Edit menu

First three entries in Edit pull-down menu are standard Edit entries in most Windows 95/98 applications:

• Copy -- Hold left mouse button down and drag cursor across some text. Text is highlighted by putting it into reverse video. Clicking Copy entry puts this text into text "buffer" so that it may be used later.

• Paste -- Equivalent to typing text in text "buffer" into application at point where cursor is currently located.

• Cut -- Both copies and removes text from an application. Cannot be used with Web pages.

• Find in Page... -- Brings up little box labelled "Find what:". Type in character(s), word, or phrase that you want to find in current Web page. Can search multiple times for same phrase, match case exactly, and search both forward and backward in document.

• Preferences -- Brings up window with lot of choices that you can make to set up Web browser to work exactly way you want. Some major Preferences include:

• Appearance -- On this page you can choose whether you want buttons to be "Pictures and Text", "Pictures Only", or "Text Only".

• Fonts -- Choose style and size of font to be used for both Variable Width (normal) text and Fixed Width (special typewriter-like) text.

• Colors -- Choose colors to be used for text (default is black), background (default is white), unvisited links (Web pages you have not visited recently -- default is blue), and visited links (Web pages you have visited recently -- default is purple).

• Navigator -- Specify "home page" you want displayed whenever Netscape Navigator is started or whenever you click "Home" button. Also, specify how many days must pass since you last visited Web page before it is to be considered unvisited.

• Mail & Groups -- There are several screens of information that must be provided if you want to use Netscape to send and/or retrieve email for you. Major items involve specifying your name, return email address, and outgoing and incoming mail server information.

• Advanced -- Specify whether you want images loaded automatically (default as opposed to asking for images to be loaded later when you find an interesting Web page) and whether you want to accept or reject cookies.

• Cache -- Specify size of your memory and disk cache. (Probably best not to change from default sizes unless you really know what you are doing.) Also specify how often you want to check with server to see whether newer version of Web page is available and should be sent by server:
  "Once per session" is default and checks Web pages first time each is accessed after starting up browser.
  "Every time" asks appropriate server to check time and date of current Web page every time you access page.
  "Never" instructs your Web browser always to used cache copy if available and only to go to appropriate server if particular Web page is no longer available in either memory or disk cache.