Basic Computing

1. Basic Computing Clatsop Community College Fall 2011 Jane Francis

2. Welcome back! • Review and Comments • Clicking the mouse buttons. Click farther from the slit rather than close to it. Easier to press down lightly and be quick. • Who wants a mouse pad? (Mechanical vs. Optical) • There is always more than one way to accomplish a task on the computer. • Mouse and click • Keyboard Shortcut • Menu choice

3. Proposed Schedule • Today • Folders and Files • Keyboard • Editing Text (Using a simple text editor). • Backspace • Delete • Arrow keys • Highlighting text • Copy and Paste • Cut and Paste

4. Proposed Schedule • October 10 • Exploring the Internet using Internet Explorer • E-mail – with attachments, forwarding, reply all, etc. • October 17 • Word 2007 – Word Processing • October 24 • Excel 2007 – Spreadsheets

5. Windows Explorer(Manage folders and files) • Several ways to open the application • Windows Key + E (Open Windows Explorer) • Click the icon on the taskbar. It is a file folder. • Two “panes”. • A skinny one on the left • More detail on the right.

6. Favorites

7. Libraries Expanded Collapsed

8. Hierarchy of Folders and Files

9. Computer Folders and Files Examples

10. FINANCES – Files and Folders To Be Filed In Box FINANCES Charity Invest Taxes

11. FINANCES – Files and Folders To Be Filed FINANCES In Box Charity Invest Taxes

12. Moving Files to Folders Drag and Drop

13. Moving Files to Folders Right-click / Cut OR Ctrl + X Right-click / Paste OR Ctrl + V

14. Selecting Adjacent Files and Folders Select the first filename Hold down SHIFT Select the last filename Release SHIFT

15. Selecting Files and Folders

16. Selecting Non-Adjacent Files and Folders Select any filename Hold down CTRL Select any other filename(s) Release CTRL

17. Selecting Non-Adjacent Files and Folders

18. Keyboard • What’s a toggle key? • ON/OFF, like a light bulb • Num Lock (Number Lock) • Caps Lock (Capital Letter Lock) • Insert (vs. Overwrite) • ENTER (there are 2 of them)

19. Keyboard • Directional Keys • Home (start of line) and End (end of line) • Page Up and Page Down • Arrow Keys

20. Keyboard • Function Keys • F1 F2 F3 F4 etc. • Ctrl (Control) • Alt (Alternate) • For example, Ctrl + C is a keyboard shortcut for Copy. • Hold down Ctrl. • Tap C only once. • You’ll love Ctrl + Z, a keyboard shortcut for Undo.

21. Keyboard • Escape • Windows key (between Ctrl and Alt) • Windows Key + E (Open Windows Explorer) • Windows Key + M (Minimize all windows)

22. Proposed Schedule • Astoria Online SURVEYsurveymonkey.com/s/CSCFLV8 • Seaside Online SURVEY surveymonkey.com/s/CRYDNX6

23. Break Time?

24. Typefaces (“Fonts”) • Non-proportional spacing (mono-spacing) • Like an old typewriter. Every letter and space takes up the same amount of space. • This is Courier New. • 12345678910ABCDEFGHI

25. Typefaces (“Fonts”) • Proportional spacing • Like a typesetter would use. • Skinny letters (Like I, J, K, L) take less space. • Wide letters (like C, M, W) take more space. • This font is Constantia. • 12345678910ABCDEFGHIJKLM

26. UPPER CASE & lower case DVORAK Keyboard A typesetter’s box of metal letters.

27. UPPER CASE & lower case QWERTY Keyboard A typesetter’s box of metal letters.

28. Editors(Editing Applications) • Microsoft • Notepad (least sophisticated) • Start • All Programs • Accessories folder • Notepad • Wordpad • Word (most sophisticated)

29. Basic Editing Exercise • Open a simple text editor. • See if you can use these keys to accomplish the required changes: • Backspace (deletes to the left of the cursor) • Delete (deletes to the right of the cursor) • Shift + Arrow. Highlights text for cutting and pasting. • Use the Edit menu. Copy, Cut, Paste, etc.