Microsoft Office 2003- Illustrated Introductory, Second Edition

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Microsoft Office 2003- Illustrated Introductory,
Second Edition
Getting

• Started with Internet Explorer

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Objectives

• Understand Web browsers
• Start Internet Explorer
• Explore the browser window
• View and navigate Web pages
• Save a favorite Web page

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Objectives

• Print a Web page
• Search for information
• Get Help
• Exit Internet Explorer

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Understanding Web Browsers

• The World Wide Web (the Web or WWW) is a part of
  the Internet containing linked Web pages
• A Web browser is a software program used to
  access and display Web pages
• Internet Explorer is a Web browser

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Understanding Web Browsers (cont.)

• A search engine is a special Web site that helps
  find other Web sites
• A Web site is a group of Web pages
• Web pages contain highlighted text or graphics
  called hyperlinks or links
• Hyperlinks open other Web pages

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Understanding Web Browsers (cont.)

• A computer network
• Two or more connected computers that can share
  information
• An Intranet is a local computer network
• A company office
• The Internet is a network of connected computers
  and computer networks located around the world.
• Million users throughout the world
• Connected using telephone lines, cables, and
  satellites

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Understanding Web Browsers (cont.)

• Using the Internet Explorer, you can
• Display Web pages
• Use links to move from one Web page to another
• Play audio and video clips
• Search the Web for information
• Save a list of favorite Web pages
• Print or save the text and graphics on Web pages
• E-mail Web pages

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Starting Internet Explorer

• Internet Explorer connects your computer to the
  Web using an Internet connection
• Locate the Internet Explorer icon
• Start menu or desktop icon
• Home page appears
• A home page is the first page that opens every
  time you start Internet Explorer

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Starting Internet Explorer (cont.)
Home page for the National Science Foundation
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Starting Internet Explorer (cont.)

• The History of the Internet and the World Wide
  Web
• The Internet
• 1969, Dept. of Defense, Advanced Research
  Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
• 1986, National Science Foundation formed (NSFNET)
  which replaced ARPANET
• Provides high-speed, long distance lines
• 1991, Congress expands internet capacity and
  speed and opens Internet to commercial use

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Starting Internet Explorer (cont.)

• The History of the Internet and the World Wide
  Web
• The World Wide Web
• 1991, founded in Switzerland to allow links
  between documents on the Internet
• Software programs (Web browsers) developed to
  access the Web
• First Web browser, Mosaic, introduced at the
  University of Illinois
• Mosaic leads to Netscape Navigator and Internet
  Explorer browsers
• Current popular Web browsers Internet Explorer
  and Netscape Navigator

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Exploring the Browser Window
Status indicator
Title bar
Toolbar
URL in Address bar
Links bar
Go button
Status bar
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Viewing and Navigating Web Pages

• Every Web page has a URL
• unique address on the Web
• Parts of a URL
• http (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
• (a colon)
• // (two forward slashes)
• www (identifies the World Wide Web)
• then the domain name- the Web sites name
• . (another dot)
• top-level domain
• edu, com, or org

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Viewing and Navigating Web Pages (cont.)

• A URL
• http//www.course.com
• Additional folders or file names may appear in
  URL
• http//www.course.com/downloads/illustrated/medial
  oft/community.html

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Viewing and Navigating Web Pages (cont.)

• Hyperlinks enable you to open another location on
  the same Web page or a different Web page

Hyperlinks to other Web pages
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Viewing and Navigating Web Pages (cont.)
Home button
Back button
Forward button
Back button list arrow
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Viewing and Navigating Web Pages (cont.)

• Selecting a home page
• Default home page in Internet Explorer is MSN.com
  home page on the MSN Web site
• Change your home page
• Open the Web page you want to be your new home
  page
• Click the Use Current option in the Internet
  options dialog box.

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Saving a Favorite Web Page

• The Favorites list and the Favorites toolbar
  allows you to create your own list of favorite
  Web sites

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Saving a Favorite Web Page (cont.)

• Use the Organize Favorites dialog box to manage
  the Favorites list

List of favorites
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Printing a Web Page

• Print Preview
• View the page before printing
• Print Web page
• Prints text and graphics on Web page

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Printing a Web Page (cont.)

• Web printing options
• Select printer
• Print range
• Number of copies
• Print all linked documents
• Print frames
• Print table of links
• Orientation

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Searching for information

• Search options
• Enter keywords in the Address bar
• Search for Related Links
• Use the Search Companion
• Use search engines
• Google
• Yahoo!

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Getting Help

• Internet Explorer Help
• Provides general information
• Provides feature instructions

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Getting Help (cont.)
Contents
Index
Search
Favorites
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Exiting Internet Explorer

• Click the window Close button
• OR
• Click File on the menu bar, then click Close

There is no reason to save files
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Exiting Internet Explorer (cont.)

• Windows Media Player

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Summary

• Understand Web browsers
• Start Internet Explorer
• Explore the browser window
• View and navigate Web pages
• Save a favorite Web page
• Print a Web page
• Search for information
• Get Help
• Exit Internet Explorer