If you run your own business, you know how hard it is to keep track of payroll, inventory, customers, and vendors. Guess what? There is an easy way to manage these and other accounting tasks without breaking a sweat! In this first lesson of a beginner QuickBooks course, get an overview of this powerful accounting software and learn just how easy it is to master! Learn to set up a company file, enter critical information, and get ready to use QuickBooks!

We use fonts every time we type, but do we really understand them? In this first in a series of typography lessons from Yes I'm a Designer, get an introduction to the wonderful world of fonts. You'll learn how to use InDesign to view the full range of glyphs in a font (beyond the characters you're used to seeing on your keyboard), discover how fonts are stored on your computer, and unravel the mystery of unicode.

Whether you need to track your company's progress over time or simply want to improve your Excel skills, this lesson from Motion Training walks you through the basics of creating line charts in Microsoft Excel. Learn to select your data, make your chart, and mark and label data points. Discover how you can alter your axis to exaggerate changes in the data, and learn how to make charts with multiple series of data. Line charts allow you to present your data in a clear and visually appealing way.

Need to store, organize, or manipulate data? In this lesson, Amicron explains precisely what is a Microsoft Access Database, and gives you a tour of its parts and their functions. Find out about early databases and spreadsheets, and then learn about the six main parts of a database: the tables, queries, forms, reports, macros, and modules.

Get ready to start your first project in Cubase 7! In this lesson, explore the Project Setup in detail to better understand technical settings like sample rate, bit depth, and Hermode Tuning (HMT). We'll even go into detail about common technical standards, so you can set up your Cubase project correctly. Once you have the best settings to fit your needs, you’ll be well on your way to recording, arranging, or editing your first project!

One of the most important aspects of recording music is keeping time. Using the click track feature in Audacity will help you do just that! Modeled after a metronome, the click track option establishes a steady rhythm to guide you as you play and record. You can customize the beats per minute and beats per measure to give you the cadence you need. This audio editor also allows you to easily shift your recording and match-up your music!

You've learned the basics of navigating Microsoft Office, but how do you create really effective PowerPoint presentations? Motion Training continues his series on PowerPoint 2010 by offering advice on what to take into account when making a good slideshow. See PowerPoint presentation examples, and get a sense of how to tailor your project to your audience and objectives, making your content easy to digest and learning how best to deploy images and graphs.

Time to sort out your knowledge of Microsoft Excel! In this lesson, Motion Training teaches you how to sort your Excel tables by categories other than cell content, particularly color. Find out how to add icons to your cells, then sort by those icons using Conditional Formatting. See how to sort spreadsheets by 'Likes': fill color, font color, or icon color. This lesson is also a great review in using Excel's data sorting functions, including how to add multiple levels at which data is sorted.

A picture’s worth a thousand words, so why not add some to your PowerPoint presentations? Motion Training continues its series on how to use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 by introducing you to inserting photos and Clip Art. Learn how to import your own photo or find Microsoft Clip Art. See how to resize, move, and rotate images without distorting them. Make a picture into your slide’s background, or apply a photo effect such as changing the transparency of a picture in your slideshow.

Tired of the boring black dot background on your Mac's Dashboard or Dock? Mac and Computer Help teaches you how to replace it with the image of your choice. Learn where to find the image files, how to swap them out, and how to reset your dock from the computer terminal so that your new picture will take effect. Also, learn how to change mini version of the background image as it appears in Mission Control.

Learn to navigate Microsoft Word 2010 with grace and ease! In this third lesson from a series of Microsoft Word tutorials, Motion Training teaches you how to open existing documents and how to scroll through the document with a mouse or keyboard. Learn how use spell check to catch spelling and grammar errors, select and delete sections of text, use the undo and redo features, and search a Microsoft Word document for a specific word or phrase.

Build a WordPress site! in seconds! Once you have purchased a domain and installed WordPress in cPanel, all you need to do is pick a theme to have a gorgeous, customized website for personal or business enterprises. This tutorial by Websites Made Easy walks you through the process. As a bonus, you will learn how WordPress helps websites reach the first page of Google, Bing, and Yahoo with search engine optimization (SEO).

Making the transition to Google Drive? Whether you need to word-process, create a presentation, or compile a spreadsheet, Google Drive’s document types (adapted from Google Docs) have you covered—for free. In this tutorial by Chad McGowan, you will learn how to use Google Presentations, Google Drive’s adaptation of Microsoft PowerPoint.

If your spreadsheet is all ready to go, it is time to print it! Depending on the project, you might want to make some changes to your file’s appearance with the Page Setup dialog box. This tutorial by Motion Training shows you the gamut of print options in Excel, from orientation and scaling to margins, headers, and footers. You will also learn how to print selections of files. Work with your own file or follow along with an attached spreadsheet.

Another way to visualize your data in Microsoft Excel 2003 is with a pie chart. Great for comparing the parts against the whole, pie charts are also highly customizable in Excel. In this lesson by Motion Training, learn how to insert and format a pie chart to your liking. As a bonus, you will learn how to move objects to separate spreadsheets. Work with your own file or follow along with an attached spreadsheet.