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Help with the basics-
common Web Browser commands

Scrolling

You can scroll or move down the page in your browser a number of ways:
  • Using the down arrow key on your keyboard moves the screen down one line at a time.
  • The PageUp and PageDown key moves the cursor ahead or back by blocks of text per keystroke.
  • The arrows in a side bar or scroll bar can be clicked with your mouse to move one line at a time (up or down the page)
  • You can locate your mouse cursor on the gray block in the scroll bar and drag it to where you want to look in the page (top/middle/bottom, etc).

    Links

    Links point to other web page addresses. Links are highlighed and sometimes underlined. The color and underlining feature is a setting in your browser's "Options." If you click on a link, this will display the linked page. For example, the words "follow the link" will show you another page: follow the link. Use the "Back" button in the top tool bar to return to the previous page.

    Windows

    You may have multiple windows open at any point in time. Your browser is running in at least one of those windows. When a window occupies the full screen it is "maximized". To minimize any window in Microsoft Windows, locate the 3 small buttons in the upper right corner of the window's title bar and click on the left-most button which contains a small line or underscore. That will NOT CLOSE the window, but will make it seem to disappear entirely -- BUT, it will appear on the taskbar (usually at the bottom of the screen). To return it to the screen as the active window, select it from the taskbar.

    If you click on the center button containing two overlapping squares, you create a resizable window. Resizable windows can be moved by clicking on the blue title bar and dragging them wherever you want. Resize them by dragging the borders.

    Frames

    If you choose to work in tutorial mode you will be using frames. Click here for an example of using frames.

    Most of the help links in the Web forms are targeted to a frame, so if you are NOT using tutorial mode, your browser will launch another copy of the browser to display the help frame. Some browsers automatically display the second copy maximized, others will show a resizable window. When you return to the active window, this second window will automatically minimize.

    Note: Some older browsers do not support the use of frames. If you have an older browser, this tutorial session with frames will not work on your computer. Refer to Browser Reports for which browsers will support frames.

    Selecting options using Checkboxes and Radiobuttons

    When you can select only one option from several choices, radiobuttons appear as round bullets that you can click on to select the one you want.
      Here is one choice
      Here is a different one - - If you subsequently select a different radiobutton, your previous choice will be un-selected.
    Checkboxes allow multiple options to be selected... a checkbox appears as a square and is filled with a checkmark when you select it:
      Item one
      Item two
    Checkboxes allow more than one choice, while radio buttons do not.

    Drop-down or scrolling Selection lists

    Another way to select from a fixed list of options, can be in a selection box: Click on the arrow at the right edge of the box to see the choices. Highlight your choice and click on it or press the Enter key.

    Some select boxes allow multiple choices: Hold down the Ctrl key and click on each of the choices you want. Click on any highlighted choice to un-select it.

    Buttons

    Buttons are generally labeled with the function that will be performed if you mouse click it. (i.e. PROCEED, DELETE, SAVE) and look like this: Perform the function

    • Printing

    Your web browser will print to the printer that is setup as your windows default printer. When the CRIS Web Forms displays a "PRINT" button, and you click this, it displays the page in your web browser, but you must go to the printer icon or print command in your browser's toolbar and select it to actually print the document or page.

    Browser "FIND" function

    You can quickly locate a word or multiple words on the current webpage by using your browser's "Find" function.
      From your browser's menu line select "Edit" / "Find" or from the toolbar, use the FIND button
      Type the word(s) to search for in the text box and click the "Find Next" button.
    i.e.: On the AD-417 classification page, entering the word "cut flower" into the "FIND" text box quickly takes you to the classification line 2121 Cut flowers, foliage, and greens.

    "Tabbed" Browsing

    Many newer versions of browsers (Firefox 2.x and Netscape 8.x) include "Tabbed Browsing" by default.

    Tabbed Browsing will open new web pages in tabs by default. Each of those tabs has its own close button, but if you accidentally close a tab, you can go to the History menu to bring it back from the list of "Recently Closed Tabs." When you have too many tabs open to comfortably fit in a single window, scroll arrows will appear on either side, and a button on the right side will show you a list of all your open tabs.

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