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Dutch Eagle Fan · **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:19 pm

skygirlblue wrote:

Gosh...I had totally forgotten about the mouse wheel...thanks DEF...I think the reason I don't use that one as much is because I go crazy with the scroll wheel and before I know it, I'm up to 500%...its scary!! :lol:

In FireFox there is a key combination to reset the default size : Ctrl+0 (zero), that will bring everything back to normal :wink:

In IE7 you simply click on 100% in the drop-down menu at the bottom right of the window.

PruJoy · **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:48 pm

And what a clever thing that is too - the "Falcon Button" for links - how did you do that :?:

SGB - it was you wasn't it :?:

You have created a wonderful place for us all - thanks again, more flowers ~ :thanku

catwoman · **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:20 pm

PruJoy wrote:

And what a clever thing that is too - the "Falcon Button" for links - how did you do that :?:

SGB - it was you wasn't it :?:

You have created a wonderful place for us all - thanks again, more flowers ~ :thanku

I agree that SGB has created a wonderful place for all of us, but I must have duhhed out--where can I find out how to use the falcon button?

SusanE · **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:32 pm

catwoman, you can create the falcon button for any of your links by using the BBCode "click" which is right next to the "center" code.

Yes, it was our very clever skygirlblue who gave us the falcon button for links.

catwoman · **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:55 pm

SusanE wrote:

catwoman, you can create the falcon button for any of your links by using the BBCode "click" which is right next to the "center" code.

Yes, it was our very clever skygirlblue who gave us the falcon button for links.

Thanks, Susan! I did try the "click" button, but put gibberish between the clicks & previewed & it didn't work. Guess you actually have to use a link. I just did & it worked! How clever!

ljames · **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:06 am

I totally didn't know about the control + or the mouse wheel. Last night, my 7 yr old niece was doing something on my computer and rolling that mouse wheel like crazy. Evidently, I'm way behind her on tech knowledge. I'm thinking about asking her to teach me some things. :oops:

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:46 pm

Here's a neat trick I just learned. If you have a PC and use IE 7, press the F11 key and see what happens! To access your address bar, search engine box, tabs, etc. just move your cursor to the top of your screen and it reappears. Pressing F11 returns your screen to its original state. 8-)

catwoman · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:10 pm

SusanE wrote:

Here's a neat trick I just learned. If you have a PC and use IE 7, press the F11 key and see what happens! To access your address bar, search engine box, tabs, etc. just move your cursor to the top of your screen and it reappears. Pressing F11 returns your screen to its original state. 8-)

Neat tip, Susan--thank you! :thanku

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 63238

Now that was cool, Susan!!!

birdmusic · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:09 pm

SusanE wrote:

Here's a neat trick I just learned. If you have a PC and use IE 7, press the F11 key and see what happens! To access your address bar, search engine box, tabs, etc. just move your cursor to the top of your screen and it reappears. Pressing F11 returns your screen to its original state. 8-)

I just tried it in Firefox. It does the same thing. I didn't know about that! Thanks!

Catbird · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:39 am

birdmusic wrote:

SusanE wrote:

Here's a neat trick I just learned. If you have a PC and use IE 7, press the F11 key and see what happens! To access your address bar, search engine box, tabs, etc. just move your cursor to the top of your screen and it reappears. Pressing F11 returns your screen to its original state. 8-)

I just tried it in Firefox. It does the same thing. I didn't know about that! Thanks!

I didn't know about that either! I just tried it with my Mac and Firefox, and the F11 trick works there also . . . the only difference is that after clicking F11 to make the browser window virtually disappear, all I have to do to make it reappear in its original size is to click one of the thin bars (on the far left or the top of my screen)!

Thanks Susan!

SusanE · **Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:20 am

Have any of you noticed that sometimes your smilie does not show up on a post, but instead just the words, like this:D

To correct that, just edit your post and place a space before the colon. Voila, your smilie is now visible.

SusanE · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:58 pm

Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the choice of font colors and am never really sure what color I'm getting when I click on a tiny box. So, I decided to make this list of codes with its corresponding color. I also bolded them so they'd be easier to see:

Row 1: 000000.....000040.....000080.....0000BF.....0000FF
Row 2: 004000.....004040.....004080.....0040BF.....0040FF
Row 3: 008000.....008040.....008080.....0080BF.....0080FF
Row 4: 00BF00.....00BF40.....00BF80.....00BFBF.....00BFFF
Row 5: 00FF00.....00FF40.....00FF80.....00FFBF.....00FFFF

Row 6: 400000.....400040.....400080.....4000BF.....4000FF
Row 7: 404000.....404040.....404080.....4040BF.....4040FF
Row 8: 408000.....408040.....408080.....4080BF.....4080FF
Row 9: 40BF00.....40BF40.....40BF80.....40BFBF.....40BFFF
Row10: 40FF00.....40FF40.....40FF80.....40FFBF.....40FFFF

Row11: 800000.....800040.....800080.....8000BF.....8000FF
Row12: 804000.....804040.....804080.....8040BF.....8040FF
Row13: 808000.....808040.....808080.....8080BF.....8080FF
Row14: 80BF00.....80BF40.....80BF80.....80BFBF.....80BFFF
Row15: 80FF00.....80FF40.....80FF80.....80FFBF.....80FFFF

Row16: BF0000.....BF0040.....BF0080.....BF00BF.....BF00FF
Row17: BF4000.....BF4040.....BF4080.....BF40BF.....BF40FF
Row18: BF8000.....BF8040.....BF8080.....BF80BF.....BF80FF
Row19: BFBF00.....BFBF40.....BFBF80.....BFBFBF.....BFBFFF
Row20: BFFF00.....BFFF40.....BFFF80.....BFFFBF.....BFFFFF

Row21: FF0000.....FF0040.....FF0080.....FF00BF.....FF00FF
Row22: FF4000.....FF4040.....FF4080.....FF40BF.....FF40FF
Row23: FF8000.....FF8040.....FF8080.....FF80BF.....FF80FF
Row24: FFBF00.....FFBF40.....FFBF80.....FFBFBF.....FFBFFF
Row25: FFFF00.....FFFF40.....FFFF80.....FFFFBF.....FFFFFF

PruJoy · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:28 pm

WOW - SusanE - that is incredible :shock:

So we can just type in the code for a particular color instead of clicking on the little box for it

So once we have memorised what our favorite color codes are that should be a quick & handy way to color our posts - I get it (I think

)

Well, I think I need more tips as to how to use the codes - I just tried typing [color=0080BF] but it didn't work out that way - :help:

SusanE · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:11 pm

Pru, you will still need to have the beginning code and the ending code around your text, but if you don't like the color that you've clicked on, you can simply edit the code number to the one you like.

Dutch Eagle Fan · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:17 pm

You also have to type the closing tag [/color]

Code:

[color=#800080] This is the opening tag and after the text you see the closing tag [/color]

With all these extra colors you can make a nice coloured text with gradients:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Click on "QUOTE" to see how I did it. :idea:

When you put your mouse on the little color blocks the number for that color should show, and don't forget the number is ALWAYS preceded by #

PruJoy · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:39 pm

Dutch Eagle Fan wrote:

You also have to type the closing tag [/color]

Code:

[color=#800080] This is the opening tag and after the text you see the closing tag [/color]

With all these extra colors you can make a nice coloured text with gradients:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Click on "QUOTE" to see how I did it. :idea:

When you put your mouse on the little color blocks the number for that color should show, and don't forget the number is ALWAYS preceded by #

A Ha! I didn't include the "#" - yippee, now it will work - thanks for this DEF & SusanE :mrgreen:

Catbird · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:04 pm

Wow, such cool stuff! Thanks, Susan and DEF, for those color text tips!

Beth · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:09 pm

Susan and DEF ...

SusanE · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:57 pm

Thanks Dutch Eagle Fan for explaining these color codes better than I did.

I also learned how to get the code to show rather than activate and disappear. :idea:

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