Understanding the Microsoft Windows GUI

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1 Name Computers Elective Class period Date '-"" Understanding the Microsoft Windows GUI Modem operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Red Hat Linux all include a Graphical User Interface, or "GUI" for ShOli(pronounced "goo-ey"). The term GUI refers to everything we see on the screen: the icons, menus, toolbars; it also refers to how the user interacts with the GUI: using the mouse and keyboard to select, move and open items on the screen. In this activity, you will explore how various parts ofthe MS Windows GUI work, by completing the following activities. Show the teacher what you have done at each step where directed to do so. Part I: The Windows Desktop: This is a "screenshot" of the Windows Desktop: - ' / 1. Circle or number, then label the following items: 1) Gray Taskbar along the bottom of the screen, which shows you what windows are open. 2) Start button, which then shows you the Start Menu. 3) My Documents icon, in which you save all your files. 4) My Computer icon, in which you find icons for the various disk drives in your computer. S) Internet Explorer icon, which launches the web browser application software program. 6) The "sys tray," which shows icons for :grogramsthat are running "in the bac~ound." 2. How many windows are open in the screenshot above? Name them:

2 How many programs are shown running in the background? In the "My Computer" window thatis open, name the drives that are shown and explain what kind of drive they are: A:\ B:\ C:\ D:\ E:\ F:\ 5. Why is there nob:\drive? (Your teacher will tell you the answer,ifyou do notknmv.) '---' Part II: The Parts of a Window: Do~blecUck ojlyo~r"my [)Qcuw.ents~'Jolderto open its window,jhen.fouow the instructions and answer the nextset of questions. 6. Thesethree buttons:- are the minimize,maximize/restore,and closebuttons.click on the minimizebutton;.seewhat it does;]s thewindo", closed,orjust "hidden"?where is it? When a windowis minimized,it qm still be seen as a button 7. To "restore" a window that is.minil1lized,yollcan 8. Click on the center button, the maximize/restore button. What does it do? ~ When the window is in its "in-between".~ize(not maximized or minimized), roll the mouse over the left or right edge of the winciow, until you,get a black double-headed.arrow. Click aild drag. Describe whathappens: Now roll thc.mouseoverthe 10. Describe what happens: toporbottoit), edgc of the window, and do the same. (JIide and drag. " ' Now roll themquse oyer any of the 4 corners (}fthe window, and do the same. How is this different from # 9 and 10 above? 11. Describewhathappens:

3 D Show your teacher that you have completed questions 1-11: Make the window larger and smaller, and watch how the icons move around and what happens to the window itself. 12. Briefly describe what happens as you make the window larger and srnaller: "-", " '--""' " ' Below is.a screenshot of a folder window: ~1Ie~~1i!lW';fi;\~""".i~~2M"~"" mw foldo, L~J?.;~..-,,java L",atuatlom about ~tud(jnt~ Q~enberg ~\-I\1Bei>~! I ~rj appdatoi Bridges-Car.. cabrh/o Computer Cu".lcul.. G pljbllshthis folderto the Web desktop DownloOids funding opps GB+data GREAT MyDocuments r~yebooks 13. Circle or number, then label the following items: 1) Standard Buttons 2) Addu-essBar 3) Main Menu ~ 14. Briefly describe what happens as you 1'011your mouse over thlijbuttons ~IDdmCI1IJ; ,, Roll the mouse over the gray area to the right of the menu or toolbar, and right click. Click on Address Bar to make the check mark disappear. Do the same with Standard Buttons. Briefly describe what happens: _..-." " ' ' '--"--'--- Show your teacher that you have completed questions : D

4 Name Computers Elective Class period Understanding Windows in Microsoft Word Part I: The Parts of a Word Window: Date Launch MS Word, then follow the instructions and answer the next set of questions. (It may be easiest to do many of these activities with the Word window maximized. This is what Microsoft Word (v. 2003) looks like when it is first opened: 1. Write the numbers below next to each of the following items: 1) Title Bar 8) Horizontal Scrollbar 2) Minimize, restore and close buttons 9) Vertical Scrollbar 3) Main Menu 10) Up and down arrows 4) Standard Toolbar 11) View buttons 5) Formatting Toolbar 12) Status bar 6) Horizontal Ruler 13) Help Assistant 7) Vertical Ruler

5 2. Go to the View menu and deselect Ruler, to make the horizontal ruler disappear. 3. Go back to View and make the ruler reappear. Show your teacher that you have completed questions 1 3:. Part II: Customizing the Toolbars: 4. Roll the mouse cursor (arrow) over the toolbar buttons and see how it shows you which button you are about to select. Briefly describe what do you see (what happens to the button): 5. When Word first opens, two toolbars are open: the Standard Toolbar and the Formatting Toolbar. However, the two toolbars are sharing one line, and so you cannot see all the buttons on either toolbar. Roll the mouse over the chevron (>>) at the end of the standard toolbar. What words appear: Click on the chevron and describe what happens: 6. You can move the toolbars so that they each have their own line. Roll the mouse over the raised line at the left edge of the formatting toolbar (just to the right of the chevron). Notice how the cursor becomes a black 4-headed arrow. Click-and-drag downward, to move the Formatting toolbar so that it is on its own line. 7. Go to View Toolbars on the menu, and click on Tables and Borders. The Tables and Borders toolbar will appear, in its own window. Click on its blue title bar and drag it to the left until it jumps and becomes a toolbar along the left side of the window. 8. Go to View Toolbars again, and click on a few more toolbars. Use the mouse to move the toolbars around, so that you have: 1) The standard and formatting toolbars each on its own line across the top of the window; 2) 1 row with two toolbars sharing the same row across the top of the window; 3) At least 1 toolbar along each of the other sides of the window (left, right, bottom). 9. Click on the down arrow at the right end of the Standard Toolbar. What appears: 10. Click on the down arrow again, then roll over add or remove buttons. Add the Close button to the tool bar. Show your teacher that you have completed questions 3 10:.