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The Practical PC

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Cengage Learning, Dec 24, 2007 - Computers - 295 pages
Part of the Practical series, this text offers an engaging, interactive approach to teaching PC concepts. The companion BookOnCD features videos, animations, screen tours, and hands-on activities, which teaches students how to use their PC. This edition includes new screenshots and screen tours featuring Office 2007 and Windows Vista and covers important ethical and societal issues that affect today's PC users, such as software, piracy, e-commerce security, email privacy, and more.
  

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Contents

Getting Started
2
Looking at Windows
18
Installing and Learning Software
34
File Basics
50
Organizing Files and Folders
64
Protecting Your Files
80
Connecting to the Internet
96
Browsing and Searching the Web
110
Accessing Databases
168
Making Presentations
182
Working with Graphics
196
Recording and Editing Sound
210
Creating Desktop Video and Animation
224
Looking Under the Hood
240
Buying a PC
254
Upgrading and Expanding Your PC
268

Sending Email and Attachments
124
Writing and Printing Documents
140
Working with Spreadsheets
154

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About the author (2007)

June Parsons and Dan Oja purchased their first computer, an Apple II+, in 1981 and quickly became fluent in BASIC, dBASE II, Lotus 123, WordStar, and a variety of accounting programs. The next year, they opened a successful small computer retail store that also offered software instruction to children and adults. June taught at the university level for more than 20 years, has a doctorate in Educational Technology, and was certified by the ICCP in 1995. June and Dan began writing and creating educational software for Course Technology in 1992. They contributed to the Windows for Business and Illustrated Series and developed the New Perspectives, e-Course, and Practical series. They work via the Internet with a team of highly skilled media specialists and desktop publishers located in various states and provinces.

June Parsons and Dan Oja purchased their first computer, an Apple II+, in 1981 and quickly became fluent in BASIC, dBASE II, Lotus 123, WordStar, and a variety of accounting programs. The next year, they opened a successful small computer retail store that also offered software instruction to children and adults. June taught at the university level for more than 20 years, has a doctorate in Educational Technology, and was certified by the ICCP in 1995. June and Dan began writing and creating educational software for Course Technology in 1992. They contributed to the Windows for Business and Illustrated Series and developed the New Perspectives, e-Course, and Practical series. They work via the Internet with a team of highly skilled media specialists and desktop publishers located in various states and provinces.

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