Computer Help for Seniors

SF Towers computer class blog – search (lop left) for answers http://sftowershelp.blogspot.com   Cleaning up your messages in Yahoo It is a new year, so perfect time to clean out/up your inbox. Best practice if you have   more than 40 emails from previous years you don't want to sort through and want to keep, just in case. Create a new folder labeled "emails older than 2010" and move the emails into that folder as storage. 1.    Open Yahoo Email 2.    Log in to your email 3.    Click the add link beside folder on the left 4.    A new folder appears, TYPE out the new name of the folder, "emails older than 2010" 5.    Click the inbox 6.    Choose all the messages from previous years, by clicking the check box beside each email or…click the top most check box to check all the boxes (if needed do a few at a time) 7.    Click the black arrow above beside move and choose the folder to move your checked emails to 8.    Your inbox should now be cleared out   Changing

Landscape File--->Page setup Create a column format---->Columns Alignment the Text to be centered on the page Format---->Paragraph---->alignment Insert a picture Insert--->Picture--->From File---->choose the picture Resize the Picture go to the corner of the picture and when the arrow turns into two arrows, Click hold and drag Create a new second page while only having 1/2 a page of text on the first page(don't push enter enter enter) Create a PAGE BREAK Insert--->Break---->Page Break **you can also create a column break to start on the next column How can I move the text from one document to another? COPY & Paste 1. Select/highlight what you want to copy (if you want everything in the document go to edit and choose select all) 2. Go to the edit menu and choose COPY 3. Click where you want the text that you copied to appear 4. Go to the edit menu and choose PASTE  Jason Dare Computer Trainer 415/240.4843 jason.dare@sfct.

Creating an automated response to senders of emails notifying them that you are away or that your email address has changed, or whatever kind words you want to share. (you will still receive your messages in the inbox) To make the change you have to go to the source of your emails...your provider. www.yahoo.com , www.comcast.net , www.mac.com 1. login to your account by going to the suffix of your email yahoo.com, comcast.net, mac.com, sftmail.com, etc. 2. look for something labeled preferences or options (as in yahoo on the top right side) 3. Then look for a heading labeled vacation response or auto reply 4. fill in the information 5. be sure to save the change to make it active ***Note. some services like Yahoo allow you to determine dates of when the auto response will show OR you have to turn off the auto response when you return Create a signature for an email which will appear at the end of each email that contains your information or any information you want to include. For Yah

Free Antivirus from Microsoft for windows XP, Vista and windows 7 http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/default.aspx ***Does not include firewall services like Norton or Mcafee might***   Companies are always working on new projects. Google has a few of them available for you to explore. Visit http://www.googlelabs.com/    ****Keep an Open Mind****   Creating a folder in Yahoo to organize your emails 1.      Click "add" beside folder on the left of your window 2.      A new folder appears, type in the name you want 3.      Done To move an email into the folder, from your inbox, put a check mark beside the email and then click move above and choose which folder to move it to. To rename the folder, Right-Click on the folder and choose rename and enter in the new name. How can I check to see if someone is listed incorrectly in my SPAM list? Yahoo 1.      Click "options" on the top right of your window 2.      Choose mail options

I am creating a word processing document, and when I print it, it doesn't print correctly. 1. before you print a document use "print preview" 2. Go to the file menu 3. Choose Print Preview 4. The page you see is what will print 5. If you like what you see, click the printer icon or print on the top right OR click close to close the preview and then make any needed adjustments or changes Frustrated about extra useless pages being printed when printing from the internet? 1. Print Preview will eliminate the waste 2. Go to File--->Print 3. At the print dialog window click the Preview button on the bottom left 4. A preview of what is to print appears 5. Look on the right to see how many pages will print and what content is on each page 6. Decide which page # to print 7. Click Cancel to exit print preview 8. Click on the page you want to print in the background 9. go to file and print again 10. in the window that appears below pages type which page you want ex. 2 to: 2 11.

I want to Justify my text in Word XP 1. Type out your document/paragraph 2. Click once or highlight/select the paragraphs you want to justify 3. Go to the format menu above 4. Choose paragraph 5. Beside Alignment choose "justify" 6. Click OK If justify does not work, make sure that the sentences that may appear like a paragraph are continuous and are not separated by paragraph marks 1. Turn on/off invisible formatting by click the backwards P or paragraph mark on top 2. If you see the paragraph mark at the end of every line you thought was part of a paragraph, remove them to connect the sentences Use Footers and Headers to add dynamic information that changes as the document changes. Like the date, time, page number, number of pages. 1. Click the view menu 2. Choose Header and footer 3. click above for the header or below for the footer on the document and press tab if you need to jump to the middle or far right 4. click on the corresponding icon on the toolbar that appears 

I can't find a bookmark that I saved in Firefox 1. Open the list of bookmarks by clicking the bookmark menu--->choose organize bookmarks 2. All the bookmarks will be listed 3. On the top right is a search box that allows you to search based on the name of the bookmark Downloading and installing software by copying the files to your computer 1. download the software onto the desktop 2. open the folder or image (looks like a white disk) 3. Graphics or instructions should appear explaining what needs to be moved where with an arrow indicating moving 4. find the folder to where the file is to be moved to ( you can search for it by name by opening the macintosh hd and typing in the name on the top right white search box) 5. Once you see the folder double click to open it 6. then move the files into that folder Create a folder to store/organize emails on Macintosh Mail 1. click the mailbox menu 2. choose new mailbox 3. choose on my mac 4. type in the name of the new folder/mailbox 5.