The mouse has two buttons.

The left button is used for selecting items from a list, dragging things around on the screen, performing actions.

The right button is used for creating drop down menus or lists that you can then choose from with the left click.

If you want to display information in columns one of the ways of laying out the data is to use tabs.

The tab key is the one that looks like this:

Tabs are pre-set points that the cursor moves to. They are used for aligning columns of text or figures.

In word pad there is only a left tab. Other word processors will give you access to more than this.

To set tab stops you click on the ruler at the top of the page where you them to go.

To move to the tab you press the tab key.

So the sequence is:

1. Set the tab stops you want to use. Set all of them before you start typing.
2. Press tab to move to the first one, type your text
3. Press tab to move to the next one then type
4. And so on
5. When you go to a new line with the enter key the tabs are carried forward.

To reuse a layout, for example letterhead, we need to save a copy of it and then after using it know how to save it as something else so that we do not lose the original.

To do this we need to understand the difference between "save" and "save as".

When we save some thing it has to have a name and a location, ie where we are saving it to.

We will be saving files to the My Documents folder.

In the box that says "File Name" towards the lower left you will notice some text highlighted. You just type the name of the document you are saving.

You DO NOT have to delete what is there already.

Once you have saved once, to save any updates just use the [Ctrl] button + S

To save something a second time with out replacing the original instead of selecting save we have to select save-as.

This then gives us the opportunity to save the document with another name, so we keep the original and the new.

To do this we go to file è save as

Give it a name

Select save

This way you have the original and a copy.

Retrieving a document is the similar to the above.

You go to file, open, locate the folder that contains your work, click on the document you want and select "open".