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Each course is 8 sessions, approximately 2 hours each (depending on the number of attendees), over a 2-week period. Sessions are held four (4) times a week Monday through Thursday. All sessions are held online via webinar‡ and VoIP/chat/phone. Here is exactly what each course will include.

PC Essentials

Week 1, Day 1 & 2
Word Essentials: AutoText, AutoCorrect, Page Setup, expanding the dictionary, how to turn off/on RTF formatting, find and replace, toggling, utilizing the help section. What's new with Word 2007.

Week 1, Day 3 & 4
Shorthand for Windows, how to save your shortcuts to more than one PC, instant messaging, how to install/uninstall programs, how to determine your system’s properties.

Week 2, Day 5 & 6
Transcripton platform demonstration, FTP demonstration, how to setup different types of WavPedals.

Week 2, Day 7 & 8
Disk cleanup, disk defrag, setting up and scheduling virus scans, firewalls, spyware, backing up on flash drives.

Basic Computer Essentials (coming January 2010)

Week 1; Day 1, 2 & 3
Opening and saving documents, opening a file, deleting text, undo/redo, cut/copy & paste, bold, underline, italicize, numbering/bulleting, spell check and much, much more.

Week 1, Day 4
Parts of a spreadsheet, working with formulas, moving around a worksheet, formatting cells, and much more.

Week 2, Day 5 & 6
Stand-alone programs versus internet-based programs, setup, creating emails, forwarding emails, replying to emails, attachments, email etiquette and more.

Week 2, Day 7
Internet basics, cookies, spyware/adware, web browser types, saving favorites and more.

Week 2, Day 8
Computer maintenance and recap.