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Tips & Tricks

Final Exam Time

Exercise for Windows 95

by April Miller Cripliver (Boot Camp boss)

 

NOW'S THE TIME to prove your muster. You have had ample time to study and practice my Windows 95 Tips and Tricks (Sergeant April's Secret Files), which have appeared in the past three issues of dacs.doc and should be ready for a test. If you can complete this exercise, I pronounce you a Win 95 competent with a good command of the Windows 95 GUI (Graphical User Interface). Good Luck!

Make sure you have two blank disks before starting.

Start Windows 95

Windows Explorer Screen ShotGet into Explorer and create a FOLDER from drive C: called EXERCISES. Then close all windows.

Open up Wordpad (Maximize it).
Open up Paint (Maximize it).
Open up Solitaire (Maximize it).

Switch into Wordpad and type "I like this class. It's fun!" Save the file as "MY LETTER," and put it in the EXERCISES folder.

Switch into Paint and create any small picture you want. Save the file as "MY PICTURE" and put it in the "EXERCISES" folder.

Close down Wordpad, Paint, and, yes, Solitaire.

Change the wallpaper on the desktop to any wallpaper you want.

Create a shortcut on your Desktop to access DRIVE A: Rename the shortcut FLOPPY DISK.

Create a shortcut on your Desktop to run Solitaire.

Put a blank diskette in drive A. From Explorer find C:\Program Files\MSOFF97\Clipart, and select any five files. Copy these files to Drive A: (HINT: use SEND TO.).

Close down all open windows.

Get a listing of DRIVE A: Close all windows.

Using the easiest way known, open MY LETTER (Hint: remember it was one of the last 15 things you did).

Close down WORD.

Change your wallpaper to NONE and your color scheme (Appearance) to WINDOWS STANDARD.

Delete the folder you created called EXERCISES and all files in it. Close down all windows.

My Computer Screen ShotMake a copy of your diskette from Step #10. (Hint: Right-click your 3½ floppy disk and choose COPY DISK).

Using the START/FIND, determine where Word is stored (the executable filename is WINWORD.EXE).

Now that you found the .exe, make a shortcut on your desktop to it.

Customize the START button so that Word is now added to the top of it.

Hide the TASK BAR.

Using the FIND command, determine where Excel is stored.

Customize the START button so that Excel is added to the top of it.

OPEN up WORD (Maximize it) and then open up Paint (Maximize it). Create a picture. Use the four-step method to copy your picture into Word. (HINT: In Paint, choose EDIT/SELECT ALL, then EDIT/COPY.).

Close down both Word and Paint applications. Do NOT save anything.

Delete any shortcuts on the Desktop that you created today.

Empty the recycle bin.

UN-HIDE the TASK BAR.

Empty the contents of the START/DOCUMENTS menu.

Remove the shortcuts that were placed at the top of the START menu (from Steps 20 & 23 above). HINT: Begin by right-clicking the Task Bar, choose Properties, then go to the Start Menu Programs tab.


April Miller Cripliver, a regular contributor and creator of our Boot Camp columns, is Director of PC Applications at Computer Education Institute in Chesterton, Indiana. Contact April at userfriendly@bigfoot.com.

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