Introduction to the Windows XP The Complete Reference E-book

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Introduction to the E-Book

Welcome to Windows XP: The Complete Reference e-book! This CD-ROM contains the complete text of the book as an interlinked set of Web-style pages. You can view these pages using Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera, or any other Web browser.

The Navigation Bar

Each e-book page has a Navigation Bar at the top and bottom with five buttons. (You may have to scroll the page up to see them.) Buttons available on the current page are displayed in red, while unavailable buttons are gray. Click any of the available buttons to move to another part of the book.

Click Previous and Next to Read Pages in Order

If you want to read the e-book pages in the same order in which they appear in the book, click the Next link at the top of each e-book page to move to the next page in the chapter. The Previous link takes you to the previous e-book page in the chapter.

Click Chapter Guide for the list of topics in a chapter

To find a topic in the current chapter, use the link to the Chapter Guide--a list of the topics in that chapter. Click a topic to read about it.

Click Book Guide for the Table of Contents

To find a specific chapter in the book, use the Book Guide link, which provides a table of contents for the entire book. When you click a chapter title, you see the Chapter Guide page for that chapter.

Click Glossary for Finding Topics

The Glossary provides an alphabetical list of Windows-related and Internet-related terms. From the Glossary page, click the link for the first letter of the term, then click the term to display the page of the e-book that introduces that term. The topic you are looking for may not appear on the screen immediately: you may have use your browser's search command (usually Edit | Find) to find it on the page.

Search the E-book to Find Any Word or Phrase

What if the word or phrase you are looking for doesn't appear in the Glossary? Choose Start | Search (that is, click the Start button on the Windows XP Taskbar and choose Search from the menu that appears) to display the Search Results window. Click All Files And Folders, and type a word or phrase in the A Word Or Phrase In The File box. Set the Look In box to your CD-ROM drive (which is D: on most computers). Then click Search. Windows displays a list of the e-book pages that contain the word or phrase you typed. Double-click the name of a page to display that page.

If you can't find a word or phrase on an e-book page, you can ask your browser to search for it. Choose Edit | Find (or press CTRL-F), type the word or phrase into the Find What box, and click Find Next. Your browser highlights the text you typed where it appears on the web page.

Other Tips

The e-book also has useful links to pages on the World Wide Web. For example, if Microsoft's Web site has more information about a topic, we provide you with a clickable link to the page you want. We also provide Internet addresses for companies that provide Windows-compatible products and information. This book also has its own Web site (at http://net.gurus.com/winxptcr) where you'll find the latest Windows XP information we think you'll find useful.

For more information about viewing these pages using Internet Explorer, click this link to read the relevant section of the e-book.

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