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Welcome to this week's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, July 29, 2007
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Protect Your Computer
Tips & Tricks: Reminder = Do Not Unsubscribe from a Spammer's List
Featured Computer Term: Tag
This Week's Topic: Microsoft Word = The Format Painter Button
Question: Printing Envelopes in Word
Websites of Interest: Expert Village; Classic Short Stories; Table Manners; Body Smart
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Special Feature: Protect Your Computer
To insure that no new schemes, scams or bugs will get through any security holes in your system, make sure you have the most recent Windows updates. Check to see if there are any updates that you need to add to your computer.
To do so, follow these steps:
If you are not already on the Internet, log into your connection. Click the Start button, point to All Programs and then click on Windows Update. If you are using Windows XP, this will take you to a Microsoft Web page where you can run a test on your computer to see if there are any updates that you do not have yet. If there are, it will prompt you to install them.
If you are using Windows Vista, point to All Programs and then click on Windows Update. This will open the Windows Update Control Panel window, where it will tell you if you need to update, and what updates are available. Follow the on-screen prompts if there are any updates to install.
It is very important to keep your computer updated with the most recent security fixes from Microsoft. When holes are found in Windows or other Windows programs that could potentially allow malicious software in, Microsoft puts out patches for these vulnerabilities. The updates that you download and install contain these patches and will protect your computer from that particular vulnerability.
Keep your computer up-to-date and secure. Check your Windows Update weekly.
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Tips & Tricks: Reminder = Do Not Unsubscribe from a Spammer's List
Once you have identified a email as spam, do not believe a single word in it, least of all any unsubscription information it contains.
Spammers do not remove addresses from their list. If you try to unsubscribe, the best that can happen is nothing. More than likely, though, you will get more spam afterwards, since you have just verified that you do indeed receive messages at that email address.
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Featured Computer Term: Tag
Question: Recently, I have seen the word tag used very frequently in relation to the Internet. What does this mean?
Answer:
A tag is very similar to a keyword. It is assigned to an object, for example, a website, picture, video, or bookmark, usually by the creator of the object. The tag, which can be one or several words, describes the object. That object is then put into a category or categories by its tag or tags. It can then be found by keyword searching on those particular tags.
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: Microsoft Word: The Format Painter Button
The Format Painter button, located on the Standard Toolbar to the immediate right of the Paste button (it has a picture of a paint brush on it), copies the formatting from a selected section of text and then pastes just the formatting, not the text, to other text that you select.
Here is how you use it:
Lets say you have a document with five paragraphs and you would like the second and fourth paragraph to be bolded, italicized and in a slightly larger font size. Highlight the second paragraph. Looking at the toolbar across the top, click the B button to bold the text and then click the I button to italicize the text. To increase the font size, click the small down arrow next to the 10 or 12 (depending on your settings) and then, from the list of numbers that drop down, click a larger number.
Now, paragraph 2 is bolded, italicized and in a larger font size. Making sure the paragraph is still highlighted, click the Format Painter button. (When you move your mouse, you will see the mouse point is now in the shape of a paint brush.)
Point to the first word of the fourth paragraph, hold down the left mouse button, and drag down and across the whole paragraph, making sure to select all of the text you want to format. When you release the mouse button, you will see that all the text you highlighted has the same formatting as the second paragraph.
Give it a try. It may take a little practice, but, once you get it down, it is a very useful tool.
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Question: Printing Envelopes in Word
Word can print an address on an envelope. After typing a letter which includes an inside address, click Tools from the menu bar, and then Envelopes and Labels. (Depending on your version of Word, you may have to click Tools/Letters and Mailings/Envelopes and Labels.)
In the resulting dialog box, click the Envelopes tab.
The inside address from the letter will be in the delivery address box. If necessary type a return address, or click the Omit box to remove the return address (use this feature for letterhead envelopes). Click Print.
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Websites of Interest:
Expert Village
This site has How-To videos created by experts that will help you with just about any question or problem you might have. On automotive, food, hobbies, home and garden, they have close to 20,000 videos.
http://www.expertvillage.com/
Classic Short Stories
This is a great, free resource with a wonderful selection of short fiction and light prose. You will find stories by Wharton, Kipling, Poe, Twain, London, and many more.
http://www.classicshorts.com/
Table Manners
This is a very amusing site, and useful for anyone who is interested in improving their
table manners.
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/tablemanners/tablemanners.html
Body Smart
With interactive guides, this very interesting website examines and explains the intricacies of the human body.
http://www.getbodysmart.com/ |
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