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Cursor

Depending on what application you're using, a cursor or pointer can appear as many things - an arrow, a blinking line or rectangle, a spinning black-and-white circle or globe, a hand, a watch, a trotting dog, a capital "I" - visual clues that tell you what the application you're running is up to. You can move the cursor around the screen by using the arrow keys, or by moving your mouse and then clicking on the desired new locale. The location of the cursor indicates where you are and what you're doing on the screen: selecting documents or programs you want to launch, pulling down menus to execute a command, typing or inserting text, and more.

Related Terms: mouse, GUI

   
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ASCII
Attachment
Avatar
Bandwidth
Browser
CGI
Chat, Chat Room
Client/Server
Code
Compress(ion)
Cookies
Crash, Freeze
Cursor
dhtml (Dynamic html)
Domain Name
Download, Upload
Email
Error Codes
Ethernet
Filter (email)
Form (elements)
Frames
FTP

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