Useful skills

If you are not completely comfortable with Copy and Paste, including using your Shift key to select text, try this tutorial.

To save files as you go along and have them accessible to you from any computer, it's very helpful to have a web-based email account (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, whatever you like) and know how to send yourself files as attachments. You can also send files to your ISP-based email account (Epix, NEP, RoadRunner, etc.) but be aware that typically once you download your email, it's only available on that computer. It's typically worth setting up a webmail account just to house files; you don't need to use it on a regular basis.

Each mail program has its own way to attach files. Here are directions for Gmail and Yahoo. For Hotmail (Windows Live Mail), click the blue question mark on the top right corner of the mail screen and search on "How do I attach files to e-mail messages? " (this link should take you to Help but not necessarily to that question).