Microsoft Windows 7 Quick Reference
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Microsoft Windows 7 Quick Reference The Basics Where is the Start button? The Microsoft Office button has replaced the Start button from previous versions of Windows, but still fulfills the same function. Click on this button to open the programs menu. Use the Program Search Click the Microsoft Office button. Begin typing the name of a file or program and the search box automatically begins displaying your search results. Click on the correct program or file name to open it. Navigation Microsoft Office Pinned Open Notification Show Icons Search for Files button Application Application Desktop button 1. Open a folder or library. 2. Enter a search term in the Search box to the right of the address box. Search for Files using Search Filters or Click the pin icon next to a list 3. Type a name for the new library and 1. From the start menu, select any of the item to pin that item to the jump list, press Enter. titles in the right column, or select a meaning it will always appear when you Add Files to a Libary folder from your desktop or other loca- right click the program icon. 1. Locate a file, document, picture, song, tion. The folder’s dialogue box appears. etc. that you would like included in a 2. Enter a search term in the Search box to Libraries library. the right of the address box. Libraries have replaced the general func- 2. Right click the file and select Include 3. Click on the search box and select a tion of the My Documents folder. Libraries in Library. search filter (Authors, Type, Date contains the Documents, Music, Pictures, 3. Select a library. The file is not moved; Modified, Size, Genre or others de- and Video libraries, as well as any other rather a link to the file is placed in the pending on the window) and select an libraries created. library. element. Each library displays files from various 4. Type a search term to make the search locations, but those files remain physically Networking located in those other locations, meaning even more specific. Search results are Manage Parental Controls links are displayed in the library. The origi- immediately displayed. 1. Click the Microsoft Officebutton and nal files are still physically located outside 5. Preview items in the preview pane (on select Control Panel. of the library -- links to files on your PC, the right of the window below the 2. Under User Accounts and Family on another PC on the network, or even search box click to open the preview Safety, click Set up Parental Controls from an external hard drive. pane) by clicking on them once. for any user. Each library has different sorting 6. Double-click an item to open it. 3. Select the account to be affected. (If the capabilies. In your Music Library, view or Navigate with Jump Lists account doesn’t exist yet, create one by group items by genre, by artist, by album, 1. Right-click a program icon from the clicking Create a new user account.) or by title. taskbar. A jump list appears displaying 4. Under Parental Controls, click On, recent pictures, documents, websites, Create a New Library enforce current settings. or sometimes even commands. What 1. Open the Windows Explorer pane, a 5. Make adjustments for Time Limits, appears in the list depends on the folder, or a library. Games, and specific programs. program. 2. From the left sidebar, right click on Li- 2. Click on a list item to open it. braries and select New, then Library. BYU Office of IT Communication and Training http://it.byu.edu Version 100414 Page 1 [email protected] Manage Accounts Show Desktop Desktop Background. Hover over Manage or create accounts in the Control Hover over the show desktop button, pictures. Check the box that appears to Panel. located in the bottom right corner of the select a picture as part of the slideshow. 1. Click the Microsoft Officebutton and screen, to hide all windows and show the Choose slideshow settings -- the picture select Control Panel. desktop. Mouse away to bring the win- position, the timing, and whether or 2. Select User Accounts. dows back. not to shuffle -- at the bottom of the 3. Again, select User Accounts. Click the show desktop button to mini- window. 4. Select Manage User Accounts. The mize all windows. 4. Click Save Changes if applicable. Oth- User Accounts menu box appears. erwise, close the menu box. 5. Add an account by clicking the Add New Features Set Screen Saver button; delete an account by clicking Use the Snipping Tool 1. From the Personalize menu, click the Remove button. The Snipping Tool allows you to take Screen Saver in the bottom right. 6. Change an account’s privileges by click- customized screen shots. 2. Select a screen saver from the pull-down ing the Properties button. Click the 1. Open the Snipping Tool from the pro- menu, and adjust settings as desired. Group Membership tab. grams menu (by clicking the Microsoft 3. Click OK when finished. Officebutton). Change Screen Resolution Window Management 2. Click the New button. 1. Right-click on the desktop and click “Snap” or Click the arrow beside the New button Screen Resolution. Click a window and drag it to: and select a type of snip: 2. Make necessary changes to the Resolu- • the top of the screen to maximize • Free-Form: draw your own snip- tion, Orientation, and Displays. the window. ping area 3. Click Apply to see the changes. • the side of the screen to place the • Rectangular: snips in rectangles 4. Click OK when complete. window on half of the screen. • Window: snips just an application Gadgets • anywhere not on the edge of the • Full Screen A gadget is an application for your screen to place the window float- 3. Hold down the mouse and draw over desktop, equivalent to Mac’s dashboard ing on the desktop. the desired area. widgets. (See also: Keyboard Shortcuts.) 4. Release the mouse to select that area. 1. Right click on the desktop and click The edit window appears. “Peek” Gadgets in the bottom right. 5. Edit the snip: Hover over a taskbar icon, then over the 2. Click and drag a gadget icon to place it desired window’s thumbnail that appears. • Save somewhere on the desktop. “Shake” Click a window and hold the mouse down. • Copy Keyboard Shortcuts Shake it to make the other open windows Start Menu Windows • Send by email Maximize Window Windows + Up Arrow minimize. Shake it again to bring the Un-maximize when window windows back. • Write on is maximized Windows + Down Arrow Move Application/minimize Minimize Window when window • Highlight is minimized Windows + Down Arrow With an application window open, hold Snap screen left Windows + Left Arrow down the window key while using the ar- • Erase edits Snap screen right Windows + Right Arrow row keys to move the window. Press the up arrow to maximize the ap- See a History on Calculator plication to the screen. 1. With the Calculator open, click View, Pin Applications to Taskbar then History. Right-click on the program icon either or Use the shortcut Ctrl + H. from the Start menu, the desktop, or the taskbar. Select Pin to Taskbar. Personalizing Pin Specific Files to Taskbar Desktop Settings 1. Right-click on a pinned program to Right-click a blank area of the desktop and bring up the jump list. select Personalize. Choose desired settings 2. Click the pin icon next to a list from the window that appears. item to pin it to the taskbar, meaning Set Desktop Background it will always appear on that program’s 2. Follow directions above. jump list. 3. Select a theme, and a series of desktop Unpin from Taskbar pictures will be applied. To unpin, right-click on the program icon or Click Desktop Background and select from the taskbar and select Unpin from a picture to serve as the background. Taskbar. or To create a slideshow background, click BYU Office of IT Communication and Training http://it.byu.edu Version 100414 Page 2 [email protected].