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About Steps on Screen

Steps on Screen is a free website that teaches everyday tasks on Windows 11 and Mac computers and Android phones, one task at a time, in plain words.

What you find here

Lessons. Each lesson teaches one task, such as connecting to Wi-Fi or saving a document, in numbered steps. Every lesson can be printed to keep beside your computer or phone. To see them all, open All lessons.

Practice. Some lessons have a Start the demo button below their steps. It opens a pretend computer or a practice page in your browser, where you can try the steps. The pretend computer's files and settings are pretend.

Scam Hub. The Scam Hub shows what common scams look like and one calm next step you can take.

Everything on the site is free to use, and you do not need an account.

How the lessons are written and checked

Each lesson is written for someone using a computer on their own, with nobody nearby to help. It starts from a screen you can recognize and ends with something you can see that tells you the task is done.

When a lesson is written or changed, its steps are compared with Microsoft's, Apple's or Google's own help pages where those pages exist. A separate review then reads the lesson again, looking for missing steps and unclear words.

Below the steps, each lesson shows the date its steps were last updated.

If a step does not match what you see on your computer, write to us from the Contact Steps on Screen page and name the lesson. We use these messages to correct the lessons.

An independent project

Steps on Screen is an independent educational project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft, Apple or Google.

The lessons stay free. To support this project with an optional tip, open Buy me a coffee, a separate website.

What we keep, and what we never ask for

To improve the lessons, we keep records of page visits, searches and practice sessions for up to one year.

Steps on Screen does not phone, text, or email people first. In a call or message, we never ask for a password, a payment, or permission to connect to your computer. If a call or message that says it is from Steps on Screen asks for any of these, do not reply, do not click its links, and do not call any number it gives.