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Account     Addresses on the internet
Apple Macintosh     applications     ASCII     Attachment     Attributes

Backups
Beginners' Guide to the Web     Beginners' Guide to Windows     Beginners' Guide List
Binary and Digital     BIOS     Bits and Bytes
Bitmap Graphics     Bookmarks     Browsers     Buffer

Cables     Character strings     CD-ROM: (Compact Disk Read Only Memory)     Chips     Clipboard

Computer
Computer Aids and Computer Assisted Learning     Computer Centres

Computer Keyboard
Escape Key     Function Keys (F1, F2 etc)
Typewriter Block     Alphanumeric Pad
    Command Keys     Enter or Return     Shift Keys     Caps Lock     Tab Key     Control     Alt
    Space Bar
Cursor Control Keys or Arrow Keys

Computer Menus
File     Edit     View
Insert     Format     Tools     Table
Go     Bookmarks     Options     Directory     Help

Computer Parts
    Keyboard     RAM Random Access Memory
Disks     Processor or CPU (Central Processing Unit)
Screen or VDU (Visual Display Unit)     Mouse     Printer
Modem     Network Connection     Scanner
CD-ROM Drive     Loudspeakers     Cables

Copying on computers     Copying other people's work

Databases
Dedicated: A dedicated computer is one that is devoted to a special task.
Default     Dialogue boxes
Digital     Directory and Directory Tree     Disks and disk drives     DOS
Drawing Programs

Electronic Education     Electronic Communication
Email (electronic mail) and Web-based email     Email addresses     Electronic sources

Favorites (American spelling of Favourites).
Files     Fileconversion     File managers
Find (Search) on computers
Fonts     Format     Forms

Gif files (web graphics)     Grammar-checkers

Hardware     Home Page

How to learn to use Computers
How to write on a Computer
How to save Computer Files
How to Email
How to use Windows
How to use the Web
How to paste into an email or electronic form

Hypertext
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language. (The language on the other side of a web page).
Features include:     Graphics     Links     Tables     Forms     Frames

Icons     Information and data (computers)     Input
Internet     Internet resources     Internet Service Provider     Intranet
IT: Information Technology

Keyboard     Keyword searches

Links     Logging on and off

Mailers     Menus     Microsoft     MIME     Modem     Mother Board     Mouse     My Documents

Netscape     Networks of Computers     Novell network

Offline and Online (Go offline quickly before phone bills bankrupt you).
Operating Systems
Opitical Character Recognition (OCR) (for reading books into a computer)

Paint Programs     Parts of a computer     Password     Paths
Personal Computer (PC)     Pixel
Print, Printer, Printing     Processor
Programs and Programmes (Spelling)     Computer Programs     Prompts and Cursors

RAM: Random Access Memory     Reveal Codes

Safety     Scanner

Screens     Screen layouts

Search (Find) on computers
Search the Internet     Search engines     Keyword searches

Select, selecting, block

Software: Applications and System Software. Operating systems.
What software is     Software listed

Speakers

Spell-checkers, spellers     Spreadsheet     Start Button     Systems Software

Table     Task Bar     Terminals     Text     Textfile
Thesaurus     Tools or Utilities

User friendly     Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) (Web addresses)

Vector Graphics     Viruses on Computers and Virus Scares

Web. The World Wide Web or WWW
Web addresses: Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)     web colours     Web Working

Different meanings of "windows"     The Microsoft Windows operating system.
How to use Windows     The Windows screen

Wordprocessors: Word - WordPerfect - Write

The WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS file



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