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Welcome to today's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Monday, July 30, 2001
In this Issue:
Featured Computer Term: Snail mail
Topic: Internet Explorer Links Bar
Progressive Learning Series: Justification
Featured Website: zagat.com
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Today's Featured Computer Term: Snail mail
Snail mail is physical mail sent by through the post office as opposed to very fast electronic mail (Email).
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Today's Topic: Internet Explorer Links Bar
If you're like most Internet Explorer users, you probably have a Favorites list that scrolls right off your screen. Chances are, though, you have a handful of sites you go to more often than others. Put your favorite Favorites in a place where you can get to them without tedious scrolling: the Links bar.
Here's some tips about how the Links bar works and how you can use it:
• Every copy of Internet Explorer includes this toolbar. If it's not visible on your screen, open an IE window and choose View, Toolbars, Links.
• Microsoft insists on filling the Links bar with shortcuts to its own sites. You can right-click on any shortcut and choose Delete to get rid of it.
• To add your own shortcuts to the Links bar, open the page in an IE window. Click on the icon at the left of the Address bar, drag it into the Links bar, and release.
• To arrange shortcuts on the Links bar, drag them back and forth.
• You can use the Links bar as a drop-down menu by pointing your mouse just to the left of the Links label until it turns to a two-headed arrow. Drag the toolbar to the far right of the screen, so all you can see is the word Links. Now click the small double arrow to drop down a list of shortcuts on the Links bar.
• Short titles are easier to work with. If a shortcut you add to the Links bar has a long name, right-click on the shortcut button and choose Rename from the menu. Then give it a short but meaningful name.
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Progressive Learning Series: Justification
One of the fundamental typographic specifications for laying out paragraphs is determining how they will appear in relation to the left and right margins. Word refers to this specification as alignment. There are four types of paragraph alignment you can set within Word:
Left-aligned. All lines in the paragraph start at the left text margin. No extra spaces are added to the line. The text of each line does not line up with the right margin, so traditional typesetting terminology often refers to left-aligned text as ragged right. *
Center-aligned. All lines in a paragraph are centered between the left and right text margins. No extra spaces are added to the line. The text lines do not line up with either the left or right margins. *
Right-aligned. All lines in a paragraph end up at the right text margin. No extra spaces are added to the line. The text of each line does not line up with the left margin, so traditional typesetting terminology often refers to right-aligned text as ragged left. *
Justified. All lines in a paragraph are expanded so they are at both the left and right text margins. Space is added, between words and characters, as necessary to fill out the line. In some typesetting references justified text is also referred to as "full justified."
You can change the alignment of any paragraph by using the appropriate tools on the Formatting toolbar or by choose Paragraph from the Format menu.
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Today's Featured Website: zagat.com
Good restaurants aren't always easy to find. If you're new in town, traveling on business or vacation, or just looking to find a new restaurant to try, this is a good website to check out.
This site offers restaurant reviews for several U.S. cities and various countries. Choose the location and then use the search engine to look up a particular dining establishment by name or browse by cuisine, neighborhood or alphabetically. The Lists section lets you narrow your search down to the Most Popular and Top Food, among other choices.
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