PCs: discovering the personal computing connection
Business end: multi-user computer systems
Discovering what's out there:
Buying And Setting Up A Computer:
Understanding computer hardware:
Understanding hard drives
Understanding input devices
Understanding display screens
Understanding optical drives
Understanding Internet connectivity options
What do you get for your money?
Connect the monitor, keyboard, and mouse
Understanding the keyboard layout
Starting up and shutting down:
Understanding user accounts
Understanding Operating Systems:
What is an operating system?
Types of operating systems
Operating systems for desktop and notebook PCs:
Operating systems for netbooks
Operating systems for tablets and smart phones
Learning how operating systems talk to hardware
Getting around in Windows 8-1:
Understanding the start screen
Understanding the desktop
Switching among applications
Working in a desktop application
Working in a Windows 8 application
Controlling application Windows:
Managing files with file explorer:
Understanding file storage
Browsing drives and folders
Selecting files and folders
Changing the file listing view
Copying or moving a file or folder
Deleting and recovering files
Assessing your current network
Setting up network hardware
Connecting a computer to a wireless network
Getting better wireless signal strength
Sharing files and folders on a network
Browsing other people's shared resources
Sharing your printer with others
Part 2: Online Experience:
Understanding Internet Basics:
Exploring different types of Internet connections
Setting up an Internet connection
Trouble shooting an Internet connection
Discovering how the web works
Understanding web addresses
Checking out Internet Explorer's interface
Saving and organizing favorites
Creating your own web content
Sending And Receiving Email:
Email addresses and mail servers
Signing up for an Email account
Setting up an account in your Email client:
Setting up an account in mail in Windows 8-1
Setting up an account in Outlook-com
Setting up an account in Microsoft Outlook 2013
Composing and sending Email
Understanding the inbox interface
Moving messages into folders
Understanding Email etiquette
Clouds And Online Communication:
Using cloud-based applications
Working with Microsoft OneDrive:
Signing into the OneDrive web interface
Installing and using OneDrive for Windows desktop
Using the Windows 8 OneDrive app
Participating in social networking:
Facebook and other social network sites
Part 3: Productivity Programs:
Understanding Applications:
Installing and removing applications
What is Microsoft Office?
Navigating an office application's interface:
Moving around in an application
Changing the zoom and the view
Opening and saving files:
Saving your work for the first time
Navigating in the Save As dialog box
Creating Personal Documents With Microsoft Word:
Creating a New Document using a template
Setting paper size and orientation
Editing and selecting text:
Filling text placeholders
Choosing text font, size, and color
Applying text attributes and effects
Applying horizontal alignment
Changing vertical spacing
Creating bulleted and numbered lists
Copying formatting with Format Painter
Checking Spelling and Grammar
Selecting rows and columns
Resizing rows and columns
Inserting pictures from the web
Understanding vector and raster graphics
Inserting photos from files
Changing the text wrap setting for a picture
Understanding Desktop Publishing
Managing And Calculating Data With Microsoft Excel:
Understanding the Excel Interface:
Typing and editing cell content:
Copying and moving data between cells
Using AutoFill to fill cell content
Changing the worksheet structure:
Inserting and deleting rows and columns
Inserting and deleting cells and ranges
Calculating with Formulas:
Moving and copying formulas
Touring some basic functions
Adjusting rows and columns
Applying a workbook theme
Creating a column or bar chart
Switching rows and columns
Understanding the elements of a chart
Editing the chart data range
Moving a chart to its own worksheet
Adding and positioning chart elements
Creating Presentations With Microsoft PowerPoint:
Exploring the PowerPoint Interface:
Moving around in a presentation
Understanding PowerPoint views
Creating a New Presentation:
Manipulating slide content
Formatting a presentation:
Manipulating slide content
Formatting a presentation:
Applying a background fill
Applying and removing borders
Turing text Autofit on or off
Inserting an online image from Office-com
Inserting your own pictures
Adding Slide Transition Effects
Setting slides to advance manually or automatically
Inserting sounds and videos:
Inserting a sound clip on a slide
Inserting a video clip on a slide
Printing handouts and notes
Storing And Retrieving Data With Microsoft Access:
Understanding database and Access basics
Creating relationships between tables
Entering and editing records
Creating a query with the simple Query Wizard
Creating a query in Query Design View
Part 4: Digital Security And Privacy:
Protecting Your computer And Data From Harm:
Protecting against natural risks:
Creating a computer-friendly workspace
Protecting against human-created threats:
Virus and malware protection
Adjusting settings to increase security:
Web browser security settings
Following best practices for safer web use:
Enter financial information only on secure sites
Pay attention to security certificates
Be careful with online payments
Be stingy with the information you provide
Stay away from "vice sites"
Safeguarding Your Privacy:
Understanding why personal information is big business
How advertisers target consumers
Minimizing the information advertisers gather
Limiting third-party cookies
Oversharing on social media
Increasing your privacy on the web:
Browser settings for increasing privacy
Instant messaging privacy settings
Protecting children from Online Threats:
How online predators operate
How children leak information
Best practices for keeping children safe
Using family safety applications
Avoiding Copyright Violations:
Keeping on the right side of the law
Expanding Computing To Other Devices:
Getting a handle on Tablet Computer basics:
Tablet computer operating systems
Navigating a tablet computer OS
Understanding Smart Phone basics:
Navigating a smart phone interface
Grasping digital TV and movie basics:
Signing up for online movie and TV services
Watching TV on a computer
Showing computer content on a TV screen
Digital Cameras And Photography:
Learning how digital imaging works
Choosing a digital camera:
Choosing a photo organizer program
Transferring photos from camera to computer:
Transferring photos with file explorer
Transferring photos with a photo organizer program
Copying photos from a memory card
Storing and managing digital images:
Previewing and viewing photos
Moving and copying images
Color-correcting an image
Checking out our printer's setting
Selecting a photo printer
Printing from Windows Live Photo Gallery
Choose a photo sharing service
Resizing a photo for sharing
Working With Music And Video:
Understanding digital audio:
What you need for digital audio
How digital audio is recorded
Organizing and playing digital music:
Applications for play digital music
Organizing digital media on your computer
Using Windows Media Player:
Playing stored music tracks
Buying digital music online
Copying music from another computer
Burning a CD with Windows Media Player
Synchronizing a portable device
Streaming music to other people
Understanding speech technologies:
Reading written text aloud
Dictating test using a microphone
Controlling Windows using a microphone
Understanding digital video:
Applications for playing videos and movies
Streaming audio and video on the web
Creating and editing audio and video:
Audi editing applications
Video editing applications
Editing a digital video with Windows Movie Maker
Outputting your digital video project
Ten Computer Problems (And How To Solve Them):
Your computer has no power, no nothing
Windows won't start up normally
Everything's running slower than normal:
You have no Internet access:
Check your Internet connection
Application stops responding
You get the blue screen of death
You see frequent pop-up ads on the web
Video in a game is messed up
Ten Tips For Working With Windows 8-1:
Use search to start applications
Reorganize the start screen
Pin shortcuts to the taskbar
Make icons and text larger
Switch between programs quickly
Right-click the start button
Save location favorites in file explorer
Uninstall unwanted applications
Prevent programs from loading at startup
Appendix: Making a living in digital technology