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Welcome to this week's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, April 29, 2007
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Word
This Week's Topic: Microsoft Word = The Scroll Bar
Question: The Difference Between Save and Save As
Websites of Interest: Age Gauge; Drug Digest; Comments made in 1955
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Special Feature: Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Word
Here are some basic keyboard shortcuts that you can use in Microsoft Word.
To use the ones with CTRL and the plus sign, hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard, press and release the noted key, and then release the CTRL key.
The Arrow keys move the insertion point one character left or right or one line up or down in the direction the arrow is pointing.
Ctrl + Left arrow - - moves the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word.
Ctrl + Right arrow - moves the insertion point to the beginning of the next word.
Home - moves the insertion point to the beginning of the current line.
Ctrl + Home - moves the insertion point to the beginning of the document.
End = moves the insertion point to the end of the current line.
Ctrl + End = moves the insertion point to the end of the document.
Page Up (PgUp) - moves the insertion point up the length of one screen.
Page Down (PgDn) - moves the insertion point down the length of one screen.
Ctrl + Page Up - moves the insertion point to the previous page in the document.
Ctrl + Page Down - moves the insertion point to the next page in the document.
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Today's Topic: Microsoft Word = The Scroll Bar
The vertical scroll bar appears on the right side of the window and is used to control which part of a document is currently viewed on the screen.
A scroll bar has arrows at either end, a gray area between the arrows, and a scroll box (also known as the elevator or the tube) that moves from one end to the other to the current position in the document. For example, when page two of a three-page document is displayed on the screen, the scroll box will be in approximately the middle of the scroll bar.
To move towards the bottom of the document, click the down arrow at the bottom of the scroll bar. To return to the top, click the up arrow at the top of the scroll bar. To move faster, click right above the down arrow, or right below the up arrow.
You can also quickly move to any part of a document by dragging the scroll box to the corresponding part of the scroll bar.
Click and hold on the scroll box and a text box will appear that tells you what page you are scrolling to. Drag the scroll box up or down, and the text box will display the page number of the page you are viewing.
Below the scroll bar are three buttons. The top and bottom buttons have double up and down arrows. Clicking on either will move you up or down a page.
The middle button, which has a dot on it, is the Select Browse Object button. It enables you to select what objects the double up and down arrows jump to. For example, if you have several pictures in your document, you can quickly move from one to another by using the select browse object button and double arrows. To do so, click the select browse object button, click on Browse by Graphic, and the click the double down arrow. You will move to the next picture in your document. To go back to moving up or down by page, click the select browse object button and then click on Browse by Page.
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Question: The Difference Between Save and Save As
What is the difference between save and save as?
Answer:
When you create a brand new document and click on File on the menu and then Save, you will be see the Save As dialog box because the program wants to know two things:
1. Where do you want to save it?
2. What do you want to name it?
In a typical Save, you will usually just answer the second question; that is the file name. If you want to save the file to a different folder, you will change the answer to the first question. Click the Save button and you are done.
After you have saved your file once, clicking on that same series of commands no longer gives you these choices. Why? Because the program assumes you do not want to change the choices you made. The program assumes you simply want to update the original copy by overwriting it with this new version of the same file. If you click File, Save again, your program will not even show you the Save dialog box after the first save.
Here is where Save As comes in. If, in fact, you DO want to either put a copy in a new location, or create a new copy with a new name, you must go to the File menu and choose Save As. That will then display the Save dialog box, which you need to change the file name or location information.
Windows will not allow you to have two files with the exact same name in the same folder, so when you save a file to a location where that file already exists, Windows will replace the existing file with your new one. So, if you do not want to overwrite the existing file, but instead want to create another copy with a different name or in a different location or as a different file type, you must go to the File menu and choose Save As.
When you choose File then Save As, you can use the dropdown box at the top of the Save As dialog box, which says Save In, to select the location where you want to put your new copy. You can also change the name of your new copy in the File name box and save it either in a new location or in the same location as the original (because this new copy now has a different name).
An important thing to remember is that Save will overwrite your existing file with this new copy, whereas Save As will give you the options to create a second copy.
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Websites of Interest:
Age Gauge
At this very interesting website, you can input your birthday and seeing how much younger or older you are than some celebrities and political figures, and also see how old you were when some significant events took place.
http://www.frontiernet.net/%7Ecdm/age1.html
Drug Digest
Check this website for info on mixing medications and taking medicine correctly.
http://www.drugdigest.org
Comments made in 1955
Just for fun, take a look at this website. In 1955, someone said: "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon?”
http://www.rockinghamremembered.com/WHCommentsFrom1955.html |
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