Training Computer:To start printing

You can print almost any document, photo, web page or file you can display on your computer. If you are new to printing, this article may help you understand the types of printer, how to connect a printer to your computer, and printing options.

The printer and the types of technology
The printers are classified by how they reproduce text and graphics on paper. Each type of printer offers different advantages.

Inkjet printers
Inkjet printers print by placing small dots of ink on a page to reproduce text or graphics. Inkjet printers can print in color or black ink. Although ink cartridges must be replaced periodically, inkjet printers are often purchased for home use, because they can be relatively inexpensive. Some inkjet printers can reproduce high quality images and detailed graphics.

Laser Printers
Laser printers use toner, which is a fine, powdery substance, reproduce text and graphics on paper. Laser printers can print in color or black ink, although color laser printers are generally more expensive. A laser printer that can print using only black ink is sometimes referred to as a monochrome printer.

Laser printers are generally high-capacity paper trays, so you do not need to add paper as often as you would for an inkjet printer. They can also print more pages per minute than most inkjet printers can print more pages per cartridge. If you print in large volumes, which means that a laser printer can cost less for each page you print.

Multifunction printers
Inkjet or laser printers also let you fax, photocopying, scanning documents or are regarded as multifunction printers. A single multifunction printer can more convenient to connect your computer to multiple devices. You may also be able to use certain features of a multifunction printer without turning on your computer.

Connecting a printer
Some printers can print without using your computer for example, to print photos directly from a digital camera memory card. However, connecting a printer to your computer lets you print documents, files, pictures, Web pages and more. For more information about how to connect a printer, see Add or remove a printer.

When you add a printer, Windows will automatically install the software that allows it to work with your computer. You can add a printer using a wired or wireless.

Wired printers
A printer is connected to any printer that connects to a computer using a cable and a port on the computer. Most printers use a universal serial bus (USB). When you connect a printer to your computer wire and power, Windows will automatically try to install the printer for you. If Windows can not detect the printer, you can find and add the printer manually.

Wireless printers
A wireless printer is a printer that connects to a computer using either Bluetooth or another wireless technology, such as 802.11a, 802.11b or 802.11g.

Bluetooth technology uses radio transmissions to allow a printer to communicate with your computer over a short distance. To connect a Bluetooth printer, you need to add a Bluetooth adapter to your computer. Most Bluetooth adapters plug into a USB port on your computer. When you plug the adapter and turn on the Bluetooth printer, Windows will try to automatically install, or invite you to install. If Windows can not detect the printer, you can find and add it manually.

To connect a printer via a Bluetooth wireless technology than others, both your computer and the printer must be connected to a wireless network. Check the information that came with your printer to see if a wireless network adapter. If not, you need to add before you can connect the printer to your wireless network. To avoid interference between a wireless printer and your computer, try not to locate wireless phones or other wireless devices near the printer.
Note
To determine if your printer or printer you plan to buy is compatible with Windows Vista, go to the compatibility with Windows Vista Center website. This site contains a complete list of printers and other hardware devices that have been tested to work with Windows Vista.

Make sure your printer is ready to print
After adding a printer, it's a good idea to print a test page to ensure that the printer works properly. A test page prints sample text and graphics in color or black and white, depending on the type of printer you're using. It could also display information on the printer, such as printer driver name and version, which can help resolve problems if the printer is not working properly.
If you add a printer only, it becomes your default printer. This means that the printer is automatically selected when you print a document or file. If you add more than one printer, you can select the printer to use by default. Choose the printer you use most often.
Print using Windows
The quickest way to print a document or file to be printed using Windows. You do not need to open the file, choose printing options, or change printer settings. Windows will print the document to your default printer.

Click to open documents.

Find the file you want to print.

Right-click the file, then click Print. Windows will be printed with your printer settings by default.

Print using software
To print using software, open document, image, or file that you want to print. After opening the document in software, you can choose options for printing.

Common printing options
Most printing options are located in the Print dialog box, which you can access from the File menu in a program. The options available to you depend on the issue and the printer you are using. To access certain options, you may need to click on the "Preferences", "Properties", or "Advanced" link or button in the Print dialog box.

Common print options for a program include:

Selecting the printer. You can select a printer from a list of printers that are connected to your computer.

Page range. You can print specific pages or sections of a document. To select individual pages or a sequence (range) of pages, you can usually the type of page numbers, separated by commas or hyphens. For example, if you type 1,4,5-7, only pages 1 and 4, then pages 5 to 7, will be printed.

The selection option lets you print only the text or graphics that you selected in the document. The current page option lets you print only the current page.

Number of copies and bring them together. You can print more than one copy of a document, image, or file at a time. Use the option to collect print all pages in a document at once, in order, before printing multiple copies of the document.

The page orientation. Also known as document layout, this option allows you to print the contents of the page Top (Portrait) or across the page (Landscape).

Paper size. If your printer can print more than one size paper, this option allows you to select the paper size you have loaded into the printer.

Production of paper or source. Also known as destination or output paper tray, this option allows you to specify the paper tray of the printer to use. In this way, you can load and store different sizes in each tray.

The two-sided printing. Also called duplex or duplex, this option allows you to print on both sides of a sheet of paper. This option is only available if your printer supports.

Print in color or black in. This option is only available if your printer supports.

Use Print Preview
To see what the printed copy will be like before printing it, open the document in a program that offers a print preview. The print preview is usually in the File menu for a program. You should be able to preview each page of the document. In some, you can choose options print preview mode, and then print directly from the preview. In other programs, you may have to close the preview, change the document or settings for your printer, then print it.

If you view or print a document and this is not the way you, you may need to change the document or change the printing options. For example, if only a portion of your single document on the printed page, you may need to reduce the font size, lower margins, or change the layout, then try to print again.

Track your print jobs
When you send a document or any other type of file to a printer, it becomes a job. Some printers have a screen that displays an alert if a problem such as low toner or paper jam occurs. Many printers display a message in the notification area on your computer. To resolve the problems, you can review the information displayed on the screen of your printer, see the information provided with the printer, or go to the manufacturer's Web site.

Use Windows, you can view the print queue to keep track of your print jobs. The print queue displays information about the documents that are waiting to print, such as the status of printing the document owner, and the number of pages to print. You can use the print queue to view, suspend, resume, restart, and cancel print jobs.

To view the print queue
Click here to open Printers.

To open the print queue, double-click the printer you are using.

Tip
If your print jobs are being printed, you can open the print queue by double-clicking the printer icon in the notification area.

For more information about managing print jobs, see a pause or resume printing and Cancel printing.

Training Computer:Working with Files and folders

This article will help you learn to find, organize and use files and folders on your computer.

What files and folders?

A file is very much like a typed document that you might find on the desk of someone or in a workbook, is a point that contains a collection of related information. On a computer, examples of files include text documents, spreadsheets, digital images, and even songs. Each photo you take with a digital camera, for example, is a separate file and a music CD may contain a dozen individual song files.

Your computer represents files with icons. Looking at an icon of the file, you can tell at a glance what kind of file it is. Some of the icons of file:

A file is just over a container in which you can store files. If you have thousands of paper files on the desktop of someone, it would be virtually impossible to find any particular when you need it. That is why people often store paper files in folders in a workbook. Arranging files in logical groups, it is easy to locate a particular file.

The files on your computer work exactly the same way. This is typical of what a folder icon is as follows:

Not only files to keep records, but they can also hold other folders. A folder in a folder is usually called a subfolder. You can create any number of sub-folders, and each can contain any number of files and subfolders.

How Windows organizes your files and folders
When it comes to organize, you do not need to start from scratch. Windows comes with a handful of files you can use as anchors to begin organizing your files. Here is a list of some of the most common that you can store your files and folders:

Documents. Use this folder to store your word processing files, spreadsheets, presentations, and other companies based files.

Photos. Use this folder to store all your digital photos, if you get from your camera, scanner, or e-mail other people.

Music. Use this folder to store all your digital music, such as songs that you copy from an audio CD or download from the Internet.

Videos. Use this folder to store your videos, such as clips from your digital camera, camcorder or video files you download from the Internet.

Downloads. Use this folder to store files and programs you download from the Web.

There are several ways to find these files. The easiest way is to open the file, which includes all of your files in one place. The personnel file is not called "personal"-that is labeled with the name that you used to connect to the computer. To open, click the Start button, then click your user name at the top of the Start menu right window.

You can also find documents, pictures, music and folders on the Start menu, right below your personal file.

Remember that you can create subfolders in one of these folders to help you better organize your files. In the Pictures folder, for example, you can create subfolders to organize photos by date, event, the names of people in the pictures, or any other system that helps you work more efficiently.

Understanding the pieces of a file
When you open a folder on the desktop, a folder window appears. In addition to showing the contents of the folder, a folder window has a variety of pieces that are designed to help you navigate around Windows or work with files and folders more easily. Here is a typical case and each of its parts:

Viewing your files in a folder
When you open a folder and see your files, you may prefer larger (or smaller) icons, or an arrangement that allows you to see different kinds of information about each file. For these types of changes, use the Views button in the toolbar.

Each time you click the Views button, the folder window changes the way it displays your files and folder icons, alternating between large icons, small icon view called tiles, and called for details shows that several columns of information on file.

If you click the arrow next to the Views button, you have more choices. Drag the cursor up or down to refine the size of the file and folder icons. You can see the change in the size of icons that you move the cursor.

Find your files
When you need to find a particular file, you know that often it is somewhere in a folder as documents or photos. Unfortunately, actually locate the file you want might mean browsing through hundreds of files and subfolders, not an easy task. To save you time and effort, use the search engine to find your file.

The search box is located at the top of each folder. To find a file, open the folder that contains the file you want, click the search box and start typing. The search box to filter the current view on the basis of the text you type. The files are displayed as search results if your search term is the name of the file, tags, or other file properties. Text documents are displayed if the search term occurs throughout the text within the document. Your search looks in the current folder and all subfolders.

If you have no idea where to look for a file, you can expand your search to include the entire computer, not just one folder.
Copy or move files and folders
Sometimes you may want to modify the files are stored on your computer. You may want to move files to a different folder, for example, or copy them to removable media (such as CD or memory cards) to share with another person.

Most people copy and move files using a drag and drop. Start by opening the folder that contains the file or folder you want to move. Next, open the folder where you want to move. Place the Windows folder on the desktop so you can see the contents of two of them.

Then, drag the file or folder from the first case to the second issue. That's all there is to it.

When you use the drag and drop method, you will notice that sometimes the file or folder is copied, and at other times, it moves. Why is this? If you drag an object between folders that are on the same hard disk, then the objects are moved to two copies of the same file or folder are not created on the same hard disk. If you drag the item to a folder that is on another hard disk (for example a network location, for example) or removable media like a CD, then the question is copied. In this way, the file or folder is not removed from its original location.

For more information on copying and moving files,
Creating and deleting files
The most common way to create new files using software. For example, you can create a text document in a word processor or a video file in a video editing program.

Some software create a file when you open them. When you open WordPad, for example, it starts with a blank page. This represents a vacuum (and unrecorded) file. Start typing, and when you're ready to save your work, click File on the menu bar, then click Save As. In the dialog box that appears, type a file name that will help you find the file again in the future, then click Save.

By default, most programs save files in common files such as documents, pictures, and music, making it easy to find the files again next time. For more information about creating new files, see Save a file.

When you no longer need a file, you can delete it from your computer's hard drive to save space and maintain your computer is cluttered with unwanted files. To delete a file, open the folder that contains the file and select the file. Press DELETE, then in the dialog box Delete Files, click Yes.

When you delete a file, it is temporarily stored in the Recycle Bin. Consider the trash as a safety record that allows you to retrieve files or folders that you've deleted accidentally. Sometimes you have to empty the Recycle Bin to recover the entire disk space used by your files. To see how empty the Recycle Bin, see permanently delete files from the Recycle Bin.

Opening an existing file
To open a file, double-click it. The file opens in the software that you used to create or edit. If it is a text file, for example, it will open in your word processing program.

It is not always the case, though. Double-click on a digital photo, for example, generally open a picture viewer. Effectively change the image, you need to use another program. Right-click the file, click Open With, then click on the name of the program you want to use.

Training Computer:Using programs

Almost everything you do on your computer requires using a program. For example, if you want to draw a picture, you need to use a drawing or painting program. To write a letter, you use a word processor. To explore the Internet, you use a software called a Web browser. Thousands are available for Windows.

Starting a program
The Start menu is the gateway to all programs on your computer. To open the Start menu, click the Start button. The left pane of the Start menu contains a list of programs, including your Internet browser, e-mail, and recently used programs. To start a program, click it.

If you do not see the program you want to open but know its name, type all or part of the name in the search engine at the bottom of the left window. For example, to find Windows Photo Gallery, type photo or gallery in the Search box. The left pane instantly displays search results. Under Programs, click on a program to open it.

To browse a complete list of your software, click the Start button, then click All programs. For more information, see the Start menu (overview).

Tip
You can also start a program by opening a file. Opening the file automatically opens the program associated with this file. See open a file or folder.

Using commands in programs
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 the paint 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.

Toolbars provide access to frequently used commands in the form of buttons or icons. These orders usually appear in the software menu, too, but toolbars let you choose a command with a single click. Toolbars usually appear just below the menu bar:

Click a toolbar button performs a command. In WordPad, for example, clicking the Save button saves the document. To find out what a toolbar button has at this point. The name of the button or function appears:

Creating a new document
Many programs let you create, edit, save and print documents. In general, a document is any type of file you can edit. For example, a word processor is a type of document, as is a spreadsheet, an e-mail, and a presentation. However, the terms of documents and files are often used interchangeably, pictures, music clips, videos and you can edit files are usually called, even if they are technically documents.

Some software, including WordPad, NotePad, and paintings, open a blank, untitled document automatically when you start the software, so you can start working immediately. You will see a large white area and a generic word like "Untitled" or "Document" in the software of the title bar.

If your program does not open a new document automatically when it starts, you can do yourself:

Click the File menu in the software you use, then click New. If you can open more than one type of document in the software, you might also need to select the type from a list.


Saving a document
As you work on a document, your additions and changes are stored in your computer memory (RAM). The storage of information in RAM is temporary, if your computer is switched off or fails, all information in memory is erased.

Saving a document allows you to appoint and store them permanently on your hard disk. In this way, the document is retained even when your computer is off, and you can open it again later.

To save a document
On the File menu, click Save. If this is the first time you save the document, you will be asked to provide a name for herself and a location on your computer to make.

Even if you saved a document once, you need to keep the backup as you work. This is because the changes you made since your last save the document is stored in RAM, not on the hard disk. To avoid losing the work unexpectedly because of a power outage or other problem, save your document every few minutes.

For more information, see Save a file.

Moving information between files
Most allow you to share text and images between them. For example, you can copy text or a picture from a Web page in Internet Explorer to a document in WordPad. When you copy information, it goes into a temporary storage area called the clipboard. From there you can paste into a document.

Before you start moving information around, you must understand how to switch between open windows on your desktop.
Cancel your last action
Most allow you to cancel (reverse) actions you take, the mistakes you make. For example, if you delete a paragraph in a document accidentally WordPad, you can get by using the Undo command. If you draw a line in the painting that you do not cancel your line straight away and he disappears.

To cancel an action
On the Edit menu, click Cancel.

Get help with software
Almost every program comes with its own in-aid system for those times when you're confused about how the program.

To access a software support system:

In the Help menu in the software, click the first item in the list, such as "Show Help", "Help", or similar text. (The name of this item may vary.)
- Or --
Press F1. This function key opens aid to almost any software.

In addition to program-specific aid, some dialog boxes contain links with their specific functions. If you see a question in a circle or square, color or text and underlined the link, click it to open back up.

Out of a program
To exit a program, click the Close button in the upper right corner. Or in the File menu, click Exit.

Remember to save your document before leaving the program. If you do not work and try to exit the program, the software will ask you if you want to save the document:

To save the document, then quit the program, click Yes.

To exit the program without saving the document, click No.

To return to the issue without leaving it, click Cancel.

The installation or uninstalling programs
You are not limited to use the programs that came with your computer, you can buy new programs on CD or DVD or download programs (free or fee) of the Internet.

Install a program meant to add to your computer. After software is installed, it appears in your Start menu in the list all programs. Some software can also add a shortcut on your desktop.