WEEK3

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WEEK3 – REVIEW / WEEK 4 OBJECTIVES

Open My Computer (page 2.17)

- , Right Pane left click

- My Computer shows drives within your computer system. (page 2.18)

The hands here represent “sharing” drives over a Network. If your system does not have any sharing features, that is just fine.

- Identify the “Hierarchy” of your computer system.

- From the drive above follow the alphabetical representation A, B, C, D, … Identify the hierarchy you have on your college computer system. Do you know what drive hierarchy you have on your computer at home?

How to select a drive from My Computer (page 2.19 figure 2-15)

- Select drive A: Double click this drive - left clicking twice.

- (page 2.27) View files stored on your floppy disk drive, once open you should see a filed called “your first name dot RTF”. Please note the default program in control of your file is Microsoft Word. That is fine if you don’t have MS-Word.

- Identify a file verses a folder, note the Yellowed structure of a folder. (page 2.25 figure 2-21)

- Reading a file should be done from Left –to-Right.

- Icon identified = Microsoft Word

- Filename = Your first name

- File extension = RTF (rich text file), please view the handout containing all the “Common File Formats”.

- By double left clicking on this file “your first name dot rtf”, should launch/open the contents into WordPad or Microsoft Word. Here at the College this should be MS-Word.

- Typical Icons in Windows XP (page 2.21 figure 2.18)

3. Identify methods of copying a file (page 2.27 bottom)

- With A: drive open and file hi-lighted, Right mouse click and select copy.

- Copied file/material is placed into a storage holder area called “Clipboard” . We then select the area we wish to “Paste” the file, maybe in a folder we have created. Select the destination spot and left click item once, then Right mouse click the hi-lighted item and select . You may open the destination area selected, to verify the file has been placed within.

- ² method, Hi-light the file and select Edit, Copy from the File toolbar within an open My Computer window.

- ³ method - You could also use Copy to Folder or Move to Folder (remember what happens with move?) Both of these items are found under the Edit menu.

- If you look to the left of your open My Computer window, note the heading. Under this heading you should note the following selections similar to method 2.

We a little more using these methods outlined here.

4. Identify how to copy Sequential files using key

- ¹ select the first file you wish to copy, hi-light. Hold down the Shift key and point to the adjacent files you wish to copy. I will be using five files for this demonstration.

Text Box: Hi-Light first file to copy, with mouse pointer

, hold the down and select the other required files.

Here I have selected file 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and have not selected the file called “Firstname.rtf”. Now that the files have been placed into the (clipboard), we can now maneuver to the destination location and use a paste method.

5. Non-Sequential method using key

- ² select the first file you wish to copy, hi-light. Hold down the Shift key and point to the adjacent files you wish to copy. I will be using five files for this demonstration.

Text Box: Hi-Light first file to copy, with mouse pointer

, hold the down and select the other required files. Apply a Right mouse click on the hi-lighted blue stack and select from the menu list.

- As you can see here I have selected every other file, within my list of six files.

Files 1, 3, 5 have been selected. Apply a Right mouse click on the hi-lighted blue stack and select from the menu list. Select the destination point and use a paste method.