Windows is first a graphic environment. It's designers believe that it's easier for the users to steer a cursor on drawings, named(appointed) icons, or to use concepts of every day such as to cut, to copy and to paste that to learn a long list of dark instructions.
One uses a mouse, this little gift that is lying about(dawdles) next to the keyboard and that has two or three buttons on the top, to navigate the screen that represents an office with all the tools to your availability. Certain tools come with Windows. You can buy applications more complete than those offered by Windows.
The basic instructions are easier of access thanks to icons (drawings) or
by the menu bar. They are the same for all the applications Windows. Once learnt,
you can use them for all the applications. More need to re-learn the base every
time you change application. This facilitates the learning of a new application
because you already know it a part.
The big advantage that few persons realized, is that it's also about an environment
in that one can have several applications opened at the same time. Every application
works in its own "window". It's of this possibility that comes the name "Windows".
Windows 95 puts this possibility in it carried(worn) by all thanks to the bar
of tasks. We how go to see to operate with Windows 95. It's also possible to
share the result from an application to the others.
Certain resources are put in common and are controlled by Windows such as fonts,
management of the printing... Windows gives you access to types of data "richer"
than in the environment BACK such as the sound and the animation. The applications
can also share their data. For example, copy a chart of Excel "to paste" it
in your document of word processor Word. They can so realize documents that
no only one could carry out. It's much easier to integrate the best parts of
each to highlight a better result of it. We go to see at the end some demonstration
how to take advantage of each of the applications.
There is however a period of learning to learn basic rudiments. It's necessary
to change its mode of thought to execute instructions "by clicking", "by firing"
or there " double(copy) clicking " icons or objects. This demonstration serves
for knowing basic rudiments and also to learn more advanced options.
Advantages of Windows
Graphic
environment Consistency
of the menus Consistency
of buttons Open several
software at the same moment Set of
the text, the chart or the other objects and to copy it in another software.
Explanation of a window
Windows is a graphic environment that allows to open and to work with several
applications at the same moment. To be able to manage the whole, every application
meets itself in its own window. It's from there that came the name "Windows".
The titles bar:
The name of the applications and the documents opened are shown there. It's possible to move the window by placing the cursor on the titles bar,
Move a window
Change the size of a window. Have several applications or documents that share
the screen.
The button system:
Always located in the upper left corner of the window, this menu
allows you to change the size and the dimension of the active window besides
allowing you to pass (To fall over towards...) another makes windows.
The button increase:
Enlarged a window of the size icon in a flexible size or of a flexible size
in a size of full screen.
The button reduction:
Being reduced a window of the size of full screen to the size icon.
Button the Restoration:
Being reduced a window of the size of full screen to the size of a flexible
window.
The closed button:
The bar menu
List of the available instructions of the software.
Toolbars:
List of the instructions most often used. Each includes a representative image.
How to activate toolbars. It depends on the software.
From the View menu or Edit, select the option Toolbars.
A window with a series of available toolbars appears.
Click on the title of the toolbar that you want to show.
Bars of horizontal and vertical hold
It's very rare that you will see all your document inside the screen. The
bars of scrolling serve for moving you in your document. He allows you to see
the answer of your document or what you wrote previously.
Click arrows to move you a little. Click on the bar to move you of a window. fire
at the button of the bar to move you very quickly. The button on the bar serves
also to place you in the window.
Button of action
Press the button to have the action described above.
Box of selection
While pressing on the arrow downward or by using the keys Alt and cursor downward,
Windows gives you a list of all the possible options.
Limp
While pressing on the arrow upward or downward, Windows increases or reduces
calculate(code) it in the box.
Button radio
Several buttons radio can be seen at the same time offering to you each an
option. However, only a radio button can be active at the same moment.
Button Hook
You give the choice to activate or to deactivate an option. One "X" in the
button means that the option is active.
Basic instructions
Some of the instructions of bases are identical from an application to another.
All the applications have these instructions in outbuildings.
File
Edit
Help(assistant) or?
Open
Cancel
Close
Cut
Save
Copy
Save under
Paste
Print
Delete
Leave
Help(assistant)
With Windows, there are several ways of resources more data about a command
or about possibilities of a software. Indeed, the great majority of the software
have a section of help of integrated. You don't need any more to look in a
book. All the data can appear to the screen. In the right extremity
of the bar menu, there is an option "?" Or Help(assistant) or
Help or by pressing on the F1 key. You can then look of the help
according to the name of a command or on a possibility.
All the Windows applications should have a section of help. This is so that
the users have the data about the possibilities of an application. The applications
can supply with the help in several ways. While pressing on the F1 key, you have
automatically access by means of the application.
Furthermore, at the end of the bar menu, there is a section of help on the
column Helps, Help or?. In this section, it's possible of resources of the
help on one of the options of the application by using an index of the instructions
or by the query for keywords.
Functioning with the index.
Functioning with the query.
Most of the applications support(bear) also the combinations of the
keys Ctrl and F1 or Maj ( shift ) and F1 to know the utility of
a button of one of toolbars.
For example, in the applications d'Office 97, the button serves
for verifying the spelling of the words of the document.
97
open an application by virtue of one's office such as Excel, PowerPoint or Word. Press the keys Maj ( Shift) and F1.
The cursor will change format. It should look like this.
With
the cursor, click the button .
Demonstration of a query
Search(research) with Windows 95 from the menu "Démarrer" or in a software.
There is another way of resources of the data. If you don't know the function
of a button.
Press
the button .
Press
then on the button on that you want more data.
Most often used buttons
New document
Open a
document
Protect
a document Print a document
Being
perceived before printing Correction
of spelling
Cut
a block Copy
a block
Paste a
block Cancel
Zoom for the
view of objects or text in the screen. Font
Size of the
character Put the text
in bold
Put the text
in italic Put the text
in underlined
The other toolbars
Those By virtue of one's office 97
The Drawing toolbar.
This is a composed image that shows to you some of the possibilities of the
Drawing toolbar. It's available with the applications Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Group, To dissociate and To group together: Allows to gather(reunite)
or to separate forms of the drawing. This makes easier to manage them and to
move them or to size.
Order: Every format of the drawing is on its own "coat("layer"). A new
format is always by top the previous forms. But this can hide necessary forms
that are down. This option offers so the possibility of changing the order
of presentation of the various forms of the drawing.
grid: Poster or hides a grid on that one can
"paste" the forms of the drawing.
Align or distribute: He can be difficult to align correctly forms of
a drawing. This option allows you to align two or several forms of a drawing.
Rotation or reversal: The forms that compose a drawing are can be not
in the angle that you wish. These options allow you to turn these forms.
Modify points: Certain forms of the drawing can be modified. For example,
an isosceles triangle can become a right-angled triangle by changing the place
of one of points.
Change the format: A format can better answer your needs than you had
foreseen it. This option gives you the option to change a format for the other
one. It's better look at all the available forms before beginning.
WordArt
WordArt is one interesting tools to create a title to a document. He can be
used with whatever Windows application. It's easily accessible
from the toolbar Drawing by pressing on the button.
The other applications that have no toolbar Drawing also can reach WordArt.
From
the Insert menu, select the option Object. From the available list of objects, select WordArt Microsoft. OR Opened
the Word application, Excel or PowerPoint. Show
the toolbar Drawing. Press the button
WordArt shows a list of predefined sizes(formats) of presentation.
Select
the size(format) of presentation of your choice. Press the OK button.
It's then necessary to write the text that you need. You can write several
lines of text. It's even possible to choose the font, the size, the bold and
the italic.
Write
the text of your choice as well as the wanted characteristics. Press the OK button.
The text with the size(format) of presentation that you with chosen will appear.
To
modify the text, double-click on the image. To
modify the other options, click the image and select the option of your choice
according to the bar below.
The combinations of the keys
Although the mouse is more and more popular to apply a size(format) or an operation,
the most important are also available from combination of the the keys
of the keyboard.
Esc
Cancel a current option
F1
Help(assistant)
F5
Refresh or update the screen
F10
Ctrl and A
Select Everything
Ctrl and X
Cut a block or a selected object
Ctrl and C
Copy a block or a selected object
Ctrl and V
Paste a block or a selected object
Ctrl and O
Open a document
Ctrl and S
Save a document
Ctrl and W
Close a document
Ctrl and F4
Close a document
Alt and F4
Close a software
Alt and Tab
Passes from a window to another
Ctrl and ( Esc)
Windows 3.x: Show the list of opened software
Windows 95: Opens the "Start" menu
Save under
It often happens to the novices to save their documents in the
bad reader. This is even more frustrating when you crossed(spent) a day to write
it only to perceive you that you are incapable to find it on your working floppy
disk. If you have a formated floppy disk, be practised to protect your document
on the floppy disk. The first time when you save a document, it's
better to make it by using the menu bar with the commands File, To save
under. You can afterward write the name of your document and verify if it was
recorded on the good reader.
Having worked on a document, it's necessary to save it on your
floppy disk. You can then continue later or transport him(it,her) and put back
it in d, the other persons.
Why is it necessary to put so much attention on this option?
It very often happens to the new users to lose their documents because they
remember the name of the document or because they did not save the
document on the good reader or the right directory (folder).
The first time when to save you a new document, you should make
sure to give it the name of your choice as well as to assure you that the file
is recorded towards your choice; a floppy disk or a hard drive for example.
There is also another reason. It's necessary to make sure that the type of
document answers your needs. If you have to put back your document to
another person, it's necessary to make sure that this person will be capable
of reading your document. This person uses the same software and the same version
of the software as you? If not, it's necessary to make sure that the type of
size(format) of the document is the one that the other person is capable of
reading it.
From the File menu, select the option Save under.
make
sure to choose the good reader. In
the box Name of the file, write the name
of the document of your choice. If
need be, change the type of file to answer your needs.
It's however necessary to note that the software could warn you that, because
it's not about the standard size(format) of the software, that you could lose
a part of your size(format). It's about all the new options of the software
that are not in the previous versions.
Close a document
From the File menu, select the option Close.
Open a document
You want to continue to work on a document that you began, or to continue
the document of another person. Before opening a document, it's necessary the
following data: the name of the document and the place where that is stored.
A computer can possess several media on that he can store or read documents.
It can be a reader of floppy disk, a hard drive, a drive of CD-ROM or DVD, a
reader tape recorder(magneto) - optics or even a hard drive of a server. Each
of these readers is assigned a letter of the alphabet by the computer.
For example, the first reader of floppy disk of a computer is always assigned
literally In. The second reader of floppy disk receives the letter B. The first
hard drive of a computer receives the letter C and so on. A computer can have
several hard drives or the others media such as those mentioned above. It's
also possible of the same hard drive have several letters. The hard drive is cut
in several logical separations, or partitionné in the jargon, according to the
needs of the user. So, a hard drive of a capacity of 2.1 , 9 , 20, 40 , 75 GO
( GIGAOCTETS ) can be cut in several logical partitions. This is especially
to help in the management of documents and software as well as to allow several
operational systems on the same computer.
Furthermore, the contents of a hard drive can be separated in directories or
from shirts in that files in common are grouped together.
Why to speak about letters, about readers, about directories (or shirts) for
a simple document?
Because you should not only know the name of the document but also the place
where is stored the document that you want to open. Here is maintaining the
procedure to open the exemple.doc file of a floppy disk in the reader
A. This procedure applies to any document for any application Windows.
Place
the floppy disk that contains your document in the reader of floppy disk.
From the File menu, select the option Open. OR Click
this button .
Of
the option Look in, select the reader of floppy disk 3½".
If it's not in the list, enter A: in the box Name
of file and press the Enter key. If
you want to filter the mass of document, you can choose the Type of file from the list. Otherwise, select of the Typical box of file
the option All the documents *.*. Select
the document of your choice. Press the button Open. OR Double-click on the icon of the document.
If you make a double-click on the name of the document, the administrator will ask you if you want to change the name of this last one. Press the
Enter key and re-try.
Printing
Print manager
All the impressions(printings) of the applications Windows are controlled
here. It's possible to see the progress of an printing, to change the list
of the priorities or to cancel an printing.
CANCEL A PRINTING ORDER
Select the print admiitrator . From the list of printing projects, select
the project you wish to remove. From
the Print menu, select the REMOVE option. OR Press the Del key. Confirm
the cancellation by pressing on the OK button.
STOP Printing
You are not certain if what is printed is what you need? You can ask for a
break to give yourselves the time to verify and to be able to then continue
the printing.
The printing stopped(arrested) by your choice or because of a technical problem.
You can summarize the printing.
select the printer on that your blocked(surrounded) document printed previously.
choose Summarize the printing of the menu Printer.
CHANGE THE PRIORITY OF A PROJECT OF IMPRESSION(PRINTING).
There are several documents that are on the waiting list for the printing.
Your boss at need of a certain document now. You can change the order
of the priorities of printing of documents to print at once an urgent document.
Regrettably, this option is not available with Windows 95 and Windows 98. It's however available with Windows NT.
Select
the document that you want to change the priority. From
the menu bar, select Document and properties. put
in high priority your document.
The printing should begin as that the printing changes document.
Impression(printing) behind plan. Allows you to return to your application
and to continue to work during the printing of your document.
Restart a printer
It happens by moments to the administrator of printing to stop temporarily
the printing of a document because there is a problem with the printer. The
possible reasons is that there is a communications problem from the administrator
and the printer, that this one is not ready to receive an printing because it
is not lit(switched on) or is not activated (on-line) or that there is no more
paper. If the wait to solve this problem is too long, it stops(arrests)
the printing. To continue the printing,
Solve
the problem. verify the printer and the cabling. Fall
over towards the administrator of printing. Click on the name of the printer. From
the menu Printer, select the option restarts. OR Press the button.
Pass from a document to another
Most of the software are capable of opening several documents at the same
time. This allows to compare documents and even to copy parts of a document
towards the other one.
Demonstration with Word.
Open
the Word software. Write
the following sentence: " This is the first document. " Create
a new document by pressing on the button or File, New.
Select
the option empty Document. Press the OK button. Write
the sentence: " This is the second document. "
To pass from a document to another:
From
the menu, select the option Makes windows.
At the foot of the menu, you have the list of all the documents opened at the
moment.
Click on the first document.
This option brought so confusion that Microsoft died to improve it with Office
2000. You can use the technique mentioned above to pass from a document to another. However, with Office 2000, Word, Excel and PowerPoint opens a new
application with the document. This new document appears also on the taskbar
normally at the foot of the document. It becomes so easier to the users to select
the document wished from the taskbar. At the moment, only these three applications
offers this new way of reaching several documents at the same time.
Pass from an application to another
Two of the advantages of Windows is to be capable of opening several applications
at the same time and of being able to pass of the data from an application to another. This option is very important for looking for the full potential
of Windows. This part how demonstrates to pass from an application to another.
Press the Alt and Tab keys. OR From the bar of spots at the bottom of the screen, press the button of the application
of your choice.
In this way, you can cut or copy parts of documents and paste them in the others.
Graphic
environment 
Click on the title of the toolbar that you want to show. 
serves
for verifying the spelling of the words of the document. 
.
New document
Open a
document 
Protect
a document 
Print a document
Being
perceived before printing 
Cut
a block 
Copy
a block 
Paste a
block 
Cancel 
Zoom for the
view of objects or text in the screen. 
Font 
Size of the
character 
Put the text
in bold 
Put the text
in italic 
Put the text
in underlined 
