Practice - Try These

1. Word-Processing Files
   Try opening each of the following files
   compjobs.htm       compjobs.lwp      compjobs.doc   
              compjobs.pdf         compjobs.rtf      compjobs.wps
   For each, answer the following questions:
   (a) What file-type is it (according to the extension)?
   (b) Can the computer open it - e.g. can you read it?
   (c) If it opens, can you edit (change) it?
   (d) Is it possible to save it back on the web-site?
   (e) Open the file compjobs.doc.  Save it on drive D: as a Microsoft Word .DOC file.  Start WordPad (in[Start/Programs/Accessories]).
    Now try to open the document you saved.  What happens?
   What "went wrong" when you opened the document in WordPad? 
    
2. Moving Files
   Open the web-site http://www.sova.org/  and save the web-page.
   (a)  According to the good advice in the notes, what should do before saving the file?
   (b) According to the good advice, where should you save the file?
   (c) According to the good advice, what would be a good file-name?
   (d) Get a diskette from the teacher (free!) and copy this web-page onto the diskette.  Then move to a different computer (swap with a neighbor) and open the file.  Did it work?  If not, what's wrong?
   (e) Describe a better way to "take a web-site home" with you.

3. Find a copy of the colored schedule you made back in August.  
   (a)  Was it easy to find?  What made it easy or what made it hard?
   (b)  Log-in to your HotMail or Yahoo account, and email a copy of your colored schedule to yourself.  (If you don't have one, send some other file as an attachment).
    
4. Log-off and log-in again as a different user - if you were logged in as Lab329, then use your own account, or Lab325.
   (a) Do you still have access to the same D: drive?
   (b) Do you still have access to the same Z: drive?
   (c) Does the floppy-diskette drive still work?
   (d) Do you still have access to the Internet?
   (e) Can you still log-in to your Yahoo or HotMail account?
   (f)  Can you retrieve the colored schedule you sent (above)?
    
5. Open the file compjobs.doc .  Add your name at the top of the page.
   Without saving, press the small reset button on the computer.
   Reboot (restart) and log-in again as the same user.  Start MS-Word. (a)  Can you recover the document you were working on when the reset-button was pressed?  
   (b)  Do you think it is possible that you are someone else might accidentally press the reset button when you are working?
   (c)  Describe some other "accident" that might cause your computer to stop working suddenly, without warning.