Locating Element K Class Data Files

1. On your desktop double-click on the Internet Explorer icon -

2. When Internet Explorer opens, type www.elementkcourseware.com into the address bar at the top of your screen and press the enter key.

3. When the Element K web page opens, click on the orange tab at the top of the screen that is labeled "Outlines"

4. In the middle of the page, you will see a box that lists many software packages - the very first choice is "*Individual Courseware Outline Search" - click once on that line of text. A new page will open and you will see a "Search Criteria" option on the left side of the page.

5. Next to the "Search" box, you will see "Part Number" has already been filled in - click on the drop-down arrow next to the box and choose "Titles" to search by the title of the class since you don't know the part number.

6. In the box below, type in the name of the course for which you need data files - (Example: If you need Excel 97 Level 1 data files, just type the word "Excel 97" in the box so that you will get a list of all of the courses EK offers in the area of Excel).

7. Click once on the orange "Search" button below the box.

8. You will see a list of all of the offerings EK has in that area. Choose the Office 97 equivalent of the Office 2000 course you took (Example - if you took Excel 2000 Worksheets look for the Excel 97 Worksheets link).

9. Once you have clicked on the appropriate class, you will see an area on the left side of the screen (at the top) that says "Student Course Files". The file name is the part number (Example: 52-220.exe).

10. Click on the file name and (shown above) and a dialog box will open - click on the "okay" button and choose the location where you would like to save the files (most people put them in there My Documents folder on their C: drive).

11. Go to the location you specified and you will see an icon
With the book number (Example - 52-220). This is an executable file that will use WinZip to open.

12. Double-click on the icon and you will see a dialog box appear. Where is says "unzip to folder", you will need to tell the file where you would like for it to be unzipped. If you are not sure - type "C:\my documents" (without the quotation marks) to be safe.

13. Click on the "Unzip" button on the right side of the box. A dialog box will appear letting you know the files have unzipped successfully.

14. Navigate yourself to the location you identified in the "unzip to folder" section of the WinZip dialog box and you should see all the datafiles you need!