Bill Sandersseries coordinator

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La Mirada SeniorNet Learning Center presents
The Invaluable Right Click

• Bill Sanders-series coordinator
• Tim Fitzpatrick-seminar leader

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Housekeeping

• Bathrooms are in the hall to your left .
• Please put your cell phones on vibrate or turn
  them off. If you need to take a call please step
  out side.
• Well take a break mid-way(?) through the
  presentation.
• We will stay around when its over and answer
  questions.
• There is an evaluation form in the back of your
  material handout. The information we get from the
  eval will help us make these seminars better for
  you.

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Today's seminar is about !!

• Using the right mouse button
• It will give you information
• It will give you control

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The Right-Click and Left Click work together

• A single Left-Click selects an object
• A double Left-Click causes an action to take
  place
• A single Right-Click brings up the context menu
  - a list of choices and/or information

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Contents of a Right Click Context Menu

• Properties
• Important information here
• Basic object management
• Cut, Copy, Delete, Rename, Shortcut
• Software operations
• Read, open, edit , print
• New
• File, folder, shortcut,
• Send To
• This can be very useful

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Sample Context Menu
Software operations
New
Send to
Object management
Properties
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File
Sample Context menus for a
Folder
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Context menus for two special objects

• My Computer

• Start button

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Right click on the desktop
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--Properties Sheets--

• All objects can be right-clicked and a
  properties sheet opened
• Files, folders
• Special objects- Desktop, StartPrograms,
  Taskbar, My Computer, and others
• Information available will depend on object

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Properties for a .doc file
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Properties of the start button-task bar
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Properties of the start button-start menu
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Properties for My Computer
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Propertiesfor NetworkNeighborhood
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Properties for a hard drive
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Properties for a Shortcut
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How to change an Icon picture
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Browse to find a new picture
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Double click the one you like
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Icons are files that end with the .ico extension.
So if you search for .ico you will find all the
pictures you can use
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Break Time
Back in 10 minutes

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Welcome back
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--Basic Object Management--

• Copy
• Copies an object to the clipboard and leaves a
  copy at original location
• Cut
• Copies an object to the clipboard and removes it
  from the original location
• Paste
• Paste a clipboard image to a new location
• Delete
• Sends object to the recycle bin
• Rename
• You must type in the file extension along with
  the file name. Note the extension before you
  delete the original name.

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Objectmanagementoptions
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--Software Operations--

• Software actions
• Always has default Option
• Actions added by installed programs
• Actions added by User (send to)
• Print
• Create Shortcut

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Softwareoperationsoptions
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--New--

• Right click in an empty space where you want the
  new object - then left click new
• Now you can create
• a new folder
• new files of specific types
• a new shortcut

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New options
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--Send To--

• Has several very useful functions
• Can move or copy a file to a new location
• Can open different software applications
  involving the file
• Can create Desktop shortcuts

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Send to options
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Changing Send To

• Entries in Send To menu are from shortcuts in a
  special folder
• Win-98 path is C\Windows\SendTo\
• XP path is C\Documents and Settings\user
  name\SendTo
• Changes here will be reflected in the context
  menu Sent To options

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Send To file location Win-98
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Send To folder contents Win-98
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Send To file location Win-XP
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Creating Shortcuts

• Shortcuts can be created using the Right click
  context menu and choosing send to
• Files can be right-clicked and dragged to
  location of interest and Create Shortcut chosen

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Drag and Drop

• Left-click (hold button down) and drag will
  automatically copy, move, or create a shortcut
• Action depends on source and destination of what
  you want to do.
• Right-click (hold button down) drag brings up a
  menu with choices(4) when you release the button.

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Right-Click Drag and Drop
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Random Ideas

• 1. Close group is an option if you right click on
  a group on the task bar
• 2. Right click on a word to check spelling or
  usage
• 3. In a PDF document you can right click on a
  word it will take you to www.dictonary.com if you
  have a active internet connection

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Caveat

• The only problem caused by using the right click,
  I have heard of is
• We had a menu item deleted in our lab and it
  took some fancy foot work to figure out the fix.
  If you get into customizing the tool bar and
  delete one of the menus you can make life
  miserable. Just use a little common sense.

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Thanks for coming !!

• Questions