Fact Sheet 143



Fact Sheet 143

1st October 2004

From: Judy Goodlet, BBC Radio Solent



The sheet is all about Wallpaper this week - and not a bucket of paste in sight!

For Beginners:

How about changing the picture in the background of the first screen you see when you turn on the computer (the screen is called the Desktop, the background is "Wallpaper".

In Windows, when you are looking at the Desktop, right click your mouse. On a Mac you go tot eh apple menu, top left - then it's properties, desktop.

From the "Picture" menu select a picture, or you can "browse" to a picture of your own.

The "Position" feature lets you stretch the picture to fill the whole screen, tile it (which gives you many, repeating squares) or centre it (you'll have a smallish picture in the middle of the screen).

If you click "Apply" you can see what the picture will look like before you leave the window - you can change your mind more easily that way!

For Business Users:

Why not have a corporate desktop - with your logo on it. As long as the logo has been saved as a Bitmap file (.bmp) for Windows, a Tiff file for the Mac you will be able to "browse" to the file to use it.

If you created the logo with the drawing tools in a package such as Word you will need to copy and paste it into a picture package (such as Microsoft Paint), where it will automatically save in the correct format for you.

For Solent Surfers:

If you're looking at a webpage in Internet Explorer and like a picture on it, click on the picture, then click your right mouse button and select "Set AS Background".

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