Beginner+Users+Group

**BOB'S USER GROUP--BEGINNERS Q&A PAGE**
Power up your computer by pressing the button that looks like a broken circle with a slash down through the break until you see one or several little lights.
 * TO START, STOP AND RESCUE YOUR COMPUTER**

Proper way of shutting down: Start/turn off computer/turn off

Frozen keyboard/display: Control&Alt&Delete Click on ‘end task’

Final solution: hold down power button on the CPU (see vocabulary below) until system shuts down. Wait 2 minutes and restart.


 * HANK'S COMPUTER VOCABULARY – HVV**

PC..........personal computer........Windows Apple.......Macintosh.......Mac Hardware.........Software......(programs) CPU......central processing unit......hard disk....tower Display / monitor / screen / icons Mouse......(optical) Left click once or double click Right click Hold down left mouse button for dragging Mouse wheel or roller Mouse pointer Cursor.......pointer Keyboard Repeating keys Toggle key Shift and shift lock Enter or return (line feed) F1 function key: help Backspace key deletes to the left Delete key deletes to the right Small arrow keys move without deleting End key and home key Control&end...........Control&home Scrolling the display......up/down/sideways Maximize Minimize Restore Exit or close Select or highlight Word processor Spread sheet Data base Account ID or user name (often the email address) Password Internet server URL = web site address Virus protection.......Spyware protection

• CTRL+C (Copy) • CTRL+X (Cut) • CTRL+V (Paste) • CTRL+Z (Undo) • DELETE (Delete) • SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin) • CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item) • CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item) • F2 key (Rename the selected item) • CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word) • CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word) • CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph) • CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph) • CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text) • SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document) • CTRL+A (Select all)
 * BASIC KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS** - If you hate working with the mouse - these short cuts will help!


 * BUG NOTES 6-13-07**

Three kinds of clicks: one left click on a word or group of words, picture etc. selects or highlights a word or words. another click or two left clicks: selects and opens an application, document, website etc. right click a word, words, picture, application, icon brings up a menu of actions you can choose.

Anti virus: figure out what you have. Is it updating itself and scanning your computer and isolating viruses? Call FAST or 3278 to get some help in identifying your antivirus application and making sure it is working properly.

Larger text almost anywhere: ctrl +++ (ctrl bottom left corner of keyboard) Smaller text or return to normal: ctrl (plus and minus signs are in the second row on keyboard at the right near the backspace key)

World Wide Web (www) the great ocean of information, misinformation, invisible and ever growing. Web Browser: Internet explorer or Firefox or AOL. These are applications that allow you to travel the world wide web. Search engine: Google, Yahoo and many others allow you to find what you are looking for by sorting information into links to topics. Type questions (how to) topics, proper nouns into the search window and click Go or "Google Search" or touch Enter on your keyboard. Internet: the highway that the information travels on, at your command, to your computer (hopefully).

Word Processing" Goodbye Word Pad: no ospell check, no double, triple line spacing. We will shift our efforts on word processing to OPEN OFFICE the free open source suite of applciations from Sun Microsystems that is free to all pc and mac users. Many of you have MSWord or MS Works which at some point you will have to pay handsomely for. pfs