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Welcome to this week's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, February 12, 2006
In this Issue:
Tips & Tricks: Quick Minimize
Tips & Tricks: Select All
Featured Computer Term: Front Slash and Back Slash
This Week's Topic: Drive Letters
Question: Double Spacing
Websites of Interest: Valentines Day; Knots; Life Clinic; Dictionary
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Tips & Tricks: Quick Minimize
Want to minimize all of your open windows quickly? Look for the Windows key (that is the one with the little Windows symbol on it; on most computers it is found on the bottom right of your keyboard) Hold down the Windows key and press the m key. All windows will be minimized.
To view any of your open windows, click on its button on the taskbar.
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Tips & Tricks: Select All
When you need to select all the text in a document, here is a quick way: hold down the CTRL key and press the a key. You will see all text in the document is highlighted. To remove the highlighted, just click somewhere in the document.
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Featured Computer Term: Front Slash and Back Slash
Question: What is the difference between the slashes? I see forward slashes and back slashes used. What do they mean?
Answer:
Forward slash (/), also know as the front slash.
Backslash (\)
The Forward slash tells the computer to look for something external to the system like web pages, for example. You will see Website addresses using forward slashes.
Backslashes tell the computer to look inside the system for drives, folders or files.
Is there a computer term or phrase that you'd like to see an explanation of?
Email it to info@computerkindergarten.com and we'll put the term and its
definition in an upcoming newsletter.
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Today's Topic: Drive Letters
Question: I have an A: drive and a C: drive. Why don't I have a B: drive?
Answer:
To answer this question, we need a little history of personal computers.
Originally, computers had two drives: the A and the B drive. Both were external, used for 5 1/2 inch floppy disks (those were the big, black floppy disks).
Eventually, hard drives were added; these were called the C drive, and the A drive was changed to use the 3 1/4 inch floppy disks. The B: drive continued to be used for a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive until those disks became obsolete and were no longer included on computers.
At that point, users and manufacturers were used to the drive letters A and C, and continued to use them as such. The B drive was never replaced with anything different.
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Question: Double Spacing
How do I double space a document in Microsoft Word?
Answer:
If you have already typed the text you want double spaced, select it.
Click Format on the menu and then Paragraph. This will open the Paragraph window.
In the Spacing section, Line Spacing will be set to Single. Click the small down arrow next to Single and click to select Double. Click the OK button.
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Websites of Interest:
Valentines Day
Tuesday is Valentines Day. Take a look at our website for fun and useful links.
http://computerkindergarten.com/html/valentine.html
Knots
Here is an interesting website that gives animated instructions on how to tie many different kinds of knots.
http://www.animatedknots.com/
Life Clinic
Many medical conditions can be positively affected by lifestyle and diet. Take a look at this website for information on ways to improve your health.
http://www.lifeclinic.com/
Dictionary
Here is a good dictionary with many sources.
http://www.dict.org/ |
