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Welcome to this week's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, June 6, 2004
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Email: Plain Text vs. HTML
Tips & Tricks: Outlook Express
Featured Webpage: Weather
Tips and Tricks: Change Case in Word
Featured Webpage: Changing the Desktop Wallpaper
This Week's Topic: Printing Web Pages
Featured Webpage: What is a Browser?
Websites of Interest: Ronald Reagan
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Using Links
A Link is a reference to a website. In this newsletter you will see links to
many worthwhile, informative and fun websites. Here are the instructions on
how to use links:
A link will be used one of two ways, depending on your email program.
If you see the link in blue, underlined text, all you have to do is click on
it and a window with the Website in it will automatically appear on your
screen.
If you see the link in plain text, you can copy and paste it into the address
bar on your browser. Highlight the link with your mouse, click Edit up on
the menu bar, and then click Copy from the menu that you just opened up. Open
your browser (click the Start Button, point to Programs, click on Internet
Explorer); click on the address bar. Click Edit up on the menu bar, and then
click Paste from the menu that you just opened up. Press the Enter key on the
keyboard and this will take you to the Website.
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Special Feature: Email: Plain Text vs. HTML
Question: Sometimes when I am working with or reading about e-mail, I see the terms Send in Plain Text and Sent in HTML. What does this mean?
Answer:
There are two ways to work with and send email: HTML or Plain Text.
Plain text emails contain only the text that you type. You cannot change the font, size or color of the text or include any pictures or graphics in the email. The advantage to plain text is that the email is smaller in size and therefore is sent and received faster. They also cannot carry viruses.
When you format text in an email, the email program puts in codes to indicate the font type, size and color that you have chosen. Some email programs allow fancy backgrounds to be used (sometimes called stationery) and graphics can be inserted right into the email. HTML emails include the text that you typed along with these codes.
There are several disadvantages to HTML emails:
-- They are larger in size so sending and receiving take longer (a consideration for people using a dial-up connection)
-- There are some viruses out there that can get sent in HTML. (If your antivirus program is up to date, this should not be a concern).
-- Not all e-mail programs can read the HTML codes in an email. If the recipient of your email is using a program that cannot, he or she will see a screen full of gobbledygook (the computer codes) instead of the nicely formatted email that you took all that time to create.
Some email programs will automatically send in HTML text; others will allow you to choose.
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Tips & Tricks: Outlook Express
For Tips and Tricks right in your Outlook Express program, click on Outlook Express at the top of your Folders list.
A different help tip will be displayed each time you view the page. Click Previous or Next at the bottom to browse through tips.
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Featured Webpage: Weather
Summer is almost here! Hope it stops raining soon. You can check your local weather and forecast at our website:
http://stsico.com/html/weather.html
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Tips and Tricks: Change Case in Word
You type a sentence, look up and realize that you pressed the Caps Lock key by mistake - the whole sentence is in upper case.
Do not erase and type over, just change the case. Here is how:
Select the text with your mouse. Click Format on the menu, then Change Case. Select sentence case and click the OK button.
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Featured Webpage: Changing the Desktop Wallpaper
Put a picture on your desktop. Visit our website to learn how.
http://stsico.com/html/wallpaper.html
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Today's Topic: Printing Web Pages
To print a webpage, click File on the menu, then Print. This will print the entire page.
To print part of a webpage, highlight the part you want to print by moving the mouse pointer to the beginning of the section, holding down the left mouse button, and moving the mouse to the end of the selection. Make sure it's still highlighted - the text will be white on a dark background.
Click on File to open the menu, click on Print, and choose Selection in the Page Range area of the dialog box. Click the OK or Print button.
In some programs, the Selection choice may not be in the first Print dialog box. In that case, look for a button that says Options. Click on it; you should find the Page Range area in the resulting dialog box. Click the OK or Print button.
Have you ever printed something from the Internet and then forgotten the website it came from?
You should have included the website address in the header or footer section of your printed copy. Then, you could just look at the top (header) or bottom (footer) of the page and know where it came from.
Here is how you do that:
On the File menu, click Page Setup.
In the Header and Footer boxes, specify the information to be printed by using the following variables.
To print the window title, type &w
To print the page address (URL), type &u
To print the date in short format, type &d
To print the date in long format, type &D
To print the time, type &t
To print the time in 24-hour format, type &T
To print the current page number, type &p
To print the total number of pages, type &P
Variables can be combined with text. For example: if you want to print Page 2 of 4, type Page &p or P.
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Featured Webpage: What is a Browser?
Visit our website to learn more about Browsers.
http://stsico.com/html/browsers.html
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Websites of Interest:
Ronald Reagan
No matter what your political leaning, we all mourn the passing of Ronald Reagan. Learn more about the politician, actor, husband and father at these websites:
The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rr40.html
The Ronald Reagan Library
http://www.reaganlibrary.com/welcome.asp
Time Magazine Biographical Profile
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/reagan.html
The Soviet Policy
http://www.reagan.dk/
The Movies
http://html.ktvu.com/sh/entertainment/news/articles/natlphae-entnews-archive-20000829-1 62008.html
The Family
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande05.html
Nancy Reagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan |
