Computer Skills Tutorials

Brush up your computer skills with hundreds of free tutorials covering macOS, iOS, ChromeOS, Linux and Windows operating systems and applications. Follow our expert instructors who'll help you become more productive and get the most out of computing.

We all want to work smarter, and the collection of productivity tutorials will help you do just that. You'll also find tips on customization, automation, and other essential skills to help you accomplish more tasks in half the time. And then you can take some solid app training to discover how to get the most out of the apps you use.

All Computer Skills tutorials:

  1. Using FastMail: A Primer

    Using FastMail: A Primer

    Tutorial Beginner

    One of the best tools for hosting email with a custom domain, FastMail has quickly become a popular alternative to Google Apps. Here's everything you need to...

  2. How to Run a Giveaway With a Spreadsheet

    How to Run a Giveaway With a Spreadsheet

    Tutorial Beginner

    You don't need a fancy app to run a giveaway. Here's how you can run a giveaway and pick your random winners using any spreadsheet app.

  3. OneNote GTD: Productivity with Freeform Notes

    OneNote GTD: Productivity with Freeform Notes

    Tutorial Intermediate

    OneNote's a great freeform notebook app, but its flexibility makes it great for so much more. Here's how to turn OneNote into your own custom Getting Things...

  4. Superpower Your Note Taking Skills With nvALT and Simplenote

    Superpower Your Note Taking Skills With nvALT and Simplenote

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn how to the more advanced features in nvALT to take your plain text note taking workflow to the next level.

  5. Design a Beautiful Mother's Day Card in Microsoft Word

    Design a Beautiful Mother's Day Card in Microsoft Word

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn how to design a Mother’s Day card in Word using only standard shapes, default colors, and a trick to tweak the flower shape. In minutes, you'll have a...

  6. How to OCR Documents Online With ABBYY FineReader

    How to OCR Documents Online With ABBYY FineReader

    Tutorial Beginner

    It's easy to scan your documents, but far harder to make those scans useful. ABBYY FineReader makes that a lot simpler with their online OCR service. Here's...

  7. How to Extract Data From a Spreadsheet Using VLOOKUP, MATCH, and INDEX

    How to Extract Data From a Spreadsheet Using VLOOKUP, MATCH, and INDEX

    Tutorial Intermediate

    There's easier ways to find and move data in a spreadsheet than copy and paste. Here's how to use the VLOOKUP, MATCH and INDEX functions to extract specific...

  8. Getting Started With LastPass

    Getting Started With LastPass

    Tutorial Beginner

    Online security is crucially important, but you can't stay secure with simple, easily-rememberable passwords. LastPass is one of the most popular...

  9. Tame Your Outlook Inbox With Subfolders, Rules and Filters

    Tame Your Outlook Inbox With Subfolders, Rules and Filters

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Outlook is the most popular business email client, and it has the powerful features you need to automatically keep your inbox clean. Here's how to use...

  10. Fax Documents Without a Modem with HelloFax

    Fax Documents Without a Modem with HelloFax

    Tutorial Beginner

    The future of sending files is Dropbox, email, and all that, but for the old-fashioned there's still a way to send faxes without having to dig out any...

  11. Turn Evernote Into the Ultimate Paperless System With Scanned PDFs

    Turn Evernote Into the Ultimate Paperless System With Scanned PDFs

    Tutorial Beginner

    Evernote's great for digital notes, but its equally great for organizing every document in your life. Here's how to get the most out of its PDF features to...

  12. How to Record High-Quality Audio and Video

    How to Record High-Quality Audio and Video

    Tutorial Intermediate

    If you have you ever recorded an interview, you’ll know how important it is to get high-quality audio to complement the video. In this tutorial, I’ll show...