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Get Going with Windows® XP helps the reader to understand and enjoy the benefits of the features introduced with the "XP" version of Windows®.
As a bonus the book provides a general introduction to the PC and as such is equally suitable for beginners and those with some experience......read more

Get Going with Windows® 2000 is packed with Windows® exercises, well illustrated and explained in understandable language. The book takes reference in the Windows® 2000 program however the exercises will also benefit users of other versions of the Windows® operating system.
This book is equally intended for beginners and those who wish to refresh their knowledge......read more

Get Going with Windows® 98/95 is an easy way to get going for those many who are still using Windows®98 or Windows®95. You’ll become familiar with Windows® jargon, be able to move your way around your PC and even manipulate it. You’ll learn a fun way to control the mouse and operate the two buttons.
As you progress you’ll notice there are many ways to do the same thing, one of the greatest advantages......read more

Get Going with Word (Styles & Templates) is for beginners as well as for serious users. Some of the subjects covered are quite advanced. The book is different to the majority of books and manuals about Word.
It deals with the core of Word: styles and templates, and how to use them......read more

Get Going with Word 97 explains the basics of Word and in particular Word 97.
Many features in Word 97 remain unchanged in later versions of the Word program. It is the publisher's view that this book is an excellent introduction to any version of Word......read more

Get Going with Word 2000 is yet another book in the immensely popular Get Going… series from e-Ways. The book is a great way to explore the Word program from Microsoft and discover the essential information that will let you use the program without fuss.
Learn tricks and short-cuts to make you an even better user of Word while having fun......read more

Get Going with Excel 2000 is written for beginners of spreadsheets but will also benefit experienced users who are interested in honing their skills.
The book covers the foundation of Excel plus its many useful applications and features.
Users of earlier or for that matter later versions of Excel will also benefit from the systematic and well illustrated......read more

Access is the program developed by Microsoft for database applications.
Get Going with Access is based on version ’97, however, will also benefit users of subsequent versions. It is the opinion of the publisher that the basic principles of Access remain materially unchanged.
This book contains well illustrated, easy to understand exercises......read more

Get Going with PowerPoint 2000 is teaching step-by-step how to develop a PowerPoint presentation.
The book starts by discussing the layout and then takes the student through the choice of special effects, graphs, charts and other illustrations that can be applied in making a powerful presentation.
Get Going with PowerPoint 2000 is well illustrated and full of useful hints and ideas. This book is particularly suitable......read more
Get Going with the Internet is an introduction to the Internet. You can read it even though you may be a complete beginner.
This book describes what the Internet is, how to get on the Internet and how to use Web browsers. Further topics......read more

Get Going Surfing the Internet teaches you how to use Web addresses. It also shows you how to use search engines on the World Wide Web (www).
This book provides information about some Web sites that are indispensable when you are in search of information from the World Wide Web including information on how to search for e-mail addresses etc.......read more

Get Going with Outlook Express focuses on how to help you become a successful e-mail and Usenet user by utilizing the features of Outlook Express as your e-mail client and newsreader.
The book shows you how Outlook Express can help you block un-solicited e-mails (also known as "spam") and has the feature allowing you to create......read more

Get Going with Web Pages will help you take your first steps through to the completion of your first own Web page.
The book is intended for beginners and follows a very systematic approach.
Subjects include how to add graphics to your pages, hyperlinks and references, colours......read more

Get Going with Web Pages XHTML caters to those who wish to venture beyond the basics in the development of web pages.
The book is the 3rd in the popular series of web design books from e-Ways.
Get Going with Web Pages XHTML is a "must" reference book for those who enjoy adding extra "flavour"......read more

Get Going with JavaScript introduces the reader to the many opportunities that are offered by the JavaScript programming language and can be used on almost any PC or Mac computer.
In the opinion of the publisher JavaScript is perhaps the easiest and best tool for creating truly attractive and interactive web pages and is particularly suitable for beginners as it is written in a clear and easy-to-read format. The book is well illustrated and features a step-by-step......read more

The Tutor’s Guides each contain coloured overhead transparencies with illustrations taken from the respective e-Ways books. The transparencies feature text in the form of bullet points to assist the Tutor through the program.......read more
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PC encyclopaedia AGP Accelerated Graphics Port – new high speed bus from Intel, developed for graphic adaptors ASCII 8 bit standard character set, does not support formatting like bold, left margin etc. Supported by all word processing programs backslash reversed slash, used to separate directories and files as in: C:\GAMES\SIMCITY.EXE binary system number system which only recognises two states, 1 and 0 BIOS chip, that controls, among other things, the computer’s start sequence. This is where information about different drives and so on is held. bit smallest amount of information a computer can handle. A character consists of 8 bits boot starting a computer browser A program which can display documents on the World Wide Web, such as Netscape Navigator byte equals 8 bit (see page 19) cache an extra area of RAM which is used to speed up a PC by holding the last used information. clock frequency number of impulses per second. The higher the better cold boot The PC is switched off completely, and then switched on again. Sometimes necessary after a crash. COM port serial port in a PC for connecting the mouse, modem, etc. CPU processor (the computer’s central part) decimal system the usual number system 1, 2, 3 DOS prompt the place you type in DOS commands, usually appears as: C:\> DOS well known operating system Drag & Drop important mouse technique used for moving objects driver mini-program for controlling hardware, (sound card, printer, etc.) DTP (abbreviation for Desk Top Publishing) layout and publishing on your PC EDO-RAM very fast RAM EIDE (Enhanced IDE), a developed IDE standard e-mail electronic post which can be sent over internal networks and the Internet FIFO a fast port specification (UART 16550), important for Internet connections hard disk the computer’s built in storage medium hardware concrete parts of the computer (monitor, keyboard etc.) HD High Density diskette (1.44 MB) homepage (electronic) publication on the World Wide Web HTML code language for WWW pages HTTP transmission protocol for WWW pages IDE port for connecting the hard disk and other drives Internet world-wide computer network ISA-bus original data transmission system for the IBM PC. Still used together beside the more modern PCI Bus. Kilobyte equal to 1,024 Bytes (see page 19) laptop reasonably sized portable ‘mini-PC’ which can sit on your lap. Login attaching to a network or password protected area on a PC. LPT port parallel port in a PC, used for a printer, for example. Megabyte equals 1,024 KB (see page 19) Midi-Keyboard keyboard attached to a sound card used to mimic musical instruments (helped by a special sequencer). Midi-standard (General-Midi) commands for generating the sounds of 128 instruments and percussion using a sound card MMX (Multi Media eXtension) extra commands for the processor, accelerating graphic generation. (3-D, Video) modem accessory to enable data to be transmitted over telephone lines, used for e-mail, fax, Internet etc. motherboard The most important part of a PC mouse input device on a PC multimedia playing of sounds, videos, interactive programs etc., all new computers are multimedia multitasking the ability built into some operating systems to process several things simultaneously notebook small, portable ‘mini-PC’, smaller than a laptop operating system Basic program in every PC. The most famous one is DOS parallel port fast port for transferring data over several wires simultaneously PCI-bus fast data transmission system for the PC. The latest system Pentium fast processor type from the Intel company pipeline allows fast access to the electronic components. pixel a single point in a picture Postscript printing standard from the Adobe company, used for professional output processor calculating chip, the heart of the computer Provider a firm offering connection to the Internet and e-mail (often referred to as: IPS) PS/2 connection standard developed by IBM (PS/2 mouse, PS/2 RAM block) RAM the computer’s working memory reset button for warm booting a PC ROM Read only memory, cannot be written to scanner input device, reads a document in a fax or photocopy machine, and converts it to pixels screen frequency tells how many times a second the picture is built up on the screen. Values under 71 Hz appear to flicker scroll move the contents of a window SCSI very fast port for adding accessories to a computer (hard disk, scanner etc.) sequencer ‘word processing’ for musical notes serial port slow port, transfers data in a series one part after another SIMM older type of RAM chips, require special SIMM connections on the motherboard software programs for the computer SVGA Super VGA, allows higher resolution than VGA, at least 800 x 600 system crash the machine stops responding to commands TCP/IP transmission method (protocol) for sending data in a network USB Universal Serial Bus – new bus system that comes with Windows 98, a USB-scanner crashed the system when Bill Gates presented his new Windows 98 to the public user ‘used by a computer expert when he means to say idiot’ (Dave Barry, quoted from Der Spiegel). A term I do not use myself, VGA standard screen resolution 640 x 480 Pixels virus sabotage program designed to replicate itself and cause problems VLB-bus fast data transmission system for the IBM PC, now replaced by the PCI Bus warm boot restarting a computer after a crash by using the reset button or Ctrl+Alt+Del wavetable the part of a midi card which saves the sound picture of natural instruments Windows well known graphical interface World Wide Web graphic and multimedia part of the Internet. Table of Contents: Welcome....................................3 Don’t panic......................................3 Important .........................................4 Your opinion is important ...............4 Many thanks. ...................................4 Once upon a time - a little computer story .......................5 Good ideas.......................................5 Mechanical solutions.......................5 The electronic computer..................6 IBM & Co. ......................................6 The journey to the moon .................6 ‘User friendly’ computers ...............7 Computers get personal ...................7 DOS computers ...............................8 The Apple PC..................................9 Summary .......................................10 Round the PC.........................11 All computers are grey in the dark 11 The base of it all – the cabinet ......11 Monitor, keyboard & co. ...............13 Diskettes (floppy disks) and CDROM........................................... 13 Of mice and men ...........................14 A peek beneath the bonnet ....15 But who makes all that noise?.......15 Motherboard..................................16 Good cards for all purposes...........16 The chip which works it all out.....16 Sending documents to storage.......17 RAM – you can never have enough ....................................................18 Bits and bytes ................................19 Take the bus to BIOS ....................19 Software - not so hard! ..........21 Computers are stupid.....................21 The operating system – full throttle ....................................................21 DOS – what on earth is that?........22 Ready, steady, command line!.......22 Windows with colored symbols .....23 OS/2....24 Unix for the Net .............................25 Mac OS..........................................26 Novell Netware and Windows NT .26 Driver – a kind of miniprogram ....26 File types and organisation............27 Document files...............................27 Program files.................................28 Trees which grow down into the ground.........................................28 A window to the world ........ 30 Something borrowed…................ 31 Start with Start .............................. 31 The great Windows comparison... 31 Lighting Windows course ............ 32 Starting a program....................... 32 The behaviour of the common window....................................... 33 Save .............................................. 34 Closing a window......................... 34 From desktop to Recycle bin ........ 34 Out and explore with Explorer ..... 35 The PC as a typewriter ......... 35 A little keyboard ABC.................. 36 Delete, paste, move....................... 36 The final touches .......................... 36 DTP on a PC................................. 37 Calculating in tables.............. 37 Numbers in cells ........................... 38 Sales tax and averages.................. 38 Mouse drawings..................... 40 Drawing with vectors ................... 40 Everyone a van Gogh – painting programs .................................... 40 The data-base as information container .............................. 41 You have won............................... 41 Filtering data................................. 41 Music on your PC.................. 41 It is the card which makes the noise ................................................... 42 Composing without notes ............. 42 Soundblaster ................................. 42 Checkmate – but who?.......... 43 Strategy and adventure ................. 43 Shoot’em ups ................................ 43 Dexterity and reactions ................ 44 Jump ’n’ Run ................................ 44 Simulation games ......................... 44 How much hardware do you need?44 To steal or not to steal….............. 45 Multimedia and other fashions ............................................... 45 Moving images and music............ 45 Guaranteed fun ............................. 45 Multimedia PCs ............................ 46 Everybody’s talking about it – the Internet ...........................47 A word wide spiders web ............. 47 E-Mail – express post! .................. 47 Surfing along the three big W’s.... 47 Home, sweet home – my own homepage ................................... 48 … me too, I want a PC! .........49 Which computer is my type? ........ 49 Lots of lovely programs!........52 What you get for your money – A licence to work ........................... 52 OEM or ‘how to get cheap software’ .................................................... 52 Nearly free........ 52 Shareware – test before you buy... 52 Freeware and Public Domain........ 52 Good and cheap ............................ 52 Brand names? ............................... 52 Careful – all is not what it seems!. 53 My PC is ill .............................54 What is a Virus? ........................... 54 PC workshops – expensive and not so good ....................................... 54 A little about ergonomics ......55 Are you sitting comfortably?........ 55 What resolution?........................... 55 Index: ADSL, AGP 19; 56 alpha version 53 Altair 8800 7; 10 AOL 47 Apple 8; 9; 31 Apple Macintosh 9; 10; 26; 31; 41; 50 arrow keys 36 Audio-CD 42; 46 Audiosampler 46 Babbage, Charles 5 backslash 22 backup copies 27 beta version 53 binary system 5 BIOS 20 bit 5; 19 bitmap 27; 40 boot diskette 54 boot sector 54 browser 47 bugs 53 bus 19 C 64 13; 43 C drive 28 cabinet 11; 15 CD-ROM 11; 14; 19; 45; 46; 49 cell address 38 cells 38 charts 39 Clipart 40 Clipboard 36 clock frequency 16 clones 8 cold boot 53 communications program 32 complete system 49 Control panel 45; 54; 55 controller card 16 copy 36 Corel Draw 40; 50 crash 53 PC 32 cursor 35 cut 36 database 41 data-bus see also bus dBase 41 decimal system 5 delete 35 desktop 30 desktop cabinet 11 directories 29 directory 31 discount 25; 50 diskette 13; 19; 29 HD 13 DOS 8; 10; 22; 29; 44 DOS Prompt 23 dot matrix printer 51 Drag & Drop 34; 42 drawing program 40 drive letter 28 driver 26 DTP 37 DVD 14 electronic valves 5 e-mail 32; 47 ENIAC 6; 10 Enter key 22; 36 Escape 36 Excel 37; 50; 52 executable file 28 exe-file see start file Explorer 35 fax function 32 file extension 27 types 27 file manager 29 file name 27; 28; 31 DOS rules 32 flight simulators 44 floppy disk 13 folder 31 folders 29 font 37 formula 38 freeware 52 gamepad 43 games 43 Gates, Bill 11; 35 graphic programs 52 graphic user interface 23 hard disk 17; 27; 29 High Color 55 homepage 4 Hyperlink also see Link IBM 6; 7; 8; 10; 24; 43 IBM PC 8; 10; 22 IC 7; 10 ink-jet printer 51 Intel 8 Internet 47; 52 ISDN 47; 50 ISP 47 joystick 43; 44 keyboard 13; 36 laptop 11 laser printer 51 license 52 Link 47 Linux 25 long file name 32 mailbox 47 mainframe 7 mathematical functions 38 menu bar 33 microphone 13; 16; 41 Microsoft 8; 10; 11; 30; 31 Midi file 27; 42 Midi keyboard 42; 49 minitower 11 MMX 17; 50 modem 47 monitor 13 screen diagonal 13 motherboard 16; 19 mouse 7; 9; 13; 15 mouse pad 14 MPEG-video 46 MS-DOS 8; 22 Multimedia 9; 32; 45 multitasking 24 music 41 My computer 30; 34 Netscape Navigator 47 network card 16 Norton Commander 29 notebook 11; 15; 50 Novell Netware 26 OEM 52 on-line services 47 Opera 48 operating system 8; 21; 26 OS/2 24; 26; 31 PageMaker 9; 37 Paint 27; 32; 40 Paintbrush 32; 40 painting program 40 paste 36 PCI bus 19 Pentium 17; 44; 49 Photoshop 40; 50; 52 pirate copies 52 pixel 40 Plug&Play 32 Postscript 51 power supply 15 printer 13 processor 16 program installation 28 prompt see also DOS Prompt Provider 47 Public Domain 52 RAM 18; 21 reboot warm 53 Recycle bin 30; 31 refresh rate 13 repairing PC 54 Reset button 53 resolution printer 51 root directory 29 save 18; 29; 34 scan 40 scanner 50 select 36 sequencer 42 Shareware 45; 46; 52 shut down 53 SimCity 44; 45 software 52 sound 45 sound card 11; 13; 14; 15; 41; 42; 44; 46 Soundblaster 42 speakers 13; 16; 43 spreadsheet 37 spreadsheets 52 start diskette 54 start file 28; 35 StarWriter 52 status line 33 SuperVGA 55 Surfing the Internet 48 System 7 26; 31 system menu 33 taskbar 30 TCP/IP 47 terminal 7 TextMaker 37 toolbar 33; 36 tower 11 trackball 15 transistor 6 trash can 9 True Color 55 UNIVAC 6; 10 Unix 25; 31 upgrade PC 49 upgrading PC 54 used PC 49 valve 7 valves 10 VGA 55 video 45; 46 virus 54 VLB bus 20 waste-basket 26 Wave files 27; 41 wavetable 42; 43 web pages 47 window 33 Windows 15; 23; 26; 30; 31; 32; 40; 46 Windows 95 shut down computer 31 start menu 33 Windows 95/98 50 Windows NT 26 Word 27; 35; 37; 50; 52 word processing 36; 50 word processor 35; 52 Wordpad 32; 35 WordPerfect 37 WordPro 37 work position 55 Works 50 World Wide Web 47 Xerox 7; 9; 10

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