A site for our Arizona Mohave Community College "Leisure Studies" computer students to share questions and answers about this ever changing technology. Anyone wanting to learn is welcome to visit & participate.. Enjoy & we welcome your feeback..
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Listen to Christmas & Holiday Music Online
Enjoy and remember these are just a few of the hundreds of music and radio websites available world wide.....
www.Pandora.com/ChristmasMusic
www.christmasmusic247.com
www.xmasmelody.com
www.accuradio.com/more/accuholidays
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
TERMS: MENU BAR, ACTION BUTTONS & TITLE BAR
Located at the top of the screen, your Title Bar always shows you where you are and what software program you are using. For example, when you open a new document, your Title Bar would display “Document 1 – Microsoft Word.” After you save the document the display will read (for instance) Weekly Schedule – Microsoft Word” – if you are visiting a webpage such as “All My Faves”, your Title Bar would display "All My Faves – Windows Internet Explorer".
Action Buttons
Located to the far right of the “Title Bar” there are three action buttons: minimize your screen ( - ), maximize your screen ([_]/Box ), or close/shut down the program ( X ).
Menu Bar
Located below the Title Bar, the menu bar allows you to access various menu selections by using your mouse and clicking. Certain commands & functions are always in the same "menu" such as you will always find Cut-Copy-Paste-Find-Replace in the Edit Menu..
Note: Newer versions of some software - such as Office 2007 & 2010 - no longer use the toolbar system with the Title & Menu Bars, but have replaced those with the newer Tab & Ribbon format...
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Quickly Minimize & Restore Open Windows/Applications
Keyboard Shortcuts allow us to implement commands quickly and easily – 2 favorites that we use are:
- When you want to “minimize” all open windows/applications so that you can return quickly and easily to the desktop – simply hold the Windows Flag Key and tap the letter “M”..
- Then to return/restore your windows/applications to their original state, simply hold the Windows Flag Key, the Shift Key and the letter “M”..
Friday, February 5, 2010
What are Minimize, Maximize or Restore?
The following commands allow you the ability to "work and manipulate open items on your monitor"
They are 3 icons located in the upper right hand corner of what we call the TITLE BAR on every application or website we visit ... The middle icon changes and will either be the RESTORE icon or the MAXIMIZE icon)
- MINIMIZE (icon resembles _ ) -"get out of the way" to work on another program
- RESTORE (icon resembles 2 pages) - allows you to see every thing "open" - multiple windows at one time so you can see other open applications behind the current or
- MAXIMIZE (icon resembles 1 page) - fills the entire screen with the one program
- CLOSE (icon is an X) and this will close out the program entirely
TIP: If you have a lot of applications open and want to return quickly to the DESKTOP, use your keyboard shortcut: Windows Flag Key + M key (which minimizes all open applications at once)