Sams Teach Yourself PCs in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well-targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach. You'll learn how to use a word processing program to write letters and memos, balance your checkbook with a personal finance or spreadsheet program , and issue a newsletter using a desktop publishing program. Also learn to store recipes, addresses, and telephone numbers using a database program, and create presentations that combine live-action video, animation, sound, and graphics.