Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Hyperlinks Lesson

Mini Lesson on Alt - Tab

    Here is the lesson about Alt - Tab Key. 

1. Hold Down the Alt Key.
2. Keep holding the Alt Key and press the Tab Key.
3. This small window will pop up. 
4. The window shows you which windows are available to use.
5. Keep holding the Alt Key and press the tab key one at a time.  This will take you to each window.  When you find the window you want let go of the Alt key and the computer will go to that window.

Creating Your Own Hyperlinking

A hyperlink will take you to a website.

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Type in a description of the website you like.  You might type, "I like Google Maps for finding directions."
3. Type in     www.google.com  (Remember spelling counts.  A wrong spelling will take you to the wrong website.)
4. After you type it in press the space bar and the hyperlink will be created for you.
5. Here is the example of four websites I created.

   This is a website for making directions.

   www.Maps.google.com   

   This is another good website for directions.

   www.maps.bing.com

   Here is my website for news.

   www.abcnews.com

   Here is my website for garage sales.

   www.craigslist.org

6. Now to make this document a webpage you can place on your desktop.

7. Click File.

8. Click Save As. 

9. You need to change the file type to Web Page. 

10. Name the file.  I'm going to call mine homepage.

11. Save it on your desktop. 

12. Now I have a link on my desktop for the homepage I created.