Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
    • What Is a Dialog Box?
    • Using the Components of a Dialog Box
    • Using the What's This? Feature
    • Using Text Boxes
    • Using Option Buttons
    • Using Check Boxes
    • Using Command Buttons
    • Using Property Sheets and Tabs
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

Using Property Sheets and Tabs

As noted previously, property sheets are similar to dialog boxes in the components they contain: check boxes, list boxes, text boxes, command buttons, and so on. Figure 5.8 shows the Taskbar Properties sheet.

Figure 5.8 Choose a tab that represents the options you want to change.

In a property sheet containing more than one tab, choose options within the sheet and then click the Apply button to accept the changes. Depending upon the properties box you are working in, after you click Apply, you can then select the other tabs and make other changes, or the choices are applied and the dialog box closes. Once you've chosen the Apply button, however, you cannot cancel those changes using the Cancel command button; you must go back to the tab and change the options.

To select a tab, click the tab with the mouse pointer.

In this lesson, you learned how to use the various dialog box components. In the next lesson you learn how to start and exit Windows applications.

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