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COMPUTER SKILLS

TRAINING

ISHWAR SEWPAL

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THE COMPUTER SYSTEM

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THE KEYBOARD / LE CLAVIER

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SCREEN / ECRAN / MONITOR / VDU

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PROCESSOR CASING / CPU (Central

processing unit) / UNITE CENTRALE

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MOUSE / SOURIS

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FLOPPY DRIVE / LECTEUR DISKETTE

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CD / DVD DRIVE / LECTEUR CD / DVD

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CD/DVD WRITER / GRAVEUR CD/DVD

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STORAGE / STOCKAGE

INTERNAL

Hard Disk Drive

EXTERNAL / REMOVABLE

Diskette / Floppy Drive

CD Drive

DVD Drive

Blu-Ray

Pen Drive / USB Drive

Mini / Micro Cards

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DOCUMENT AND FOLDERS

DOCUMENTS

SINGLE PAGE

MULTI-PAGE

CONTAINS

TEXT

PICTURES

DIAGRAMS

FOLDERS

CONTAINS

DOCUMENTS

FOLDER

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THE KEYBOARD

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USING THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD

1. TOGGLE KEYS

CAPS LOCK

NUM LOCK

INSERT / OVERWRITE

2. SHIFT, CTRL AND ALT KEYS

TO MAINTAIN DEPRESSED FOR FUNCTION TO BE ACTIVE

3. BACKSPACE DELETES ONE CHAR TO LEFT OF CURSOR

4. DELETE / DEL DELETES ONE CHAR TO LEFT OF CURSOR

5. PLACEMENT OF CURSOR (BLINKING VERTICAL LINE)HOME / END CURSOR AT START / END OF LINE

CTRL HOME / CTRL END CURSOR AT START / END OF DOCUMENT

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USING THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD

Shift To make capital letters or the

upper character of a two-character key.

Caps LockUsed to change the case of all

letters to uppercase.

Only works with alphabetic keys.

Spacebar Used to insert a blank space.

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USING THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD

Enter Used to tell the computer to carry out a

task. In word processing its used to

start a new paragraph.

BackspaceErases the character to the left ofthe cursor.

Delete Erases the character to the right of the

cursor.Insert Toggles between Insert and Overwrite

mode.

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USING THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD

Cursor Control Keys:

Arrows move the cursor in the direction

chosen

Page Up Brings the cursor up several lines

(one screen not one page).

Page Down Brings the cursor down several lines(one screen, not one page).

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USING THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD

Home Brings the cursor the to

beginning of the current line.

End Brings the cursor to theend of the current line.

Ctrl + Home Brings the cursor to the

beginning of the document.

Ctrl + End Brings the cursor to the end of the document.

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SPECIAL CHARACTERS

0224 a grave

0225 a acute

0226 a circumflex

0227 a tilde0228 a diaeresis

0229 a ring

0230 ae ligature

0163 uk pounds

0231 c cedilla

0232 e grave

0233 e acute

0234 e circumflex

0235 e diaeresis

0251 u circumflex

0128 euros

0162 cents

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MANIPULATING FILES

1. USING MOUSE AND MENU BAR Inside WORD

File / New OPEN NEW FILE

File / Open OPEN EXISTING FILE

File Copy

File / Save SAVE FILE

2. USING MOUSE AND RIGHT CLICK outsideWORD

OPEN NEW FILE Right click/New/MS Word Doc (in clear area)

OPEN EXISTING FILE Right click/open (pointer on file to open)

MOVE or COPY FILE Right click/cut or copy (pointer on the file)

Right click/paste (pointer at newlocation)

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WORKING WITH FILES

COPY AND SAVE

DRAG AND DROP

CHANGE FOLDERS

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WORKING WITH TEXT

1. KEYBOARDSHIFT + ARROW KEYSTO SELECT TEXT

CTRL A SELECT WHOLE DOCUMENT

CTRL X CUT

CTRL V PASTE

CTRL P PRINT

2. MOUSECLICK ONCE PLACE CURSOR

CLICK TWICE SELECT WORDCLICK THRICE SELECT PARAGRAPH

3. RIGHT CLICK TO VIEW OPTIONS FOR CUT, PASTE, PRINT

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WORKING WITH TEXT

SPECIAL CHARACTERS

TAB INDENT

BOLD, ITALICS, UNDERLINE

CENTRE, LEFT & RIGHT JUSTIFIED TEXT2

SUBSCRIPT & SUPERSCRIPT

FONT SIZE & COLOUR

HIGHLIGHT & FILL

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PRINTING OF DOCUMENT

PAGE SETUP PAPER SIZE

ORIENTATION PORTRAIT & LANDSCAPE

PREVIEW

SELECTION OF PRINTER SEND TO PRINTER

NO OF COPIES

PRINT ALL AND PRINT SELECTED PAGES

PRINT RECTO-VERSO

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THE INTERNET

A global collection of networks

The biggest network of computer networks on earth!

Owned by no one Operated by no single organization

Rocketed to prominence during the late 20th century

Important in Information, Trade, and Communication

A computer network is a data communications system made up of

hardware and software that transmits data from one computer to

another

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THE INTERNET

WHAT IS NEEDED TO ACCESS INTERNET?

1. Computer with internet connection

2. Internet account with a connection provider

3. Internet browser software The most popular are Internet Explorerand

Mozilla Firefox

4. Anti-virus software. Symantec/Norton or McAffee are the two most

common

5. Email software. Most popular ones are MS Outlook or Outlook

Express. Yahoo or Hotmail offer free "web-mail.

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THE INTERNET

Files to be displayed, played, etc. are located on a web server

May contain text, pictures, sounds, movies, games or even virtual

reality displays

Web server is connected to the internet and has an internet address

This internet address is called a URL (Universal Resource Locator)

Server Domains or Extensions:

.com Commerce or Commercial

.org Non-Profit, charitable, political, etc. organization

.edu Education or School

.gov Government

.net Network oriented such as Internet service providers

.uk, .mu 2 Letter Country Extension

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THE INTERNET

To see, hear, download or play these files you need a browseron

your computer that can access the server and download the files

and display or play them on your computer

Most Common browsers:

Firefox Netscape

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Mosaic

Opera

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THE INTERNET

SEARCH ENGINES (General)

YAHOO

GOOGLE

Ask.com

Live Search (formerly MSN Search)

PORTALS

www.yahoo.com www.gov.mu

www.google.com www.orange.muwww.msn.com www.myjob.mu

www.yahoo.co.uk

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THE INTERNET

Internet Explorer Window Control for better web page viewing :

Press F11 key to turn Full Screen view on and off.

Select-highlight your IE address bar

Press ALT-D on your keyboard

You never have to type the http://orhttps://prefix

just type your URL directly in address bar and press enter

Let IE type the http://www. and the .com for you

To type http://www.something.com type something then CTRL-

Enter. Note: CTRL-Enter trick only works forwww.something.com

(commercial) addresses.

Opening Links in New Windows.

This will allow you to view multiple web pages at once.

SHIFT-clickon a hyperlink

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FIRST SESSION

MOUSE : Pointer and cursorFunctions / Importance