The document provides tips and shortcuts for multi-tasking and navigating Windows. It discusses enabling quick launch, dragging programs to the taskbar, minimizing windows, showing the desktop, navigating between open files, minimizing all windows with Windows key + M, organizing the start menu, using Ctrl+Alt+Del, using internet explorer shortcuts like new tabs and favorites, scrolling web pages, maximizing pages with F11, and accessing free education resources from Microsoft.

2. Multi-Tasking!
Make the most of your taskbar:
Easily get to multiple programs with a single click.
Enable
Quick
Launch
Right click in an empty area of
the task bar. Select Toolbars,
then Quick Launch

3. Drag and Drop
Add to your taskbar:
With mouse
Drag the
Left Click 1 time pointer over the
program icon
on program icon program icon,
down to the task
you want to put Press and hold
bar and release
on the task bar. the left mouse
the button
button.
To remove an item:
Select the program icon. Press and hold the left
mouse button, then drag the program icon to the
desktop screen and release.

4. Stop Minimizing!
Here’s how:
Minimize or restore to and easily view the
desktop. Click Show Desktop on the Quicklaunch
toolbar on the right-side of the taskbar.
From the taskbar
Or right click on the
task bar and select
show desktop
Press the windows icon and
letter D simultaneously.

5. Navigate
Open
files
Click once on any open file
to navigate between files.

6. The mother-in-law key
To minimize all Windows at once, press
and hold the Windows key and the
letter M.
This is a Windows shortcut so it works
with everything regardless of what you
have open.
Once your mother‐in‐law leaves, you
can maximize all those windows again
by pressing Windows + Shift + M.

7. The Start Menu
Start here to organize programs
and create shortcuts
Start
All Programs
Right click
Sort by name

8. Secure it all
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del
+L

9. Some really cool
Internet Explorer shortcuts
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10. Baby got back!
Create new pages and
go back and forth
between them
Just press the new page
key for tabbed browsing
in the tool bar.

11. Let’s Play Favorites
Quit searching for your favorites.
Save them to the tool bar for easy accessibility.

12. Let’s Play Favorites
Navigate to the site
Select Favorites
Add to Favorites Bar

13. Ctrl + F is not a dirty word
To search a web page for specific words type
"Ctrl" + "F" on your keyboard (Command + "F"
on a Mac)
Type the word you are searching for in the
window that pops up

14. Page down/up
To scroll down a
really long web page
in Internet Explorer,
just press the
spacebar.
To scroll up, press
the shift key and the
spacebar.
Image source:
http://www.ed.psu.edu/etc/images/keyboard.jpg

15. Supersize
Pressing the F11 key in It hides (most of) the
Internet Explorer puts toolbars and expands the
you into something web page so that it fills
called “kiosk mode” the entire screen.
that’s like the maximized
view on steroids.
You can hide the top
toolbar by right‐
clicking on it and
choosing Auto‐hide.
To exit kiosk mode,
just press F11 again.

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Did you know about the TONS of free
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Teacher Guides

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Educator’s Reference Desk has more
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Ready-to-use Web lessons, online quizzes, rubrics
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Create an account.
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See step‐by‐step
instructions
Find and download
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