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You can read this page or listen to the audio by double-clicking on the play
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This Audio is approximately 15 minutes long.
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Length of video training is approximately 9 minutes.
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Understanding Your Browser
Class 103 - Working With Browser ToolBars
Some of the items showing up in Toolbars can also be initiated through the Menu Bar. Once you become familiar with the icons in a toolbar, it is easier to click on an icon than go through the chain of commands in the Menu Bar. The following training is focused specifically on the Standard Buttons Toolbar.
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The toolbar above is taken from Internet Explorer. This is called your Standard Buttons Toolbar. These are the most commonly used icons. You can customize this area by choosing which icons to display in your toolbar, the size of the icons, and whether or not you want to have a text description under the icons.
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These first 5 buttons are the ones that you will use the most, so let's become familiar with their functionality and when you might use them while searching the internet.
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| The Back Button allows you to return to the last page viewed, assuming that you have clicked through more than one page during this session on the internet. |
Notice the teeny downward pointing arrow just to the right of the Back Button. When you click that arrow, it opens a drop down box, displaying the last 9 pages that you've visited. By clicking on a title of choice, you are immediately taken to that page, rather than continuously clicking on the Back Button.
These titles are what is displayed in the blue Title Bar at the top of your screen for each page visited.
This example would tell you that the person has been to at least 10 pages so far, the current page and the previous 9 that are listed. As you see, the title "Internet Marketing Tools & Training:" is listed 5 times. Unfortunately, this box is too narrow to display long titles, and there were more words after the colon (:).
Extra Tip: For those more advanced users & website owners - Make sure that your Title Bar ALWAYS contains a number of your "keywords." |
| The second button in the Standard Buttons Toolbar will take you forward when clicked on. This will only show up as colored (meaning it's active) if you have clicked on the "Back Button." |
| When any button or words are "grayed out" that means that button is "inactive." It is not a choice that you can make for that particular window.
This example tells us that the person is currently ON the most recent page visited. |
Here again, by clicking on the downward arrow to the right of the Forward Button, the drop down box appears giving you the choice to "fastforward" to a specific frame or page.
This examples tells us that you have backed up 5 pages. Click on the very bottom one to get to the "end of the line" quickly. |
| The "Stop" button gives the option to cancel or stop an action that you have requested. Maybe a search that you were doing is taking a very long time. Click on the Stop button. If your request is simply "hung up" out there in "ScyberSpace" it may pop right up the next time the same request is made. |
| The refresh button will update the page when something has changed on it. Sometimes a "cookie" stored on your computer thinks you want to go to a page that you've been on before, but it's not what you are currently asking for. By clicking on Refresh, the cookie will be bypassed. |
| The home button takes you back to the initial page you started from, most likely the home page of your browser. |
| This is the next section of buttons on your Standard Buttons Toolbar. Look at your own browser, which may be a little different depending on the browser and the version you are using. To the left of the Search Button you may see a vertical divider bar, also know as a separator. In the Intermediate Tool Bar Online Training, you will learn how to customize the tool bar, adding separators to group similar buttons together. |
| If you do not already have a "search area" on a tool bar in your browser, by clicking on the Search Button a sidebar will open. |
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It will look similar to the one you see here. You type into the empty box the term of something you want to search the internet for, then click this Search Button to go find your request.
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By clicking on the Favorites Button, a sidebar will appear on your screen (probably on the left) displaying anything that you have previously asked to be saved in your favorites or that you have "bookmarked." You will be given the options to "Add" or "Organize" your favorites from here also. Detailed instructions for these are included in our Intermediate Toolbar Favorites Online Training. |
- On the toolbar, click the History button.
The History bar appears, containing links for Web sites and pages visited in previous days and weeks.
- In the History bar, click a week or day, click a Web site folder to display individual pages, and then click the page icon to display the Web page.
To sort or search the History bar, click the arrow next to the View button at the top of the History bar.
- You can hide the History bar by clicking the History button again.
- You can change the number of days that pages are saved in the History list. The more days you specify, the more disk space is used on your computer to save that information.
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| This is the 3rd section of icons on my Standard Buttons Toolbar. Depending on your customization, this may show up differently on your toolbar. |
| When you click on the Mail Button a drop down box automatically appears that allows you to make several choices. |
The options from the drop down box are as follows:
Read Mail - This opens your default email program so that you can read emails or complete other tasks from your email area.
New Message - When selected, this opens a brand new email form giving you the opportunity to compose or write an email while you are still viewing what you were looking at through your browser.
Send A Link - Similar to the choice above, this opens a new email with the link of the page you were viewing on the internet already in the email. When you are on the page of a website that you'd like someone else to know about, click on this option, add their email address and send.
Send Page - This option not only sends someone an email, it captures the entire website page that you were viewing and places it within the email. That way, the receiver of the email will see the page without having to click on a link and go to a website. An example might be for a sign-up page for a subscription or membership. The form will show up in the email.
Read News - If you subscribe to Newsgroups, you can easily access those groups through this option.
All of these options are also available by clicking on "Tools" in the Menu Bar, then clicking on Mail & News. |
| This Print Button immediately prints whatever you have on your screen. Please note that it does not bring up the normal Print Control center box for you to select other options. |
| The Edit Button is normally "grayed out." It is active when you have text on your screen that you can work on, utilizing one of the programs listed below. |
| When the Edit Button is Active on a webpage, and you click on one of the programs listed that you wish to edit with, it opens the content of that page into the specified program. As you can see, it allows you the choices of Excel, Publisher, Notepad or Word - All Microsoft products. |
| Not really sure yet what this button does. |
This completes our basic training on toolbars. Want to know more? Check out our Intermediate and Advanced Toolbar Online Trainings.
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