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Welcome to this week's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, November 20, 2005
From all of us at Sharper Training Solutions, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving.
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Printing Web Pages
Tips & Tricks: Keyboard Shortcuts: The Start Menu; My Computer; Windows Search
This Week's Topic: Hard Dive Information
Question: Get Icons Back
Websites of Interest: Thanksgiving; Recipes; Ecology for Kids
To observe Thanksgiving, we will not be publishing this newsletter next week. Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving! See you in December.
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Special Feature: Printing Web Pages
Question: When I print from a web site, the entire page does not print. My printer cuts off about 7 or 8 characters on the right side of the page. Can I change a setting to print everything?
Answer:
Web pages are usually designed for viewing and not for printing. As computer screens get larger and large with better resolutions, web designers are creating pages that are wider and wider.
To print the whole page, you have a couple of choices. One is to print in landscape mode. This will print across the long part of the paper. To do so, click File on the menu and then Page Setup. Look for Orientation, and change from Portrait to Landscape. Print as you normally do.
Another option is to copy the text you want to print and paste it into your word processing program. Here is how to do this:
Highlight only the text that you want to print.
Click Edit on the menu, and then click Copy.
Open your word processing program.
Click Edit on the menu, and then click Paste.
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Tips & Tricks: Keyboard Shortcuts: The Start Menu; My Computer; Windows Search
The Start Menu
Hold down the Ctrl key and press the Esc (Escape) key. This will open the Start menu. If you would like to continue using your keyboard, press the arrow keys to move through the menus. When you highlight the program you would like to open, press the Enter key.
My Computer
To open My Computer, hold down the Windows key (that is the one with the little windows logo on it) and press the e key.
Windows Search
Looking for a file? Hold down the Windows key and press the f key. This will open Search. Choose what you want to search for by either clicking with the mouse, or using the Arrow keys and Enter.
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Today's Topic: Hard Dive Information
How can I find out how big my C: drive is?
Answer:
To find the size of your C: drive and see how much space you have left, follow these steps:
Double click the My Computer icon on the desktop.
In the My Computer window, right click on the C: drive icon. In the resulting menu, left click Properties.
The properties window for the drive will appear. This window will display the used space, free space and total capacity on the drive. This information will also be displayed in a pie chart.
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Question: Get Icons Back
I was clicking around on my new computer and all of a sudden, all my icons disappered. Can you help me get them back on my desk top?
Answer:
You have hidden your desktop icons. You have to un-hide them. Here is how:
Right click on a blank spot on your desktop.
In the resulting menu, point to Arrange Icons By; a submenu will appear.
In the submenu, find the item that says Show Desktop Icons. click on that and your icons will display on the Desktop.
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Websites of Interest:
Thanksgiving
Visit our website for links to pages about history, decorations, recipes, sites for kids, free e-cards and much more.
http://computerkindergarten.com/html/thanksgiving.html
Recipes
Try out some new recipes for those your meals. This excellent site has mor than 140,000 recipes and pictures of a lot of those recipes!
http://www.recipezaar.com/
Ecology for Kids
Learn about Ecology, conservation, endangered species, visit experiment pages, Frequently Asked Questions and much more.
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceas-web/kids/index.html |
