Help for First-Time Users

If the Home page does not fit on your computer screen, click here on Computer Requirements and Settings.

This guide provides convenient access to a wide range of security, counterintelligence, technical vulnerability, and employee assistance information. It is all quickly accessible by clicking with the left mouse button on the appropriate underlined text on the Home page. To sample the information available in this program, check out the Know-It-All's Security Quiz.

For help in learning how to navigate your way through the large volume of information, click on the following underlined blue text -- Navigational Tools. If you need to adjust the settings on your computer, see Computer Requirements and Settings. Other information is available under Copy and Paste, Print, and Bookmarks or Favorites.

You may use this program like an encyclopedia, looking up specific subjects of interest. Or you may read through parts of it like a book to increase your overall understanding of security and counterintelligence issues. If you are reading large sections of the program, you may find it easier to print out these sections and read the hard copy.

Computer Requirements and Settings

Maximize Screen: If this program does not fit well on your screen, make sure that the screen size is maximized. Click on the maximize screen button, which in most systems is found in the upper right corner of your screen.

If you are viewing this program within another program that has a contents or navigation frame on the left side of your screen, the border that separates that frame from this program may be adjustable. Move the cursor to the border line. If arrows appear, you may drag the border to the left to allow more space for this program.

Adjust Type Size: The size of the type that you see depends upon the font setting in your browser and the screen resolution setting in your computer's control panel.

To change the font setting in your browser, follow these directions. In Netscape Navigator 3, go to the Options menu, select General Preferences, and then click the Fonts button. In Netscape Navigator or Communicator 4, go to the Edit menu, select Preferences, then click on Fonts. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can change the size of the font by clicking on Font in the toolbar.

To adjust the screen resolution, check with your systems administrator.

Browser Toolbars: To increase usable screen size, you may wish to hide unused toolbars from the top or bottom of your browser screen. In Netscape 3, for example, the Directory Buttons can be deactivated in the Options menu. Netscape 4 uses different terms for the same thing. Go to the View menu and select Hide Personal Toolbar.

Frames: A few screens in this program are divided into three sections called "frames." The guide requires a browser that reads frames, such as Netscape Navigator 2.0 or better or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or better. If your browser cannot read frames, you will be unable to use the Know-It-All's Security Quiz. Consider updating your browser.

Navigational Tools

Blue Text: This program uses hypertext, a point-and-click system for navigating rapidly through a large web of interrelated information. Underlined blue text (or underlined white text on a blue background) indicates a link to a related topic. Move the cursor to the underlined blue text. As the cursor passes over the blue text, the cursor icon changes to a hand with a pointed finger. With the pointed finger on the underlined text, a single click with the left mouse button activates the link and brings that topic to the screen.

Table of Contents: Each major module has a table of contents. Topics in a table of contents are in underlined blue text, which means they are linked to the text that covers that topic. Clicking in the table of contents is one means of navigating through the guide.

Scroll Bar: The scroll bar at the right side of your screen may be used to scroll through any single page (file). Click on the arrow at the bottom of the scroll bar to view the part of the page that extends below the screen. Click on the up arrow to move back up. The quickest way to scroll down to the navigation buttons at the bottom of each page is to press and hold the Page Down key on the keyboard, rather than using the scroll bar.

Back/Browser Toolbar: A click on the Back button in the browser toolbar takes you back to the previously viewed location. With repeated clicks on Back, you continue moving back to retrace your steps. However, this Back button is not always predictable. If you have been moving around within a single file or document, the browser Back button may take you back to the previously viewed document, rather than to the previous location within the same document.

Back/Right Mouse Button: Netscape and Internet Explorer starting with version 4.0 have an additional and often better way of returning to your previous location. A single click with the right mouse button brings up a dialog box with a choice of moving back or forward. Clicking the right mouse button on Back returns you to your previous location. This is more predictable than the Back button on the browser toolbar.

Navigational Buttons: Navigational buttons are located at the bottom of each page. A single click with the left mouse button on the appropriate navigational button takes the user to the specified location. To move quickly to the navigation buttons at the bottom of the page, press and hold the Page Down key on the keyboard. This is usually faster than using the scroll bar.

Copy and Paste

To select and copy text, hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor across the desired text. Then click on copy in the browser Edit menu. The text may then be pasted into any word processing program.

Print

To print, click on Print in the browser tool bar, or select Print from the browser Edit menu. You will see a Print Dialog Box that enables you to choose a printer, determine number of copies, and define a print range – either all the file or only selected pages. You do not have the option you would find in a word processing program of printing only a portion of text that you have selected or highlighted.

There is no way to print the entire program at once. Each topic (file) must be printed individually. To check what will appear in a printout use the scroll bar. Any part of the document that you can scroll to will be included in the printout.

Bookmarks or Favorites

You may create a shortcut for returning to a major topic area that you refer to frequently. While in the topic, go to the Bookmarks menu in Netscape Navigator/Communicator or the Favorites menu in Microsoft Internet Explorer. In Netscape Navigator/Communicator, select Add Bookmark in this menu. In Internet Explorer, select Add to Favorites. To return to that topic the next time you use the guide, go to the same menu and select the topic.

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