SUBMIT YOUR RESUME TO A WEB SITE

Once your have your resume saved to a floppy disk as a plain text file described in Part 3, bring it with you to the school lab and locate this Web page (Homework 4) with Netscape. Once you are here, copy your resume onto the system clipboard so that you can paste it on to the Web site submission form. If you are using a PC machine, this can be done with WordPad, a simple little word processor that is part of Windows 95. You can open up WordPad at the same time that you are running Netscape.

So, here is how you can copy your resume from your floppy disk on to the system clipboard when you are using a PC with Windows 95:

On the very far bottom-left corner of the screen, there is a button marked START. Click on it. When you click it, a list will pop up on to the screen. Find an item in this list called PROGRAMS. Click on it. This will cause another list to pop up on the screen. Now on that list, find an item near the top called ACCESSORIES and click on it. Finally, another menu will pop up on the screen. WordPad should be located in this menu. Click on it to open up the WordPad program.

Again, the order of things to click (write this down on a scrap of paper) is:

START - PROGRAMS - ACCESSORIES - WORDPAD

(If you cannot find WordPad and you are certain that you are looking in the right place, then it might have been moved to some other place on the machine. Ask a lab operator for help in finding it if - and only if - you have done a reasonable search for it yourself.)

Once WordPad is running, you open your plain text file into it. Do this exactly the same as you would on any word processor running in Windows 95 by clicking on FILE in the upper-left window of WordPad and then selecting OPEN.

You are now ready to copy your resume to the system clipboard so that you can paste it onto a web form or into your own email messages. You copy it the same way as you would in any word processor running under Windows 95: click on EDIT at the top of the WordPad window, then click on SELECT ALL in the list. Your entire resume will now be blocked out in blue. Now click on EDIT and then on COPY in the list. Your resume should now be ready to paste into an email message or onto a web site form.

Assuming that Netscape was already open, click on the Netscape button on the bottom bar of the screen so that it opens up to cover the entire screen.

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