Instruction manual

PC208W, Version 3.0, Instruction Manual E-1
APPENDIX E. GLOSSARY OF COMMON WINDOWS TERMINOLOGY
Cancel Choosing Cancel from a dialog box will ignore any changes made and close the box.
Click To Click on an object, press and release the left mouse button while the mouse pointer
is positioned on the object.
Clipboard The Windows Clipboard is a buffer which holds information from a Cut, Copy, or Print
Screen operation. Only the last operation is held in the Clipboard's memory. A new Cut
or Copy operation will replace the contents of the Clipboard.
Close To close a window, most often you can choose Exit from the File menu, or, in Windows
95 and NT, click on the X from the
objects located at the uppermost right of
the window.
Copy When text is "Copied" a duplicate of the highlighted text is moved to the Windows
Clipboard. The copied item can then be Pasted to another location. To Copy an item,
first highlight it with the mouse. Then, the Copy operation can usually be chosen from
an Edit menu or by pressing the Ctrl key and C key simultaneously.
Cut When text is "Cut", the highlighted text is deleted from the screen and moved to the
Windows Clipboard. It can then be Pasted to another location if desired. To Cut an
item, first highlight it with the mouse. Then, the Cut operation can usually be chosen
from an Edit menu or by pressing the Ctrl key and X key simultaneously.
Double Click To Double Click on an object, press the left mouse button twice rapidly while the
mouse pointer is positioned on the object. Double Clicking is often a shortcut for a
common operation. For example, Double Clicking on a file name in a file dialog box is a
shortcut for selecting the file name and then selecting the OK button.
Drag and Drop Drag and Drop is used to move an object from one place to another. First, highlight the
text or object to be moved. Press and hold the left mouse button while the mouse
cursor is over the highlighted object. Move the mouse; the object will be "Dragged"
along with the movement. When at the desired location, release the left mouse button.
ESC Pressing your computer keyboard's ESC key will usually exit from the current menu or
window and return you to the previous level.
F1 In most instances, pressing the F1 key will invoke your program's help system.
Folder Windows uses graphical folders to represent DOS directories on your computer.
Double Clicking a folder icon will "open" it to display the files contained within.
Highlight Text can be highlighted by positioning the cursor where you want the highlight to begin,
holding the left mouse button, and dragging it across the words or group of objects to
be highlighted. A single object can be highlighted by clicking it once with the left mouse
button. Highlighted items can then be Cut, Copied, moved, opened, etc.