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Welcome to today's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, December 1, 2002
Hanukkah begins this weekend. From all of us at Sharper Training
Solutions, Inc, we wish you a holiday full of peace, happiness, love and
light.
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Tips and Tricks: Reload a Slow Web Page; Quick Copy and Paste; Internet Explorer - Rearranging Favorites; Internet Explorer - Set up a Home Page
Featured Webpage: Email: Downloading and Attaching Files
Featured Computer Term: Metasearch Engine
This Week's Topic: Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts
Question: Status Bar - Internet Explorer
Learning Series: Microsoft Word Tip of the Day
Featured Website: Hanukkah; Rosa Parks; Old Farmer's Almanac; Internet and Computer Safety and Security
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Special Feature: Tips and Tricks: Reload a Slow Web Page; Quick Copy and Paste; Internet Explorer - Rearranging Favorites; Internet Explorer - Set up a Home Page
Reload a Slow Web Page
Some Web Pages take forever to load onto your screen. If you try to go to a website and it appears to just hang there with nothing happening, here’s something you can try: Just click the Stop button on the toolbar and then click Reload (or Refresh, depending on your browser). This will often open the page for you.
If you can’t see the buttons mentioned above, display the Standard Toolbar: Click View on the menu bar, point to Toolbars, click Standard buttons.
Quick Copy and Paste
When you need to copy text from Internet Explorer into a word processor, you simply select the text and press Ctrl + C. Then, open your word processor and press Ctrl + V to paste the text.
If your word processor recognizes all the web formatting (as MS Word does), you can paste with the formatting intact. If you don’t want the formatting, following the steps above, you can paste first into Notepad and then copy the Notepad contents and paste that into the word processor. You’ll find Notepad in the Start button menus /Programs /Accessories /Notepad)
Note: these steps will work to copy text from any program to any other program.
Internet Explorer - Rearranging Favorites
You can drag and drop to quickly rearrange the order of your favorites list with the Favorites Explorer bar.
To open the Favorites Explorer bar click the Favorites button on the IE toolbar. The Explorer bar will open in a separate pane inside your IE browser window. Now you can move a folder or items within a folder by just dragging and dropping. To see favorites stored inside any folder, just click a folder's icon and a list for the folder's content drops down.
To move a favorite on your list into a folder or to a new position in its folder, drag its icon up or down the Explorer bar to the new location. You'll notice a heavy horizontal line as you drag. This shows you where the favorite would be inserted when you release the mouse button.
Internet Explorer - Set up a Home Page
If you want your browser to open to a page that you visit frequently, you can set that page up as your Home Page.
Open the page you want to use as your home page. Click on Tools on the menu bar, then Internet Options. Make sure the General tab is selected. Click the Use Current button; then click OK.
You’ll now go directly to your home page every time you open Internet Explorer.
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Featured Webpage: Email: Downloading and Attaching Files
Take a look at our website for information, graphical instructions and newsletter archives on Downloading and Attaching Files. http://stsico.com/html/downattach.html
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Today's Computer Term: Metasearch Engine
A Metasearch Engine is a search engine that queries other search engines and then combines the results that are received from all. In effect, the user is not using just one search engine but a combination of many search engines at once to optimize Web searching. Dogpile is a metasearch engine.
Want to learn more about Search Engines, how they work and how to use them? Visit our website at: http://stsico.com/html/searchengines.html
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Today's Topic: Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts
Here are a few Internet Explorer shortcuts that you may find useful.
- To search for a particular word or phrase on a web page just press CTRL + F to open the Find dialog.
- Hold down the shift key when you click a link to have it open in a new window. If you plan on returning to that page, a new window is faster to open and close than backing up through pages.
- Press the Backspace key on your keyboard to go back a page, or press ALT + the Left Arrow. ALT + the Right Arrow goes forward a page, and ALT + Home take you to your home page.
- Press the Spacebar to move down the page one screen length. Hold the shift key down as you press the Spacebar to jump UP the page. Use the Up and Down Arrows to scroll slower.
- In IE 5.5 and above, in most cases you can just type "domain_Name.com" instead of typing the "www" first. IE knows to search for it on the web. Works for most sites, but a few can't be found without the www -that’s a problem with that site and not Internet Explorer.
- Press the F11 key to open your browser into full screen mode. This hides all the other stuff that can get in your way of viewing things. Press it again to leave full screen mode.
- CTRL + O opens the dialog to type in a web address. Useful for full screen mode surfers.
- Right-click the tool bar and select Auto-hide. This hides the tool bar for true full screen surfing. To use the hidden tool bar, just move your mouse to the top edge of the screen. Move your mouse away and it disappears again. (Note: You can do this with your taskbar too, by clicking the Start button, pointing to settings, and clicking Taskbar & Start Menu. Then place a check by the Autohide feature and click Apply.)
- Press the F5 key to reload the page. Press F4 & F5 at the same time to have the page reloaded at the page top instead of wherever you had scrolled to.
- Press the Esc key to stop the current page from loading.
- Press CTRL + N to open the current page in a new window.
- All the usual shortcuts work as well. CTRL + P opens the print dialog, CTRL + A highlights everything on the page, CTRL + C copies what you have highlighted.
- To get a drop-down list of recently-visited pages, click F4.
- To highlight (select) the address, click F6. Then just type in the address of the web page you want to go to.
To see more keyboard shortcuts, visit our website at: http://stsico.com/html/kbshortcuts.html
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Question: Status Bar - Internet Explorer
Question: I thought I was fairly computer literate when I signed up for your newsletter, but I have to say that I have learned so much!!! Thank you very much.
I have a question, the task bar at the bottom of the screen that shows the blue fill-in part for a page loading is gone and I don't know how to get it back. Can you help me?
Answer:
You are referring to the status bar in Internet Explorer. This will display several pieces of information for you: - A gauge shows you the progress of the page that is current loading.
- Point to a link and you’ll see the address displayed on the status bar.
- Click on an item on the menu bar and point to any item in the open menu for a description of the item.
To display the status bar, open Internet Explorer, click on View on the menu bar and then click Status Bar.
Your status bar should now be back at the bottom of the Internet Explorer and when you load a web page, it will show you the progress.
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Progressive Learning Series: Microsoft Word Tip of the Day
Microsoft Word 2000 comes with a Tip of the Day feature. If this feature is turned on, each time you open Word, you’ll see a new tip giving you information about the program.
To turn this feature on, you must have the Office Assistant displayed on the screen. To do this, click Help on the menu bar, then click Show the Office Assistant.
When the Assistant appears, click it and then click Options. Select the check box labeled Show the Tip of the Day at startup and click OK.
When you open Word, you’ll now see the Tip of the Day by your Office Assistant. Click OK when you’re done reading.
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Today's Featured Websites:
Hanukkah begins this weekend.
For eight days, Hanukkah candles shine in the window to brighten the night. Read about the history, the food, songs and traditions at this website:
http://www.night.net/kids/hanukkah.html-ssi
For blessings, recipes and traditions, visit this site:
http://www.hanukkah-traditions.com/
Sends your friends a greeting card online, free, at Blue Mountain cards. http://www.bluemountain.com/
Forty-seven years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery Alabama and is credited with being the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Read more about her, her life and this event at this site:
http://www.tsum.edu/museum/
The Old Farmer’s Almanac tells us that winter will be milder than normal, on average, but cooler than last winter. Find out the weather and more at their site:
http://www.almanac.com/index.php
Internet and Computer Safety and Security
For information on keeping your computer free of viruses, security from hackers, and tips for children’s safety, take a look at this website:
http://www.staysafeonline.info/ Learn all you need to know about anti-virus programs, firewalls, passwords, backups, file encryption and much more at this site:
http://www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity/
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