Kara has been a Computer Tutor for nine years. She tutors remotely all over the world using a combination of the telephone, or Skype, and a secure remote program. The cost for is $15 for 15 minutes, with only a 15-minute minimum. This is a great way to get a little learning in during these tough economic times. You'll find you learn a lot with your personal computer tutor!

Kara specializes in teaching beginning and intermediate computer users. She can show you how to use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. She also teaches Quicken, ACT!, and many other programs. She teaches on both Macs and PCs. She can show you how to use your computer more efficiently to make your life easier, as well as provide you with all kinds of tips and tricks. Or, if you're in the market for a new computer, she'll help you decide exactly what you need.

Kara is a natural teacher, is extremely patient, and has a knack for making her clients have fun learning computer skills. She teaches you at your own pace and shows you only what you're interested in learning. Since she'll speak to you in plain English, you’ll finally feel like you understand your computer consultant.

Before Kara became a Computer Tutor she worked in the Technology Department at BizBuyer.com. She also has a B.A. in journalism and worked as a Staff Reporter at the Los Angeles Business Journal for six years. In 2007 she wrote and published the book A Very Very Beginner's Guide to Using Computers.

Kara provides tutoring for adults of all ages, from their 20s to their 90s. She also taught the classes "Introduction to Computers" and "Intermediate Computers" at Oasis, a school for seniors in West Los Angeles. And she is a member of the West Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, Kara works as a writer, editor, and virtual assistant. You can read more about these services on the following pages:

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Jazz Up and Organize Your Inbox
with Color Categories

Tired of looking at the same ole Outlook 2007 Inbox every day? Use your favorite colors to organize it and spice it up a bit! After all, looks are the most important thing, aren’t they?

By the way, this article is about color coding emails, but you can apply similar techniques to color coding your Calendar.

First a security tip. Are you able to read an email when you click one time on its title? If so, you probably have the Reading Pane on. Having your Reading Pane on is dangerous. It means your email is essentially open. You might catch a virus if the email has one. In other words, you should turn off your Reading Pane. Here’s how:

1. Click on “View” on the menu bar at the top of your screen.
2. Scroll down to where it says “Reading Pane.”
3. Click on Off.

Now the fun part. You can assign your emails to categories such as work, fun, etc. Each category is represented by a different color. So first let’s assign them colors:

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Beginning Microsoft Excel® Tutorial

A spreadsheet is a rectangular table or grid of information, according to Wikipedia. The Excel® spreadsheet software has the ability to both calculate numbers and depict graphs.

Each spreadsheet consists of small, rectangular boxes, called cells, organized in an orderly fashion into columns (vertically) and rows (horizontally) on a worksheet, the overall grid. Several worksheets can be contained in a single workbook. 

In the Excel® 2003 and Excel® 2007 spreadsheet software for the PC, as well as the Excel® 2004 spreadsheet software for the Mac, a workbook contains three worksheets by default. However, the Excel® 2008 spreadsheet software for the Mac only contains one worksheet by default. You can always add more worksheets if you need them, as we’ll learn later.

There’s not much chance you’ll run out of space using this program. Each worksheet in the Excel® 2003 and Excel® 2004 spreadsheet software contain 65,536 rows and 256 columns, with a total of 16,777,216 million cells altogether. The newer Excel® 2007 and 2008 spreadsheet software exceed even those limits. They both have 16,384 columns and more than one million rows. Tell me how many cells there is altogether in each of those?  

On each worksheet the columns are identified by letters of the alphabet and the rows by number. The location of each cell is defined by a single letter and address combination, called a cell address. A cell’s address could be A10 or G25, for instance. Open up your version of the Excel® spreadsheet software, and try to find those two cells on the worksheet in front of you.

Note for 2004: The program will first open to the Project Gallery window. You’ll see the Excel® Workbook choice is selected. That’s the choice you want. Either click on Open or hit the Return key, and your workbook should open.

By the way there are only 26 letters in the alphabet. Therefore you can see that, to the right of column Z, the column names start with AA, AB, etc. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How to Save Laptop Battery Power

When You Really Need it

You’ve got a five-hour flight from Los Angeles to New York City, and one battery in your laptop. You’ve got work to do, DVDs to watch, and games to play. How are you going to get that battery to last? Well, hidden inside (and outside) your computer are lots of tricks to help you.

Dimming Your Screen
Your screen and hard drive use up more battery power than any other parts of your computer. You can dim down your screen to a point where your eyes still feel comfortable but you also save energy. On most laptops, you first dim the screen by holding down the “Fn” key (go ahead and find it because you may never have used it before). Then you look for a key on your laptop that either has a picture of a sun or a half-moon. (On my Sony Vaio that key happens to be F5.) If you find it, go ahead and hit it while still holding down the Fn key. A brightness adjustment box should show up on your screen. If you can’t find a key with a sun or half-moon on it, try hitting your various arrow keys while holding down Fn, to see if that works.

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