When You Need a Second Window

So far, whenever you have clicked on a link on a Web page, a new page has appeared in your Explorer window. Sometimes it's handy to have more than one Web window open for viewing. This is especially true in a tutorial like this where you need to explore a site and not lose your place.

How to Open a Second Window

You can have the new page show in a second window by using your mouse button. Try this short exercise.

How to Open a New Window
Explorer 5.0-5.5 - Win95/98/NT	Right-click Menu
Point mouse arrow at this link. See the hand? Click on the RIGHT mouse button. Choose Open in New Window

New Window Exercise

The following is a sampling of the Reference resources available on the Net - dictionaries, thesauri, atlases, phone books. Go to at least one of these sites by opening a second window (hold down the mouse button). Close the window when you are finished.

• Bartleby: Great Books Online: Bartleby publishes reference works and literature online - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901 edition), Oxford Shakespeare (1914), Columbia Encyclopedia (2000) - and many more.

• Webster's Dictionary: Here's a dictionary you can search. It will also give you a Word for the Day, and a Word for the Wise.

• The RefDesk: You could spend days here checking dictionaries, thesarui, acronym guides, travel information and more.

Where to next?

Save the address of The Virtual Reference Desk for use again by Adding Favorites.