This week’s Free Friday pick offers a handy way to pick up technology tips without taking an actual course. Subscribe to Microsoft Press Chapters and you’ll receive a weekly email (for 8 weeks) containing a link to a chapter of a different Microsoft Press book. Just for signing up you’ll receive a bonus chapter called Create Dynamic Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Beyond. Below is the 8-week chapter schedule.

Are you finding these chapters useful? How do you like the self-paced book format?

Week

Book chapter

1

Presentations in Excel that pack a punch

2

Dress up your Word documents with pictures, graphics, and stylized text

3

Organize your photos, music, videos, and more using Vista

4

Storyboard first – a way to improve your PowerPoint slide shows

5

Addicted to e-mail? Get ideas on how to process and organize your Outlook inbox

6

Setting up file sharing in Vista is easier than you think

7

Summarize data painlessly with pivot tables in Excel

8

Create an easy home movie using Vista