Identify the parts of the user interface and of a windowStart and shut down WindowsUse the mouse to click, double-click, right click, and dragOpen an application and close itMove, resize, minimize, maximize, and restore a windowProperly use the different inputs in a dialog box

Windows Basic

Prepared by: PAUL C. GONZALES Teacher I ESCES - Midsayap West District

Windows uses a GUI (Graphical User Interface) so almost everything can be done using mouse clicks on icons and buttons or combinations of keys on the keyboard. You can see what you are doing. When you have a physical keyboard available, you will find it useful, less tiring, and often faster to use those odd combinations of keys.

Concepts /Ideas:

The WindowA window is a rectangular area on the desktop which usually contains a number of standard parts. But it does not have to have any of the standard parts. The illustration shows several windows: a card game window, an Explorer window, a Word window, and a dialog window, often called a dialog box(regardless of its shape or size). The only part that they all have is the Title Bar.

Parts of a Window

Title BarThe Title bar of an application window shows the title of

the current document and the name of the application.

Right end of Title barOn the right end of the Title bar are buttons to minimize

the window to the Taskbar, maximize the window to cover the whole Desktop, and to close the window.

Status Bar The bottom of a window contains the Status Bar. It displays messages

about the status of the program. For example, it might say "Saving document" during the saving process and then "Done" when it is finished. The example from Win7's Paint shows which brush is selected at the left, the size of the current image in the middle, and has a slider to change the zoom display for the window. What you see in the Status Bar will vary with the type of window.

The diagonal lines in the corner of the Status Bar mean that the window can be resized by dragging its edges.

DocumentThe main area of the application window shows the active document. For a word processing program this could be a letter, a brochure, or a report. For a graphics programs it would be a picture. For a browser it would be a web page.

Scroll BarsWindows that are too small to show the whole document will have scroll barsfor the width or the height of the document, or both, if necessary. You change what part of the document is showing in the window by dragging the scroll box or by clicking the scroll arrow or by clicking in the scroll bar itself.

The size of the scroll box in many applications is in proportion to how much of the document is showing. So, if half the document is visible, the scroll box will be half of its maximum length in the window

Before you can explore Windows much, you must know how to use your mouse. Your mouse is a pointing device. You use it to point to things on the computer screen. Other pointing devices like touch pads and game controllers are described in the lesson Computer Basics: Input: Pointing Devices.

A mouse has at least two buttons - left and right. Most have a middle button or a scroll wheel between the left and right buttons. Some mice have several other buttons that can be programmed for special functions, especially for games.

The normal shape for the mouse pointer is an arrow

Using a Mouse

Move the pointer

Moving the mouse around moves the mouse pointer/cursor on the screen.

Click Press a mouse button and release it. Usually the left button.

Double-click Press a mouse button twice quickly.

Right click Press the right mouse button and release it.

Drag Hold a mouse button down while moving the mouse. Usually what the mouse pointer was over on the screen will move or be highlighted when you drag.

Scroll Rolling the wheel that some mice have will move the document up and down in the current window.

What You Do with a Mouse

What You Do with a Mouse

Pointer Shapes The shape of the pointer changes

depending on where it is and what is happening. The term cursor is used for the shape that shows where your typing will appear. You can position the cursor by clicking in a spot in a document. So the pointer and cursor work together, but are not quite the same thing.

The hand shape usually means that the pointer is over a link, like on a web page.

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This group of keys usually found at the right side of the keyboard, resembles the keys on a calculator.

Alphanumeric Keys

Numeric Keypad

Querty Keyboard

This is a long bar beneath the letters used to insert a blank Space between words.

Control Keys

Spacebar

Caps Lock

Press this key to return to the original instruction. You can press Esc to quit a task you are performing.

Escape Key

Spacebar

Caps Lock

This key is used to lock into the uppercase alphabet mode. Press Caps Lock to change the case of all letters you type.

Press the key again to return to the original case.

Control Keys

Caps Lock

Escape Key

This key is used to enter uppercase characters. Press this key in combination with another key to type an

uppercase letter.

Control Keys

Shift Key

Caps Lock

Used to move the insertion point (cursor) inside documents. 

Left - Right - Up - Down

Arrow Keys

Spacebar

Caps Lock

An alternative to right-clicking of an item or file.

Control Keys

Menu Key

Shift Key

It consist the letters of the alphabet, punctuations, and other symbols in where the

user will be able to encode his word documents.

Numeric Keyboard

Querty Keyboard

Alphanumeric Keyboard

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Numeric Keypad Spacebar Escape Key Caps Lock Shift Key Arrow Keys Menu Key Querty Keyboard

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