Software Applications Tutorials

We have created documents and provided links to others which will help you to learn and more efficiently use common software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentations. There is also help with discovering the Internet and creating Web pages.

Many of the tutorials presented here contain interactive exercises that help the user gain practice by actually using the software.

Word Processing

• Learning Corel WordPerfect 8 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance
• Learning Corel WordPerfect 7 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance
• Learning WordPerfect 6.1 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance
• Microsoft Word 7.0 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance

• Introduction to Excel 97 - this document, developed at Vanderbilt University, presents an overview that will help a beginner build a simple worksheet.
• Learning Microsoft Excel - created by the Land Grant Universities' Consortium
• Learning Corel Quattro Pro 7 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance
• Learning Lotus 123 Version 5 for Windows - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance

• Learning Microsoft Access 97 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance

Presentations Software

• Learning Microsoft PowerPoint 7 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance
• "Using PowerPoint 97" - a tutorial created by G. David Garson
• Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 - created by the University of British Columbia
• Learning Corel Presentations 7 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance
• Learning Lotus Freelance Graphics 96 - created by the Land Grant Training Alliance

Operating Systems

• Using Windows 95 - created by Academic Computing at Kentucky State University
• Introduction to Windows 95- created by the Penn State University Center
• Using accessibility options in Windows 95 for persons with disabilities- created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About the Internet and the Web

• An Internet Overview - created at Rensselaer
• "Finding Information on the Internet - A TUTORIAL" - a Teaching Library Internet Workshop from the University of California at Berkeley
• Welcome to Navigating the Internet - created at the University of Oregon
• Communicating on the Web - The Prometheus Project - this is an interacitve learning experience for beginning used of email, mailing lists and Internet Relay Chat. Earn a personalized certificate or a web logo by completing all parts of the tutorial.
• Internet Help- a list of links to Internet tutorials compiled by the BISNet Technical team

Web Page Creation

• HTML - An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners - learn HTML by example with this interactive guide created by Dave Kristula.
• WIT - Web Interactive Tutorial - this free course is offered by South Bank University's Computer Services Department. The coures will guide you through the entire process of not only creating web pages but also publishing them so that they can be seen by other web users.
• Web Page Templates- provided by Netscape Communications Company
• Introduction to FrontPage 98 - developed by Academic Computing at Kentucky State University