1. Open Netscape Navigator Alias from the Apple Menu. This brings up the Netscape Welcome screen. After you leave this screen, you can return to it easily by clicking on the Home button (see below). In Netscape you only need to click once in order to initiate a command or function. Avoid multiple clicking or scrolling too fast which can cause Netscape to freeze up and you will have to shut down your computer!
2. If this is your first time using Netscape, you might wish to take the Guided Tour: scroll and click where appropriate. Note that any text underlined and/or highlighted is a link; that is, by clicking once you can link up to the specified internet site.
3. For a full explanation of all of the buttons, click on Handbook. This brings up the Netscape Navigator Handbook where you will find explanations of the Toolbar Buttons and Directory Buttons and more.
4. Toolbar Buttons: Some of the most-used buttons are Back, Print, Open, Find (which is used to search for something on the current Netscape page, e.g. a title, quotation, etc.), and Home. If you want to go to the previous screen or displayed page, click the Back button. If you wish to go to the next page, click the Forward button. If you wish to go to the opening Netscape screen (called Netscape Welcome under the GO menu), click the Home button. If you have a World Wide Web address you wish to go to, click on the Open button on the toolbar. Type the entire address (e.g. http://www.wsu.edu) and click Open: it will take you to the address you specified. Once your site has been opened, you can use the Find button to search for keywords, etc.
5. Directory Buttons: The Handbook and Net Search buttons are the most frequently used. See above, #3, for information about the on-line handbook Netscape Navigator Handbook. Use the Net Search button to access the various search engines such as Yahoo, Infoseek, Lycos, etc.that can be used with Netscape to search the Internet for specific information, a site, or a company. Note that Lycos does not use the boolean operator "and" (it is ignored) which makes it harder to narrow down your search (for ex.: searching for three dog night will find anything with three or dog or night in it!). If you have difficulty in narrowing down your search terms, you might try searching first by category (Music, Education, etc.). You can use "and" in Yahoo.
6. Menus at the very top of the screen can be pulled down in the normal way. Use the GO pull-down menu to return to a previously viewed site, even if many pages "back."
7. If you find something on Internet you wish to keep, you may copy it and insert into a Word document.
a. Open Word document.
b. Highlight text on Internet.
c. Click Copy under Edit menu.
d. Toggle to Word document using upper right hand icon.
e. Click Paste under Edit.
f. Click Save under File menu.
8. Printing: You may print by clicking on the Print button or by pulling down the File menu and selecting Print. In Netscape you can not print from one page to another, so beware: you can only print the entire set of pages viewed after scrolling to the bottom.
9. Under Options menu, select Show Location if it is not already selected. The location bar will appear under the tool bar. It is useful to know the address of your current page in case you find something of interest and wish to return to it later.
10. If you find a page you wish to come back to later, you may insert a bookmark which will make it quicker to return to that site/address.
a. Under Bookmarks menu click Add Bookmarks.
b. Go to View Bookmarks under same menu. Your new bookmark
will be listed here.
*Note: Adding Bookmarks is specific to each computer. If you wish to return to the bookmark at a later time, you must be at the same terminal you used when you created it! (In HRC bookmarks may have to be deleted by the staff when too many are found on a Mac, or someone else may delete your bookmark, so always write down the address for your own reference.)
Warning: The Netscape's e-mail feature does not always work
because the Internet is too busy. If you compose an e-mail message and are
unable to send it out of Netscape, you will have to copy it into a Word
document (or into Eudora if you have that open) or you will simply lose
it. Always open Mail and News Preferences... under the Options
menu and delete your name and address before shutting down the Mac.