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 Title: Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101

Now that you have gone through the Step-by-Step exercises, it's time to practice what you have learned. The following exercises will not have as much detail in the directions. Look back at the Step-by-Step pages if you need a refresher on how to do something. There are new methods and information in these exercises. They are not just review!


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Exercise Win2-1: Print Screen of Folder Structure

Purpose: to prove that you created the correct folder structure

What you will do: New Skill Make a screen capture showing the contents of your Class disk
New Skill Crop the image
Label the image with your name
Print the image

Start with: Class disk & have finished Files and Folders: Windows Project 2.

  1. Class disk  If necessary, insert your Class disk into its drive or port.
     
  2. Open Explorer and expand its branches to show contents of folder win project2 in the right pane.
     

    Contents of Class disk Folder structure (Vista)

  3. Icon: KeyboardCapture full screen: Press the PRINT SCREEN key on the top row on your keyboard.

    This will place on the clipboard (Windows' temporary storage location) a copy of what you see on your computer screen
          OR
    Icon: KeyboardCapture active window: Hold the ALT key down and press the PRINT SCREEN key to get a copy of only the active window.
     

  4. Open Paint and select  Edit  >  Paste .
    The image of your desktop appears in Paint, but you probably can't see all of it.
     

    Message: The image in the clipboard is larger than the bitmap. Would you like the bitmap enlarged?Icon: Win98If the size of the initial white space is smaller than what you are trying to paste, you will see a message box asking if you want to enlarge the bitmap. Choose Yes.

  5. Scroll the image (and resize the window if necessary) until you can see all of the folder tree for your Class disk and the contents of the right pane, with the folder win project2 near the top.
     
  6. Select tool in Paint (Vista)Paint toolbar - Select toolLeft click Click on the Select tool.

    This tool will let you remove part of what you pasted and save it as a new image.


  7. Move the new pointer over the image of Explorer and drag to select enough to show the folder tree for the drive and the contents of the folder win project2.

    Paint image of Explorer - selecting part to cropSelecting part of an image in Paint (Vista)
     

  8. Icon: Keyboard To copy the selected area to the clipboard, press the keys CTRL + C.
     
  9. Open a new document in Paint with  File  >  New . You will see a message box asking if you want to save the changes to the current image. Choose No. A new blank canvas opens.
     
  10. Icon: Keyboard To paste the image that is stored on the clipboard, use the key combo CTRL + V. If you are asked about enlarging the bitmap again, choose Yes.

    Be sure you have some white space below the pasted image.

    If necessary, move your pointer over the handle that is in the center of the bottom edge of the image. Drag it downward about an inch to increase the white space below the folder tree image. 

  11. Left click Click on the Text tool and then in the white space below the folder tree image.

    Image in Paint with your name Paint with image of part of the captured image and labeled with name and win2-1 (Vista)

  12. Change the font to Arial and the font size to 12.
     
  13. Type your name and two spaces and then  win2-1 .
  14. Class disk Save your image to your Class disk in folder win project2.(  File  >  Save  ) with the name  win2-1.bmp .

    Paint image of Explorer with your name and exercise #Dialog: Save As - win2-1.bmp (WinXP) Dialog: Save As - win2-1.bmp (Vista)

    Note that only one file (myname.bmp) is showing in the Save As dialog box list unless you saved your screen capture here too. What happened to your file doc 1.txt from the Notepad steps?

    Look at the bottom of the dialog box at the text box labeled Save as type. It shows type as Bitmap. Only files of that type will be displayed. So the text file,  doc 1.txt won't show. In a Save As box you must choose a particular file type or you can't save. In an Open dialog box, you usually also have the choice of All files which shows you everything.
     

  15. Select  File  >  Page Setup . Inspect the settings and make any changes that seem necessary. Then click on the OK button.
     
  16. Select  File  >  Print Preview .
     
  17. Left click Click on the Zoom In button twice to enlarge the print preview so you can see your image clearly. Be sure only 1 page is needed to print.
     
  18. Print icon If all looks good here, Print. The Print dialog box appears.

    If you have a color printer, click on the Properties button and be sure that Color graphics or Automatic is selected in the Options dialog box. Otherwise you will get a black and white picture.
     

  19. After the print job has completed successfully, get your page from the printer and check it. If all is well, close Paint and Explorer.