The Official Site of Square Foot Gardening and Mel Bartholomew, Originator and Author

Computer Tips

Scrolling-   Ain't it a pain? We try on our site to have separate pages you can click to go back or NEXT to go forward. When you do have to scroll, my first choice is the DOWN ARROW button on your keyboard, or UP ARROW button to return. To go real fast, my choice is the PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN         button on your keyboard, just a touch or hold down, and my 3rd choice is hold a left click with the curser on the right side bar gliding it up or down at your own speed. Some people like to use the wheel on the mouse but I find it tiring on my fingers. My last choice is to try to keep the curser on the bottom, but that's a pain. Try to find what suits you best.

Printing-   Because we have a separate left side MENU, when you click on the icon PRINT, that menu prints first and separately from probably the page you want. Try this if you don't want that to happen. First left click once anywhere on the actual page you want to print, then left click on the printing icon, and it will print just the page you clicked on and not the menu. Follow the same sequence if you use the File icon to do the printing.

Printing E-mail-  I learned finally how to print out e-mail without all the garbage, ads, and extraneous headings on the email page. At least on yahoo and I think others, you click on Printable View and it will eliminate all the non message parts. You still get the from and to information and subject with date. Quite often with the elimination of the garbage, the entire message fits on 1 page, saving extra printing costs. Try it.

If our Website doesn't fit in your Screen-

You can change the Screen Resolution on your computer so you can view the whole screen instead of having half of the screen cut off. To change your resolution you can Right Click on your desktop, then click on properties. The properties windows will appear. At the top of that screen you will see a set of tabs. Click on Settings Tab. From the Settings Tab you can move the slider bar to the right increasing your screen area. This will allow you to see Square Foot Gardens website without the screen being cutoff. After setting your screen resolution, simply click on the OK button at the bottom which will change your settings. If this sounds a little complicated, then I would suggest you print this out before you try to make the changes.

Photo Attachement won't open -

Sometimes an attached photo will not open when it is sent with an email. It's there, but it just shows up as a open box with a "x" in the upper left hand corner. You can open it by doing the following:

Do a right click on the x.

A drop down menu will appear.

Right or left click on "show photo."

If not, repeat above steps, and the photo should appear.

If A Link Doesn't Open-

If you left click with your mouse on a link or web address and nothing happens try a right click, a drop down menu shows up and then click on “open window” with either a right or left click. That should open the desired item much quicker.

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