| Tips
for better searching. (click to go
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Use Double Quotes around words that are part of a phrase
example
"great barrier reef"
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Specify words that must appear in the results Attach a + in
front of words that must appear in result documents
example:
haemophilia +patients
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Specify words that should not appear in the results Attach
a - in front of words that must not appear in result documents
example:
python -monty
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| Searching
for websites/web pages or categories. (click
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With the Yahoo search engine you can choose to search in Yahoo's
categories i.e. science, art, entertainment, business, search
for websites or search for webpages |
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Similarly you can choose specific items to search in Altavista
i.e. websites, images & audio, news. You can also search by
language and by date |
| Bookmarking
a web page. (click to go back) |
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 To
bookmark a web page in Netscape Communicator, click here to
grab web page address and drop into Bookmarks |
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To
create a new bookmark folder go to Communicator, click on bookmarks,
and then click on Edit bookmarks. Go to File and click on New
Folder. Give the folder a name relevant to the bookmarks you
wish to add |
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Another
useful way to bookmark a web page is to press the Ctrl+D keys
simultaneously |
| Finding
information within a website. (click
to go back) |
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Most websites have an on site search facility and this can be
used in the same way as you would use a World Wide Web search
engine i.e. Yahoo or Altavista, Lycos and Excite |
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 You
can also search within a page by going to the Edit menu on your
Netscape toolbar and clicking on Find in page and typing in
the word you are looking for |
| Copying
and pasting text between applications. (click
to go back) |
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Open
a new document in Microsoft Word |
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Open
Netscape Navigator and go to the web page that contains the
text you would like to paste |
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Press
Ctrl+A to highlight the text on the whole page or hold the mouse
button over the bulk of text you wish to copy and past |
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Press
Ctrl+C to copy the text. Click on your new document in Microsoft
Word. Press Ctrl+V to paste the text into the new document.
The text may need some formatting |
| Printing
web pages. (click to go back) |
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The easiest way to print specific web pages is to click on the
File menu on your Netscape Navigator toolbar and click on Print
preview. This way you can see the page numbers by using the
magnifying glass and select the amount of pages or one specific
page to print |
| Saving
images. (click to go back) |
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If you want to save an image on a web page to your hard drive
right click on the image and choose Save Image As in the menu.
The Save As box will then appear and you can choose the file
destination where you wish to save the image |
