General Chat

Hi Bob

This should apply to most keyboards but some may differ.

The icons that look like eyes are for zooming in and out. You access them by holding down the FN key (probably towards the bottom left corner of your keyboard). If you are on your desktop they will increase/decrease the size of your desktop icons. In Internet Explorer and other programmes such as Paint they can be used for zooming in and out. They can also be used to increase/decrease the font size in some applications.

The icons on the 3 and 4 keys are for decreasing or increasing the volume. Again, access them by holding down the FN key.

To access the Euro sign (€) hold down the AltGr key (probably to the right of your spacebar).

Aye, aye - why haven't I got two of those?

yes like my 4 key has $ sign euro sign and a slope + sign
3 key has£ and a slope - sign
2 key has " and a thingy looks like a big brother eye
1 key has ! and a different big brother eye..

Bob, do you mean such as pressing combinations of keys?

If you want over the next couple of days I will put a table together if it will be of use - let me know.

you've not tried the alternative, then/?

petroleum jelly, otherwise known as..........V............e

seriously though Errol, most keys i can cope with......its the ones with three or four operations I have trouble with

Bob

I find my coat gets too matted with that

Seriously, I shall be back later ;-)

I find Nivea Anti-Wrinkle cream quite good. What about you?

I think the clewe is in the name lol

What sort of media do you normally use?

Can you come round please?

I already take quite a few tablets, so would I be safe?

Seriously, I am a bit of an artist and would welcome your advice. I shall have a go tomorrow - are you a ewe, btw?

Wend I did it freehand on the computer- I use a graphics tablet which makes it really easy to do but you could do it with a mouse - just use something like Paint or better still Gimp and save it as a jpeg. I use other software but they cost a fair bit and you can design an avatar using any simply painting programme. If you want more info on how to do it easily let me know and I will gladly talk you through it.

ErrolSheep - all very illuminating and informative, thanks. Did you do your little sheep avatar perchance? If so, I would like to know how you did that if it's not too complicated to explain to a technophobe like me :-D

SueCar - thanks. I knew if I moved my mouse pointer up they would appear - it just didn't feel comfortable not to have me bits on display, so to speak :-D

Annx I will see if I can find it.

SueCar - it is not complicated - you can design a webpage in things like Word but then you need to "publish" it to the www and have a url for it - plenty of free sites for that

Well I wouldn't mind knowing how to make my own webpage too, but I expect it is really complicated?

Yes, thanks ErrolSheep. :-D

You are very welcome.
A few years ago I designed a virtual keyboard help thingy for people on here which meant you clicked on a key and it told you what it would do. I did it as a webpage so you could bookmark it for reference - I will see if I can find it again if it is of any use although I fear I may have lost it.

Wend - the other thing you can do if the back arrow etc has disappeared is to move the mouse pointer up to where you last saw them & they should miraculously appear again. This is useful if you want to go back without coming out of full-screen-mode.

ErrolSheep that is amazing - thanks! I have copied your list for future reference. :-)

(I know lots of useful keyboard shortcuts in the Excel programme if anyone is interested).

Members may be interested in what the various function keys do in Internet Explorer.....

F1 - opens help menu
F3 - opens search toolbar
F4 - opens address bar so you can type in an internet address
F5 - refreshes the page you are currently on
F6 - moves your cursor from box to box
F7 - starts caret browsing so you can move the cursor around a webpage just like a Word document
F10 - activates the menu bar (File, Edit, View etc)
F11 - opens full screen mode
F12 - brings up developer tools - ignore this unless you want to get really technical

The above apply to Internet Explorer 9 but broadly speaking are the same for earlier versions. Just try them out, you can't really do any harm.

They can also be used in various other programmes in a variety of timesaving ways - give me a shout if you want to know more.

Hope this is useful.

I think I must be dyslexic, I hadn't noticed the L and R had been transposed :-S

I had to read over it again!