Author: Barbara Casey

A Discovery of Witches Book Review

“A Discovery of Witches” – Book 1 of the All Souls Trilogy In A Discovery of Witches, author Deborah Harkness presents a plausible story of the relationships between the three (sub)species of witch, vampire and daemon… including their battles and their loves. I’m still wondering how I missed hearing about the book when it was released …

Keyboard Symbols for Writers

Here is a downloadable, printable PDF list of 21 frequently-requested keyboard symbols with codes for Alt Key, HTML and Unicode. This list is especially handy for writers – print or online. For the full keyboard symbols tutorial please visit this page.  

Make Music Notes with Text Fonts

Musical notes and characters you can make with common text fonts: Courier, Arial, Times New Roman.   Here are the keyboard symbols for Alt Key, Unicode and HTML formats. If you’re using the Alt Key symbols, you’ll need to use your numerical keypad with Numlock on. Musical Note: Eighth ♪ Alt, 1, 3 for Print U+266A …

Make Dingbats and Arrows with Text Fonts

It’s easy to make dingbats and arrows with text fonts. Easily create fun graphics, including hearts and smiley faces… with Arial and Times New Roman. If you need some cool bullets, arrows and other Dingbat style graphics, but you don’t have the Wingding or Zapf Dingbat fonts installed on your computer, here’s how you can make them …

Make French, German and Spanish Accents

List and Instructions for Making French, German and Spanish Accented Letters on Your Computer Keyboard Hold down the Alt key, then type in 0 (zero), followed by the last three numbers – using the numeric keypad on the right of your keyboard. Then you can let up the Alt key. If you don’t have a numeric …

Keyboard Symbols List and Instructions

How to Make Keyboard Symbols Using Alt Key, HTML and Unicode Characters Here is a handy list of Alt Key, HTML and Unicode symbols you can make with standard text fonts on your computer keyboard with how-to instructions to make it easy. It helps if you have a numeric keypad, but if you don’t there are …

I Became The Tutorial Lady by Accident

I Became The Tutorial Lady Kind Of By Accident   I did not set out to have a career as The Tutorial Lady. My tutorial writing started because of a need I noticed and so I just took it upon myself to fill it… with a how-to tutorial. It all started back in 1994, when I bought …

Recession-Proof Your Business

How Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can help you recession-proof your business Are you a small or home-based business owner? Then you have a definite edge over the corporate giants when the economy falters. In this tutorial, you’ll learn ways to re-focus your business quickly so you are offering what people want, need – and are willing to …

Create Income Teaching Teleclasses

Well-planned teleseminars can be sources for multiple streams of income This tutorial – How to Create Income Teaching Teleclasses – covers the important basics about conducting teleclasses (also called teleseminars or teleconferences)… plus ways you can earn ongoing passive income using teleclasses as a teaching tool. So, what is a teleclass? A teleclass is, essentially, a …

How to Create Flyers with Microsoft Word

The Complete Word Flyer Design Tutorial on One Page… for Word 2003, 2007 and 2010 This page is a step-by-step tutorial on how to create flyers with Microsoft Word… with detailed instructions for Word versions 2003, 2007 and 2010. I originally created this Word flyer tutorial in 2006 for clients who wanted to update their own …