How Not To Become Road Kill on

the Internet Superhighway

 

 

 

Internet Explorer 5.0

 

            Internet Explorer is a browser for the World Wide Web (WWW).  The Web is a series of hypertext pages that allow you to go from site to site.  The opening page is called the home page.

 

 

 

 

Menu Bar

File         

·                    New

·                    Open a second browser window

·                    Open

·                    Open a URL or file from your computer

 

·                                                                                Save As

·                                                                                Save a web page to your computer

·                                                                                Page Setup

·                                                                                Set up the print options

·                                                                                Print

·                                                                                Select a printer and pages to be printed

·                                                                                Send

·                                                                                Send a URL or web page to an email address

     

·                                                                                Import and Export

·                                                                                Import Favorites and Contacts

·                                                                                Close

·                                                                                Close Internet Explorer

 

Edit

·        Cut, Copy Paste

·        Select All

·        Find (on This Page)

 

View

·        Toolbars - add or remove toolbars

·        Status Bar - add or remove Status Bar

·        Explorer Bar - open or close Search, Favorites or History windows

·        Go To - go to previously viewed pages

·        Stop - stop loading a page

·        Refresh - reload a page

·        Text Size - change font size on screen

·        Encoding - choose language display type

·        Source - display a page in HTML code

·        Full Screen - display a page full screen

 

Favorites

            See guide Internet Explorer Favorites (AKA Bookmarks)

 

Tools

 

·        Internet Options

Ø      Set Home Page

Ø      Temporary Files

Ø      History options

 

 

Help

·        Contents and Index

·        Tour - a tour of the Internet

·        About Internet Explorer - gives version number

 

 

 

Button Bar

 

Navigation Buttons

·        Back - previous page

·        Forward - next page

·        Stop - stop loading current page

·        Refresh - reload current page

·        Home - go to homepage

Explorer Buttons

·        Search - current page only

·        Favorites

·        History

Function Buttons

·        Mail

·        Print - entire page

 

Address Bar

Show the current URL.  To go to a new site, type in the new URL

 

Status Bar

Located on the lower left of the window, it shows the status of the current page.

 

 

WWW Searching

           

            See guide WWW Searching

 

 

Selecting Information

            Highlight the information you would like.  From Edit on the menu bar, select Copy or Select All.  You can then open a word processor, go to Edit and Paste the text into a document.  The graphics within the text are not copied when you do this. 

            To select graphics, click once on the graphic and then right-click the graphic.  Select Save Picture As and save the graphic to the hard drive (Trash directory) or a floppy disk. 

 

            You can save an entire web page to your computer by going to File and Save As.  The web page and all its graphics will be saved to your computer.

 

 

 

Favorites (AKA Bookmarks)

 

See guide Internet Explorer Favorites (AKA Bookmarks)

 

Security

 

            Do not submit a credit card number or other confidential data unless it is a secure connection.  In the lower center of the status bar, a closed padlock will appear when you have a secure connection. 

05/10/2000

RLS