Windows 98

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Windows 98

• Session 2- More on the
• Windows Interface

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Role of the Clipboard - p. 43

• The clipboard is a temporary storage area of
  Windows
• Only one piece of data/information/ graphic can
  be stored at a time
• Information is placed on the clipboard by using a
  Cut or Copy command

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Role of the Clipboard (cont.)

• As more information is added the prior data is
  lost
• The clipboard is affected by Cut and Copy
  commands in applications
• The Paste command copies information from the
  clipboard to the application document

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Paint Program

• Allows you to do free-hand drawing
• Accessed from the Accessories menu
• Provides a number of tools to work with
• Toolbox - controls shapes, lines, fill-in,
  shading and so forth
• Color palette - controls the color being used at
  any one time

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Hints for Using Paint

• The Paint toolbox controls which object or
  affects can be applied to the drawing on the
  screen
• Holding down the Shift key while drawing keeps
  the line(s) straight
• The color palette is used to control the color of
  an object

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Viewing the Clipboard

• The Clipboard viewer is used to see the current
  clipboard contents
• Accessed via the System Tools option of the
  Accessories menu
• Clipboard contents appear in a separate Clipboard
  Viewer window

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Windows Help Features - p. 56

• ToolTips
• Whats This Button/ScreenTips
• ? button
• Whats This from context menu
• Shift F1
• Start , Help
• F1

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Help Dialog Box

• Contains two parts
• Left-hand pane contains three types of help
• Topics or categories appear here
• Right-hand pane is where the desired Help
  document appears
• Once information appears here, it does not
  necessarily change as you move from one topic to
  another in the left-hand pane

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Help Dialog Box (cont.)

• Contains three tabs
• Context - contains information about general
  topics
• Index - contains information arranged in
  alphabetical order by keyword
• Search - Contains information arranged in
  alphabetical order by topic

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Context Tab

• Topics appear in the left-hand box
• All topics appear as Web-like hyper links
• Closed book is an unaccessed general topic
• Click a topic opens the book and other topics or
  help documents appear
• Help information appears as a document

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Index and Search Tabs

• The information in these tabs is not accessed as
  hyperlinks like the Context tab
• Each topic/item must be double-clicked using the
  mouse to access the desired help topic

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Printing a Help Document

• Any Help page can be printed by using the Print
  command of the Options button
• You may be prompted about whether you want all
  documents for a general topic or just the current
  document
• When the Print dialog box appears, click the OK
  button

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Copying Help Information

• Any information found in a Help document can be
  copied to the clipboard
• All desired information must first be selected
  using a click-and-drag operation
• Use the Edit, Copy menu sequence or the Ctrl C
  keyboard shortcut

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Copying Help (Cont.)

• Once information is copied it can be copied into
  any application
• Use an Edit, Past menu sequence or issue a Ctrl
  V keyboard shortcut