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Chapter 5 Field Guide to Buttons, Bars, Boxes, Folders, and Files In This Chapter B Looking at a typical window B Getting into bars B Changing borders B Getting to know the button family B Disregarding the dopey Control-menu button B Exploring dialog box stuff: Text boxes, drop-down list boxes, list boxes, and other gibberish B Finding out how to open a file B Changing your folder viewing options B Knowing when to click and when to double-click B Knowing when to use the left mouse button and when to use the right mouse button s children, just about all of us played with elevator buttons until our parents told us to knock it off. An elevator gives such an awe- some feeling of power: Push a little button, watch the mammoth doors slide shut, and feel the responsive push as the spaceship .oor begins to surge upward. . . . What fun! Part of an elevator’s attraction still comes from its simplicity. To stop at the third .oor, you merely press the button marked 3. No problems there. Windows XP takes the elevator button concept to an extreme, unfortu- nately, and it loses something in the process. First, some of the Win- dows XP buttons don’t even look like buttons. Most of the Windows XP buttons have ambiguous little pictures on them rather than clearly A
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