Projects for Windows for Beginners. Ages 10 and up. This book
covers easy projects, such as changing a screen saver and customizing the
desktop, and goes on to using Paintbrush to design screen wallpaper and making
one's own mouse pad. Step-by-step explanations with illustrations and
photographs are provided. The book is based on Windows 3.1 but includes
instructions on adapting the projects to other versions, such as Windows 95.
Windows for Beginners (Usborne Books) gives basic
information in preparation for Projects for Windows for Beginners.
Usborne Books.
KidDesk Plus. Grades K-6. This is a hard-disk security and
menuing program that makes it safe, easy, and fun for students to operate the
computer independently. Harcourt Brace.
Student Writing Center. Grades 4 or 5 and up. This software for
Macintosh and Windows combines word processing and desktop publishing with
student features such as tips for writing research papers, grammar tips,
personal journal to organize writing, bibliography maker, and title page maker.
The word processor includes a spelling checker, a thesaurus, footnotes and
endnotes, and headers and footers. The desktop publisher includes page layout
with up to 8 columns, automatic text wrap around graphics, special border and
shading effects, text boxes for placing a customized box of text anywhere on a
page, over 30 specially designed letterheads and sign borders, and over 150
clip-art pictures. Houghton Mifflin and DC Heath.
Step by Step Series. Grades 6-12. This series of texts with disks
uses a step-by-step approach to show students how to master leading software
programs. Separate software is available for Windows 95, WordPerfect 6.0, dBase
IV, Lotus 1-2-3, Dos 6, and Microsoft Works 3.0. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
Danny Goodman's Educational Series for the Macintosh. Grades
6-12. These hands-on, step-by-step separate text-with-disk guides to Microsoft
Works, Concepts, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Quarkxpress are
one-quarter semester or one semester courses. Mid-term and final examinations
with test keys are provided. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
Word Perfect Made Perfectly Easy and Desktop Publishing
Using Word Perfect. These texts and text-workbooks with data disks
provide step-by-step instructions, and there are many exercises to guide the
student. Quizzes and tests are also provided. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
101 Series. Exercises in the form of text-workbooks with
data disks are provided separately for databases, word processing, and
spreadsheets. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Introductory Programs. Text-workbooks with disks are provided
separately to introduce Windows, DOS, and Lotus. Glencoe/McGraw-HillSoftware
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