Training Computer:Using menus, buttons, bars, and boxes

Menus, buttons, scroll bars, and checkboxes are examples of controls that you have with your mouse or keyboard. These controls allow you to select commands, change settings, or to operate with Windows. This section describes how to recognize and use the controls that you encounter often using Windows.

Using menus
Most contain dozens or even hundreds of commands (actions) that you use to work program. Many of these commands are organized under menus. Like a restaurant menu, a program menu shows you a list of choices. To keep the net screen, menus are hidden until you click on the titles in the menu bar, located just below the title bar. For example, clicking on "Image" in painting from the menu bar displays the Image menu:

To choose one of the commands in a menu, click it. Sometimes a dialog box appears, where you can select other options. If a command is unavailable and can not be clicked, it is shown in gray, as the crop in the picture.

Some elements of menu commands are not at all. Instead, they open other menus. In the next image, pointing to "Zoom" opens a sub-menu. Pointing to "Custom" from the submenu opens yet another sub-menu.

If you do not see the command you want, try to look at another menu. Move your mouse pointer along the menu bar and menus open automatically, you do not need to click the menu bar again. To close a menu without selecting a command, click the menu bar or any other part of the window.

Recognizing menus is not always easy, because not all menu controls are similar or even appear on a menu bar. So how can you spot them? When you see an arrow next to a word or picture, you're probably looking for a menu of control. Here are some examples:

Tips
If a shortcut is available for order, it is next to the command.

You can use the menus using your keyboard instead of your mouse. See using your keyboard.

Use the scroll bars
When a document, web page or image exceeds the size of its window, scroll bars appear to allow you to see information that is currently out of sight. The following image shows the elements of a scroll bar.

To run a scroll bar:

Click the up or down arrows to scroll through the window content up or down in small steps. Hold the mouse button to scroll continuously.

Click an empty area of a scroll bar above or below the box to scroll up or down a page.

Drag a scroll up, down, left or right to scroll the window in that direction.

Tip
If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can use to scroll through documents and Web pages. To scroll down, roll the wheel back (toward you). Scroll up, roll the wheel forward (away from you).

The assistance of command buttons
A command button executes a command (do something) when you click it. You'll most often see them in dialog boxes, which are small windows that contain options for completing a task. For example, if you close Paint a picture without saving it first, you might see a dialog box like this:

To close the photo, you must first click Yes or No button. Click Yes and save the image changes you made, click No and removes the photo and discards any changes you've made. Clicking Cancel rejects the dialog and returns you to the program.

Tip
Pressing ENTER does the same thing as clicking a command button is selected (indicated).

Outside the dialogs, command buttons vary in appearance, it is sometimes difficult to know what is a button and what is not. For example, command buttons often appear as small icons (pictures) without any text or rectangular. The photo below shows a variety of command buttons:

The surest way to determine if something is a command button is to rest your pointer over it. If it "lights" and is framed by a rectangle, you discovered a button. Most buttons also display a text on their function when you point at them:

If a button turns into two parts when you point to it, you discovered a fraction of a button. By clicking on the main part of running a command button while clicking the arrow opens a menu with more options.

Using buttons
Option buttons allow you to make a choice between two or more options. They appear frequently in dialog boxes. The photo below shows three buttons. The "Flip vertical" is selected.

To select an option, click a button. One option may be selected.

Use check boxes
Checkboxes allow you to select one or several options. Unlike buttons, you are limited to a choice, checkboxes let you choose several options at the same time.

To make check boxes:

Click an empty box to select or "turn on" this option. A check mark appears in the square, which indicates that the option is selected.

To disable an option, clear (remove) the boat by clicking on it.

The options that currently can not be selected or authorized are shown in gray.

The cursors
A slider lets you adjust a setting along a range of values. It is as follows:

A cursor along the bar shows the value currently selected. In the example above, the cursor is positioned midway between slow and fast, which indicates an average speed of the pointer.

To drive a cursor, drag the cursor to the value you want.

Using text boxes
A text box allows you to enter information such as a search term or password. The image below shows a dialog box containing a text box. We Entered "ours" in the text box.

A vertical line called the blinking cursor indicates where the text you type will appear. In the example, you can see the cursor after the "r" of "bear". You can easily move the cursor by clicking on the new post. For example, to add a word before "bear", first you move the cursor by clicking before "B."

If you do not see the cursor in the text box, it means that the text box is not ready for your contribution. Click on the box first, then start typing.

Text boxes that require you to enter a password usually hide your password that you type, if someone else is looking at your screen.

The assistance of dropdowns
Dropdown menus are similar. Instead of clicking on an order, if you choose an option. When closed, a drop-down list shows only option currently selected. Other options are hidden until you click the control, as indicated below:

To open a drop-down list, click it. To choose an option from the list, click the option.

Using the list boxes
A list box displays a list of options you can choose. Unlike a drop-down list, some or all options are visible without having to open the list.

To choose an option from the list, click it. If the option you want is not visible, use the scroll bar to scroll up or down. If the box has a text box above, you can type the name or the value of the option.

Using tabs
In some dialog boxes, options are divided into two or more tabs. Only a tab or a set of options can be considered at a time.

The currently selected tab appears before the other tabs. To switch to another tab, click the tab.

Training Computer:Working with windows

When you open a program, file or folder, it appears on your screen in a box or a window frame call (which is where the Windows operating system gets its name). Why are all the windows in Windows, it is important to understand how to move, resize it, or simply make them disappear.

Parts of a window
Although the contents of each window are different, all windows share some things in common. On the one hand, the windows always appear on the desktop, the main work area of the screen. In addition, most of the windows have the same basic parts:

Title bar. Displays the name of the document and program (or the folder name if you are working in a folder).

Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons. These buttons hide the window, expand it to cover the whole screen, and close, respectively (more details on these little).

Menu bar. Contains elements that can click to make decisions in a program. See Using menus, buttons, bars and boxes.

Scroll bar. It lets you scroll through the contents of the window to see the information that is currently out of sight.

The boundaries and corners. You can drag these with your mouse to resize the window.

Other windows may have additional buttons, boxes, or bars. But what we usually have the basic parts, too.

Move a window
To move a window, select your title bar with the mouse pointer. Then drag the window to the desired location. (Drag means to bring to an issue, holding the mouse button, move the issue with the pointer, and then release the mouse button.)

Changing the size of a window
To make a window fill the entire screen, click the Maximize button or double-click the window's title bar.

To return a maximized window to its previous size, click the Restore button (it appears in place of the Maximize button). Or, double-click the window's title bar.

To resize a window (which is smaller or larger), at any point in the window borders or corners. When the mouse pointer changes to a two-headed arrow (see photo below), drag the edge or corner to reduce or enlarge the window.

A window that is maximized can not be resized. You must return to its previous size in the first place.

Observe
While most of the windows can be resized up, and there are some windows that are fixed in size, such as dialog boxes.

Hide a window
Hide a window that is called minimization of the same. If you want a window of the house without temporarily close it, minimize it.

To minimize a window, click the minimize button. The window disappears from the desktop and is visible only as a button on the taskbar, the long horizontal bar at the bottom of the screen.

To make a minimized window will reappear on the desktop, click its button on the taskbar. The window appears exactly as it did before it was minimized. For more information about the taskbar, see The taskbar (overview).

Close a Window
Closing a window that eliminates from the desktop and the taskbar. If you're done with a program or document and does not need to return to it immediately, close it.

To close a window, click the Close button.

Observe
If you close a document without saving changes, a message that gives you the option to save your changes.

Switching between windows
If you open more than one program or document, the desktop can quickly become full of windows. Keeping track of open windows that have not always easy, because some windows could be partially or completely cover others.

Using the taskbar. The taskbar provides a way to organize all your windows. Each window has a button on the taskbar. To switch to another window, click its button on the taskbar. The window in front of all other windows, making it the active window, which is currently working in.

To easily identify a window, select the button on your taskbar. A small picture called A thumbnail that shows a thumbnail of the window. This preview is especially useful if you can not identify a window by its title alone.

If the taskbar gets too full of buttons, and buttons for the same program are grouped into a single button, as shown in the picture below. Click the button to see a menu of items in the group, then select a theme for which is the active window.
Using ALT TAB. You can change to the previous screen by pressing ALT TAB, or cycle through all open windows on the desktop, and by holding the ALT and repeatedly pressing TAB. ALT release window to display selected.

Using Windows Flip 3D. Windows Flip 3D Windows organizes three-dimensional stack that can quickly flip through. To use Flip 3D:

Hold down the Windows logo and press TAB to open Flip 3D.

While holding down the button with the Windows logo, press TAB repeatedly or rotate the mouse wheel to scroll through open windows. You can also press right arrow or down arrow to move forward toward a window, or press the left or the up arrow to move back a window.

Release the key with the Windows logo to display the window frontmost in the stack. Or, click on any part of any window in the stack to show that window.

Observe
Flip 3D and taskbar previews the window will not work unless your computer is running Windows Aero, the premium visual experience for Windows Vista. Aero is not available in Windows Vista Starter or Windows Vista Home Basic.
Tip
You can also open Flip 3D button Switch between windows button on the taskbar. Then click on a window of the stack to show that window, click in or out of the stack to close Flip 3D without changing the windows.

Arrange the windows automatically
Now he knows how to move and resize windows, you can arrange them however you like on your desktop. You also can have Windows automatically organize in one of three ways: they Cascade, stacked vertically or side by side.

To choose one of these options, right-click an empty area of the taskbar, then click on Cascade Windows, Windows Show stacked, or Show Windows Side by Side.

Dialogs
A dialog box is a special type of window that asks you a question, lets you select options to perform a task, or gives you the information. You often see dialog boxes when a program or Windows requires a response that continue.

Unlike the windows, most dialog boxes can not be maximized, minimized, or size. They can, however, be moved.

Training Computer:Windows Sidebar and gadgets (overview)

Windows Sidebar is a long, vertical bar that appears next to his desk. It contains mini-programs called gadgets, which provide information at a glance and provide access to frequently used tools. For example, you can use gadgets to display an image slide show, view continuously updated news, or search contacts.

Why use the sidebar?
Sidebar can keep the information and tools available for use. For example, you can display news headlines next to open programs. In this way, if you want to track what is happening on the news while you work, you do not have to stop what they're doing to switch to a news site.

With Sidebar, you can use the gadget news feed to display the latest news from sources you choose. You do not have to stop work on the document, because the owners are always visible. If peripherally see a title that interests you, you can click on that title, and the Web browser opens directly into history.

To open the Sidebar
Click to open the Windows Sidebar.

To keep Sidebar visible at all times, you must set so that other windows do not cover it. The width of the sidebar is a fixed size.

To keep the windows ranging from the Sidebar
Since the space Sidebar requires, this option works best if you are using a large or big screen monitor or multiple monitors.

Click to open Windows Sidebar Properties.

Select the Sidebar is always on top of other windows check box.

Click OK.

Getting started with gadgets
Windows comes with a small collection of gadgets, but only some of them appear in the Sidebar by default. To understand how to use the gadgets, we will explore three gadgets that you see in the sidebar when you first start Windows: the clock, Slide Show, food and news.

How does the clock working?
When the point-to-Clock gadget, two buttons appear near the top right corner: the Close button, which is the top button and the Options button.

When you click the Close button removes the watch of the sidebar. The button below the Close button displays the options for naming the clock, changing your time zone, and showing its second part.

Note
Not all gadgets have an Options button. Gadgets without an Options button does not have the settings that can be changed.

How can you work Slide Show?
Next try to rest your cursor over the gadget slide show, showing a slide show of images on your computer.

When the slide show, and close the Options button will appear near the top right corner of the gadget.

Clicking the Options button lets you choose the images on your slide show, control the speed at which your slide show plays, and change the transition effect between images.

To change the slide show of images
By default, Slide Show displays items in the folder of pictures shows.

Point slide show, and when the Options button appears, click it.

In the Folder box, select the location of the pictures you want.

Click OK.

To set the slideshow speed and transition effect
Point slide show, and when the Options button appears, click it.

In the Show each list box, select the number of seconds to display each picture.

In the transition between images of the list, select the transition you want.

Click OK.

How can you work in food news?
News Feed can display frequently updated headlines from a website that provides food, also known as RSS, XML feeds, syndicated content, or web feeds. Web sites often use feeds to distribute news and blogs. To receive food, you need an Internet connection. By default, news feed presents no headlines. To begin to show a small set of preselected headlines, click View headlines.

When the news about food, and close the Options button will appear near the top right corner of the gadget. Clicking the Options button allows you to select from a list of available feeds. You can add to the list by choosing their own food on the web.

To choose a feed from the Web with Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer, a Web browser included with Windows, look at all the feeds site you visit.

Click to open Internet Explorer.

Go to a website that has feeds.

(When Internet Explorer is available food, feed button in the toolbar in Internet Explorer, will change from gray to orange).

Click on the arrow next to the Feeds button, and then on the list that appears, click the food you want.

On the web page that appears, click Subscribe to this feed.

In the dialog box that appears, click Subscribe.

The food must be available to News Feed. To display the feed additive in feed news, see the procedure below.

To show a power source in the gadget News
The point of food news, and then click the Options button.

In the display this feed list, click the feed you want to display.

Click OK.

Note
To scroll through the headlines, news about food, and then click the downward or upward-pointing arrows that appear on the bottom edge.

The gadgets you have?
Before a gadget can be added to the sidebar, which must be installed on your computer. To see the gadgets that are installed on your computer:

At the top of the Sidebar, click the plus sign () to open the gallery gadget.

Click the scroll buttons to see all the gadgets.

Click on a gadget, and then click Show Details to see information about it at the bottom of the dialog box.

You can download more gadgets on the web. To find gadgets online, go to the website of Microsoft Gadgets.

Add and remove gadgets
You can add any installed gadget to Sidebar. You can add multiple instances of a gadget. For example, if you are keeping track of time in two time zones, you can add two instances of the Clock gadget and set the time of each accordingly.

To add a gadget to Sidebar
At the top of the Sidebar, click the plus sign () to open the gallery gadget.



Add button gadgets

Double-click a gadget to add to the sidebar.

To remove a gadget from Sidebar
Right-click the gadget, and then click Close gadget.

The organization of gadgets
You can organize your gadgets in any of several ways:

You can keep all the gadgets attached to the sidebar.

You can change the display order of gadgets in the sidebar. To do this, drag a gadget to a new position.

You can keep some gadgets attached to the sidebar and place some on the desktop.

You can remove all the gadgets from the Sidebar and place on the desktop. If you organize your gadgets this way, you may want to close the Sidebar.

To place a gadget on your desktop
You can remove the gadgets from the Sidebar and place them anywhere on the desktop.

To remove a gadget from the Sidebar, then drag it to the desktop. To return the gadget, drag anywhere in the Sidebar.

Tip
If you have trouble dragging a gadget, you may need to drag in a different part of the gadget as an edge or corner.

To close the Sidebar
You may want to close the sidebar if you remove all the gadgets on it.

Right-click the Sidebar, and then click Close Sidebar. To open the sidebar again, right-click the icon in the sidebar in the notification area of the taskbar, then click Open.