This document provides an overview of exploring and configuring Windows, including:
1) Configuring screen settings and adding non-Plug-and-Play hardware which may require installation discs or drivers.
2) Using tools like the Device Manager, Disk Defragmenter, Disk Cleanup, and Scheduled Tasks to optimize the computer's behavior.
3) Formatting disks, playing music and video, burning CDs/DVDs, and creating playlists using Windows Media Player.
8. System Tools
Windows incorporates certain tools such as the Disk Defragmenter, the Disk
Cleanup the tool to free disk space, the Scheduled Tasks, etc. Almost all of these
tools are designed to optimize the behaviour of the computer.
11. Windows Media Player
This tool allows us to listen to music from a CD, pen drive, tune radio stations, play
a video, etc. It also lets us burn record songs from a CD / DVD to our hard drive so
that we can set up a playlist to listen to the songs.
• Handling the Player
• Create a playlist
•Menu Options & Settings
13. Keyboard
command
Word Access Excel PowerPoint
Ctrl-A Select entire
document
Select all Select all Select all
Ctrl-B Bold Bold Bold Bold
Ctrl-C or F3 Copy Copy Copy Copy
Ctrl-F n/a Find Find n/a
Ctrl-G Go to n/a n/a n/a
Ctrl-H n/a Replace text n/a n/a
Ctrl-I Italics n/a n/a Italics
Ctrl-M n/a n/a Format a
number
Add (create)
slide
Ctrl-N New
document
New
document
New
document
New
presentation
Alt-N n/a Create a new
object
n/a n/a
Ctrl-O Open Open Open Open
Ctrl-P Print Print Print Print
Ctrl-Q Quit Quit Quit Quit
Ctrl-R n/a New record Fill Right n/a
Ctrl-TAB Save as Display Page Save as n/a
Ctrl-S Save Save Query Save Save
Ctrl-U Underline n/a Underline Underline Text
Ctrl-V Paste Paste Paste Paste text
Ctrl-X Cut Cut Cut Cut
Ctrl-Z Undo Undo Undo Undo
14. Keyboard
command
Word Access Excel PowerPoint
F1 Help Help Help Help
F7 Spell/grammar
check
Spell check Spell check Spell check
Ctrl-[ n/a n/a n/a Decrease font
size
Ctrl-] n/a n/a n/a Increase font size
15. Shortcuts when selecting text
Selection Task Shortcut
Select adjacent text Click and drag over text
Select a word Double click on the word
Select a line Triple click on the line
Select a paragraph Click 4 times in the paragraph
Select from the insertion point to the
beginning or end of a paragraph
Press Shift-Option-Up arrow or
Shift –Option-Down arrow
Select an extended section Click at one end of the section,
then Shift-click at the other end
Select a whole document Ctrl-A or triple click in selection
area
Select from the insertion point to the
beginning or end of a document
Press Shift-Ctrl-Home or Shift-
Ctrl-End
