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General
bullet geekgirl, word processing - The abc's of word processing--first looks, editing documents, reorganizing your words, and formatting documents.

http://www.geekgirls.com/menu_wordprocessing.htm


bullet The Word Processing Tutorial - This tutorial covers basic techniques applicable to Mac and Windows word processors.

http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/English/computer_tutorial/G_WORDPR.htm


bullet Word Processing Workout - Word processing skills for all systems -- reproducible excerpts from a book about word processing.

http://home.aut.ac.nz/~jcrawfor/wpworkout/tableofcontents.htm


Microsoft Word

bullet A Beginner's Guide to Word Processing Using Microsoft Word - Created by a grade six teacher, this tutorial is suitable to use with elementary students.

http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/alummis/beginnerword/index.htm


bullet Western Carolina University: Word - Tutorials introducing features of Word, creating and editing documents, keyboard shortcuts, and more.

http://www.wcu.edu/ccenter_inf/CatOnline/MSWD/index.html


bullet In and Out of the Classroom: Word 2000 - From Microsoft, "Learn how to use Word 2000 effectively with the information in this 24-page chapter.  Use Word 2000 to create Web, e-mail, and print documents quickly and easily.  Take advantage Web features that make it easy to create and post information to the Web without needing to know HTML." (site)  (Word document)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/e/8/8e8a563f-51bd-457a-8540-6226c2cd3229/word2000.doc


bullet Florida Gulf Coast University, Online Tutorials: Word 2000 - Includes the following well-developed sections:  Getting Started, Working With Files, Working With Text, Formatting Paragraphs, Styles, Lists, Tables, Graphics Spelling and Grammar, Page Formatting, Macros, Table of Contents, Web Wizard, Creating Web Pages and Keyboard shortcuts.

http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/word/index.html


bullet Beginners Guide to Microsoft Word XP - From the University of Leeds.  This document gives an introduction to the Microsoft Word XP wordprocessing software.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/iss/documentation/beg/beg39/beg39.html


bullet Introduction to Microsoft Word 97  (University of New South Wales) - Explains techniques associated with word processing, using Microsoft Word 97, a standard Windows 95 application; ...introduces underlying ideas, relying on your further experimentation to fill in the gaps. (site)

http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/Learning/Word/


bullet Learning Microsoft Word 7 - Basic operation and functions of Microsoft Word 7.0 for Windows 95; includes practice exercises to work through as well as examples for creating documents in your work.

Lesson 1:  Creating a Basic Document
Lesson 2:  Simple Editing Options
Lesson 3:  Using Graphical Tools and Bars
Lesson 4:  More Editing Options
Lesson 5:  Exploring Templates
Lesson 6:  Other Document Enhancements

http://www.lgta.org/word7/


bullet Word For Windows 95 - Distinct subject areas introduce major tools which Word 7 provides:

Chapter 1 - introduction to the concept of word processing--creating a simple file, saving and printing, copying and pasting.

Chapter 2 - formatting text such as changing font type and style. This chapter also covers text alignment, margins, bullet pointing and numbering.

Chapter 3 - footnotes and page headers and footers. Other tools such as spell checking and the importing of pictures and spreadsheets are also introduced here.  

Chapter 4 - tables in documents. The exercises cover creating tables, changing row height and column widths, as well as borders and shading. Using templates is also covered in this chapter.

Chapter 5 - drawing tools which Word provides. This includes creating resizing, adding text, page orientation aswell as sections and columns.

Each chapter includes a step by step guide through the functions covered in the chapter and the ideas are reinforced with exercises based on the same concepts.

http://www.ibilce.unesp.br/courseware/word/default.htm


bullet Microsoft Publisher - A step by step introduction to Microsoft Publisher.  Link to pages connecting to how-to's for specific tasks within Publisher.

http://www.btrd.ab.ca/tutorials/publisher/


Corel WordPerfect

bullet WordPerfect Tutorials - From the Corel site comes this selection of tutorials for WordPerfect 12.

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Content&pid=1047022958453
&cid=1047023066988&itrkid=search


bullet Land-Grant Training Alliance Online Lessons, Learning Corel WordPerfect 8.0 - Basic operation and functions of Corel WordPerfect 8.0 for Windows 95; includes practice exercises to work through and examples for creating documents in your work.

Lesson 1:  Creating a Basic Document
Lesson 2:  Simple Editing Options
Lesson 3:  Using Graphical Tools and Bars
Lesson 4:  More Editing Options
Lesson 5:  Exploring Templates
Lesson 6:  Other Document Enhancements

http://www.lgta.org/wp8basic/wp8.contents.htm


bullet Land-Grant Training Alliance Online Lessons, Learning Corel WordPerfect 7.0 - Basic operation and functions of Corel WordPerfect 7.0 for Windows 95; includes practice exercises to work through and examples for creating documents in your work.

Lesson 1:  Creating a Basic Document
Lesson 2:  Simple Editing Options
Lesson 3:  Using Graphical Tools and Bars
Lesson 4:  More Editing Options
Lesson 5:  Exploring Templates
Lesson 6:  Other Document Enhancements

http://www.lgta.org/wp7basic/wp7.contents.htm


AppleWorks

bullet AppleWorks Basics -  Developed for teachers, "this online tutorial offers a basic foundation of the different components of AppleWorks."  Sections include Word Processing, Drawing, Painting, Spreadsheet, and Database.

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13811

AppleWorks Basics Word Processing Tutorial:
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourViewCategory.cgi?category_id=18610&tour_id=13811


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