At Home Computer Guides
Free step-by-step guides for Windows 11 and 10, in plain English. From your first click to building your own virtual machine.
Projects
2027 editable calendar template to download. Two different styles, a straightforward grid calendar and a photo calendar. Download your choice in a variety of formats.
Both calendars are fully editable. Add your own up coming events, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries etc.
Print on your own printer or send the file to a printers.
Much loved software is retiring
Microsoft Publisher has gone. If you had it as part of Microsoft 365, Microsoft took it away at the start of October 2026. The older versions that came with Office 2016, 2019 and 2021 still work, but they don’t get any more updates.
That leaves a lot of people with folders full of newsletters, flyers, cards and calendars saved as .pub files, and nothing to open them with.
The good news is that your files haven’t gone anywhere. In this guide I’ll show you how to open a Publisher file without Publisher, how to convert it to a PDF, and how to get it into Word, all for free.
Start here
New to computers, or just want to fill in the gaps? Begin with the course, or see what has just been added.
The Beginner Course
Short lessons in order, from your first click to organising your own files. Stop and pick it up again whenever you like.
Computer Guides
The everyday jobs on a Windows PC. Finding your files, saving your work and making the screen easier to read.
Projects
Projects are ready made, ready to use templates that help you with one specific job. Simply download and start using.
Personal Golf Handicap
A simple spreadsheet that you use to keep all your scores from the course.
It works out your handicap for each course (up to 6) that you play.
Tells you what you need to score next game to improve.
PC Security Guides
Keep your files safe and your PC healthy, with backups, restore points and copies you can keep in a drawer.
PC Security
Thinking of getting rid of an old desktop or laptop? It’s too old, too slow, you’ve replaced it?
How to Wipe Your PC Before You Sell, Recycle or Give It Away
Computers hold a huge amount of personal information about you. Before you move that PC on, consider what you need to do and what you’re options are.
Internet Guides
Getting more out of the web, from downloading files safely to keeping your favourite sites in one place.
Email Guides
Outlook, Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Blocking senders, sending attachments and spotting the emails you shouldn’t open.
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More guides
Smaller subjects and bigger projects, for when you’ve got the basics sorted.