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To navigate this web site, you need to know about...
1. The scroll bar;
2. The "back" button; and
3. Links.
A scroll bar appears on the right side of this page. It is a vertical bar with an "up" arrow, a "down" arrow, and what we call a "pull tab" in between (right now it should be somewhere near the middle of the scroll bar). A scroll bar appears whenever you access a page of text that extends below the bottom of the screen. To see more of this document, for example, click repeatedly on the "down" arrow, or click and drag the "pull tab" downward. To move back toward the top of the document, use the "up" arrow or the "pull tab."
A "back" button should be visible near the top left of your screen. It is a function of the web browser that you are using to view this web site. The browser keeps track of your location as you navigate around the World Wide Web. Each time you click on the "back" button, your browser will jump back one screen. By clicking repeatedly on the "back" button you can review screens that you visited earlier in your viewing session and want to see again.
Finally, "links" are underlined words, like this one: link. They connect you to other pages in this web site, or to sites that are entirely different from this one. Whenever there is information that we think you might be interested in seeing, we put a link from our document to that information. If you want to see the information behind a link, click on it. Otherwise, skip it. To exit a linked document, use the "back" button.
Our Document Format
All ElderLinks documents are laid out in exactly the same way.
There's a "header" at the top. The header shows the name of the document you're viewing. For example, the header for this document is "Help," because that's what you're looking at -- ElderLinks Help.
A table of contents appears at the top of our longer documents. The table of contents lists the major sections of the document -- and each underlined item is a link. Click on one and you'll jump straight to that section of the document.
Each document section is set off with a divider like this one ...
and ends with a link like this one ...
Top of documentthat lets you jump back to the table of contents.
Finally, the update lines at the bottom of the document tell you when the document was last modified and who made the changes. If the author's name is underlined, that means you can click on it and send the author an e-mail message with comments or questions about the document. We encourage you to use this e-mail feature. Our authors are always interested in feedback from their ElderLinks constituency! To send an e-mail message to CWAG, as opposed to an individual document author, click on the "Comments" link at the bottom of any document table of contents. We'd be happy to hear from you.
Last updated: August 1, 1997
By: Gail Schwersenska