Hopefully Helpful Hints & Tips for MS Windows
These pages will be added to as time goes on. They will reflect and therefore be a permanent record of my hopefully helpful hints & tips
that I have posted on the NWK FHS Computer List. Provided I remember, they will be updated each day that I post another hint or tip.
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TIP 001
Partial Printing
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Did you know that you can print part of a document or email, etc that is displayed on the computer screen?
1) Select the text by left clicking the first character in the text.
2) Hold down shift key
3) Left click the last character in the text. (The text to be printed is now highlighted)
4) Open the File Menu and click Print ( OR, just click CTRL+ P )
5) The Print dialogue will then appear
6) Click the Selection box (it will show its being selected)
7) Click Print
This does not print the background in the colour that might appear on the screen so will save you money in printer colour cartridge(s)
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TIP 002
Standard Windows Key Combinations
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(This key will cover this and following Hints & Tips)
Ctrl = Control Key (usually the left most key on the bottom line of a "QWERTY" key board)
Alt = Alternate key (usually to the left of the Spacebar )
Win = Windows key (the key with the Windows "flag" on it - often between the Ctrl & Alt keys & also to the right of the Alt Gr(aphics) key )
Men = Menu Key ( The key next to the rightmost Win Key & looking like a cursor on a menu list )
Alt Gr = Alt(ernative) Gr(aphics) key (usually immediately to the right of the space bar)
Shift = Shift Key (usually the upward pointing arrow)
Ctrl + (a key) means hold down the Ctrl key and then strike the other key
Ctrl key combinations
Ctrl + A = Select All [ selects all files in a folder ( was called a directory in earlier versions of Windows) ]
Ctrl + P [ Print the current file ]
Ctrl + C [ Copy the selected text, text copied is placed in a "store" ]
Ctrl + X [ Cut (delete) the selected text, text deleted is placed in a "store" ]
Ctrl + V [ Paste the text in the "store" to the current position on the screen ]
Ctrl + O [ Open a file, a dialogue pops up to allow the user to make a selection) ]
Ctrl + S [ Save a file, a dialogue pops up to allow the user to give a name to a new file (or overwrite a current file) ]
Ctrl + Q [ Quit the program ]
Function keys
F1 Help file information. [ In Windows this calls up the help system ]
F3 Find Files [ In Windows, this calls up the Search file facility ]
All other Function Keys are program specific, generally.
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