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Welcome to today's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Wednesday, July 25, 2001
In this Issue:
Featured Computer Term: WAV files
Topic: Adding or Removing Sounds from Your Computer
Progressive Learning Series: AutoCorrect
Featured Website: The Merck Manual of Medical Information
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Today's Featured Computer Term: WAV files
WAV is the format for storing sound in files. WAV sound files end with a .wav extension and can be played by nearly all Windows applications that support sound.
These files can be assigned to Windows events; for example, closing a program can be accompanied by the sound of your choice.
There are many wav files in Windows; additional wav sounds can be downloaded from the Internet (search for Wav files), or created by the user.
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Today's Topic: Adding or Removing Sounds from Your Computer
You may like the beeps, pings, and gurgles your computer makes when you do different things - or maybe you don't. Here are a few tips for setting up or removing a sound track for your system.
1. Go to the Start Menu, choose Settings, then Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Sounds icon (or Sounds and Multimedia, depending on which version of Windows you're running). In the window you'll see a series of events-- actions performed by Windows or other applications that might give an alert -- some with speaker icons attached.
3. If you want to set it up so that your computer plays a certain sound whenever you exit Windows, just click Exit Windows in the Events window, and choose a sound from the list of sound files (also known as WAVs). If you want to test a sound, click on the Play button.
4. You can also add your own sound files by clicking Browse and locating the sound file on your hard drive.
5. To remove a sound, look for the Name drop-down list box in the Sound Properties window, click the down arrow to the right of the selected sound, scroll up and select None.
6. Click OK to save changes and close the Sound properties window.
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Progressive Learning Series: AutoCorrect
AutoCorrect is a wonderful feature in Word that has probably corrected some of your mistakes without you even knowing it. AutoCorrect is on by default, and one of its elements changes common misspellings of words and common typos to the proper spelling as you type. To test it, type "teh" and press either Space or Enter. AutoCorrect changes the typo to "the".
One of the downfalls of AutoCorrect is when it corrects things that you don't want corrected; for example, (c) is changed automatically to a copyright symbol and can be a source of frustration when typing a list of items. Entries in AutoCorrect can be modified or deleted.
To see the entries in Word's AutoCorrect, from the Tools menu choose AutoCorrect. Entries can be deleted or modified by first selecting the entry, then choosing either the Delete button or changing the information in the Replace and With fields above the list.
You can add your own common misspellings and typos by placing the information in the Replace and With fields and choosing the Add button.
AutoCorrect can also be used for quickly typing common names or phrases. For example, if your company name is Arrow Industries, Incorporated, rather than typing that out all the time you might make an entry to replace "arr" with " Arrow Industries, Incorporated." That way, whenever I type "arr" and press either Space or Enter, AutoCorrect replaces it with your company name.
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Today's Featured Website: The Merck Manual of Medical Information
The Merck Manual of Medical Information is now available as a free resource at MerckHomeEdition.com.
The new version is complete with multimedia components such as videos, animations, color photos, links, and pronunciations of medical terms.
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