Computer Help for Seniors

Capture an image of EXACTLY what you see on the screen. Works great if you have an error message you want to save for your computer repair guy to see. Want to print something on the screen but there is no print icon or option. If you've been sent a slideshow and there is a picture you want to keep. Or for any other reason. To capture the image 1. push print screen on the keyboard Place the captured image in your computer for safe keeping 2. Open Word 3. Go to edit and choose paste 4. the image will appear on the page 5. Save, file or even print the page   Explore Bing Maps maps.bing.com A new way to see a map. Click the Blue Man to get streetside views. Add Map Apps to enhance your map experience (bottom left) like choosing worldwide telescope to see the stars. or streetside photos to see flickr images of the area you are looking at   Pivot from Microsoft works for Windows Vista and 7 www.getpivot.com Displays information on the web in a graphical way vs. conventional text searchin

http://sftowershelp.blogspot.com I use Mac Mail and receive SMTP error messages, what can I do 1. open mac mail 2. go to preferences 3. click accounts 4. below beside SMTP make sure there is only 1 server listed Change text documents to a universal format for any user to open 1. Open the document 2. Go to file and choose Save As 3. Beside File Format 4. Choose RTF or TXT 5. Name the file and click same Customize the Internet Browser Navigation toolbar to include more than just back and forward 1. Place your mouse arrow on the toolbar 2. Hold CTRL and click to get a menu of viewing options 3. Choose customize toolbar 4. A window appears with all the features you can add to the toolbar 5. Click hold and drag icons off the bar to remove them and click hold and drag icons from the window onto the bar to add them 6. close the window when you are done   Jason Dare Computer Trainer 415/240.4843 learn@sfct.net 1617 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94121 www.sfct.net

Windows Update Website (note, must use Internet Explorer to perform updates) http:// windowsupdate.microsoft.com New gadget I introduced in class http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/   Jason Dare Computer Trainer 415/240.4843 learn@sfct.net 1617 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94121 www.sfct.net

 Setting a custom screensaver to display photos/images of your choice. (famous paintings, photographs of flowers/buildings/ice sculptures, family photos) A screensaver displays when the computer has been idle for a specified amount of time. --Setting up a folder to hold the images you want to display for the screen saver 1. go to the desktop 2. go to file and choose "new folder" 3. title the new folder, "images for my screensaver" ---Finding images to add to the newly created screensaver folder 1. Open the internet 2. Go to google and type in the type of image you want to find 3. Click google search 4. Click "images" on the top left 5. Find an image you want to keep 6. Click on the image--->click "full size image" 7. Hold "ctrl" and click on the image to open a menu of options 8. Choose save image as 9. Save the image to the desktop, if you like you can rename the file so you can identify it later 10. Repeat until y

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