Day five

Today was a mixture of learning, creating and patience.

Not only were our regular computer stars Robert and Jimmy with us today, we had a new face in the room..Rosie joined us this week hoping to add to her computer knowledge, mainly the functions on MS word.

Jimmy was keen to send a message to a friend on Facebook and was finally able to enter in his verification code so that he no longer has to type security passwords each time...patience was well and truly a virtue here as Jimmy had waited almost three weeks to make this happen.

Robert was wanting to copy his AC/DC cd's and download them onto his iPod...unfortunately this couldn't be done as iTunes is needed and the software is not available on the Exchange computers.

Rosie spent her time in Word utilising the array of icons, by typing a couple of sentences she could then test what these icons could do with the text. We also used shortcut keys like F7 for spellcheck, Alt F to take the cursor up to the menus and using the shift and arrow keys to highlight text...these shortcuts are great for having a break from the mouse as this is not always ergonomically friendly.

We also had a visit from Neville who was able to check his emails and I also passed onto him the information I had been given regarding the split memory on his computer. He will check his computer at home for another drive which should be where his other memory is and no doubt we will hear from him next week regarding this.

For those of you that weren't available today you were very much missed and we hope to see you next week:)

All in all a great day for everyone...good work!

Hannah