Keyboard

Cursor

• An "I-beam" that indicates the current position of the mouse pointer
• Changes to an "arrow" when outside the text display area

Insertion Point

• A flashing solid bar
• Indicates where keyboard entries will be placed in a document
• Can be moved to a new location by left-clicking the mouse

Signature File Exercise

• Open a word-processing program
• Create a document containing your name, address and phone number
• Save the document to the diskette or hard drive

Highlighting (also known as "Selecting")

• A technique to work with a block of text
• Selected text
  1. Double-click on a word
  2. Left-click and drag across a block of text
  3. Left click at the start of the text, then Shift-click at the end of the text

Copy, Cut & Paste

• Copy selected information within a document
• Available from the "Edit" menu of most Window programs
• Uses the Windows "Clipboard" function

Text Boxes

• Sometimes the Insertion is already flashing inside the box
• If not, click inside the box before entering text
• Demonstrate during the later Internet section