Computer / Internet Quickies

<font color=limegreen>I just figured it was time to get this forum goin too!
Here's a continuation of my old Quickies post from the old board!
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Just posting a couple of little tricks that I use while surfing the net.
These may only work in MS IE (not sure though)
1.Hitting F11 will toggle you're browser windowlarger and then back again, hit it now to try it. Helps to see more of a page.

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Once you toggle your browser to make it smaller you can "right click" on the toolbar that remains and select the "Autohide" Feature. This will cause the entire top portion of the tool bar to dissappear, to make it reappear just slide your mouse to the top of the screen and it will pop back, or hit F11 again and the entire toolbar will comeback.

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2.If you're searching through web pages looking for particular referances you can find them faster using the EDIT/FIND option. Just go the the top of your browser to click on edit, then on Find, now type in "I Love Cody" in the blank field. This will work with combinations of words or single words.

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You can also bring up the "find" feature simply by pressing Ctrl+F

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These 2 Work anywhere
3.If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel you can increase make web documents larger making the text easier to read by holding down the ctl key on your keyboard and then rolling the mouse wheel. Try it now.


4.Now if you're like me you can have a bunch of browsers and or apps open at one time. Gettin between them can get a little frustrating. An easy way to flip between them is to simply Hit & Hold the "alt" now hit tab, hit tab again to change to another app/window. Open some more stuff and try it.

That ends todays lesson.
Cody

<font color=e87400>OK,, here's another one for ya,,
Ever want to print soemthing on a web page but you did'nt want to print the whole page so maybe you did a copy & past to a another app. Well do it no more.

Any text you want to print on a page simply highlite it with your mouse (just as you would to copy it)Then hit ctl+p, this will bring up your print dialog box. In the "print range" section simply click "Selection, then hit enter or click ok!

(Note this will work anywhere I believe, You must access this through the Print Dialog box ctl+p is the shortcut to it or it can be accessed with the mouse by going through FILE/PRINT. If you just use the button on the bar of your browser of app the dialog box is bypassed and you go straight to print!)

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For those of you whom like to use Google for your search engine here's a link that will install a helpful Google Toolbar on you IE browser. It only takes a second and works great! And those of you who don't use Google[eek],,,,, you should !

Cody[/COLOR]

Google is the only search engine I use. It handles mutiple words and even phrases really well.

Roy

[color=royal blue] Dang good ole CODY does it again, keep them coming Cody, I enjoy learning how to use the computer quicker.[/color]


Now if you would only Email me on how to make things go back and forth in post I would be very thankful and one up on Bigboy..

Here's a tip for you, when you are constructing your searches, use boolean operators (but, and, or, not). You will find that you can drastically improve your search results.