MODULATE

BASIC OF
COMPUTATION

INDEX
CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION TO THE CALCULATION
WHAT IS A PERSONAL COMPUTER?
YOU LEAVE BASIC OF A COMPUTER
HARDWARE
SOFTWARE
WHAT IS IT AN APPLICATION OR A PROGRAM?
WHAT IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?
HOW DOES IT PULL UP A PC?

CHAPTER II - WINDOWS
WHAT IS WINDOWS?

CHAPTER III - PAINT

WHAT IS PAINT?
HOW TO ENTER PAINT?

CHAPTER IV - WORD
WHAT IS WORD?
HOW TO ENTER WORD?

CHAPTER V: EXCEL
WHAT IS EXCEL?
HOW TO ENTER EXCEL?

CHAPTER VI: POWER POINT

WHAT IS POWER POINT?
BASIC TAKS

CHAPTER VII: INTERNET

THE HISTORY SHORTLY
CHAPTER VIII: OUTLOOK EXPRESS
WHAT IS THE ELECTRONIC MAIL?
WHAT IS OUTLOOK EXPRESS?

CHAPTER IX: INTERNET EXPLORER

WHAT IS INTERNET EXPLORER?
HOW DOES THE WEB WORK?
HOW DO I CONSENT TO A PLACE, THEN?

WHAT IS A PERSONAL COMPUTER?

MONITOR

CPU

MOUSE

KEYBOARD

It is an electronic machine whose purpose is to carry out the automatic

prosecution of the information.
A computer is composed of elements that constitute the Hardware (physical
components) that allow executing the Software (logical components).

YOU LEAVE BASIC OF A COMPUTER

Monitor

The computer monitor or computer screen, although it is also common to call

it "screen", it is an exit device that, by means of an interface, it shows the
results of the prosecution of the computer.
In other words sample all the results of the work of the CPU
The mouse

The secret to manage the mouse correctly is in the following posture: "He/she
will lean on the hand on the table but only in the nearest part to the doll, while
with the thumb for the left side and to annul and little for the right holds it
smoothly for both sides of the mouse; with this we are able to have it subject
but at the same time he/she allows to move it in all address without having the
palm that we have to move leaning. - Like they come, us they are free two
fingers, the index to be able to press the left button of the mouse, and the
means to press the right button"
The keyboard

BLOCK OF
FUNCTIONS

ESPECIAL
BLOCK

ALPHANUMER
IC BLOCK

NUMERIC
BLOCK

The keyboard, basically, allows introducing text. But also to carry out some
more things, he/she has approximately between 99 and 108 keys.

It is divided in 4 blocks
? Block of functions: F1 goes from the key to F12, in three blocks of four: of
F1 to F4, of F5 to F8 and of F9 to F12. They work according to the program that
is open. For example, in many programs when pressing the key F1 you
consents to the help associated to that program.
Alphanumeric block: It is located in the inferior part of the block of functions; it
contains the Arabic numbers from the 1 to the 0 and the organized alphabet as
in a typewriter, besides some special keys.
? Numeric block: It is located to the right of the special block; it contains the
organized Arabic numbers as in a calculator with the purpose of facilitating the
fingering of figures. It also contains the signs of the four basic operations: it
adds +, it subtracts -, multiplication * and division /; it also contains a key of
Intro or Enter.
Special block
1. Keys of movement of the cursor: These four keys (up, below, left, and
right) they allow to move for the document.
2. Special keys: The key Alt Gr is good to introduce the third character of a
key, for example, the @ that there is in the key of the number 2. (In the image
the key Alt of the right is the equivalent one to Alt Gr).

3. Some keyboards have the key Windows that allows the menu beginning,
and the key Application that opens the contextual menu, to open up the same
as the secondary button of the mouse.
4. To combine keys: To carry out some functions it is necessary to pulse
Two or more keys at the same time, for example, it can survive the document
pressing Ctrl + G, that is to say, to press the key Ctrl and, without losing it, to
press the key "g."
It is an electronic machine whose purpose is to carry out the automatic
prosecution of the information.
A computer is composed of elements that constitute the Hardware (physical
components) that allow executing the Software (logical components).
HARDWARE
The hardware that composes most of the PC (English acronym of Personal
Computer, that is to say personal computer) it includes: Monitor, keyboard,
C.P.U. (English acronym of central unit of process) that in turn contains the
microprocessor, the memory, the disk units, the cards video controladoras, of
disks, of sound, etc.
The C.P.U. it is the brain of the computer, it is the place in which one interprets
and it processes the information.
The microprocessor is the one that determines the pattern of the PC, its speed
and capacity of handling of information, besides the cost.

SOFTWARE
He/she calls himself software to the group of programs that you/they are
executed in the computer. Without him the computer would not be more than
an inert mass of electronic machinery. A computer that lacks software cannot
make absolutely anything.
WHAT IS IT AN APPLICATION OR A PROGRAM?
An application is an orderly group of instructions that you/they allow the
resolution of a problem or to develop certain tasks. Different types of
applications that are good to execute different tasks exist. For example WORD,
EXCEL, the systems developed had measured by a programmer for a certain
company, the virus and the antivirus es, the games, the applications of
commercial administration, accountants, financial, of drawing technician, to
compose music, to see and to process video images, scientific programs, etc.
Application and it programs they are synonymous. Before the arrival of
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WINDOWS to the computer market, the term was used "it programs", and
starting from there he/she goes slowly being replaced by the term "application"

WHAT IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?

The operating system is a group of programs that you/they allow the
communication between the PC and the user, administering and controlling the
flow of information from and toward the components that conform the same
one. All the computers should have an operating system to be able to work; the
good known ones are WINDOWS, LINUX, UNIX, MACINTOSH, etc. This manual
only tries on the first of them.
HOW DOES IT PULL UP A PC?
When lighting the PC he/she puts automatically into operation a program that
he/she comes in the memory of the team and that he/she carries out a test of
the hardware, deploying for screen the result of the same one. This program is
specifically in the memory ROM (Read Only Memory, reading memory only)
that still maintains its content after out the team. I USE OF THE COMPUTER
When concluding this part of the session you will be able to recognize the use
of the computer.
AS THE COMPUTER IT IS USED
Ignition of the Computer:
1. he/she lights the regulator or suppressive (it is recommended that the
electric outlet has a good connection to earth, this is the one that
protects long term to the computer of the electric problems )
2. it Presses the button "Power" of the one he/she marries or drawer.
3. it presses the button that is in the front part of the monitor (in some
cases the monitor has this button in the inferior part) .

4. he/she Waits some seconds so that the system is loaded and Windows is
activated

OUT OF THE COMPUTER:

It is recommended when turning off the Team,
to follow the steps that are pointed out next:
a. - you Make sure that all the applications or /
you program that this using is closed.
b. - you go to the menu Beginning and it selects
to turn off the System. He/she hopes a dialogue
square comes out to confirm the action.
c. - it selects the action "to turn off" and the
process will begin of out, he/she fades the
monitor first.
, and lastly the since stabilizer the CPU fades alone.

INTRODUCTION TO
WINDOWS

Once lit the computer, the operating system is activated to use, it is important
to highlight that most of the users have installed in its computer the Operating
system Windows, for it this course is focused to the use of this system, but it is
important to highlight that other Operating systems exist with a similar graphic
environment to Windows, such it is the case of: Linux, Macintosh, among
others.
What is Windows?
It is an Operating system that allows the application of several tasks in
simultaneous (multitasking), where the user can work at the same time with
different applications or windows. It is a graphic interface of easy use, that is to
say, from the graphic point of view they can be identified the options easily to
work, it uses icons to represent files and devices that can be controlled with a
mouse or mouse.
WINDOWS is a system designed to be used with a mouse what reduces to the
minimum the use of the keyboard, facilitating any type of tasks and avoiding
the attributable errors to the form and the syntax in the entrance of the
instructions like it happened previously.
The desk of WINDOWS in general presents the following aspect:

This can vary in function of the version of WINDOWS that has installed, of the
installed applications and of those to those that have been created a shortcut
in the desk.
To the left we see the icon MY PC that allows us to see and to travel each one of
the disk units, disquiet, CD-ROM, existent DVD in their computer

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In the portfolio of MY DOCUMENTS they are all the documents created by the
users.
In MY PLACES OF NET he/she will be able to see all the connected PC's to their
net it tames or manager.
The PAPELERA DE RECICLAJE contains the documents, applications, icons that
have been erased of its computer and that you will be able to recover easily
and during a certain time, in case that has erased them by mistake.
Fund of the Desk:
It is that that covers the generality of the screen, on this all the windows and
squares of dialogues they are placed, portfolios, shortcuts, among others. The
Fund of Desk has several properties, one of her is the possibility to change the
colors of the bottom of the screen, equally some images can be placed (paper
tapestry), another property is the one of placing refreshing of screen, you can
personalize the desk and equally you can configure the resolution of the screen
. To see these elements you can make click with the right button of the mouse
(button of properties) and to select of the square the option properties (this can
practice it in your computer).

Icons of Shortcut:

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They are representations of elements (units, files, applications, portfolios) that

are in the desk; just by making double click one enters in the same ones.
The Papers of Recycles:

It allows eliminating files in a simple and quick way (just by dragging them until
the paper); of equal it forms, if for mistake we eliminate a file, it will be easy to
recover it again. It is required to make double click in the Paper, to look for the
document and to drag it until to the Desk.
All the documents, files or portfolios that fade store in the Paper. It is important
to remember that you can eliminate the documents that are inside the paper,
for you make it click in the icon of the paper, and then it selects with the button
of properties the option
To empty Paper, once carried out this action, fades all that is inside the paper
automatically and you don't have option to recover them.
Taskbar
It contains representative bellboys of portfolios and open applications on the
desk. These bellboys substitute to the icons of the minimized applications. The
Taskbar contains a called button "I Begin", located to the left of this. When one
makes click on this button a menu he/she appears from which you can consent
easy and quickly to the most important options that he/she offers this
environment.
Button of Beginning
He/she allows opening anyone of the options of programs, configuration, search
and maintenance of the environment. When making a click on this, he/she
spreads a menu from which we can make operations like:
Programs:
This option allows us to consent to a new system of sub menus that will contain
the groups and applications that we have installed (Office, Bar of Tools, and
Accessories of Desk, among other) Configuration:
By means of this menu we can go to the options with those that all the aspects
of this version are configured, that is to say, to the main options with those that
we
can
personalize
the
environment.

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To look for:
With this menu we can consent to options that will
allow us with certain conditions to locate files and
portfolios, he/she also makes search in Internet
and you appear in person in their notebook of
addresses, in any place of our computer.
Operations that can be carried out in the
Desk:
In the Desk we can carry out other operations like
they are to create portfolios to organize our work,
to place icons of programs or shortcuts. To Create
a New Portfolio either on the desk or inside another portfolio, he/she is carried
out in the following way:
1. We place the pointer on a place in which there are not icons, a click it is
made on the one right button of the mouse.
2. In the menu that he/she appears we select the new option, and subsequently
Portfolio
.3. To change the name of the portfolio, we will type the new name and we will
press the key Enter

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MY PC:
Among the icons that you/they appear in the desk he/she is " ". It is activated
with double click on him. Then a window appears with the icons of those units
of disk that has the computer, as well as the portfolios of the Panel of Control,
Printers, net of communications. This icon has as purpose to negotiate the files
and directory, for example:
To see the Content of a Device exorable (USB)

Clock.

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It is in the taskbar in the area

of beginning applications that
includes
icons
of
the
applications that open up when
beginning Windows. If the
prompter of the mouse puts on
the clock it will also show the
date. It is inside the taskbar, to
modify it is necessary to give
double click on the emergent
square will appear to carry out
the modifications. Or one can
give click in the beginning
button, to go to the control
panel where a window will
appear in which click will be
given in the date icon and
hour, the emergent square will
appear this way for the
modifications.
Screen properties.
These properties of the screen are made up of:
Fear
; A topic is a bottom and a group of sounds, icons, and other elements that
you/they help to personalize the team with an alone one, click.
Desk; it is where the appearance of the desk is chosen.
Screen saver; it is where the screen saver is selected for when it is not in use
the computer.
Appearance;
It is where the styles of the emergent windows are selected, like they are color,
size of the source.
Configuration;
Here the screen resolution and the quality of the color is determined. As
eliminating files. Right click is given, an emergent square appears, click is
given in eliminating, in the emergent window the option is given of sending or
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not the file to the recycle paper, click is given in If to eliminate it. As restoring a
document. It occurs double click in the icon of the recycle Paper, when leaving
the emergent window the file it is selected that he/she wants to recover giving
right click and he/she moves an emergent square and click is given in
restoring, and the file appears this way in the place again where he/she was
originally.

Calculator.
To use the calculator the following steps they are continued:

WHAT IS PAINT?
The Paint substitutes the Paintbrush of the versions previous of
Windows. He/she adds new drawing tools, he/she allows keeping
in any file type, it allows the long names in the files and he/she
allows choosing if he/she wants that the image that loads or
design it is put as paper tapestry in the desk.
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It is presented like leave to the right.

The rest of the options work to its predecessor similarly.

WHAT IS WORD?
WORD is a program of prosecution of texts that allows
producing documents of professional quality quickly, when
providing the user the following facilities:

" To copy, to erase and to insert texts with easiness

To look for and to replace texts.
To give him forms to the text.
To insert and to print graphics and leaves of calculations together with
their documents.
Layout of lines, alignments and shady of paragraphs to improve the
aspect of the documents and to stand out important paragraphs.
" To revise spelling
" To align automatically
" To insert vignettes
" To number items in automatic form
I manage of several simultaneous windows, with different views of
oneself extensive document or with different documents at the same
time.
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HOW TO ENTER WORD?

Look for in their desk or in the BAR OF QUICK BEGINNING the icon that
identifies to this application if it is necessary it maximizes the window and
he/she will have the following screen.

WHAT IS EXCEL?

EXCEL is a program that it allows to produce schedules of

professional quality quickly when providing the user the
following facilities:
To Copy, to erase and to insert texts, numbers and
formulas with easiness.
To give him forms to the text and the cells.
To insert and to print with their calculation leaves, graphics of high
quality.
To create a quantity and variety of calculation formulas related with their
data and with their other formulas.
Handling of several simultaneous windows, with different views of
oneself extensive document or with different documents at the same
time.

HOW TO ENTER EXCEL?

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Look for in their desk or in the bar of Quick Beginning the icon that identifies to
this application If it is necessary it maximizes the window and he/she will have
the following screen.

In the central part of the screen he/she is the group of cells that you/they
compose the work leaf. In each cell we can place information and then to relate
the cells to each other to create a calculation outline.
As we can observe, the screen of EXCEL is similar visible previously in WORD,
and that you are already under conditions of recognizing without he/she
explains to him them in detail:
The BAR OF TITLE with the bellboys of MINIMIZING, of MAXIMIZING
and of CLOSING.
The BAR OF MENUS DESCOLGABLES

WHAT IS POWER POINT?

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PowerPoint is a surprising program that he/she can use to

make presentations of slides and presentations. You can put
anything from
text, sounds, and images in the different
slides. Then, he/she can add them time, or to make click in
them to go to the following slide. PowerPoint you can use for
all type of things, from presentations of slides of pictures of a
party, until those important presentations of the school with holding and
graphics. The best thing of everything, is easy and amusing of using! These
instructions are written for PowerPoint 2007, but they are almost identical to
the instructions for PowerPoint 2010. When differences exist important the
observation will be made.
BASIC TASKS
Microsoft open PowerPoint pulsing in Beginning, go to programs, Office go to
Microsoft, and make click in Microsoft PowerPoint.

THE HISTORY SHORTLY

The first idea of what would be later on Internet 60 point is born in the years for
the military necessity of communicating, like for the scientific necessity of
sharing investigations.
In answer to the launching of the Soviet satellite Sputnik, the Americans
believe the Agency of Projects of Advanced Investigation (DARPA for their
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initials in English) inside the Department of Defense of the United States of

America. Their main plans were to apply the highest technology to their
defense system to avoid to be surprised by the enemy's technological
advances and to build a net of information that could be good for espionage
purposes, as well as to make transmission of sure information among multiple
points of military presence of the United States. The idea was that, if a part of
the net suffered a total collapse, to cause for example of a nuclear war, the
messages could find the road until its destination in any way.
In 1969 the DARPA, together with the company Rand Corporation developed a
net without central, called nodes ARPANET. The information was divided in
packages and each package contained the origin address, that of destination,
the sequence number and a certain information. The packages when arriving to
the destination were ordered according to the sequence number and they
joined to give place to the information. When traveling for the net in packages,
more difficult era to lose data since, if a concrete package didn't arrive to the
destination or it arrived faulty, the computer that he/she should receive the
information only had to request to the issuing computer the package that he
lacked. The protocol of communications called himself NCP (Network Control
Protocol).
Thanks to ARPANET, scientists and investigators could share computer
resources in remote form; this was since a great help it is necessary to
remember that in the years 70 the time of prosecution for computer was a
really scarce resource. ARPANET in itself also grew and already for 1972 it
contained to 37 nets. And a curious thing happened since it began to it turns
that most of the traffic was constituted by news and personal messages, and
not so much for computer processes; in fact, when the electronic mail lists
were developed (mail messages that are distributed to a group of users), one of
the first topics that they approached with success it was that of the sciencefiction through a popular list that SF-LOVERS called herself (Fanatic of the
science-fiction).
It was in 1974 that the scientists of DARPA working with experts of Stanford
developed the bases of the language that it would be the base of what today
knows as TCP/IP. One of the main benefits of this new protocol was that unique
binary addresses could be assigned to each connected device to the net.
The decade of the years 70 saw the birth of multiple nets and services, for
example, the University of Stanford inaugurated its service Telnet, the first
public service of packages of data.
The department of Energy of the United States also built its own net that in
turn inspired the NASA to build its net that SPAN would call.
In 1976 AT&T it developed a protocol for communication among computers
with operating system UNIX (that was the operating system of more
distribution and use in the universities) and it distributed it gratuitously to all
those that had computers with operating system UNIX, this unchained the

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creation of USENET, an open system that he/she offers electronic mail service
and news so far for their users.
In 1982 the protocol is adopted TCP/IP like the standard for the interconnection
from the connected nets to ARPANET, in fact, one of the most interesting
challenges was the transition of the communication protocol used by the
ARPANET (NCP) to TCP/IP.

WHAT IS THE ELECTRONIC MAIL?

The electronic mail or email, are one of the services of Internet of more utility.
It allows him to send and to receive messages, images, sounds and all kinds of
files. The form in that he/she works is similar to that of the postal mail, each
internet user possesses an electronic mail address and with the use of an
administrating program of email or from a page WEB that lends such a service,
can send and to receive messages between its stall and any other stall of the
world, without additional costs for its use and with a time of delivery of very
few seconds.
An important aspect of understanding of the electronic mail, is the fact that the
messages that you/they send him are stored in its supplier's servant and they
remain there until you go down them to its computer or it erases them of its
servant, for what you don't lose messages to have its out computer or for not
entering daily to internet.
For that reason the reception and shipment of messages is an operation of
upgrade of information between its servant and you, without in fact amount
where he/she is or since computer carries out the operation.

WHAT IS OUTLOOK EXPRESS?

It is one of the best programs to administer electronic mail, used by the great
majority of users. When managing the mail with OUTLOOK EXPRESS, he/she will
have the advantage of having all the messages in their computer, and he/she
will be able to read them without necessity of being connected. He/she will also
be able to write messages without to be connected and to
send them later on when it is connected.
The work routine generally consists in: To write the messages
that it is wanted to send, to be connected to internet, to send
the messages, to receive the new messages, to be
disconnected and to read the received messages
Activate the program, and let us see the first screen that will be presented.
To the left we have the list of portfolios where the messages are stored. Apart
from those that are come in the example that you/they are those that are
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believed the first time that uses the program, you will see later on as creating
as many portfolios as need for a better classification of their messages
Under the previous one there is a window with the contacts that you will go
entering in the

NOTEBOOK OF ADDRESSES.

To the right the list of the messages that you/they correspond to the portfolio
that has been selected to the left leave (in the example TRAY OF ENTRANCE)

WHAT IS INTERNET EXPLORER?

Once the user is connected Internet, it should execute an application that
allows him to consent to pages WEB and to take it of some to other following
the connections. To the application that allows him to carry out this he/she is
called "navigator", and when we follow a connection we say that we are
navigating for the WEB. One of those programs, without a doubt the more used
in the entire world, it is the INTERNET EXPLORER. With him we can, to consent
to pages WEB, calculation leaves, database, videotape, sound and all
the more advanced possibilities.
HOW DOES THE WEB WORK?
The pages or present places in the net, and in which will navigate,
they are consented through their address that has syntax of the
type:
Type of the servant: / / it names of the place
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The first part (type of the servant) it indicates, with a key word, the servant to
which one goes (FTP, HTTP, GOPHER, etc.). The most common is http or https
and, to the being a standard element for all the addresses WEB, is not
necessary to write it.
The second part is the name of the place. After the first one and second leaves
it inserts: / /
In turn the name of the place or of the page it is formed by two or three
separated parts each one for a point and it is composed of some in these ways:
Names. Country (for example yahoo.fr)
The European countries, among other, don't put distinction of the place type
and they only use the name of the place (yahoo) and the country where it is
housed, in this case France (. fr)
Names. Type (for example yahoo.com)
The places of USA don't take distinction of the country like in the previous
case, only the category of the same one (that don't use the first ones), in this
case it is a commercial place (. com). Other category for the places, besides
the commercial ones, they are educational places (. edu), government places (.
gov), organizations without ends of lucre (. org).
Names. Type. Country (for example yahoo.com.ar)
Yahoo.com.ar is a commercial place (. com) of Argentina (. ar). Argentina,
among other countries uses the explanation of the category of the place so
much, as the acronym of the country. It is worth to clarify that an Argentinean
place can be housed or to have the domain of USA, in which case it won't take.
ar
It is very important to write the addresses correctly, since an error of a letter, a
space, a script, etc will cause an error and the requested page won't open up.
Behind the extension other words separated by the symbol can appear / (it
sweeps inverse diagonal). This means that the address remits to a certain page
inside a place of great size. For example, www.infoclima.com.ar/prono.asp
takes to the page of presage of the time of the place commercial Argentinean
infoclima.
HOW DO I CONSENT TO A PLACE, THEN?
If he/she knows the address of the place Web that wants to visit, simply write it
in the square ADDRESS located in the superior part of the screen and press
[ENTER]

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If he/she has already written before this address, this will appear in a clever
desplegable, next to other, and he will have enough it with making CLICK in
her.?

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