Things Your Mother Never Taught You that every 6year old already knows

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Things Your Mother Never Taught You(that every
6-year old already knows)
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Right Click is Your Friend

• Task Bar
• Desktop Appearance
• Shortcuts
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Viewing, arranging, moving Files
• Odds and Ends

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Thanks To

• Alan Gojdics
• Mark Squire
• Lisa Woosley
• Lisa Hales
• Ron Henry

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The Mouse

• Mouse pointer
• Control Panel
• Mouse
• Pointers
• Scheme

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The Taskbar

• Taskbar
• Start Button
• Quick Launch
• Open Applications
• Notification area
• Clock

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The Taskbar

• Customizing the Taskbar
• right click or via Control Panel
• Properties
• Taskbar
• Hide icons
• Start Menu
• Classic or XP
• Customize add or remove files

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The Taskbar

• Quick Launch
• Drag shortcuts to
• Return to Desktop
• Right click on empty taskbar
• Show the desktop
• Win2000 Minimize all windows

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Desktop Icons

• Cant delete
• My Network
• Recycle Bin
• Internet Explorer
• Add
• My Computer

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Recycle Bin

• Drag and Drop
• Delete
• Retrievable
• NOT ON K AND O

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Desktop Organization

• Icons
• Right click on desktop
• Appearance
• Arrangement
• Changing
• Right Click
• Change Icon
• .ico files

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Desktop Organization

• Office Toolbar
• Programs
• Microsoft Office Tools
• Right click
• Customize
• Color
• Buttons add, remove
• Shape
• Drag icons

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Desktop Organization

• Folders
• Right Click
• New
• Folder Name
• Same process for desktop, drive or folder

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Shortcuts

• Programs
• Start Menu
• Program Files
• Right Click on program icon
• Create Shortcut
• Click and drag/drop to desktop or Office bar.

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Making Shortcuts

• Files
• In document window
• Right Click
• Shortcut
• Drag and drop to Desktop

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Making Shortcuts

• Internet Sites
• Go to web site you want to create shortcut for
• Drag icon to desktop

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Desktop Appearance

• Display Properties
• Right Click on Desktop or click Control Panel
• Themes
• Desktop
• Screen Saver
• Appearance
• Settings

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Themes

• Windows Standard
• XP

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Wallpaper Screensavers

• MS preloaded
• Any graphics file on your computer
• Screensavers
• MS preloaded
• My Pictures slide show

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Graphic Sources

• Sources for Wallpaper, Pictures
• Scan photos
• Copy from Internet
• Create art

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Graphics

• Copying a picture from the Internet
• Locate image on page
• Place mouse button over image
• Right click
• Save picture as
• OR
• Set as background (automatic)

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Copying pictures
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Creating Wallpaper

• Wallpaper
• Center
• Stretch
• Tiling

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Appearance and Settings

• Appearance
• Color schemes
• Settings
• Screen Resolution
• 800x600 common
• 1024/768 better

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Sounds

• Control Panel
• Sounds and Multimedia
• Sounds
• Event
• Mail Beep
• Browse - any sound file
• Sources Internet

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Keyboard Shortcuts

• Within Programs
• Win key M Go to desktop
• Win Key M Shift Go back to program
• Win Key E Win Explorer
• Alt Tab - shifts between applications

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Keyboard Shortcuts

• Within Programs
• double click title bar full/half screen
• Alt F4 close program
• Ctrl C copy
• Ctrl V paste
• CtrlX - delete
• Ctrl Z delete to clipboard

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Keyboard Shortcuts

• WORD
• CtrlF6 switches between open documents

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Mr. Paperclip

• The guy we all love to hate
• Click on help in any office program
• Right click on Mr. P
• Hide
• Options
• Choose
• Animate

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File Window

• Changing View
• Large Icons, Small Icons, List, Details,
  Thumbnails
• Arrange icons
• Name, type, size, date, auto
• Or via list page click on header
• Line Up
• Rename File (Desktop also)
• Right click
• rename
• BlockF2

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Ways to Move Things

• Files and Folders
• Left Click, Drag Drop - moves
• CTRLDrag makes copy
• ShiftDrag between discs
• Right Click options depend on item
• Selecting with box, dragging

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Finding Lost Files

• Within a Folder
• Click Search Icon (Magnifying glass)
• Document Name
• searches only within that folder
• restrict by date modified
• All Files and Folders
• Can specify where to search

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Lost Files

• Start Button
• Search Icon
• File Name
• Location whole drive or folder within drive

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Internet Tips

• Set Home Page
• IE
• Tools
• Internet Options
• Home page Enter address
• Apply
• OK

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Internet

• Address Shortcuts (IE only)
• Type name.com
• ie cnn.com
• For major sites only
• Type name and CtrlEnter to fill out address
• ie pbs CTRLEnter writes http//www.pbs.com
• Does not work with EDU addresses

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Internet

• IE
• F11 - full screen