Business Computing Tips
By Karen Fainges

Part 4 of 5 - The Internet

The Internet is made up for two main parts e-mail, and the World
Wide Web. The terms; internet, browsing, surfing the web, and
combinations of these all mean the same thing, looking up things
on the World Wide Web.

EMAIL

Adding an address - To add a new address to your address book,
you can do it a few ways.
If you have the address in an email, highlight it, copy, open
your address book (shown as either the word or a picture of a
book on your toolbar) hit new contact, and paste the address in.
If you only have it written down, open your address book, hit new
contact and type it in taking care not to have any spaces and
remembering that the address won't work if you mix up capital
letters and lower case. It is very easy to type it incorrectly,
so check it thoroughly. One wrong dot, and it won't work.
If you are writing an email and you realise you don't have an
address, simply hit the word TO: and it will take you into your
address book so you can add it in.

Attaching files - If you want to send someone a document from
your computer, write an email as you normally would, but before
you hit send, hit the symbol shaped like a paperclip, This will
let you find the file you want to send. Highlight it and then hit
the Insert button. Then hit send.

Deleting e-mails - In your inbox, highlight the email you want to
get rid of and either hit the delete key on your keyboard, or hit
the large x on your toolbar.

Forward - To send an interesting email on to someone else, hit
forward, type in the address of the person you want to send it to
and hit send.

Opening Attachments - To open an attachment, first you need to
completely open the e-mail itself. Do this by double clicking on
it in your top window.
When it's open, the attachment will appear as a picture in the
attachment line in the header (the top bit of the e-mail). Double
click on the picture. The will automatically open the attachment,
but it may take a minute or two. Be very careful when you open
attachments, they are the normal hiding places of viruses.

Reply - Hitting the word reply on your toolbar, will
automatically fill in the person's address, fill in the subject
line and put the item that you are replying to at the bottom of
the e-mail. All you have to do is to type what you want to say
and hit send normally at the top left of your toolbar.

Send/receive - Hit this button to check to see if you have new
e-mails and to send ones already written.

Writing an email - If you are starting from scratch with an
email, hit the word New on your toolbar, then fill in the name,
click into the box next to the Subject an type what the email is
about normally only a couple of words is best, then click into
the main box and type what you want to say. Then hit Send on the
top left of your toolbar.

WEB BROWSING

Browsing the web - address line - If you already have the address
for the site, open your web browser (if you have Internet
Explorer Browser it will be on your desktop or taskbar as a blue
e.) Then click into the box next to the word address and just
type it in taking care not to have any spaces and remembering
that the address won't work if you mix up capital letters and
lower case. It is very easy to type it incorrectly, so check it
thoroughly. One wrong dot, and it won't work.

Browsing the web - search engines - If you don't know the
address, then you can look it up in the internet's version of the
internet, search engines. There are many engines on the web, but
three I recommend are:
- for general items, Yahoo at www.yahoo.com.au
- for business, AltaVista at www.altavista.com.au
- for questions about how things work, Ask Jeeves at
www.askjeeves.com.
They work by typing the thing you are looking for into the box
next to the word search and then hitting enter. A list of web
pages will then come up and you can click on each one in turn to
see if it has the information you want. To get back to the search
engine, you hit the button labelled back on your toolbar.

Browsing the web - type & see - For large companies, sometimes
you can find the web page by typing www. then the company name,
then .com. For example www.microsoft.com pulls up the page for
Microsoft.
If the company is Australian, type .au after the address.
If it is a government body, use .gov not .com. For schools and
universities, type .edu instead.
Remember to take care not to have any spaces and remembering that
the address won't work if you mix up capital letters and lower
case. It is very easy to type it incorrectly, so check it
thoroughly. One wrong dot, and it won't work.

Favourites - Your favourites are web pages you visit often. To
visit these quickly, hit the button mark Favourites and then
click on the page you want. If you want to add to your
favourites, bring the page up in your browser. Click on the word
FAVORITES (it's an American program hence no u) add choose ADD TO
FAVORITES. Then hit OK.

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