1. The heel of your hand should remain on the desk when you are moving the mouse.
2. You can pick up the mouse while repositioning the pointer; the pointer remains in the same position until you put the mouse down again.
3. The tip (hot spot) of the mouse pointer must be positioned on an item or object before you can select it.
4. If the mouse stops rolling smoothly, or if the pointer motion on the screen is erratic, your mouse probably needs to be cleaned. Consult you user documentation for the proper cleaning procedure.
5. Commands in minus that can not be used under current conditions are grayed out to indicate they are inactive or unavailable. Remember, an object must be selected before you can manipulate or perform any action on it.
6. A window must be active before you can use any of the menus on it.
7. Some options have a shortcut-key combination assigned to them. If you want to bypass opening a menu, a short cut-key combination executes the associated command instantly.
8. To executes a menu without exiting a command, either in a window or the Start menu, press Escape or click a blank area.
9. Click a window’s command button in the Taskbar to make it active. The selected window moves to the font, on top of any other open windows.
10. Click the Minimize button in a window’s title bar to reduce it to a button on the Taskbar.
11. Click the Maximize button in a window’s title bar to expand it to fill the inside of an enclosing window or the entire screen.
12. Click the Restore button in a window’s title bar to restore the window to its previous size.
13. Click the Close button in a window’s title bar to close the window and to remove its button from the taskbar.
14. Click the tabs in an objects property sheet until you find the properties that you wish to modify.
15. If you are not allowed to modify an objects properties, the Properties option is dimmed on the menus.
16. For context-sensitive help while in a dialog box or property sheet, click the help button, then click an option for an explanation.
17. Press F1 to access context-sensitive help for a menu option, a dialog box, or a property sheet.
18. You can open a document from the Find dialog box simply by double-clicking its icon in the list, provided it’s associated with an application.
19. The searches performed by the Find feature are non case-sensitive; you can enter any combination of upper- and lower-case letters.
20. Click the New Search button to clear the current criteria and to begin a new search.
21. Click the Increase Font Size and decrease Font Size buttons in the Quick View toolbar to modify the font size of a file containing text.
22. Use the options found on the View menu to control how the document displays in the Quick View window.
23. The question mark (?) represents any single character. For example, suppose you have several phone list files on your hard drive. Your personal list is named MYPHONE.DBF; your business list is named WKPHONE.DBF. To search for both files, you would enter ??PHONE.DBF in the Named: box of the Find dialog box.
24. The asterisk (*) can represent one or more characters in the designated position. For example: *.SYS represents all files that end with the SYS file name extension.
25. Click the Browse button in the Find dialog box to locate a specific folder in the hierarchy system.
26. To search only the folder at the top level in the hierarchy, disable the Include subfolders option by removing the check mark from its check box.
27. Select an object type from the Of type: list in the Advanced section of the Find dialog box.
28. Enter the text string in the Containing text: box in the Advanced section of the Find dialog box.
29. After selecting the Save Search option from the File menu, the search criteria is placed as a Find icon on the desktop.
30. Right-click an object to open its associated shortcut pop-up menu, then select the explore option to open the Explorer window.
31. A plus sign (+) next to a folder indicates that it contains subfolders.
32. A minus sign (-) next to a folder indicates that it contains no subfolders. Clicking the minus sign collapses the hierarchical tree.
33. As a safety precaution, there are no options for formatting the computer’s hard-disk drive.
34. The following exercise requires a 3.5” double-sided, high-density diskette. It is assumed your computer System is configured with a 3.5” disk drive, capable of formatting a diskette to hold 1.44 megabytes of data.
35. To format a double-density 720K 3.5” diskette in a high-density 1.44Mbyte drive, select the 720 Kb (3.5”) option from the Capacity list.
36. You can sort files while in Details view by clicking the column headings. The Name, Size, Type, and Modified column headings perform the same actions as the by Name, by Type, by Size, and by Date options found on the Arrange Icons submenu.
37. Select the Toolbar option from the view menu to display the Explorer toolbar.
38. The buttons on the Explorer toolbar perform the same functions as the Large Icons, Small Icons, List, and Details options on the View menu.
39. Since folders and subfolders can have up to 255 characters in their names, the names may be truncated in the folder and contents lists if the window is too small to display them.
40. You cannot use the special reserved characters used by the operating system in the folder names ( \ / : , * ? “ < > |).
41. Ascertain the location in the hierarchy before creating a new folder, otherwise it might be placed at the wrong level.
42. When you delete folders, their contents and subfolders are also removed.
43. To copy an object to a different location on the hard disk, hold Control when you drag. If you drag and drop without holding Control, the file is moved to the new location.
44. To move an object from the hard disk onto a floppy diskette, hold Shift when you drag. If you drag and drop without holding Shift, the file is copied to the floppy diskette.
45. You can also copy files to a diskette using the Send To option, found on the File menu and many of the shortcut pop-up menus.
46. A folder can have up to 256 characters in its name, including spaces. However, you cannot use the special characters ( \ / : ; , * ? < > | ) reserved by the operating system.
47. Hold Shift and click an active window’s close button to close all the open windows at once that are nested within the same master folder. This technique only works with nested folders.
48. Select the Explore option from an object’s associated shortcut menu to open the Explorer and examine the hierarchy.
49. Only the 32-bit applications designed for Windows 95 will have the new Open and Save As dialog boxes. Windows 3.x programs will present default dialog boxes.
50. Except for their titles, the Open and Save As dialog boxes consist of the same elements.
51. Click the Up One Level button in the toolbar to move to the next highest level in the folder hierarchy. The button grays-out and becomes unavailable when you reach the top level.
52. Click the Create New Folder button to insert a new, untitled folder anywhere in the hierarchy.
53. You can toggle between List and Details by clicking their respective buttons on the toolbar.
54. While you can create a shortcut just about anywhere in the hierarchy, the most common use is to place them on the desktop.
55. Windows 95 places the shortcut on the desktop if it’s unable to place it anywhere else in the hierarchy.
56. You can use a shortcut’s property sheet to locate the original (target) document. Click the Shortcut tab to update the property sheet, then click the Find Target button. The folder containing the target document automatically opens.
57. Empty folders are immediately deleted from the hierarchy, and cannot be rescued from the Recycle Bin.
58. To drag several items at a time into the Recycle Bin, hold Control as you click each item. Known as Control-clicking, this technique allows you to select several items at once.
59. You can also drag a marquee (a dotted line created by dragging the pointer) around items to select them all.