Simultaneous Windows



instructor \| listserve \| web board \| project archives \| toolkit

	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Managing simultaneous web browser and text editor windows You can move easily between the web browser window and the text editor window by clicking on any exposed portions of either window to bring it to the front of the screen. If you are uncomfortable working with multiple onscreen windows, you can minimize or hide either the web browser or text editor window when you aren’t using it by following these steps. Windows: Click the Minimize button at the top of the NotePad window (the minus sign button). NotePad will minimize and appear in the task bar at the bottom of the Windows screen. You can Maximize NotePad at any time by clicking on the NotePad icon in the taskbar or by holding down the Alt key while you hit the Tab key. Macintosh: Navigate to the Finder menu in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Hold down the mouse button and drag the cursor over the Hide SimpleText menu item. Release the mouse button and SimpleText will disappear from the screen. You can return SimpleText to the screen by going back to the Finder menu and selecting NotePad. Practice the procedures described above until you feel comfortable with opening multiple browser windows, resizing the browser windows, moving between a browser window and a text editor window. You will use these procedures often throughout the course and can review them at any time by clicking on the Managing Resources link found on every course webpage. back

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.



instructor \| listserve \| web board \| project archives \| toolkit

	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Managing simultaneous web browser and text editor windows You can move easily between the web browser window and the text editor window by clicking on any exposed portions of either window to bring it to the front of the screen. If you are uncomfortable working with multiple onscreen windows, you can minimize or hide either the web browser or text editor window when you aren’t using it by following these steps. Windows: Click the Minimize button at the top of the NotePad window (the minus sign button). NotePad will minimize and appear in the task bar at the bottom of the Windows screen. You can Maximize NotePad at any time by clicking on the NotePad icon in the taskbar or by holding down the Alt key while you hit the Tab key. Macintosh: Navigate to the Finder menu in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Hold down the mouse button and drag the cursor over the Hide SimpleText menu item. Release the mouse button and SimpleText will disappear from the screen. You can return SimpleText to the screen by going back to the Finder menu and selecting NotePad. Practice the procedures described above until you feel comfortable with opening multiple browser windows, resizing the browser windows, moving between a browser window and a text editor window. You will use these procedures often throughout the course and can review them at any time by clicking on the Managing Resources link found on every course webpage. back

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.