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Today's Featured Website: www.unitedmedia.com/comics/
If you're a Dilbert fan, but your local paper doesn't carry it; or maybe you've been on vacation and want to get caught up on Lil' Abner or Peanuts, then this website is for you. United Media uploads the latest episodes of more than 80 of its comic strips daily to this site. There's also an archive of the past two weeks of each strip so you don't have to jump in to the middle of a plot twist for any of your favorites.
As an added bonus, United Media has done a great job of creating this site, so despite its heavy graphical nature, it loads quickly.
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Today's Featured Computer Term: Scroll bar
A bar that appears on the right side or bottom of a window to control which part of a document or list you currently view on your screen. The scroll bar makes it easy to move to any part of a file or screen display, either up or down, or left or right.
Typically, a scroll bar has arrows at either end, a gray or colored area in the middle, and a scroll box (called the elevator) that moves from one end to the other to reflect your position in the document. Clicking on the arrows causes the document to scroll in the indicated direction. You can also quickly move to any part of a document by dragging the scroll box to the corresponding part of the scroll bar.
The horizontal scroll bar, which is typically found on the bottom of the window, enables you to move left and right through the document. The vertical scroll bar, usually on the right side of the window, allows you to move up and down through the document.
Some Windows programs display scroll bars at all times, while others will only display the scroll bar when there are objects off the screen which you can scroll to.
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Today's Topic: Choosing an Insert Method for Pictures
It is common practice to insert pictures into Word documents. When inserting JPG images into Word documents, you should strongly consider using the Picture option from the Insert menu, rather than doing a simple copy and paste. The reason for this is that Word handles pictures differently when they are cut and pasted compared with when they are inserted. When they are cut and pasted they are treated as TIFF files, which are typically much larger than JPG files, even if the original photos were JPGs.
For example, an eleven-page document with two photos that had been cut-and-pasted into it came in at 4.5 MB in size. The same document, when the same photos had been inserted correctly, shrank to 700 KB.
To insert a picture, follow these steps:
Click Insert on the menu bar
Point to Picture
Click on From File
In the Insert Picture dialog box, navigate to the picture you want to insert; click on it.
Click the Insert button
By inserting pictures in this manner you can save enormous amounts of hard disk space and, if the document has to be e-mailed, the upload time will go much faster. In addition, the file will load faster when you have to use it again and you can make edits quicker.
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Progressive Learning Series: Printer Costs After Purchase
If you'll be using your printer a lot, you'll probably spend more money for consumables over the life of your printer than you'll pay for the printer itself. Most manufacturers don't advertise the cost of the consumables, so the best tactic is to ask the dealer how much the replacement items are and how many pages they'll produce.
Costs to consider are the price of toner cartridges for laser printers and the ink cartridges for inkjet printers. Some inkjet printers require inkjet paper, which is more expensive than regular printer paper.
Be sure to consider quality along with cost--the printer with the least expensive consumables may not provide the quality you need. |
