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Welcome to today's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, April 7, 2002
Daylight Savings Time starts today - Don't forget to change your clocks!
"Spring springs ahead; Fall falls back" (author unknown)
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Solitaire
Special Feature: Daylight Savings Time
Featured Computer Term: FAQ
This Week's Topic: Email Tip: Don’t Forward Hoaxes
Question: Closing Menus
Learning Series: Word Processing - Find and Replace
Featured Websites: Daylight Savings Time, National Library Week, National
Garden Week, Egg Salad Week
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Special Feature: Solitaire
If you have Windows XP and like to play Solitaire, check out the new card backs. Microsoft has added many more designs!
Click Game on the menu bar and then Deck. Click the design you like and then click the OK button.
Note: You can change card backs using this method in any version of Windows.
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Special Feature: Daylight Savings Time
Your computer knows when Daylight Savings Time begins and ends and will change the time for you. In Windows versions 95, 98 and ME, you'll get a window asking you to confirm the change. In XP, the change happens automatically.
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Today's Computer Term: FAQ
Pronounced as separate letters or as fak, and short for frequently asked questions, a FAQ is a document that answers questions about some topic.
Frequently, FAQs are set up as help files or on a website in a Question and Answer format.
FAQs are very popular on the Internet to assist people in using a website.
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Today's Topic: Email Tip: Don’t Forward Hoaxes
Hoaxes are chain letters telling stories of computer viruses, something for free (even money), new laws and much more. They all have one thing in common: they are not true.
This is why you should not forward such a story unless you have investigated it yourself. You will irritate those who do not spot the hoax and they will probably pass it on. Those who identify the hoax will likely send you a message notifying you that you passed on what’s called an Urban Legend.
A very old hoax has been appearing again: the one about the law in congress that will soon start charging for email. It’s a hoax - don’t believe it!
Take a look at the Links section at the end of this newsletter; there are several links to websites that identify hoaxes and Urban Legends. If someone sends you something that could be a hoax, research it first; go to one of the websites to see if it’s listed.
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Question: Closing Menus
The following question is from a newsletter subscriber:
When I’m in a program, sometimes menus suddenly open. I know it must be something I’m doing, but how can I close them when I don’t want to choose something from the menu?
Answer:
If you open a menu inadvertently, or open one and then change your mind, you can cancel the menu by one of three methods:
Press Esc (the Escape button, top left on the keyboard) twice, or Click on the menu name again, or Click somewhere outside the menu area.
Any one of these three methods will close the menu and return you back into your program.
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Progressive Learning Series: Word Processing - Find and Replace
Suppose you are reading over a document that you created and discover you misspelled the addressee's name. However, at least you misspelled it consistently--it's spelled the same way all through the document.
The best way to correct such an error is to use the Find and Replace feature. To do this, choose Edit from the menu and then Replace to open the Find and Replace dialog box. Now enter the addressee's misspelled name in the Find What entry box. Next, enter the correct spelling in the Replace with box. Since you misspelled all occurrences of the name, click Replace All. Word will replace all the misspelled versions of the name with the correct spelling.
Find is a very useful command. Combined with Replace, as in the above example, you can quickly make changes throughout the document. Find by itself, however, can help you quickly get to a place in your document or locate an area you want to return to.
Note: This tip works in both the Microsoft Word and Microsoft Works programs.
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Today's Featured Website: Daylight Saving Time, National Library Week, National Garden Week, Egg Salad Week
Daylight Saving Time
Why do we have Daylight Saving Time? It’s nice in the spring when it stays light an hour later; but there really was a rationale behind it. At the Daylight Saving Time site, you can find the rationale and the original idea as well as an explanation, a chart of when the time changes through the year 2006, a calculator that will let you figure it through 2099, and more.
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html
National Library Week
National Library Week - from the American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/celebrating/
Here on Long Island, most of our libraries have their own website. To visit your library’s website, click on one of the links below: Nassau County Libraries:
http://www.nassaulibrary.org/list/nasslist.html Suffolk County Libraries:
http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/suffolklibs.php
The Internet Public Library - Do you really know how the rest of the world is doing? You can learn a lot from the newspapers offered by different countries (although, of course, many of them are not offered in English). The Internet Public Library has an extensive list of online newspapers that you can link to by simply choosing a region or specific country. Find out what's going on in the rest of the world. http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/
National Garden Week
It's almost time to be out in your garden. You can find helpful tips and gardening information at this site. This is the official site of the National Gardening Association and there are plenty of resources. Check out sections on Home & Hearth; Flowers & Bulbs; Fruits, Veggies & Herbs; Lawns and Landscaping; Garden Care & Pests; and Kidsgardening, for junior gardeners. There are articles, message boards, a how-to section, a dictionary, and many more great features. http://www.garden.org/
The Backyard Gardener is a good site to help you enjoy your outdoor beautification projects. There are plenty of articles here, and if you can't find what you're looking for they have excellent links. If gardening, lawn care, tree care, greenhouses, etc. are a passion of yours, then make sure you look at the Backyard Gardener. http://www.backyardgardener.com
The Garden Helper is a online encyclopedia of gardening information. There's a wonderful Garden Calendar, so you’ll know if you’re doing the right thing at the right time in your garden. The entire year is covered, so you can plan ahead for upcoming months. http://www.thegardenhelper.com/
If you like wildflowers, take a look at this website. From dealers and collections to a Woodland FAQ, this site brings you into the world of wildflowers. It even has a Glossary of Botanical Terms. http://www.wild-flowers.com/
Egg Salad Week
A week after Easter - coincidence? Celebrate National Egg Salad Week. http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/news/010411msc1.html |
