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4)... Best New Free Web Development Training Sites

5)... Best New Free Windows, Linux, Hardware & Computer Training

6)... Software, Office and Computer Sites Worth Mentioning

7)... Question of the Month about Software Training

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This is the March 2006 issue (#23) of our Free monthly Newsletter for EducationOnlineForComputers.com, giving you the most current Free online Microsoft Office and Web Development Software Training and Tutorial Resources that we have recently discovered and researched. This newsletter is free to anyone subscribing (instructions at bottom, no username/password is needed). To access our member site, however, you do need a user name and password - registering as a member of EducationOnlineForComputers.com costs only $14 for two months, for more information please see Become a Member of EducationOnlineForComputers.com.

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2) The Best New Free Microsoft Office Training & Tutorial Sites:

This section of our newsletter contains the best new Free Microsoft Office training and tutorial sites that we have found and researched in the last few weeks.

 

8 Free Ebooks for Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Office 2003

This site hosts the following 8 free ebooks covering Microsoft Word, Excel, Excel VBA, Access, FrontPage, Office Web Components, and Office 2003. Also included here are ebooks on OpenOffice.org and Quickbooks 2006. These are in .rar format, which needs to be uncompressed after downloaded. (www.7-zip.org can be used to uncompress .rar files.)

 


Software Learning Guides for Microsoft Word, Excel,
and PowerPoint from Penn  State Erie College

Penn State Erie College offers these free how-to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Learning Guides in pdf format.


Word 2003: Word Basics free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (27 pages, pdf)

Word XP/2002 Basics free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (27 pages, pdf)

Mail Merge Using Word XP free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (34 pages, pdf)

Create Word 2000 Forms free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (18 pages, pdf)

Create Word 2000 Tables free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (21 pages, pdf)

Excel XP/2003 Basics free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (8 pages, pdf)

Creating an Excel Worksheet Exercise free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (7 pages, pdf)

Formatting an Excel Worksheet Exercise free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (8 pages, pdf)

PowerPoint 2000 Basics free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (14 pages)

Office 2000: Helpful Hints and Short-cuts free how-to Software Learning Guide
from Penn State Erie College (22 pages, pdf)

 


Microsoft Office Course Handouts and Templates
from the Cal Pact Microsoft Office Courses

Here are the Course Handouts and Documentation for the CAL PACT Microsoft Office courses for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.. These materials include course module handouts (left column), and the templates to use for the course modules (right column). The handouts are in pdf format.

 


Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Workshop Tutorials and
User Guides from California Polytechnic State University

Here are Workshop Tutorials and User Guides for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint from California Polytechnic State University. These cover both beginnining and more advanced topics and features of these applications. These tutorials are in pdf and word doc formats.

 


Microsoft Office 2000 Tutorials from Bay City Public Schools

Bay City Public Schools offer the these excellent Office 2000 tutorials covering Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Publisher. These can also be used for learning the more recent versions of these applications, as most of the features are the same.

Microsoft Word 2000 Tutorial

Microsoft Excel 2000 Tutorial

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Tutorial

Microsoft Access 2000 Tutorial

Microsoft Publisher 2000 Tutorial

 


Microsoft Word Intermediate Users' Guide

For over a year, Microsoft worked closely with some of the leading experts in the legal community to create the Microsoft Word Legal User's Guide. The Guide contained step-by-step instructions to help legal users accomplish the tasks necessary to build robust legal documents in Microsoft Word 97 or Microsoft Word 2000. This Intermediate Users' Guide contains all the text from the original Legal Users' Guide together with additional guides and links to other resources.

 


Microsoft Word 2000, XP, 2003, 97 Tutorials and Tips

Malektips.com provides tutorials, tips and trickes for several Microsoft Office applications, including these for Word 2000, Word XP, Word 2003, and Word 97.


Microsoft Word 2000 Tutorials and Tips from Malektips.com
Tips and tricks for Microsoft Word 2000 including shortcuts, tweaks, and protecting Word documents.

Microsoft Word 2003 Tutorials and Tip from Malektips.com
Save time using Microsoft Word 2003. Read our helpful topics including keyboard shortcuts, adding a table of contents, customization, and Word 2003 security.

Microsoft Word XP Tutorials and Tips from Malektips.com
Help for Microsoft Word XP including tweaks and adding multimedia.

Microsoft Word Tutorials and Tips from Malektips.com
Help increase your productivity when writing documents with Microsoft Word by following our tips.

 


Microsoft Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, and Access Workshop
Training Handouts from Immaculata University

These are free Microsoft Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, and Access workshop training handouts provided by the The Office of Technology Services at Immaculata University. Each tutorial handout includes short, step-by-step lessons ranging from the most basic how-to's to more advanced features and program applications. These are in PDF format. Also included here are 3 Word tutorials and 2 Access tutorials from Microsoft.

 


Microsoft Excel Workshop Training Handouts
from Immaculata Univeristy

These are free Microsoft Excel training tutorials and workshop handouts provided by the The Office of Technology Services at Immaculata University. Each tutorial includes short, step-by-step lessons ranging from the most basic how-to's to more advanced features and program applications. These are in Adobe PDF format. Also included here are 2 Free Excel Training Tutorials from Microsoft.


Integrating Word and Excel Workshop Training Handout (pdf)

Excel for Students Workshop Training Handout (pdf)

Introduction to Excel Functions Workshop Training Handout (pdf)

Introduction to Graphs Workshop Training Handout (pdf)

Using the Data Analysis Tool Workshop Training Handout (pdf)


2 Free Excel Training Tutorials from Microsoft

Graphs and Spreadsheets Training Tutorial from Microsof

Using the Equation Editor Training Tutorial from Microsoft

 


Lessons on Effective Presentations
using PowerPoint from FunctionX

FunctionX provides these Microsoft PowerPoint lessons which review and demonstrate different techniques for creating effective presentations using Powerpoint. The lessons are mostly incremental and cumulative. This means that, for example, Lesson 2 assumes that you have reviewed Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 is a prerequisite to Lesson 3.

 


Microsoft Access Tutorials, Templates,
and Examples from FunctionX

Microsoft Access is the database environment and tool for the Microsoft Office suite of applications. Functionx.com provides tutorial lessons, sample databases, and resources on how to use and develop with MS Access. Also provided are some tutorials covering VBA, which is the programming scripting language that comes with Microsoft Office and Access.

 


Microsoft Access Tutorials from sfubusiness.ca

sfubusiness.ca hosts the following well designed and written intermediate to advanced Access training tutorials in pdf format.

  1. Preface - Access Tutorial
  2. Scenario - Access Tutorial
  3. Data Modeling - Access Tutorial
  4. Introduction to - Access
  5. Tables - Access Tutoria
  6. Foreign Keys - Access Tutorial
  7. Relationships - Access Tutorial
  8. Importing and Linking - Access Tutorial
  9. ODBC - Access Tutorial
  10. Basic QBE - Access Tutorial
  11. Calculated Fields - Access Tutorial
  12. Basic SQL - Access Tutorial
  13. Forms - Access Tutorial
  14. Subforms - Access Tutorial
  15. Bound Controls - Access Tutorial
  16. Parameter Queries - Access Tutorial
  17. Action Queries - Access Tutorial

 


Tutorials, Articles, Tips and FAQ's for
Microsoft Access from Databasedev.co.uk

Databasedev.co.uk hosts these well written and informative tutorials teaching you how to effectively use Microsoft Access.

 


Microsoft Office Tutorials from aspira.org

Here are several free training tutorials for Micosoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. These cover the basics and some intermediate features of these applications. These tutorials are provided by the Aspira Community Technology Center.

Word
Excel
Powerpoint

Outlook Email:

Access Database:

 


Free Online KeyStone Learning Systems Courses for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint

This is KeyStone Learning Systems free course try-out for Excel 2003, PowerPoint 2003, Word 2003 courses. After logging into their course web site, you can select from the courses they have available, which are listed here. After selecting the course, its topics will be listed on the left navigation column. All topics are freely accessible, but for a limited time. When clicking on a topic you may be required to agree to a free license that is good for one day.

Free Online Desktop Courses for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
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Course Descriptions

Excel 2000 Level 02 Intermediate Course Topics:

Course Introduction
1.0 Changing Worksheet Layout
1.1 Inserting Columns, Rows and Cells
1.2 Deleting Columns, Rows and Cells
1.3 Moving Cells
1.4 Copying Cells
2.0 Additional Formatting
2.1 Formatting Cell Attributes and Alignment
2.2 Borders
2.3 Numeric Formatting
2.4 Center Text Across Columns
2.5 Hiding & Unhiding Columns & Rows
3.0 Printing
3.1 Using Print Preview and Page Setup
3.2 Printing Controls
3.3 Using Page Break Preview
4.0 Using Cell References
4.1 Absolute References
4.2 Mixed References
5.0 Tools Options Command
5.1 Show/Hide Gridlines
5.2 Show/Hide Formulas
5.3 Recently Used Files List
5.4 Sheets in New Workbook
5.5 Default Settings
Quizzes 1 ,2, 3, 4, 5
Keynotes
Sample Files


PowerPoint 2003 Level 2 Course Topics:

1.0 Introduction
1.1 Creating Slides for Intermediate Lessons
2.0 Formatting Text Based Content
3.0 Formatting Pictures, Shapes and Graphics
3.1 Clip Art
3.2 Photographs
3.3 Animations
3.4 Shapes
4.0 Formatting Slides
4.1 Color
4.2 Texture
4.3 Templates
5.0 Applying Slide Transitions
6.0 Applying Animation Schemes
7.0 Working with Slide Masters
7.1 Slide Masters
8.0 Adding, Editing and Deleting Comments
9.0 Comparing and Merging Presentations
Quizzes for sections 1 through 9
Sample Files


Word 2003 Level 2 Course Topics:

1.0 Managing Documents
1.1 Document Views
1.2 Working with Multiple Documents
1.3 File and Folder Management
2.0 Additional Editing Tools
2.1 Find and Replace
2.2 Sorting Text
2.3 Format Painter
3.0 Page Layout
3.1 Margins and Page Setup
3.2 Page Breaks
4.0 Customizing Word
4.1 Changing Defaults
5.0 Understanding Formatting in Word
5.1 Formatting Choices
5.2 Reveal Formatting Task Pane
6.0 Paragraph Formatting
6.1 Tabs
6.2 Indents and Line Breaks
6.3 Bullets and Numbering
6.4 Borders and Shading
7.0 Document Formatting
7.1 Numbering Pages
7.2 Headers and Footers
8.0 Mail Merge Basics
8.1 Understanding Mail Merge and Form Letters
8.2 Mailing Labels
9.0 Introduction to Graphics
9.1 Inserting Clip Art
9.2 Drawing and Modifying Shapes
Quizzes for sections 1 through 9
Sample Files


Online System Requirements:
- Internet Explorer 5.5 or above (IE6 Recommended)
- Windows Media Player 9 or above (download latest version)
- Windows 2000 or above (Windows XP recommended)
- Broadband Internet Connection (256K download speed or above)

 


Many Tutorials for Outlook 2003, 2002, 2000 from Microsoft

Here are many tutorials and articles covering the three versions of Microsoft Outlook: 2003, 2002, and 2000. These Oulook tutorials will teach you many of the functions and features of this email, appointment, and calendaring application and help you understand how it works so you can use it efficiently. These are provided by microsoft.com.

 


Many Tutorials for Visio 2003, 2002, 2000 from Microsoft

Here are many tutorials and articles covering the three versions of Visio: 2003, 2002, and 2000. These Visio tutorials will teach you most of the features of this application and help you understand how this program works so you can use it effectively. These are provided by microsoft.com.

 


VBA Tutorials, References, and Help
- Back issues of the VBA Tutor Newsletter

You can read through and study these back issues of the 'VBA Tutor Newsletter' (which is no longer distributed), as well as the ' VBA Tutorials' associated with the newsletter. The resources referenced in the newsletters and the tutorials themselves offer techniques, tips, help, demonstrations, and lessons which you can use to become a Word and Excel VBA power user. VBA is an abbreviation for Visual Basic for Applications and is a scripting language to use with Microsoft Office applications to make them more powerful and robust.




 

3) The Best New Free Training Sites for Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and other Adobe and Macromedia Applications

10 Freely Available Ebooks for Dreamweaver, Flash, Macromedia Studio,
Adobe Premiere, Digital Photography, and Bryce

Here are 10 freely available ebooks covering several software applications such as Dreamweaver, Flash, Macromedia Studio 8, Adobe Premiere, Digital Photography, 3D, and Bryce. Most of these are compressed in .rar format, you can use 7-Zip to uncompress them, available here.

 


Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop Tutorials from Teamphotoshop

Teamphotoshop.com offers several good tutorials to help you learn Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Here are the links for most of them.

 


Dreamweaver. Flash, Photoshop Workshop Tutorials and
User Guides from California Polytechnic State University

This blog post of ours contains workshop tutorials and user guides for Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, and Acrobat from California Polytechnic State University. These cover both beginnining and more advanced topics and features of these applications. These tutorials are in pdf format.

 


Flash MX Tutorials and Articles from Ultrashock.com

Ultrashock.com hosts some great Flash MX tutorials and articles that will teach and show you how to use Flash MX to create some great and compelling Flash graphics, animations and user interactions. I hope enjoy their Flash MX Tutorials and Articles.

 


Flash Tutorial from tizag.com

In Flash you can create unique text, animations, movies, web applications, games and more. Although flash is somewhat more complex than traditional web development technologies like HTML and CSS, this tutorial will give you the basics you need to immediately get started with designing your own flash projects.

This Flash tutorial, from tizag.com, was written using Macromedia Flash 8, but if you have an earlier version of Flash you should still be able to follow along the tutorial without a problem.

 


Free Flash 8 Training and Tutorials from
Macromedia Flash Developer Center

Here are the best free tutorials, training modules, and articles from the Macromedia Flah Developer Center. These Flash 8 tutorials cover and teach you the features and functionality that you will use to fully make use of this important web animation and multimedia development application.

 


High Quality Photoshop Tutorials from absolutecross.com

Adobe Photoshop is considered by many web developers and graphic designers to be best software application for creating and editing 2D graphics and photographs. With practice and a bit of imagination, there's no limit to the imagery you can create with Photoshop. The skills and techniques these high quality Photoshop tutorials teach will provide you a strong foundation of how Photoshop works and what its features and nuances are. You can learn techniques Photoshop experts use to create killer designs and layouts. Areas covered are: Tools and Basics, Text Effects, Interfaces / Layouts, Special Effects, Colorizing Photos, and Textures.

 


Photoshop Tutorials from Mike's Sketch Pad

Mike's Sketch Pad offers many free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, tips and techniques. These tutorials will show you how to use Photoshop layers, channels, textures, clipping paths, text effects and drop shadows plus other undocumented tips and techniques. Photoshop is the industry standard image editing program. Photoshop is capable of so much and yet it does it all so well. Whether you prepare images for print media or the Internet, Photoshop should be included in your tool chest of graphics applications. Use these Photoshop tutorials to increase your skills.

 


Free Instructional Guides for FrontPage and
Dreamweaver from Penn State Erie College

The following are several well written and comprehensive free training guides for FrontPage and Dreamweaver. These are provided by Penn State Erie College.

These 3 Front Page guides cover how to use the basic features of FrontPage in a step-by-step instructional method.

Here are 2 Dreamweaver Guides to help you learn this web development application:

 


Dreamweaver MX Tutorial: from siteownersdesign.com

Dreamweaver MX is an excellent, dynamic HTML editor that lets you create and develop web sites in a graphical user interface mode. With the help of this HTML Editor you can create powerful web sites that have animations, graphics, and complex scripting. You can create web sites linked with databases and more. Dreamweaver gives you the power of adding components such as Flash animated buttons, Mouse rollover scripts, Navigation bar with menu’s, etc. MX technology is the new state of the art technology devised by Macromedia (now part of Adobe) that integrates, client, tool and server technologies together in order to give your website an extra edge over others. This Dreamweaver MX tutorial gives you an excellent introduction to many of the important features of this tool.

 


FrontPage 2002 Tutorials hosted by Dakota State University

Here are several FrontPage 2002 tutorials hosted by Dakota State University. These are illustrated with screen shots to show you how to use many of the features and functions of FrontPage, which is a graphical GUI tool you can use to create web pages and sites. It is a part of Microsoft Office.

 


FrontPage 2002 and 2003 Articles and Tutorials from Microsoft

Here are many articles and training tutorials (from Microsoft) for Microsoft FrontPage 2002 and FrontPage 2003. These will help you learn how to use this graphical web page development tool, constructing compelling and interactive web sites.

FrontPage 2003 Articles and Tutorials from Microsoft

FrontPage 2002 Articles and Tutorials from Microsoft

 


Illustrator Tutorials from Designsbymark.com

Designsbymark.com offers the following 7 Illustrator tutorials (pdf format) to help you learn the features and functions of this vector drawing and graphics editing application from Adobe. With Illustrator you can convert bitmaps to vector artwork and paint with intelligent palettes. It also provides close integration with other Adobe software allowing the creation of graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices.



4) The Best New Free Web Development Training Sites
 


15 Freely Available Ebooks for Web Development, Hosting, MySQL,
Linux, HTML, PHP, Apache, Security, and ASP.Net

Here are 15 freely available ebooks covering various web development, hosting, and infrastructure subjects, including HTML, ASP.Net (ASPdotNet), E-Commerce, Apache Web Server, PHP, MySQL, Linux, Network Security, and TCP-IP. Many of these are compressed in .rar and .zip formats, you can use 7-Zip to uncompress them, available here: http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

 


HTML and CSS Tutorials from southerntwilight.com

Southern Twilight Design offers this well written tutorials showing you how to and design and develop your web sites using HTML and CSS.

 


Web Design Course Handouts, Templates and Documentation
for the CAL PACT Web Design courses

Here are the Course Handouts and Documentation for the CAL PACT Web Design courses. These materials includes course module handouts and the templates to use for the course modules. The handouts are in pdf format.

 


Tutorials for Cascading Style Sheets from
the Web Developer's Virtual Library

Web Developer's Virtual Library offers these Tutorials covering Style Sheets, or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). These allow the web site author to control the rendering of fonts, colors, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style in web pages. Using Style Sheets, or CSS, visual design aspects of web pages and sites, such as page layout, can be implemented apart from the logical structure of the web site.

 


Web Development Tutorials from from wise-women.org

Here are Web Development Tutorials to help you get your web work done, from wise-women.org. These tutorials cover several areas of web site design, development and programming, including accessibility, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Ultradev, Livemotion, optimizing gif graphic files, website promotion, and CGI form scripts.

 


Visibone Webmaster's Color Lab

This is the Visibone Color Lab, a 216-color Webmaster palette which will help you select the most optimum colors for the theme of your web site. Discover the colors you need and like, then learn their hex, rgb, and cmyk values, along with views of how contrasting and complementary colors appear side by side.

 


18 Free Web Development Books

Here is an Online Books Library from Eastern Mediterranean University containing 18 free books covering web design and development, and specifically CGI, Java Applets, JavaScript, HTML, Perl, SQL, TCP-IP, and Web Publishing. These books are somewhat dated, but still offer good useful information and understanding on how to implement web sites with these technologies.

 


Tizag's HTML Tutorial and Web Site Design Articles

Here is a great HTML tutorial for learning how to code and develop web pages using HTML. Here you will learn the basics of the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), so that you can make your own web pages and feel comfortable using this text mark-up language. Creating an HTML document is easy. To begin coding HTML you need only two things: a simple text editor and the dedication to follow this tutorial. Also included here are their web site design tutorial articles.

 


4 Free Web Development Books: Perl, CGI, JavaScript, Apache

Here are 4 free books to help you with programming and developing your web site. These cover Perl, Javascript, CGI programming, the Apache web server.

Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days:
http://www.bjnet.edu.cn/tech/book/perl/index.htm

Special Edition Using CGI:
http://www.bjnet.edu.cn/tech/book/seucgi/index.html

Teach Yourself JavaScript in a Week:
http://www.bjnet.edu.cn/tech/book/javascript/index.htm

Apache Server Survival Guide:
http://www.bjnet.edu.cn/tech/book/apache/index.htm






5) The Best New Free Windows, Linux, Hardware and General Computer Training Sites
 


2 Windows Tutorials:

Introduction to Windows XP from Calpact.Berkeley.edu

Windows XP Keyboard Shortcuts from Calpact.Berkeley.edu

 


Computer Basics from bcschools.net

Areas covered by these tutorials include the following:

 


Operating Systems Tutorials from service.dell.com




6) Software, Office and Computer Sites and Downloads Worth Mentioning
 


Free Productivity Utilities from gljakal.com

The following are four totally free utility programs offered by gljakal.com.

gljakal's To Do

Gljakal's to do is a simple yet powerful program that helps you keep track of the things you have to do. This little program has lots of features that can be used with great profit in a matter of minutes.

 


Clock! v2

This is a simple, beautiful and useful clock for your desktop. It remembers your appointments, has an option to display on top of all windows, has the ability to change the background picture, and is configurable to four pre-defined sizes.

 


FontViewer

Simply choose the drive and directory where your downloaded font files are located. They will appear on the right, with their file names. Then preview a selected font in the bottom window, and if you like it, press the "install" button to install it.

 


File Partitioner

Break a large file into a set of smaller files. It can be useful if you have to send a big file via email and the destination account has a limited space in MB.




7) Question of the Month about Software Training:

Each month Scott Turton will answer a current or important question that we have received about computer and software training.

March 2006 Question of the Month: 

Could you please list some good tutorial and article resources for learning Microsoft Office Automation and VBA scripting?


Answer:
The Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook) provide servers that you can use to manipulate Office documents from Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. For example, you could write a Visual Basic program that opens Excel, initializes a series of cells, and uses the cells to display a chart. For another example, you could write a VBA macro in PowerPoint that opens a Word document and copies its headings into PowerPoint slides.

Here are the best learning resources I have found for learning Office Automation technologies:

This is a search on msdn.microsoft.com for "Office Automation" containing results that links to many good tutorials and articles covering this technology.

Microsoft Office and OLE Automation Documentation Links
This page contains useful links to information regarding Office and OLE Automation. Most of the links here are to articles on msdn.microsoft.com.

Automating MS-Office Aplications
This tutorial helps you to automate PowerPoint, with hints to automate other MS-Office applications


Creating an Excel Spreadsheet and Adding Data to It Programmatically


Tutorial: Microsoft Office Automation

VB.Net Office Automation FAQ


I hope this helps you.

Scott Turton
http://www.EducationOnlineForComputers.com

 

 


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A free and member-based software educational and training portal web site. We have compiled, categorized, described, and linked many sites that will be of keen interest to computer software application end-users seeking free training and knowledge. Many subject areas are covered, including Microsoft Office, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamwever, FrontPage, Web Development, Windows, Linux, and Computer Hardware. You are able to study and learn all about computer software via Free training, courses, tutorials, documentation, articles, tips, notes, and help. Check us out today.

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***EducationOnlineForComputers.com's Member Site ***

Our Members' Site contains the web's best computer software training resources and tutorials. This content is individually linked and presented in a way to expedite and facilitate your software and computer learning experience. We have done all the web research and presentation work for you so you can concentrate solely on your computer training.

EducationOnlineForComputers.com Member Site FAQ Answers:

  1. All of the web sites and pages in our members site are not in the free section of our web site. The member site training is more detailed and the best available. The online training resources in our members' site are linked and laid out in a much more detailed fashion than those in the free section. This will save you time in finding all the best free training on the web.
  2. You can choose to pay using either Paypal or 2Checkout. If paying pay check and you live in the U.S., please select 2Checkout.
  3. You have a choice to select the non-recurring or recurring method of payment. If you select non-recurring, when your membership period expires, you will not be automatically charged another fee on your credit card or check.
  4. The total price to join our member's site is only $14 total for 2 months, $24 for 4 months, $32 for 6 months, or $56 for a whole year. The funds generated will assist us to help all those seeking software application education training. Here's the link to see what's available on our member's site and to sign up: http://tinyurl.com/7ien You can email Scott Turton with questions at scott_turton@educationonlineforcomputers.com

I will give you 5 Great Free Bonuses when you sign up now.

These are as follows:

  1. 28 Modules of Soft Skills Training, covering topics such as Coaching, Delegating, Finance Essentials, Hiring, Leading and Motivating Team, Making a Presentation, Managing Your Time, and Setting Goals.
  2. 19 Online Business and Reference Books, including titles such as Scientific Advertising, The Art of Electronic Publishing, and Small Business Manual
  3. 12 Instructive e-Books, including On Line Stealth Marketing, 7 Secrets to Unlimited Traffic, and Increase Auction Profits.
  4. Instant and Easy Online Access to the 24 Best Free Computer Help & Support Sites.
  5. 45 of the Best, Completely Free Programs and Utilities.


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