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Ex 2.1.3 - Work with Icons |
| KNOWLEDGE |
| WORK WITH ICONS |
| The screen shot below shows a typical Windows
desktop with the Programs menu open. The range of icons displayed on
the typical desktop include: |
The Windows Start button The Windows Start 
button should appear in the bottom left of your desktop when the standard
Windows setup is used. This button should be clicked to open
up the menu tree above giving access to Programs, Control Panel,
Search and Help systems, and also to Shut Down your
machine. Note that each of these menu items has an icon of
its own. |
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Menu items Menu items such as  , which
appears directly on the Start menu, indicate this leads to
Controls which allow you to change how your machine looks and runs. On the
All Programs menu is a menu item
 . If this option is
clicked the program (application software) Microsoft Publisher will
start and you will be able to create newspaper/advertising documents with
it. Other programs on this menu include Microsoft Word, Microsoft
FrontPage, etc. The menu items with an arrow pointer to the
right lead to other menus where the program start button will be found. |
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Quick start program icons Icons such as these  which
appear directly on the desktop and have a north-east pointing arrow in
their bottom left corner and the program name below the icon are known as
quick start program icons. If you double-click on any of
these icons a program will start immediately. This is the same as
selecting Start, All Programs and then selecting the program on
the menu. Having the program icon on the desktop allows to to start
the program quickly and also lets you see immediately the computer starts
what is available on the computer. Quick start program icons can be
added or deleted from the desktop as required. |
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Desktop taskbar icons Desktop taskbar icons appear at the bottom of your desktop next to the Start button. In the screen shot above the following are shown  . These are similar to
quick start program icons in that they are displayed all the time.
Here though you need only click the icon once to start the program.
Note that the icons have the same look as they would if they appeared on
the All Programs menu, the difference being the program names do not
appear at the side and you have to remember what the program the icon is for. |
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Application running icons In the bottom right of your screen you should find a string of icons displayed that could include some of the following  . The icons show
applications that are already running in the background of your computer.
The types of programs that work in the background like this are anti-virus
software and firewall software. Clicking or double-clicking on any of these icons will show the application and
allow you to change the way it runs or switch it off. |
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Application shortcut keys When working within Microsoft Office applications such as Word or Excel certain key combinations allow you to perform commonly used tasks using the keyboard instead of clicking buttons or menus with the mouse - some users prefer to do this. The key combinations detailed below require the user to hold down the first key and press the second key once. The list shown only includes a few of the shortcuts available:
In addition to the above the following key combinations can also be used:
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| FURTHER INFORMATION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| To read further information about the topic(s) discussed in this exercise try visiting the following web site(s): www.microsoft.com/windows - Microsoft Windows www.microsoft.com/enable/training - Windows XP Online Tutorial |
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| Hence, you now need
to learn more about how to "Create a desktop
shortcut icon, desktop menu alias."
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