1. Capturing
Windows
Click on this link
to open a window. [If you
have a pop-up blocker that is active in your browser, turn it off or allow the pop-up.] Keep the pop-up as
the active window and capture the pop-up window and contents as a screen
graphic. Using a graphics program such as Paint (easiest),
save the file as a bitmap with the file name window.bmp.
After you download and install the ChemSketch freeware,
open the program. Every time the program opens, an advertisement pop-up window
opens on top of the open program, urging you to buy it. Leave the pop-up window open, and capture
the contents of the entire monitor screen. (The ChemSketch window should not be maximized.) Using
a graphics program such as Paint, save the file
in the jpeg format with the name program.jpg.
Open Windows Explorer (file manager -- not to be confused with Internet Explorer, the web browser) to occupy about half the monitor screen. Set to Folders View. Set the file view to to show file extensions. Display the full path in the Address bar. Click on a folder that has files contained in it. Capture the active Explorer window. Save the file in the gif format as folder.gif.
Save all the image files to your flash drive in a new Folder named Images.
2. Creating a signature
file
Open Notepad or other text editor. Choose Format from the menu bar. Make sure that “Word wrap” is checked. If not,
click on it (the menu window will immediately close).
Compose a signature
to incorporate in messages you send from the GMU Messenger Express or other e-mail
client. Save your signature file as signature.txt. (It is not
necessary to actually type the file extension .txt . Notepad
will automatically add the file extension when it saves the file. Make sure that the extension .txt does not repeat, as in signature.txt.txt.)
3.
I will send you e-mail with a Word document file attached. (It is not
necessary that you know much about Word for this assignment -- Word documents
are better than text documents for this exercise.) Read the e-mail message
and follow the instructions. Open the attachment (or save it first and
open it later). You will be e-mailing back to me the amended file -- not
the one I sent you. Make sure you incorporate your new signature in the reply
message.
These are some simple tasks -- but pay attention to them because you will be using them repeatedly during the semester. Begin at the Chemistry Department
website:http://www.gmu.edu/departments/chemistry/
4. Copying text from a web page
You can use any browser here. Open Notepad. Choose Format from the menu bar. Make sure that Word
wrap is checked. If not, click on it (the menu window will immediately
close).
Click on “Undergraduate
Programs” in
the left pane of the web site. Highlight all the text that corresponds
to the undergraduate chemistry/biochemistry programs. Copy the
selection. There is more than one way to copy in Windows. Choose whatever
method you like – better yet, use a different method than you normally
use. Paste the selection into Notepad. (Links
and graphics will not paste in the text-only Notepad.) Save the text
file as chem-XXX.txt where XXX are your initials. Enter Page Setup. Set to print 1" margins all around, your name in the Header (right-justified) and the
file name in the Footer (left-justified) and the page number in the Footer (centered). Print
the file.
5. Saving an image from a web page
You can use any browser here. Place the cursor over one of the ACS
symbols in the “Undergraduate Programs” page. Right-click the mouse. (What
happens if you left-click on the symbol?) Choose Save Image As… (Netscape or Firefox) or Save Picture As… (IE) (Or you can choose
View Image to see the image only in a new page in Netscape.) Accept the file
name as it appears in the dialog box. Choose the location to save the file in
the Save in dialog box.
Use both Netscape
and Internet Explorer (IE) for all remaining parts of section C.
6. Saving a web page
Click the “Overview” hyperlink on the Chemistry Department website. In Netscape/Firefox,
save the complete page, accepting the default file name and extension. Look in the
location where you saved the file. There should be a file and a folder containing
numerous other files. In IE, save the page as a text file accepting the default file name
and extension.
7. Downloading a file from a web page
At the bottom of the “Overview” page, click on the link “driving directions”.
Right-click on the sentence “Click here for a downloadable, printable file…”.
(What happens if you left-click on the link?) In Netscape/Firefox, from the
pop-up menu, choose Save
Link As… Accept the default file
name and extension. In IE, from the pop-up menu, choose Save Target As… Accept the default file
name and extension. Since both browsers are downloading the same file, the
file name is necessarily identical. You only need to save the downloaded
file once.
8. Printing from a web page
Set the print page preferences in both browsers to 1-inch margins all around,
Portrait orientation. In Netscape/Firefox, at the center of the header,
set to print the Window Title; at the center of the footer, set to
print the URL. There should be nothing printed anywhere else in either
the header or the footer. In I.E., set to print the same information,
except the header and footer should both be right-justified. (This
is a bit tricky to set up with I.E.; look for Help.)
Click on
"Schedule" in the menu on the CHEM 350 website. Left-click the mouse
anywhere in the Schedule frame. In Netscape/Firefox, right-click in the Schedule
frame, then choose This Frame | Open
Frame in New Tab. Select the new tab page. Then choose File | Print…. Print
both pages.
Repeat with IE. Choose File | Print
Preview,
and then choose to print “Only the selected frame”. Print both pages.