Specifications

Conventions Used in This Book

To make your life easier, this book includes various features and conventions that help

you get the most out of this book and Windows 7 itself:

Steps Throughout the book, I’ve broken many Windows 7 tasks into easy-

to-follow step-by-step procedures.

Things you type Whenever I suggest that you type something, what you type appears

in a

bold monospace font.

Filenames, folder

names, and code

These things appear in a

monospace font.

Commands Commands and their syntax use the

monospace font, too. Command

placeholders (which stand for what you actually type) appear in an

italic monospace font.

Pull-down menu

commands

I use the following style for all application menu commands: Menu,

Command, where Menu is the name of the menu that you pull down

and Command is the name of the command you select. Here’s an

example: File, Open. This means that you pull down the File menu

and select the Open command.

Code continuation

character

When a line of code is too long to fit on only one line of this book, it

is broken at a convenient place and continued to the next line. The

continuation of the line is preceded by a code continuation character

([

➥

]). You should type a line of code that has this character as one

long line without breaking it.

This book also uses the following boxes to draw your attention to important (or merely

interesting) information:

NOTE

The Note box presents asides that give you more information about the current topic.

These tidbits provide extra insights that give you a better understanding of the task. In

many cases, they refer you to other sections of the book for more information.

TIP

The Tip box tells you about Windows 7 methods that are easier, faster, or more effi-

cient than the standard methods.