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This section is devoted to those individuals who are working on a Macintosh computer when logged on to the Internet. As well, it provides handy tips and shortcut tricks on how to use the Internet as a resource to its full potential. It also explains shortcuts which allow you to perform specific functions much more rapidly and far more easily than step-by-step procedures.

Simply click on an underlined link below to gain access to the explanation:

BOOKMARK FOLDERS:
You can collapse and expand Bookmark window folders by clicking on the triangles beside the title of the folder or by double-clicking on the folders. Currently, there is a limit of 80 hierarchical menus.

BOOKMARK SHORTCUTS:
Bookmark shortcut icons enable you to double-click on a desktop icon to open Netscape with a particular page automatically loaded. The shortcut icon functions as a stand-alone Bookmark, opening the Netscape application (if necessary) and displaying on screen the page whose URL is stored as part of the shortcut. You can store and manipulate shortcut icons like other Finder icons.

CREATING SHORTCUTS:
To create a Bookmark shortcut, drag the page icon from the Bookmark window onto the desktop. Note that you can create an HTML copy of a page by dragging and dropping a page link onto the desktop. However, a copy of a page is a text file and differs from a Bookmark to a page.

Once you have created the Bookmark shortcut icon, you can leave it on your desktop and double-click on the icon to automatically open the shortcut page at anytime. You can also open the page by dragging and dropping the icon onto the Netscape window. Even if the Netscape application is not running, you can drag and drop the shortcut icon on top of the Netscape application icon to open Netscape with the shortcut page automatically loaded.

DOCUMENT INFO:
This menu item provides a more detailed list for a programmer, with the specifics of a particular document. Among the details listed, are such elements as the location of the site (URL), the file type it is created in (i.e. HTML), when it was last modified, the length of the content, when the document expires if at all (i.e. the timeliness of the information presented on screen) and whether or not the page is security protected.

DRAG-AND-DROP-SUPPORT:
In addition to drag-and-drop bookmarks, you can also drag a page link (URL) onto the main window to load a page. You can also drag a page link from your History window. Dragging and dropping a page link onto the desktop saves the page as an HTML text file.

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:

Press page-up, page-down with the up-arrow or down-arrow to vertically scroll the main window. Press command-left arrow to go back. Press command-right arrow to go forward Press tab to move the cursor among form fields. Hold down Option when clicking on a Link to load a page to disk rather than to the screen. Hold down Option when choosing the File|Open File menu item to allow Netscape to open any local file (files of all types are displayed in the file dialog).

MULTIPLE USERS ON A SINGLE MACINTOSH:
Each user can have a personal preferences file by creating a separate copy of the Netscape Preferences folder in the System Folder found on your hard drive. Launch Netscape by double-clicking on the Netscape Preferences file.

NEWS:
Before posting news or sending mail, you must set up your name and email address in the News panel. You might get an out-of-memory error message when trying to view a large newsgroup or newsgroup listing. News files are stored in the News folder within the System's Netscape preferences folder.

SAVING FILES:

To Disk
You can also save a page to disk without displaying the page on screen. Position the mouse over a Link or image, then hold down the button to produce a pop-up menu with the items Save this Link as and Save this Image as for saving a file. Clicking on any Link with the Option key also produces a save dialog box.

To Hard Drive
Saving a file to your hard drive allows you to display the page's information without any network connection. You can choose File|Open File to display the HTML- formatted text or graphic image of any local file saved in Source format (though a page's Inline Images might be replaced with icons).

On Macintosh, GIF and JPEG images are available in the Open File dialog, though for other nontext files to show up, you'll need to hold down the Option key while selecting the Open File menu item.

SCREEN:
The most suitable screen size for viewing the COS Web site is standard, 832 x 624, 75Hz. This can be adjusted by going under the Apple menu, Control Panels, Options and then selecting the size.

SELECTING TEXT ON A GRAYSCALE MONITOR:
You might not be able to see selected text if the selected text color looks like Netscape's default background color (light gray). To correct this, you can change your Netscape background, or open your Control Panels desk accessory and use the Color dialog to choose a lighter highlight color, such as yellow, or a darker one, such as red. These default to sufficiently lighter or darker grays to give contrast to selected text.

STOP:
To interrupt the transfer of a page, press the Stop button or choose the Go|Stop Loading menu item. Interrupting by command-period might result in additional error messages.

URL IN"GET INFO" BOX:
Whenever you download a file to disk (using the pop-up menu item or clicking on a Link with the Option key held down), Netscape tries to set the comment field in the Finder's/Get Info dialog box to the URL of the file.