This handy textbook covers all you will need to know to learn to communicate using email and the internet. Learning Made Simple books give readers skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications, in this case ECDL, ICDL and CLAIT, and written by experienced teachers and authors to make often tricky subjects simple to learn. Every book is designed carefully to provide bite-sized lessons matched to learners' needs. Using full colour throughout, and written by leading teachers and writers, Learning Made Simple books help readers learn new skills and develop their talents. Whether studying at college, training at work, or reading at home, aiming for a qualification or simply getting up to speed, Learning Made Simple books give readers the advantage of easy, well-organised training materials in a handy volume with two or four-page sections for each topic for ease of use. *Written by experienced trainers for inexperienced learners to succeed, matched to main qualifications*Learning Made Simple builds on the multi-million success of the previous Made Simple Books series*Full colour throughout with double or four-page spreads covering key topics
Author(s): P K McBride
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 128
Title page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 8
1 The Internet......Page 10
The Net and the Web......Page 11
The World Wide Web......Page 12
Electronic mail......Page 13
WWW URLs......Page 14
E-mail addresses......Page 16
Other uses of the Net......Page 17
Jargon......Page 18
2 Internet Explorer......Page 20
The IE display......Page 21
General options......Page 23
Security......Page 25
Programs......Page 27
Multimedia options......Page 28
Customize the toolbars......Page 29
Getting Help......Page 31
Exercises......Page 35
3 Navigating the Web......Page 36
Hypertext links......Page 37
Starting to explore......Page 39
Using the Address bar......Page 42
Favorites......Page 43
Organising Favorites......Page 45
Desktop shortcuts......Page 46
The History list......Page 47
Exercises......Page 49
4 Searching the Web......Page 50
Search engines......Page 51
Google......Page 53
Other search engines......Page 56
Advanced searches......Page 57
Searching Yahoo!......Page 59
Searching from IE......Page 61
Exercises......Page 63
5 Data from the Web......Page 64
Saving pages......Page 65
Text from web pages......Page 67
Saving images......Page 68
Printing web pages......Page 69
AutoComplete......Page 71
Downloading files......Page 72
Shareware at c|net......Page 73
Antivirus software......Page 75
Exercises......Page 77
6 E-mail software......Page 78
Outlook (Express)......Page 79
Display options......Page 81
The working options......Page 82
Help......Page 84
Exercises......Page 85
7 Using e-mail......Page 86
Mail accounts......Page 87
Reading your e-mail......Page 88
Replying......Page 89
Sending messages......Page 91
Selecting recipients......Page 93
The spell checker......Page 94
Files by mail......Page 95
Exercises......Page 97
8 Organising e-mail......Page 98
Address Book......Page 99
Finding an address......Page 100
Groups......Page 101
Folders for mail......Page 103
Moving messages......Page 104
Printing messages......Page 105
Message rules......Page 106
Rules from messages......Page 107
E-mail etiquette......Page 108
Exercises......Page 111
9 Creating web pages......Page 112
HTML......Page 113
Text tags......Page 115
Colours......Page 117
Lists and lines......Page 119
Images......Page 121
Links......Page 123
Exercises......Page 125
Index......Page 126
