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Osborne Village Resource Centre offers three basic computer courses to help people develop their computer literacy.

For individuals with minimal or no computer experience, Fundamentals of Personal Computers is a good place to start. This course covers the very basics of computers, including using a mouse, and proceeds through to basic word processing, using the Internet, and finally, to email.

The next course is Basic MS Word, which builds upon Fundamentals of Personal Computers and helps to get students quite comfortable with using Microsoft Word 2003.

Our last course is Basic MS Excel, which in turn builds upon Basic MS Word. Not everybody has the need to learn Microsoft Excel 2003, but it is widely used in the working world and may be a valuable skill to pick up.

Each of these courses is $65, one night per week.

Osborne Village Resource Centre also offers One-on-One Computer Tutoring on all the topics covered in our three courses. An instructor will sit next to you at a computer at the Centre and guide you through what you would like to learn. One session lasts 1.5 hours and costs $15.

Descriptions of each of these workshops are given below.

To see when they are offered, check out our Calendars

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FUNDAMENTALS OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS

Personal Computer Fundamentals

  • Learn the components of the computer
  • Become proficient with the mouse
  • Become familiar with Windows XP and its terminology: desktop, taskbar, Start button, dialog boxes, etc.
  • Learn the basic components of a window: title bar, toolbars, taskbars, menu bar, control buttons
  • Learn how to use applications / software

    • Word Processing Fundamentals

  • Learn basic editing and formatting functions
  • Review the components of a window, computer terminology and the basics of Windows XP
  • Become familiar with the WordPad window
  • Learn how to open, close, save and print a document
  • Learn various techniques for selecting text: a word, multiple words, a line, multiple lines, all text
  • Expand your mousing skills
  • Use editing and formatting functions such as deleting, aligning, spacing, bold, italics, underline, font styles / sizes, and bullets

    • Internet Fundamentals

  • Learn how to surf the World Wide Web
  • Learn about the Internet and the World Wide Web
  • Become familiar with the Internet Explorer program window
  • Understand and use World Wide Web addresses
  • Use search sites and learn search techniques
  • Learn how to print Web Pages

    • Email Fundamentals

  • Set up and learn how to use a free email account
  • Signing in and logging out
  • Send, receive, forward and reply to email messages
  • Learn how to add and read an attachment in email
  • Use your address book

    $65.00 (cash only) for five 2.5-hour sessions, no prerequisite

    Register in-person

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    BASIC MICROSOFT WORD 2003

  • Learn how to manage your files in Windows XP
  • Become familiar with the components of the MS Word window
  • Become familiar with the various mouse pointers in MS Word
  • Work with multiple windows
  • Review various techniques for selecting text: one word, one sentence, paragraphs, all text with single, double and triple click
  • Learn intermediate formatting techniques: customizing bullets & numbering, borders and shading, fonts, indenting, cut, copy & paste
  • Work with headers and footers, page numbers, tabs, tables, clip art and word art
  • Learn to proof your document: page set-up, spell check, show/hide, print preview
  • Learn the basics of the mail merge function

    • $65.00 (cash only) for five 2.5-hour sessions

    Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Personal Computers, or equivalent

    Register in-person

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    BASIC MICROSOFT EXCEL 2003

  • Become familiar with the components of the Excel window
  • Become familiar with the various mouse pointers in Excel
  • Learn spreadsheet terminology: books, worksheets, cells, columns, rows, and ranges
  • Learn how to enter and edit text within a cell and apply formatting options
  • Work with ranges and range names
  • Work with basic formulas and simple calculations
  • Learn how to proof your Excel spreadsheets: page set-up, set margins, paper orientation & page breaks, spell check, show / hide, print preview
  • Learn the basics of charting
  • Work with multiple spreadsheets
  • Link Excel spreadsheets into a Word document

    • $65.00 (cash only) for five 2.5-hour sessions

    Prerequisite: Basic Microsoft Word, or equivalent

    Register in-person

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    ONE-TO-ONE COMPUTER TUTORING
    Topics that can be covered:

  • Basic computing
  • Microsoft Word
  • Internet
  • Email

    • $15.00 (cash only) for one 1.5-hour session by appointment, no prerequisite

    Thursdays from 1:00pm to 2:30pm and 2:30pm to 4:00pm.

    Fridays from 9:00am to 10:30am and 10:30am to 12:00pm.

    Register in-person

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