Using cc:Mail


Using Freelance


Using Lotus 1-2-3 Basics


Using Lotus 1-2-3 Intermediate


Using Lotus Notes


Using Word Pro Basics


Using Word Pro Intermediate

This comprehensive Activ® interactive multimedia training program introduces Lotus' electronic mail software, cc:Mail. Participants will practice creating, receiving and forwarding mail messages.

• Understand the basic concepts of electronic mail
• Start cc:Mail and enter a password
• Recognize and use the parts of the cc:Mail screen including menus the SmartIcons, windows, and the status bar
• Access and use the on-line help system
• Address a message
• Type and edit a message note
• Attach a file to a message
• Check spelling and send a message
• Recognize notifications of new, unread messages
• Open and read a message
• View, save, and delete a file attachment
• Print, store, and delete messages
• Reply to a message
• Forward a message to another user
• Create new folders to store messages
• Move and copy messages to folders
• Find messages by using the Search command
• Create a private mailing list
• Add to and remove names from a private mailing list
• Change passwords

This comprehensive Activ® interactive multimedia training program teaches participants the fundamentals of Lotus' Freelance. The course is designed to teach users how to work with text and graphic elements to design an on-screen graphic presentation.

• Start Freelance from the Windows Program Manager
• Open an existing presentation file
• Select different views
• Move between pages in Current Page view
• Use the Zoom feature to expand or contract the slide image
• Demonstrate skills in using multiple document windows within the Freelance application
• Access Freelance's on-line help
• Create a new presentation
• Choose a look for the presentation
• Add new text to presentation pages in Current Page view
• Create new pages;
• Use Outliner view to add and arrange pages
• Use Page Sorter view to rearrange pages
• Add speaker notes to a presentation
• Use transitions and build effects to enhance on-screen presentations
• Run on-screen presentation
• Annotate a page while running a presentation
• Know what fonts are and how they can be used in a presentation
• Understand the difference between a serif and sans serif font
• Change font type and size within a presentation
• Add color and shading to the fonts in use
• Position text, using the Freelance alignment features
• Know what palettes are, and how they are used in Freelance
• Apply a new SmartMaster to change the look of a presentation
• Recognize the purposes for using graphics in a presentation
• Insert and position Symbols
• Use the drawing tools to create original artwork
• Arrange objects on the page

This comprehensive Activ® interactive multimedia training course introduces participants to the fundamentals of Lotus 1-2-3, including the basic concepts of spreadsheets in Lotus 1-2-3.

• Start 1-2-3 for Windows
• Identify the names and functions of the various parts of the 1-2-3 screen
• Understand the basic layout and functionality of electronic spreadsheet
• Navigate in the 1-2-3 screen using mouse or keyboard
• Select commands in four different ways
• Manipulate the Smartlcon bar
• Get on-line help enter data as labels and values use the Fill by Example feature
• Enter dates and times; enter formulas
• Select ranges in several different ways
• Enter @functions
• Get help on @functions
• Use the print preview
• Set margins
• Open existing files
• Move data
• Copy data
• Copy formulas
• Understand absolute cell addresses
• Select columns and rows
• Delete columns and rows
• Apply formatting to numbers using several methods
• Resize columns and rows
• Apply character formatting, such as boldface and italics
• Use colors for characters and backgrounds
• Apply borders
• Analyze, detect, and correct errors
• Print a worksheet with two clicks of the mouse
• Enter headers and footers
• Print column titles on all pages
• Adjust size of printout

This comprehensive Activ® interactive multimedia training course teaches the more advanced features of Lotus 1-2-3 including formulas, formatting, printing, styles, 3-D worksheets, consolidation, graphics, data management, and macro capabilities.

• Insert a new worksheet with the New Sheet button
• Name a worksheet
• Add several worksheets at once in any position
• Delete worksheets
• Select 3-D ranges that span several worksheets
• Copy data between worksheets
• Use 3-D delete for multiple worksheet deletion
• Create a chart with one mouse click
• Change the size and shape of a chart
• Change the type of the chart
• Enhance a chart with fonts, colors, and border types
• Draw graphic objects
• Modify and enhance graphic objects
• Insert a graphic from another application
• Create an original database
• Understand database terms such as "field" and "record"
• Add and delete records by search criteria
• Create a Query Table and understand how it differs from the original database
• Work with Query Table Smartlcons
• Sort records in the original database and in a Query Table
• Understand the concept of macros and how they are used
• Record keystrokes to create a macro
• Create a macro execution button and paste macro code to it
• Run a macro
• Paste a macro into a worksheet
• Name and run a macro from the menu
• Name a macro and run it from a keyboard shortcut
• Modify and debug a macro

This comprehensive Activ® interactive multimedia training program introduces Lotus' popular groupware application, Notes. Participants will learn how to use Notes application to share information with groups of people who work together. The course will teach participants to use Notes' powerful viewing and searching features to easily navigate through their company's knowledge database. The course will also introduce participants to the built-in mail program and various types of Notes databases, such as discussion, tracking and routing.

• Identify the standard elements of the Lotus Notes workspace
• Navigate between the name and the workspace pages
• Manipulate the workspace window
• Manipulate the database icon attributes
• Identify general menubar options
• Understand the uses of the Status Bar
• Close the Lotus Notes program
• Add databases to workspace pages
• Customize database icons
• Open and close databases from workspace pages
• Collapse and expand views
• Open and categorize documents
• Work with the Notes help database
• Display information from the User ID file
• Display information about user certificates (server access)
• Open, add and save database documents
• Display multiple document and view windows
• Format text with different fonts, sizes, and font styles
• Format paragraphs to reset margins and tabs
• Spell check a document
• Create a table
• Add popular notations, doclinks and attached files
• Access a private mail database
• Display different views of the mail database
• Open a mail message
• Categorize mail
• Forward mail
• Use address books to address mail
• Maintain personal address book
• Find text within a database view;
• Find and replace text within a document
• Create a full text search index
• Use the Query Builder and Search Bar to find specified text within documents

This comprehensive Activ® interactive multimedia training program teaches basic word processing skills and then progresses to more advanced techniques. The course teaches participants to start Word Pro, become familiar with the screen layout, and practice basic document editing and printing techniques.

• Type a document in Word Pro
• Make minor corrections to a document
• Save a document to a file
• Recognize basic features and parts of the screen, such as the menu bar, Smartlcons, and status bar
• Access Word Pro's on-line help feature
• Open an existing document
• SwITC Learningh between two or more opened documents
• View a document in several different ways
• Select text for deletion, moving, and copying
• Move, copy, and delete text using menu commands and shortcut techniques
• Use the Undo feature
• Apply special attributes such as bold and underline to selected text
• Apply different fonts and font sizes to text
• Change the alignment and spacing of a paragraph
• Set indention and set tab stops for a paragraph
• Change document margins
• Insert page breaks
• Use the spelling tool to automatically locate and correct misspellings
• Use the grammar tool to review a document for grammatical errors
• Use Full Page view to review the layout of a document
• Set basic Print Options such as number of copies and pages to print
• Print a document

This comprehensive Activ® interactive multimedia training program teaches basic word processing skills and then progresses to more advanced techniques. This course teaches participants to use Word Pro templates, built-in writing aids, macros, tables, and graphics.

• Understand the concept of using frames
• Use boxes, rules, and shading with text
• Insert pictures in a document
• Position and size pictures within a document
• Create styles
• Apply a style
• Use Word Pro's fast format feature
• Modify a style
• Use style sheets for creating specific types of documents
• Define a table format
• Enter information into a table
• Adjust the widths of columns in a table
• Format text in a table
• Add borders to a table
• Format a document for multiple columns
• Start the mail merge process
• Define data fields
• Create a data file
• Create a mail merge letter
• Merge a letter