computer training for elders. as the name suggests, the first task for computers was performing...
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Word Processing BasicsComputer Training for Elders
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As the name suggests, the first task for computers was performing calculations
Today, computers are more often used for writing, just as typewriters are
What Is A Word Processor?
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The “application” that allows a computer to be a writing tool is a word processor
Word processors are programs (instructions) that tell the computer to record what you write, and show it on the screen
What Is A Word Processor?
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As you will see, word processors can do much more than simply showing what you write
They can also help you write better, change what you’ve written, and help you find what you’ve already written
What Is A Word Processor?
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Our training is based on Microsoft Works, a low-cost word processor that can exchange documents with other, more powerful “Office” tools◦If you are writing only for yourself, this
doesn’t matter
Do I Have A Word Processor?
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◦If you are planning to send your writing to family members, they need to be able to read what you’ve written◦Works files can be read by most
common word processors
Do I Have A Word Processor?
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Move the tip of the mouse pointer over the Start Button in the lower left corner of the screen
Click (press and release) the left mouse button
The Start Menu should appear
Start Your Word Processor!
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On the Start menu, click on “All Programs
Find the Works Folder
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When the Start Menu changes, look for the for the “Microsoft Works” folder
Find the Works Folder
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Move the tip of the of the mouse pointer over the folder, so that it changes color
Find the Works Folder
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Click the left mouse button once to “open” the folder
Find the Works Folder
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Below the folder, you will see a list of icons with names starting with “Microsoft Works…”
Find the Works Folder
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Look in this list for the item labeled “Microsoft Works Word Processor”
Find the Works Folder
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Move the tip of the mouse pointer over the icon and click the left mouse button once
Find the Works Folder
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oYou will briefly see a window with the words “Microsoft Works”
oThis will disappear, and be replaced by the Works Word Processor window
Find the Works Folder
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The Works Word Processor
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This window has a lot of things in it, most of which you can ignore
It also has some things that you are already familiar with from earlier lessons
The Works Word Processor
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In the top right corner, you’ll see the window controls for minimize, make full screen, and close that are in all windows
These work exactly the same as in any other window
The Works Word Processor
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In the top left corner, you’ll see the name of the document, and “Microsoft Works Word Processor”
Until you save your document (we’ll talk about that in a little while), it is called “Untitled Document”
The Works Word Processor
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In the very corner, you’ll see what looks somewhat like a pencil and paper.
This is the icon for Works Word Processor documents, which you’ll see on the desktop
The Works Word Processor
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Just below the window name, you’ll see the “Menu Bar”
You will use the menu bar to tell the program what you’d like it to do
The Works Word Processor
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A Windows Menu is like a menu in a restaurant◦It offers you choices of what you can get◦Not all of the options are always available
The Works Word Processor
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A Restaurant may have more than one menu◦Breakfast Menu◦Dinner Menu◦Dessert Menu
The Works Word Processor
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In Works, we’ll mostly use the File, Edit, and Tools menus
The Works Word Processor
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Most of the window is taken up by the white rectangle at the bottom
This is the “document” that you will be working on◦A “document” is like a piece of paper◦You can put information on it, file it,
and look at it again later
The Works Word Processor
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The Works Word Processor
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When you start the Works Word Processor, it creates a new document
Sometimes you want to continue working on something that you were writing, and have put away
You do this with the “Open…” command
Getting a Place to Write
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Move the tip of the mouse pointer over the word “File” on the menu bar, so that the bar changes color
Click the left mouse button once
Getting a Place to Write
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This will open the File menu, just like before
Move the mouse pointer down so that its tip is over “Open…”
Getting a Place to Write
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The menu will show a colored bar over the selected command
Getting a Place to Write
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Click the left mouse button once
This will open a special window called a “File Dialog Box”
Getting a Place to Write
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The Open File Dialog
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The File Open Dialog is similar to other windows, but has a special purpose
The File Open Dialog
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It shows you documents that you’ve saved◦You’ll learn to do that
in a little bit
The File Open Dialog
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You can “select” any Works Word Processor document to open and continue working on, or simply to read
The File Open Dialog
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To open a Word Processor document, move the tip of the mouse pointer over the name of the document
The File Open Dialog
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As you move the mouse pointers, the current document will be a different color
The File Open Dialog
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When you have the mouse pointer over the document you want to work on, click the left mouse button once
The File Open Dialog
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The screen behind the name will change to a darker color◦This means that the
document is “selected”
The File Open Dialog
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Now, move the mouse pointer to the lower right corner of the Open Dialog, to the “Open Button”
The File Open Dialog
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With the tip of the mouse pointer over the button, click the left mouse button once
The File Open Dialog
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The Open Dialog will disappear, and be replaced by the document you selected!
The File Open Dialog
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When you are working in your word processor, there are two different cursors on the screen
One is the mouse pointer, which you’ve seen and used already
Typing Into Your Document
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The other is the “Insert cursor,” which shows you where your words will appear
If you look carefully in the white area of your word processor, you will see a short vertical line blinking “|”
Typing Into Your Document
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This line is the “insert cursor” and is where text you type will appear
Typing Into Your Document
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You can move this “Insert Cursor” using the mouse
To move the insert cursor, you place the tip of the mouse pointer in the area you want your typing to appear, and click the left mouse button once
Typing Into Your Document
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Let’s try thisMove the mouse pointer to just
before the “C” in “Chapter 1”Click the left mouse button once◦The blinking “Insert Cursor” should
now be just before the “C”
Typing Into Your Document
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Move the insert cursor back to the beginning of the document
Typing Into Your Document
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Once you’ve placed the insert cursor where you want it, the mouse position doesn’t matter◦Just park the mouse out of your way,
and you can begin typing
Typing Into Your Document
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When people say that they don’t know how to type, they generally mean that they don’t touch type.
Touch typists only look at the screen. Their fingers know where the keys are.
But I Don’t Know How To Type!
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If you are planning to make your living typing, this is important
If you are writing to your friends, it doesn’t matter how fast or how slow you type.
But I Don’t Know How To Type!
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For now, just use the “Columbus Method”◦Seek out and Discover
With practice, you will start to learn the location of the keys, and be fast enough
But I Don’t Know How To Type!
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Let’s type:◦I have a higher and grander standard of
principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
As you type, you’ll start to run out of room on the line
Typing Into Your Document
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On a typewriter, you’d hear a “Ding” and think about moving down to the next line
In a word processor, you don’t have to do that
The End of the Line?
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When more text won’t fit, the computer will automatically move words down (including the word that you are typing), and keep going.
The End of the Line?
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As you write (type), you occasionally want to change what you have already typed
That Wasn’t What I Wanted to Say…
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Sometimes you want to add something that you remembered
Sometimes you want to “unsay” something that was better left unsaid
That Wasn’t What I Wanted to Say…
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Sometimes you just typed the wrong key
With your word processor, you can do all of that, and more!
That Wasn’t What I Wanted to Say…
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In order to understand the next few slides, we have to understand how to think about what you see on the computer screen
You can think of your writing as being on a very long piece of paper, stretching from ceiling to floor
A Brief Detour
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But you can only see part of it at one time.
Think of a screen sized piece of cardboard with a hole cut in it that sits on the paper
A Brief Detour
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Most of the controls for what part of the document you are looking at don’t move the paper, they move the window
When you use a control to move “up,” the words on the screen will move down
A Brief Detour
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After you have typed for a while, your writing won’t fit on the screen any more
With a typewriter, you’d have to put in a new sheet of paper to continue
I Know It’s In Here Somewhere
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In the word processor, your writing just moves up the screen (the window moves down), and you get more space
But you need to be able to get back to what you wrote earlier
I Know It’s In Here Somewhere
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On the right side of the word processor window, you will see a bar reaching from the bottom of the screen to the top
The Scroll Bar
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This has a number of important parts
The Scroll Bar
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At the top and bottom you will see small arrows pointing up and down
These are the “scroll arrows” that move your window up and down in the document
The Scroll Bar
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Between the two arrows there is a box called the “thumb”◦Think if it like a holding a
book with your thumb between the pages
The Scroll Bar
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The entire tool, including the arrows, the thumb, and the track it slides in, is called the scroll bar
The Scroll Bar
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The easiest way to move the window is to click on the scroll arrows to move the window up and down through your document
The Scroll Bar
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Each click on an arrow moves the window by one line
The Scroll Bar
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If you want to move faster, you can click in the track just below the up-arrow, or just above the down-arrow
The Scroll Bar
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This will move the window one full screen at a time
The Scroll Bar
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When you move the window, you don’t move the insert cursor
If you type something, it will appear at the last place you typed
The Scroll Bar
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Before you start typing, you need to tell the computer where to put your writing
Move the mouse pointer to the place in the document that you want your new text to appear
The Scroll Bar
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Click the left mouse button onceThis will move the insert cursor to
this new location
The Scroll Bar
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One of the things computers are very good at is paying attention to detail, and keeping track of where things are
I Can’t FIND It!
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If you know that you saw (or wrote) a word or phrase in document, but can’t find it, let the computer find it for you!
I Can’t FIND It!
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To ask the computer to find something, move the mouse pointer to the word “Edit” on the Menu Bar so that it changes color
I Can’t FIND It!
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Click the left mouse button once
The Edit Menu will appear
I Can’t FIND It!
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Move the mouse pointer down the menu until the word “Find…” appears
Click the left mouse button once
I Can’t FIND It!
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The menu will disappear, and the “Find Dialog” will appear on the screen
I Can’t FIND It!
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To use the find box, click once in the box next to “Find what:”
I Can’t FIND It!
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The insert cursor should appear in the box (the blinking vertical line “|” )
I Can’t FIND It!
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Type the word or words you want to find in your document◦Type “decorum”
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Move the mouse pointer over the “Find Next” button and click the left button once
I Can’t FIND It!
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Each time you click the button, the word processor will move to the next place that the word you are looking for was used, and “highlight” it
I Can’t FIND It!
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I Can’t FIND It!
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When you have finished searching for words, click the “Cancel” button to close the Find window
I Can’t FIND It!
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The basic rule of your computer is, “First tell me what you want to do something to, then tell me what you want me to do”◦First, what object; next, what action
Noun, then Verb
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In order to change something that you have typed, you have to first “select” the words that you want to change
The first step is to move the insert cursor to the words or letters to be changed
Noun, then Verb
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Two lines below the word “decorum,” locate the word “anything”
Move the insertion cursor to just before the letter “a” of “anything”
Noun, then Verb
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You may notice, at this point, that the mouse pointer changes.
It changes from an arrow to something called the “i-beam” pointer
Noun, then Verb
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The i-beam makes it easier to place the insert cursor between two letters
Just place the vertical line of the pointer where you’d like the insert cursor to appear and click the mouse
Noun, then Verb
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You do this by first scrolling (with the scroll bar) until you can see the word that needs to be changed
Noun, then Verb (fix this slide)
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Next, move the mouse pointer to the beginning of the word you want to change, and click the mouse button once
Noun, then Verb
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The insert cursor (flashing bar) should appear at the beginning of the word
Hold down the shift key with your left hand (you can’t use Caps Lock for this)
Noun, then Verb
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Press the right arrow key to move the insert cursor over the word you want to change
Noun, then Verb
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Each time you press the arrow key, another letter will change color
This is one way of “selecting” text
Noun, then Verb
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One of the features of a word processor is that it makes room for what you are typing
If you place the insert cursor before a word, and start typing, the words after the cursor move over to make room
Making the Change
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Because you have “anything” selected, let’s replace it with the equivalent “no matter which”
Just type the words on the keyboard, and they will replace the word “anything”
Making the Change
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If you have selected text, the letters you type will replace whatever was selected
But if you keep typing, the words after the insert cursor will move over to make room!
Making the Change
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Sometimes, when you are typing, you fingers don’t go quite where you wanted
Or, you and Mr. Webster might disagree about how a word is spelled
Your Word Processor has a tool to help in these cases
Another Kind of Oops
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As you type, your word processor compares the words you have typed with internal “dictionary”
If Works doesn’t recognize a word, it puts a wavy red line under it
Spell Checking
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Works doesn’t know Mrs. Rachael Lynde’s last name, so each time it is written, Works places the wavy line under it
Spell Checking
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The red line doesn’t mean that the word is misspelled, only that Works doesn’t recognize it
It also won’t recognize unusual names or slang, for example
Spell Checking
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But, Works does more than just tell you that it doesn’t know that word
It will help you fix it!
Spell Checking
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We’ve added an error to Anne of Green Gables for this class
If you are not at the top of the “Anne” file, move back to the top.
Spell Checking
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In the second line of the first paragraph, find the word “holllow” (the error we added)
Move the point of the mouse pointer over the word “holllow” which Works thinks is an error
Click the left mouse button once
Spell Checking
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◦This moves the insert cursor to this word
On your keyboard, find the “Menu” key
Press this key once
Spell Checking
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You will now see the “Spell Check” menu next to the word that Works doesn’t know
Spell Checking
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At the top of this menu will be a list of words that are “like” what you typed
Spell Checking
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If one of these is the correct choice, you can choose it by moving the mouse pointer over the word and clicking the left button once
Spell Checking
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The correct word will replace what you typed in the document
Spell Checking
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If the word is a word, but Works doesn’t know it, you can add it to the word processor’s dictionary
“Lynde” is the correct spelling of the character’s last name, but Works hasn’t read this book
Spell Checking
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Move the mouse pointer over the word “Lynde” in the title of the chapter
Click the left mouse button once to move the insert cursor into the word
Spell Checking
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Press the “Menu” key to show the Spell menu
Spell Checking
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Move the mouse pointer over “Add” on the spelling menu and click the left mouse button
Spell Checking
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The menu will disappear, and so will the red line.
From now on, Works will know that Lynde is correctly spelled
Spell Checking
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However, “Lynde’s” is still not recognized, because Works doesn’t know how to handle “possessives”
Repeat what you did to teach Works about “Lynde” on any example of “Lynde’s” that you can see
Spell Checking
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Sometimes, after you’ve written something, you decide that it would be better if this paragraph came after that paragraph instead of in front
Let’s Rearrange the Furniture…
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Without a computer, you’d just have to write it all out again
With a word processor, you can move things around
Let’s look at how you can do this
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Look in your Works file for the words “that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place”◦These words start near the end of the
second line of the first paragraph of the story
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We start by telling the computer what we want to do something to ◦Noun, then verb
We do this by “selecting” the words we want to move
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Move the mouse pointer to just before the word “that” and click the left mouse button once
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Next, hold down the shift key with your left hand, and use the arrow keys to “select” the entire phrase◦Notice that you can use the down
arrow to select a line at a time
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When you’ve “selected” the whole sentence, move the mouse pointer to the word “Edit” in the toolbar
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Click the left mouse button once, and the “Edit Menu” will appear
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Move the mouse pointer down to the word “Cut”
Click the left mouse button once
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The menu will disappear, but so will the selected words!
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It’s not really “gone,” it’s just been moved to a special place called the “clipboard”
The computer’s clipboard can hold sentences, documents, or just about anything else on your computer
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But, like a real clipboard hanging on a wall, when you open the clip to put something new in, whatever was there fall on the floor and is lost
The computer clipboard holds only one thing at a time
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But we can put whatever is on the clipboard somewhere new
Move the mouse pointer to just after the word “road” in the first sentence
Click once to move the Insert Cursor here
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You should see the insert cursor flashing just after “road”◦Note: you won’t want “road” to be part
of your next word, so type a space
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Open the Edit menu again, and move the mouse pointer to “Paste”
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Click the left mouse button once
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The text from the clipboard will now appear at the place where the insert cursor was flashing
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If you decide that what you just did was the wrong thing, you can “undo” it.
Open the “Edit” menu
I Didn’t Mean to do That!!!
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The first option is “Undo Typing”◦(The “Typing” part will
be the last thing that you did, which isn’t always typing)
I Didn’t Mean to do That!!!
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Click “Undo” to undo the last thing that you did
I Didn’t Mean to do That!!!
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It’s unlikely that you will finish your life story in one session of typing
It’s not likely that you’ll even always finish a letter without a break
Anytime you are leaving a writing project, you should save your work
Saving Your Work
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This can be done easilyMove the tip of the mouse pointer
over the word “File” in the menu bar
Saving Your Work
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Click the left button once, and the “File Menu” will appear
Saving Your Work
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There are two options on this menu that will save documents:◦Save◦Save As…
Saving Your Work
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“Save” means “Put me back where I came from, with the same name I already have.”
Saving Your Work
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“Save As…” means “Give me a new name, and a new home.”
Saving Your Work
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Of course, if you are saving a new document, it doesn’t have either a name or a home yet
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In that case, “Save” and “Save As…” do exactly the same thing
Saving Your Work
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In your home, you probably have lots of different pieces of paper with information on them
In my home, we have recipes, phone numbers, bills, pictures, and more
A Brief Detour Into Organization
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We don’t put all of those things in the same place, because it would be hard to find them later
Your computer works the same wayYou could just put everything into
your “Documents” folder, and your computer will offer to do that for you
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But after a while, it gets hard to find things
So, it’s better to make piles of the same kind of thing
A Brief Detour Into Organization
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Your computer has two kinds of containers◦Documents◦Folders
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Documents hold your letters, your web favorites, your recipes, and anything else that you’ve created or saved on your computer
Folders hold your documents, and can hold other folders
A Brief Detour Into Organization
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On the screen, documents generally look like a piece of paper with one corner folder over
Folders look like a file folder standing on edge
A Brief Detour Into Organization
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A folder can hold lots of documents and folders
If you use folders to place all of the documents on a subject together, it will be easier to find them
Now, back to saving your work…
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Since we just changed a classic, we probably don’t want to give it the same name.
Saving Your Work
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Instead, we want to give it a name and home, so we click on “Save As…”
Saving Your Work
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The File Menu will disappear, and the Save As window will appear
Saving Your Work
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At the top of this window are some controls that are important
The “Save In:” box shows where you are saving your document
Saving Your Work
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To the right of this, you can see a small folder with a green arrow pointing up
Saving Your Work
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This means “Show me the folder that this folder is inside of”
Saving Your Work
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To the right of this is a another folder, this time with a red “circle” on its corner
Saving Your Work
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This means “Make a new folder inside this folder, and let me name it”
Saving Your Work
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At the bottom of the window is an area labeled “File name:”
This is followed by the “selected” text “Anne”
Saving Your Work
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Before you save a document, you should give it a name that tells you what it is
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◦“My vacation 2008” is good◦“Bob” is not as good.◦“X3F79” is not very useful
Saving Your Work
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Type the new name for your document◦It will replace the name that is already
there
Saving Your Work
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Next, move the tip of the mouse pointer over the “Save” button to the right of the file name
Click the left button once
Saving Your Work
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The “Save” window will disappear, and your document will be saved with the name you gave it
Saving Your Work
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If you want a paper version of your document, to send in the mail or to give to a friend, you just print it
Move the tip of the mouse pointer to the word “File” in the menu bar
Making It Real (Printing)
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Click the left mouse button once
This will cause the File Menu to appear
Making It Real (Printing)
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Move the mouse pointer to the word “Print…”
Click the left mouse button once
This will make the “Print” window appear
Making It Real (Printing)
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Print!
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Move the mouse pointer to the “OK” button near the bottom right corner
Click the left mouse button onceIn a few moments, your document
should appear in your printer
Print Your Work
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Now that you are done with your word process, you should put it away
To do this, move the mouse pointer over the word “File” in the menu bar
Click the left mouse button once
Tidying up after yourself
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On the file menu, move the mouse pointer over the word “Exit”
Click the left mouse button once
Tidying up after yourself
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Microsoft Works will disappear, and you will see your desktop, ready for whatever is next
Tidying up after yourself