Computer 101 (icons)

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> > If you still don't know which icons I'm talking about, I'll bet
that your toolbar has a little house for "Home," a printer for
"Print," a gear for "Tools," and a question mark in a circle for
"Help," among others. You can add two pieces of paper for "Copy," a
bottle of paste for "Paste," and a pair of scissors for "Cut."<snip>
> 
> Potioncat:
> Do you get the paper, paste and scissors at Staples or will K-Mart
do? But seriously, where do you find them to add to the tool bar. Or,
does it depend on the browser? 

Carol responds:
Oh, get them at a browser! They're free. Seriously, it does depend on
the browser. Netscape 7.2 doesn't have icons for cut/copy and paste; I
just use the Edit menu. Netscape 9 has icons, but except for Cut
(scissors), they don't obviously represent their functions lie the IE
ones do. (Copy and Paste both have what is probably the corner or a
piece of paper with an arrow pointing to or away from the paper. If I
forget which is which because my brain is in a fog, I have to use the
mouse pointer to see the labels.) 

But in IE, you click Tools (the one with the gear icon beside it, not
the one in the Menu Bar that says File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools,
Help) then go to Toolbars, then to Customize. You'll see two sets of
icons, those you already have and those you can add. Click Add or
Remove or Move Up or Move Down to arrange them the way you like.

In Netscape 9, you click View, then Toolbars, then Customize, and
drop-and-drag the icons you want to the toolbar using your mouse
pointer. I can't get Firefox to work (it's stuck in safe mode and
won't let me customize), but try clicking Customize and see what happens. 

Potioncat:
Why would you have two browers open at the same time?

Carol: because I always use Netscape and am comfortable using it, but
when I find a site that won't work because it's owned by Microsoft or
requires newer versions of Flash or Java that are incompatible with
Netscape 7.2 (because it's an old browser), I have to go to IE or
Netscape 9. And rather than typing in the URL for the page I need or
finding it in Favorites (if it's there), I need to be able to copy and
paste the URL. Before, I had to use the function key shortcuts (Alt-X
or whatever) which I could never remember or type in the URL. Now,
finally, I can paste them in easily thanks to the little icons. Then,
when I'm through with that site, I go back to Netscape, where I'm at
home and comfortable. It's like changing out of your high heels into
your fuzzy old slippers.

Potioncat: 
> My own computer question, sort of.
> 
> I just went into internet options and made a change that sped up the
computer. (Oh, the wonder of me!) But my options aren't the same as 
they are at work. At work I can delete cookies and temporary files. 
That doesn't seem to be case here. Does anyone know what I'm talking
about?

Carol:
What change did you make and which browser were you using?
> 
Potioncat: 
> BTW Carol, being a copyeditor sounds a lot like being a matchmaker
<snip>

Carol:
Actually, it's the agent who's the matchmaker, finding the right
publisher for a particular manuscript after the copyeditor, the
beautician, has cleaned and prettied it up (not to mention corrected
any factual errors, like Hawaii being east of the continental United
States!). Many manuscripts, of course, remain "unmatched" and never
see print because every agent and publisher they're presented to
rejects the poor ugly ducklings.

Carol, who will now have "Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match"
going through her head all day