 Taming Your Computer
Order Your Copy Today
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| What
are the Basics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Where Do I Start? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Introducing… Your New Computer! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Understanding All Those Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| What’s On The Screen? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Knowing What the Parts of My Screen Are
Called . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Understanding
What's on My Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Changing the
Screen Background (Wallpaper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Changing the Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Removing
and Renaming Unused Icons (Shortcuts) on My
Screen |
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| Rearranging Icons on My Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Placing an Icon on the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Starting Programs Many Ways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
17 |
| Open Programs in Maximized Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Moving the Taskbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Changing the Appearance of My Screen and
Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Using Minimize, Maximize, Restore
and Exit Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Making the Minimize, Maximize/Restore and
Exit Buttons Larger . . |
23 |
| Hiding
the Taskbar to Make More Room on the Screen . . . . . . . . . |
24 |
| What's
a Default? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Mouse Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Clicking: Left, Right, Once, Twice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
28 |
| Scrolling With Your Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
29 |
| Making Your Mouse Pointer (Arrow) Larger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
30 |
| Making
Icons Large Enough to See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
31 |
| Practicing Mouse Skills with Solitaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
32 |
| Surviving Without a Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Keyboard Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Understanding Your Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Helpful
Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
44 |
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| Computer Maintenance Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
47 |
| Turning
Your Computer Off - The Right Way! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
48 |
| Managing the Recycle Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
49 |
| Defragging Your Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
50 |
| How
Much Space is Left on My Hard Drive? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
52 |
| Finding
Help on Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
53 |
| "Burning" a CD (Compact Disk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
54 |
| Organizing My Documents With New Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
56 |
| Deleting Old Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
58 |
| Uninstalling Programs You No Longer Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
60 |
| Staying
current with Windows Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Typing Stuff (Word Processing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Understanding the Program Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Seeing
an Entire Dropdown Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Seeing
More Buttons on Your Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Moving
Windows and Changing Their Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Typing
a Document in Microsoft Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Saving
and Closing a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
75 |
| Save a Document For Easy Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Uncapitalizing Every Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Opening
a Saved Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Highlighting Text in a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Copy
and Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
80 |
| Changing the Font in a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
81 |
| Changing the Color of Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
82 |
| Even
More Colors to Choose From . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
83 |
| Changing the Page Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
84 |
| Changing Paper "Direction" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
85 |
| Changing Line Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
86 |
| Blank
Pages at the End of a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
87 |
| Thesaurus Built into Microsoft Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| STUCK
IN CAPS LOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
89 |
| Printing a Document on Smaller Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
90 |
| Printing an Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
91 |
| Inserting Clip Art or Photos Into a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
92 |
| Flowing
Text Around Clip Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
93 |
| Finding
All the Funny Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
94 |
| Checking the Spelling in a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
95 |
| Creating Mailing Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
96 |
| Making
Return Address Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
98 |
| Printing a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
99 |
| Changing the Size of Type on the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
100 |
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| Internet Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
101 |
| What is
the Internet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
102 |
| What is
the World Wide Web? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
103 |
| What
are the Parts of a Website? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
105 |
| Creating a List of Favorite Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
106 |
| Changing My Home Page on Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
107 |
| Deleting Cookies, Temporary Internet Files and History . . . . . . . . . |
108 |
| What's
the Difference Between Google and the Internet Explorer Address Bar? |
109 |
| What is
Google? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
110 |
| More
Google Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
112 |
| Shopping Safely on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
113 |
| Preventing Internet Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
114 |
| What
are E-mail Hoaxes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
115 |
| Cleaning up E-mail Forwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
116 |
| E-mail
Etiquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
117 |
| Interesting Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
118 |
| Websites I've Discovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
119 |
| Glossary of Strange Computer Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
121 |
| New
Computer Terms to Add to My Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Order
Copies for Family and Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Talk to Barb Walker, "The Computer Lady", at (303) 752-2152