Le Claire Computer Users Group (LCCUG)

November 4, 2008

LCCUG website www.LCCUG.US (note that this is a .US website not a .com)
Robert M. Jones, P.O. Box 46, Le Claire, IA 52753, phone 563-289-5647
e-Mail Robert@RM-Jones.com website www.RM-Jones.com

How to do things on the computer

Please note that this is the way I do it but there are other ways
Save Genealogy (and Other) Information From The WWW
1. Locate the information you want to copy on the WWW
2. Leaving the WWW window open, open your text editor.
3. Open (or create) the text file where you want to save the information.
4. You now have a window with the text file open and you also have a WWW window open
5. In the text file go to the end of the file, leave a blank line and enter a key word or phrase you want to be able to
find.
6. Hit “Enter” to go to the next line and leave the cursor there
7. Leave the text window open and go to the WWW window
8. While holding down the “Left” mouse key, drag and highlight the “address” of the web site in the “address bar”
9. “Right” click the highlighted area and select “Copy” from the pop up menu
10. Go back to the text file and “Right” click where the cursor is.
11. Select “Past” from the pop up window
12. Hit enter to go to the next line
13. Return to the WWW window
14. While holding down the “Left” mouse key, drag and highlight the part of the page you want to copy.
15. “Right” click the highlighted area and select “Copy” from the pop up menu
16. Go back to the text file and “Right” click where the cursor is.
17. Select “Past” from the pop up window
18. Hit enter to go to the next line
19. Save the text file
Use Saved Genealogy (and Other) Information From The WWW
1. Open the text file where the data is
2. Place the cursor at the start of the page
3. Click “Edit” in the top tool bar
4. Click “Find”.
5. Please note that instead of doing step 3 and 4 you can just hold down the “Ctrl” key and press the “F” key
6. In the “Find What” box enter the text or key word or phrase that you want to find
7. “Left” click the “Find Next” button
8. The text you are looking for will be highlighted
9. If you want to find more of the same word or text either press the “Find Next” button again. The next word or
phrase will now be highlighted.
10. The above will find lower case or capital letters. If you want to have the words or phrase found using capital
letters like you enter them “Left” click the “More” button and “Left” click in front of “Match case”
11. You can also use “Wild cards”, “Sounds like”, and “Find all word forms”
12. Wild cards are
a. “*”, without the quote marks, which means I don’t care what comes at this point or after this mark in this
word. In other words if you entered “fin*”, without the quote marks, it would find all words starting with
“fin” i.e. “fine” “find” “final” etc. Do not enter any letters or characters after the “*”
b. “?”, without the quote marks, which means I don’t care what comes in this one place. All other letters
and the length of the word will be just as you entered it
c. You can use a “?” at anyplace before a “*” but not after it.
13. “Sounds like” and “Find all word forms” do just what they sound like they will do.
14. If you use “Replace” or “Ctrl” “H” in step 5 and 6 instead of “Find” and “Ctrl” “F” you will come up with a
screen that looks and works almost like the above instructions. The difference is that you will have a “Find what”
field and a “Replace with” field. Here you can find and replace any text you want. Be careful with “Replace All”
unless you are sure you want to do that. It is better to “Find” and then “Replace” and then “Find” again.
Note this was written for MS Word. In OpenOffice the menu names will be a little different.