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Yes, there are TWO buttons on your mouse! (okay, maybe three)
Clicking the RIGHT mouse button nearly always pops up a menu where the cursor was located when you right-clicked. You will notice that the menu selection changes, depending on where the cursor (arrow) was. Go ahead, experiment. If you highlight text (left click hold and drag) then right click within the highlighted text, you can select copy with minimal mouse movement. This places the selected text on the computer clipboard. Then you can open your word processor, RIGHT click in the body of the new letter and left click on PASTE.

Where did that toolbar go at the top of the screen?

If your toolbar does a disappearing act from the top of your screen, take a look under the View menu, and find Toolbars. Most commonly, you will have the Standard and Formatting toolbars, and they should show a checkmark next to those choices. This gives you convenient icons to select such actions as Open File, Save, Print Preview, Print, Undo, etc.

Keep it Simple!
when sending e-mail, try to limit the size of attachments, avoid animations and music within the body of the e-mail -- if you think it's a neat story, try copying just the text and paste it to your e-mail. Animated graphics and music take longer to download, plus there is an increasing risk of spreading viruses through self-executing programs and macros.

Backing up files may seem like a nuisance at the time, but if you choose NOT to back up your files, you are at risk of losing all of your saved documents, address book, contact list, photographs, downloaded software and more. Hard disk drives CAN fail without fair warning, and the Windows operating system can get corrupted to the point of requiring reinstallation. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

If you are not updating your anti-virus software files from the internet at least once a week, you aren't protecting your computer against viruses. The annual subscription fee for this is well worth the expense.

The Print Scrn key takes a "snapshot" of what you see on the monitor and saves it to the computer's "clipboard". After you press the Print Scrn key, simply open a word processor program (Word, Notepad, or Wordpad), then RIGHT click in the body of the letter, and select "Paste", to paste the contents of the clipboard to the word processor document, which you can then print. To take a snapshot of an individual "Window" instead of the entire screen, simply hold the Alt key down while pressing Print Scrn. This is particularly helpful when trying to write down error messages
(but it doesn't work on the "blue screen of death" -
Windows fatal exceptions)

When using Internet Explorer, you can use the F11 key to show more of the screen by minimizing the toolbars. To return to the normal screen, simply press F11 again.

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