lady's
Webtv Tips & Tricks
Here are a few of
the tips and tricks that i have learned.
These tricks only work for WebTv. Hope
you have fun with these. If you have
any tips or tricks of your own, send
them to me and i will put them here and
give you credit.
The
following are
shortcuts. Press your goto button and
erase http:// and type in one of the
following. These are especially helpful
when WebTv is down for maintenance.
Click on the addy to see where it takes
you.
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To find the address of an
image,
just hit your goto button and click on
"show current". The address will be
displayed in your goto
box.
To find the address of
a sound file, hit your goto
button and
click on "show last" after the music has
started playing. The address will be
displayed in you goto box.
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If you are sending mail to another
webtv user, it is not necessary to add
the @webtv.net. Just type the name and
webtv will do the rest.
If
you are sending a page to yourself or
someone via your send key, it is not
necessary to use the "edit message"
function to write a little note. Just
type the persons email addy and then
immediately behind the addy, you can do
this: yourfriend@webtv.net(this is a
great page. Hope you like it.) This
message will appear behind their addy.
Really saves time for me.
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If you are using a "wired" keyboard
with your WebTv the F-keys are as
follows:
- F1-Power on/off
- F2-Favorites
- F3-Search
- F4-Mail
- F5-Find
- F6-Info
- F7-Goto
- F8-Save
- F9-Send
- F10-Recent
- F11-Options
- F12-nothing
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If you are viewing a page and
things seem to be moving slowly, or you
get a message like "This item contains
too much information" or "This page is
too big to be shown completely", chances
are your "cache" needs clearing. Your
"cache" is the amount of space that your
Webtv has for memory. If you have been
surfing for awhile or viewing pages with
alot of images, you will surely get this
message.
To clear your cache,
simply "switch users". You don't really
have to switch. You can re-enter with
the same user. Remember though, you
will lose anything that you have active
in your copy, cut, & paste. As well as,
your "recent" pages, so be sure to
either save the page or write down the
addy so that you can return to it before
you switch users.
Sometimes your
cache will be too full to even return to
your homepage. If you try hitting your
"home" key and it doesn't get you there,
try this in your goto box--erase http://
and type wtv-tricks:home If that
doesn't work, you will have to power off
in order to clear your cache.
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How about a Copy, Cut, &
Paste lesson? It is one of the
greatest things you will ever learn for
surfing and making web pages. First I
will explain how to do it and then i
will give you a few instances where
C,C,P comes in really
handy.
First of all, every C,C,P
command will consist of pressing and
holding your "cmd" key and then
pressing another key at the same time.
If you are using a "wired" keyboard,
your "cmd" key probably won't say "cmd"
on it. On my "wired" keyboard, my "cmd"
key is the windows button. Play around
with the different keys with pictures on
them to see which key is your "cmd"
key.
Okay, here are the different C,C,P
commands:
- cmd+F--
- Brings up your "find"
box. When you type a word or phrase
in your "find" box and hit return, that
word or phrase will be highlighted on
that page.
- cmd+G--
- This will
highlight the "next" occurance of the
word or phrase in your find box.
- cmd+B--
- This will
highlight the "previous" occurance of
what is in your find box.
- cmd+A--
- This will
highlight "everything" on a page. If
you are in an input box, it will
highlight only what is in the input box.
- cmd+C--
- This will "copy"
everything that is highlighted.
- cmd+V--
- This will "paste"
whatever it was that you
copied into an input area, such as an
email that you are writing etc.
- cmd+X--
- Use this command
with caution. It will "cut"
out everything that is highlighted in a
text area. Two things happen when you
use this command. First everything that
is highlighted is copied and then "cut".
If you mistakenly "cut" something out
that you wanted, just keep your cursor
where it is and press cmd+V to put
it right back. Whew, that was
close.
Okay, ready to try them out??
Now here are a couple of
more commands that work with C,C,&P. To
highlight only a few words at a time,
place the cursor next to the words you
want to highlight in a "text area". Now
hold "shift" and press either the up,
down, left, or right
arrow.
Using
shift+right will highlight one
letter at a time moving to the right.
Using shift+left will highlight
one letter at a time moving backwards.
If you highlight a letter or so too
much, just keep holding "shift" and move
the cursor in the other direction to
un-highlight. (Is that a word?
un-highlight. Oh well, you know what i
mean.) <grin>.
Now lets try the new
commands
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Well, i hope that i have been of
some help to you. If you have any
questions, feel free to email me
here~~> ladyfeline
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care --- lady _>^..^<_
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