Moorhead Community Education

Learn from your home; simply click the text sent to your e-mail and follow a few simple instructions to enter the “Zoomclassroom.” You will be watching and listening to your live instructor as he starts off explaining basic terms that can be foreign to the beginner. We will navigate the desktop and look at some of the benefits of using a computer. Let’s take the mystery out of ‘www’ and the Internet, compose an e-mail, and check out the current news.

Let’s make your tasks in Microsoft Word a lot easier. You will save time and frustration and see how to properly use tabs. We will go on to explore dictation, easy paragraph functions, the sort feature, and using macros to eliminate laborious repetition. See the beauty of working with soft and hard returns and how to easily create and use tables. Get tips and tricks, as well as use shortcuts to save time. Let’s look at creating headers/footers and using the Format Painter to easily format existing text. (Not for Apple/Mac users.)

Many instructors use Zoom for live/virtual classes such as cooking classes, painting, exercising, computers, music and others. Author and computer instructor Mike Wilson will help participants understand the process of receiving Zoom invites, “getting to your classroom,” and navigating the features used in Zoom. This user-friendly class will be held over Zoom.

Mike will break down the unknown Microsoft Word stuff and present them to you in a clear, sensible, and enjoyable way. We will briefly look at the free and paid version of word processors, then the instructor will open and show basic functions in Microsoft Word. We will go on to explore saving, alignments, bullets, numbering, and indents. (Not for Apple/Mac users.)

Instructor will demonstrate how to navigate and interface with Excel’s basic features. See how to create a simple contact list. You will view how to use calculations such as AutoSum and see how to generate simple formulas. Learn to use the fill handle, sort existing data, merge and center, move cells and ranges, and wrap text. These easy steps will be held over Zoom.

Learn how to e-mail, forward, reply, and send attachments. You will see how e-mails are organized and deleted. Work with other features, such as starred, drafts and sent. Become acquainted with the writing tools, e-mail folders, and creating links to direct others to your area of interest and websites you have visited. In addition, we will look at contacts and how to use them. All these features will be clearly demonstrated in Zoom.

You can create eye-catching presentations with PowerPoint! Explore the PowerPoint interface and see presentations from simple stock designs. Learn to easily apply themes, animate text, and insert images. See how to create text boxes and manipulate slides for printing. We will enhance a presentation by adding animations and transitions. Finally, view the actual presentation as seen by your audience and get a few tips and tricks to design presentations for maximum impact. (We do not show how to share PowerPoint in Zoom during this class. Not for Apple/Mac users.) This will be a class held on Zoom.

During this class you will learn how to manage pictures on your computer. Find out how to name, rename, and move pictures into folders to get organized. We will take a look at using the Photo Gallery and minor editing of pictures such as cropping and making enhancements. We will use pictures for desktop backgrounds and insert a picture into Microsoft Word to manipulate for flyers, invitations, and other printed materials. (Not for Apple/Mac users.)