase or idea

Excel Spreadsheets - Keep Track of Things

• Excel spreadsheets
  
• Easier than calculators--WHY?
  
• Simple math  steps or formulass
  
• Tracking money, time, expenses
  
• Moving around a spreadsheet
  
• Format for currency, percent, etc.
  
• Calculate percentages
  
• Big docs: freeze headings, etc.
  
• Add/remove columns & rows
  
• Change column widths
  
• Multi-sheet workbooks
  
• Full-year workbooks
  

Excel Spreadsheets - Office Level

• Keep & sort client/company data
  
• Powerful--but easy--formulas
  
• More interesting page layouts
  
• Charts - pie / line / column chsrts
  
• Export Excel to Word,Powerpoint
  
• Word tables into spreadsheets
  
• Using named ranges
  
• Macros
  
• More (see our full Excel list)
  

From MS Office 2003 to 2013 

• Why? Why?
• Where are the menus?
  
• What is The Ribbon?  And why?
  
• What's better in the new version?
  
• Which of my old skills still work?
  
• What's easier now?
  
• Did anything get harder?
  

 What's inside your computer?

• Open up a computer, see what's inside
  
• Copy anything to a flash drive or CD
  
• Make folders to store docs, photos
  
• Use storage media for backup
  
• Renaming & deleting files
  
• Virus and popup programs
  
• Installing and deleting programs
  
• Defragmenting a tired computer
  
• Change desktop icons & scenes
  
• Link  to photos, webs, docs, etc.
  

Computer Repairs & Upgrades

• "Emergency" computer help
  
• Start a sleeping computer
  
• Install (or re-install) programs
  
• Wake up sleeping prorrams
  
• Find the missing things are
  
• Add a new hard drive
  
• Add a CD or DVD burner
  
• Add a network card
  
• Find drivers for printer, mouse,
  
• Revive or replace failing parts
  
• Paint your computer pink  
  

Typing: Basics & Speed Tricks

• Learn to type without looking
  
• Can you tap your fingers?  Ok--
  
• Why don't my little fingers work?
  
• Finger exercises: get all your fingers working
  
• Keyboard shortcuts and tricks
  
• Macros & other speed tricks

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

• Scan photos into computer
  
• Scan documents into computer
  
• Get pictures from magazines, newspapers, CDs/records, etc.
  
• Get any photo from the Internet
  
• Take picturs of what is on the comptuer screen
  
• Crop out any part of a picture
  
• Make dark photos visible
  
• Color photos:tinted, black & white
  
• Put photos into unique shapes 
  
• Add pictures to
  

Small Business: What Helps

• Flyers and brochures
  
• Laptops as presentation machines
  
• Spreadsheets: track time, money, sales, Inventory, travel, costs
  
• Look good on paper: better business letters & documents
  
• Makine a web page
  
• Selling on the Internet
  
• Powerpoint presentations
  
• Tracking real estate online
  
• Put photos into unique shapes 
  
• Add pix, sounds, clipart to docs
  
• Use old documents, letters, lists, photos, contracts, brochures
  
• How to avoid doing things twice
  

Music - To and From CD's

• Play music on a computer
  
• Copy CDs into a computer
  
• Copy tapes or records to computer
  
• Make CDs of favorite songs
  
• Record yourself singing or speaking
  
• Multi-track recording with ProTools
  

Email, Internet, Faxing

• Faxing from your computer
  
• Email everyone at once
  
• Send out photos, docs, songs
  
• Search, find any info you wish
  
• Use scientific search engines
  
• Use Ebay & other buy/sell sites
  
• Satellite & street views of home
  
• Saving your emails
  
• Blocking unwanted emails
  
• Virus and popup control
  
• Less boring use of Internet  
  
• View & post pictures, opinions, news, MySpace, blogs, etc.
  

Build Your Own Web Page

• Make a simple website
  
• Present photos, info you wish
  
• Make multi-level websites
  
• Choose who can view your site
  
• Copy ideas from other sites
  
• Site for fave people,hobbies, etc 
  
• Make a web for your business
  
• Make a web for your family
  
• Make a web for a singer, actor, etc.
  
• Make a web for who you love.
  

Products We Sell

• Keyboard shortcuts (laminated)
  
• Step-by-step computer guides
  
• Workbooks with practice documents
  
• Trouble-shooting notes
  
• Headset microphones
  
• Software

 Recording Music with ProTools

• Try the program: Record a song
  
• Computer requierments
  
• Loading the program
  
• Clearer, more robust recordings
  
• Avoiding distortion
  
• Microphone settings
  
• Keyboard shortcuts
  
• Thickening voice & instruments
  
• Who is using this, and where?