HOW TO USE NETSCAPE

Netscape is a graphical World Wide Web "browser" program that let's you access information from the World Wide Web ("WWW" or "Web"). You can use Netscape to view, download and print (if a printer is available) information from Web "sites"--hypertext documents on the Web. Netscape is also the interface used by the Britannica CD encyclopedia.

There are various ways to use Netscape to navigate Web resources:

• Click on "links" or buttons on the document you are currently viewing (indicated when the cursor changes from an arrow to a pointing finger)
• Click on the Back and Forward buttons on the Toolbar
• Use the Bookmarks pulldown menu to link to sites selected by our library (or by whoever uses Netscape on the given computer)
• If you have the URL (Internet address) of a specific site you want to view: a) click once in the Location or Netsite box on the Toolbar, b) type a URL and c) press Enter
• Use the Go pulldown menu to return to a previous link you've viewed recently

To move through a document, use the scrollbar on the right side of the document, or the Page Down key to move down and Page Up key to move up.

To print a web document:

1. Before printing, it's advisable to preview what will be printed and to check the number of pages of the document. To do this, select Print preview from the File pull-down menu.

2. When you're ready to print, click on the Print icon on the tool bar.

3. To print the full document, click OK (or press Enter.) To print specific pages from the document, click Pages and then enter desired page numbers after from: and to:, then click OK (or press Enter.)

To save (download) a web document to disk:

1. Insert a 3 1/2-inch floppy disk in the disk drive. The disk must be formatted for IBM-compatible computers (not Macintosh). It may be a double density or high density disk.

2. Pull down the File menu and select Save As

3. A dialog box will appear. It will contain a box labeled Save in:. Click on the down arrow next to that box and and then use the scroll bar to move up and select: 3 1/2 Floppy (A:). Files must be saved only on a floppy disk (A:), NOT on the hard drive (C:).

4. To save the document as a text file, click on the down arrow next to the box labeled Save as type and select Plain text; and highlight the file name in the File name box and type a file name that ends with: .txt (e.g. article1.txt).

5. Click on SAVE (or press Enter.)

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