This free tutorial by Julie Keber is one in a series of practical step-by-step guides, designed to help you come to grips with your computer and complete your own household or business projects using Microsoft’s Office products.  The guides are simple to follow, even for complete beginners.

Searching for documents and pictures can be a time consuming job when you have lots of directories or lots of files.  Sometimes it is easier to find something by looking for it under the date you created it, sometimes it could be easier using the document type (eg a picture), or sometimes you need to see a thumbnail of a photo or embroidery design to remember what the file name was.

In this tutorial, Julie teaches you to search for files using ‘My computer’.  Some of the skills you’ll learn within the tutorial include how to expand and reduce folders and subfolders; view files as Thumbnails or Details and sort files by Type, Date Modified or by Alphabetical order.