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Printers ...........................................................................................................................Concepts 32
Options for printing your photos
Data Storage—An Overview............................................................................................Concepts 34
Data Storage Systems Features........................................................................................Concepts 36
Non-technical words used to describe using a data storage system
Optical Data Storage Systems..........................................................................................Concepts 38
Understanding hard drive partitions
Viewing your data storage systems using Windows Explorer
Solid-State Data Storage Systems....................................................................................Concepts 40
How to Add Devices to Your Computer..........................................................................Concepts 42
Talking Points: Why Recycle Computers?......................................................................Concepts 44
Key Terms & Unit Review...............................................................................................Concepts 46
Concepts Review ............................................................................................................Concepts 47
Independent Challenges.................................................................................................Concepts 48
Guide to Buying a Computer..........................................................................................Concepts 50
Visual Workshop ............................................................................................................Concepts 52
Unit C: Computer Sof tware..................................................................................................Concepts 53
Computer Software ........................................................................................................Concepts 54
Installed software that comes with new personal computers
Licenses and Copyrights.................................................................................................Concepts 56
How does digital technology affect intellectual property laws?
How To Install and Uninstall Sof tware...........................................................................Concepts 58
Installing portable software
Operating Systems—An Overview..................................................................................Concepts 60
Operating Systems—A Comparison................................................................................Concepts 62
Comparing types of operating systems
Utility Sof tware...............................................................................................................Concepts 64
Of fice Productivity Sof tware...........................................................................................Concepts 66
Software suites
Other productivity software
Graphics Sof tware...........................................................................................................Concepts 68
Using data responsibly
Other Application Sof tware ...........................................................................................Concepts 70
Talking Points: What Is the Downside to Software Piracy?............................................Concepts 72
Software marketing and reviews
Key Terms & Unit Review ..............................................................................................Concepts 74
Concepts Review ............................................................................................................Concepts 75
Independent Challenges ................................................................................................Concepts 76
Guide to Buying a Computer .........................................................................................Concepts 78
Deciding whether to buy boxed software or download software from the Web
Visual Workshop.............................................................................................................Concepts 80
Unit D: File Management and Digital Electronics ...............................................................Concepts 81
File Management Tools...................................................................................................Concepts 82
Computer Folder Basics ..................................................................................................Concepts 84
Folders and subfolders vs. directories and subdirectories
Computer File Basics ......................................................................................................Concepts 86
How to Manage Computer Files.....................................................................................Concepts 88
Deleting folders and files
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How Computers Represent Data.....................................................................................Concepts 90
More about bits and bytes
Integrated Circuits—An Overview .................................................................................Concepts 92
Processors—An Overview ...............................................................................................Concepts 94
How the processor gets instructions
Computer Memory: RAM...............................................................................................Concepts 96
Other Types of Computer Memory................................................................................Concepts 98
Talking Points: Is Your Computer Making You Sick?....................................................Concepts 100
Key Terms & Unit Review.............................................................................................Concepts 106
Concepts Review ..........................................................................................................Concepts 107
Independent Challenges...............................................................................................Concepts 108
Guide to Buying a Computer........................................................................................Concepts 110
Visual Workshop...........................................................................................................Concepts 112
Windows 8
Unit A: Getting Started with Windows 8............................................................................... Windows 1
Start Windows 8................................................................................................................Windows 2
Using touch screens
Navigate the Start Screen and Desktop.............................................................................Windows 4
Point, Click, and Drag.......................................................................................................Windows 6
Using newer touch devices
Start an App.......................................................................................................................Windows 8
Searching for apps and files
Work with a Window......................................................................................................Windows 10
Using the Quick Access toolbar
Manage Multiple Windows.............................................................................................Windows 12
Use Command Buttons, Menus, and Dialog Boxes........................................................Windows 14
Get Help..........................................................................................................................Windows 16
Finding other ways to get help
Using right-clicking
Exit Windows 8...............................................................................................................Windows 18
Installing updates when you exit Windows
Practice............................................................................................................................Windows 20
Unit B: Understanding File Management............................................................................ Windows 25
Understand Files and Folders..........................................................................................Windows 26
Plan your file organization
Create and Save a File.....................................................................................................Windows 28
Explore the Files and Folders on Your Computer...........................................................Windows 30
Change File and Folder Views.........................................................................................Windows 32
Snapping Windows 8 apps
Open, Edit, and Save Files...............................................................................................Windows 34
Comparing Save and Save As
Using cloud storage
Copy Files........................................................................................................................Windows 36
Copying files using Send to
Move and Rename Files..................................................................................................Windows 38
Using Windows 8 libraries
Search for Files, Folders, and Programs...........................................................................Windows 40
Using the Search Tools tab in File Explorer
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Delete and Restore Files..................................................................................................Windows 42
More techniques for selecting and moving files
Practice............................................................................................................................Windows 44
Internet Explorer 10
Unit A: Getting Started with Internet Explorer 10................................................................. Internet 1
Understand Web Browsers .................................................................................................Internet 2
Internet Explorer 10 Metro version
Explore the Browser........................................................................................................... Internet 4
Understanding the status bar
View and Navigate Pages.................................................................................................... Internet 6
Setting the home page
Use Tabbed Browsing......................................................................................................... Internet 8
Understanding URLs
Save Favorite Web Pages................................................................................................... Internet 10
Creating and organizing favorites
Browse Safely.................................................................................................................... Internet 12
Phishing and the SmartScreen Filter
Search for Information..................................................................................................... Internet 14
Blocking pop-ups
Share Information............................................................................................................ Internet 16
Printing a Web page
Practice ............................................................................................................................ Internet 18
Building an international community
Office 2013
Unit A: Getting Started with Microsoft Office 2013 Office 1
Understand the Office 2013 Suite..........................................................................................Office 2
What is Office 365?
Start an Office App.................................................................................................................Office 4
Starting an app using Windows 7
Using shortcut keys to move between Office programs
Using the Office Clipboard
Identify Office 2013 Screen Elements....................................................................................Office 6
Using Backstage view
Create and Save a File............................................................................................................Office 8
Saving files to SkyDrive
Open a File and Save It with a New Name .........................................................................Office 10
Exploring File Open options
Working in Compatibility Mode
View and Print Your Work...................................................................................................Office 12
Customizing the Quick Access toolbar
Creating a screen capture
Get Help, Close a File, and Exit an App...............................................................................Office 14
Enabling touch mode
Recovering a document
Practice.................................................................................................................................Office 16
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Word 2013
Unit A: Creating Documents with Word 2013............................................................................. Word 1
Understand Word Processing Software...................................................................................Word 2
Planning a document
Explore the Word Window.....................................................................................................Word 4
Start a Document....................................................................................................................Word 6
Save a Document.....................................................................................................................Word 8
Microsoft SkyDrive and Microsoft Office Web Apps
Select Text..............................................................................................................................Word 10
Format Text Using the Mini Toolbar and the Ribbon..........................................................Word 12
Use a Document Template....................................................................................................Word 14
Using the Undo, Redo, and Repeat commands
Navigate a Document............................................................................................................Word 16
Using Word document views
Practice..................................................................................................................................Word 18
Unit B: Editing Documents......................................................................................................... Word 25
Cut and Paste Text................................................................................................................Word 26
Using keyboard shortcuts
Copy and Paste Text..............................................................................................................Word 28
Splitting the document window to copy and move items in a long document
Use the Office Clipboard.......................................................................................................Word 30
Copying and moving items between documents
Find and Replace Text...........................................................................................................Word 32
Navigating a document using the Navigation pane and the Go To command
Check Spelling and Grammar...............................................................................................Word 34
Inserting text with AutoCorrect
Research Information............................................................................................................Word 36
Publishing a blog directly from Word
Using a dictionary and other apps for Word
Add Hyperlinks.....................................................................................................................Word 38
Sharing documents directly from Word, including e-mailing and faxing
Work with Document Properties..........................................................................................Word 40
Viewing and modifying advanced document properties
Practice..................................................................................................................................Word 42
Unit C: Formatting Text and Paragraphs................................................................................... Word 49
Format with Fonts.................................................................................................................Word 50
Adding a drop cap
Use the Format Painter.........................................................................................................Word 52
Underlining text
Change Line and Paragraph Spacing....................................................................................Word 54
Formatting with Quick Styles
Align Paragraphs...................................................................................................................Word 56
Formatting a document using themes
Work with Tabs.....................................................................................................................Word 58
Work with Indents................................................................................................................Word 60
Applying text effects and clearing formatting
Add Bullets and Numbering..................................................................................................Word 62
Creating multilevel lists
Add Borders and Shading......................................................................................................Word 64
Highlighting text in a document
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Insert Online Pictures...........................................................................................................Word 66
Practice..................................................................................................................................Word 68
Unit D: Formatting Documents.................................................................................................. Word 77
Set Document Margins..........................................................................................................Word 78
Changing orientation, margin settings, and paper size
Create Sections and Columns...............................................................................................Word 80
Changing page layout settings for a section
Insert Page Breaks..................................................................................................................Word 82
Controlling automatic pagination
Insert Page Numbers.............................................................................................................Word 84
Moving around in a long document
Inserting Quick Parts
Add Headers and Footers......................................................................................................Word 86
Adding a custom header or footer to the gallery
Insert a Table.........................................................................................................................Word 88
Add Footnotes and Endnotes................................................................................................Word 90
Customizing the layout and formatting of footnotes and endnotes
Insert Citations......................................................................................................................Word 92
Manage Sources and Create a Bibliography..........................................................................Word 94
Working with Web sources
Practice..................................................................................................................................Word 96
Excel 2013
Unit A: Getting Started with Excel 2013.......................................................................................Excel 1
Understand Spreadsheet Software........................................................................................... Excel 2
Identify Excel 2013 Window Components............................................................................ Excel 4
Using SkyDrive and Web Apps
Understand Formulas.............................................................................................................. Excel 6
Enter Labels and Values and Use the AutoSum Button.......................................................... Excel 8
Navigating a worksheet
Edit Cell Entries .................................................................................................................... Excel 10
Recovering unsaved changes to a workbook file
Enter and Edit a Simple Formula.......................................................................................... Excel 12
Understanding named ranges
Switch Worksheet Views....................................................................................................... Excel 14
Choose Print Options........................................................................................................... Excel 16
Printing worksheet formulas
Scaling to fit
Practice.................................................................................................................................. Excel 18
Unit B: Working with Formulas and Functions...........................................................................Excel 25
Create a Complex Formula................................................................................................... Excel 26
Using Apps for Office to improve worksheet functionality
Reviewing the order of precedence
Insert a Function................................................................................................................... Excel 28
Type a Function..................................................................................................................... Excel 30
Using the COUNT and COUNTA functions
Copy and Move Cell Entries................................................................................................. Excel 32
Inserting and deleting selected cells
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Understand Relative and Absolute Cell References ............................................................. Excel 34
Using a mixed reference
Copy Formulas with Relative Cell References...................................................................... Excel 36
Using Paste Preview
Using Auto Fill options
Copy Formulas with Absolute Cell References..................................................................... Excel 38
Using the fill handle for sequential text or values
Round a Value with a Function............................................................................................ Excel 40
Creating a new workbook using a template
Practice.................................................................................................................................. Excel 42
Unit C: Formatting a Worksheet..................................................................................................Excel 51
Format Values........................................................................................................................ Excel 52
Formatting as a table
Change Font and Font Size................................................................................................... Excel 54
Inserting and adjusting online pictures and other images
Change Font Styles and Alignment...................................................................................... Excel 56
Rotating and indenting cell entries
Adjust the Column Width.................................................................................................... Excel 58
Changing row height
Insert and Delete Rows and Columns .................................................................................. Excel 60
Hiding and unhiding columns and rows
Adding and editing comments
Apply Colors, Patterns, and Borders..................................................................................... Excel 62
Working with themes and cell styles
Apply Conditional Formatting............................................................................................. Excel 64
Managing conditional formatting rules
Rename and Move a Worksheet............................................................................................ Excel 66
Copying, Adding, and Deleting worksheets
Check Spelling....................................................................................................................... Excel 68
Emailing a workbook
Practice.................................................................................................................................. Excel 70
Unit D: Working with Charts ......................................................................................................Excel 79
Plan a Chart .......................................................................................................................... Excel 80
Create a Chart ...................................................................................................................... Excel 82
Creating sparklines
Move and Resize a Chart ...................................................................................................... Excel 84
Moving an embedded chart to a sheet
Change the Chart Design .................................................................................................... Excel 86
Creating a combination chart
Working with a 3-D chart
Change the Chart Format .................................................................................................... Excel 88
Adding data labels to a chart
Format a Chart ..................................................................................................................... Excel 90
Previewing a chart
Changing alignment and angle in axis labels and titles
Annotate and Draw on a Chart ........................................................................................... Excel 92
Adding SmartArt graphics
Create a Pie Chart ................................................................................................................ Excel 94
Practice.................................................................................................................................. Excel 96
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Integration 2013
Unit A: Integrating Word and Excel....................................................................................Integration 1
Integrate Data Between Word and Excel ..................................................................... Integration 2
Understanding object linking and embedding (OLE)
Copy Data from Excel to Word..................................................................................... Integration 4
Copy a Chart from Excel to Word ............................................................................... Integration 6
Create Linked Objects................................................................................................... Integration 8
Opening linked files and reestablishing links to charts
Embed a Word File in Excel ....................................................................................... Integration 10
Practice ....................................................................................................................... Integration 12
Access 2013
Unit A: Getting Started with Access 2013...................................................................................Access 1
Understand Relational Databases......................................................................................... Access 2
Explore a Database................................................................................................................ Access 4
Create a Database.................................................................................................................. Access 6
Create a Table........................................................................................................................ Access 8
Creating a table in Datasheet View
Create Primary Keys............................................................................................................ Access 10
Learning about field properties
Relate Two Tables................................................................................................................ Access 12
Enter Data............................................................................................................................ Access 14
Changing from Navigation mode to Edit mode
Cloud computing
Edit Data.............................................................................................................................. Access 16
Resizing and moving datasheet columns
Practice................................................................................................................................ Access 18
Unit B: Building and Using Queries...........................................................................................Access 27
Use the Query Wizard......................................................................................................... Access 28
Work with Data in a Query................................................................................................. Access 30
Hiding and unhiding fields in a datasheet
Freezing and unfreezing fields in a datasheet
Use Query Design View....................................................................................................... Access 32
Adding or deleting a table in a query
Sort and Find Data.............................................................................................................. Access 34
Filter Data............................................................................................................................ Access 36
Using wildcard characters
Apply AND Criteria............................................................................................................. Access 38
Searching for blank fields
Apply OR Criteria ............................................................................................................... Access 40
Format a Datasheet............................................................................................................. Access 42
Practice................................................................................................................................ Access 44
Unit C: Using Forms...................................................................................................................Access 53
Use the Form Wizard........................................................................................................... Access 54
Create a Split Form.............................................................................................................. Access 56
Use Form Layout View........................................................................................................ Access 58
Table layouts
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Add Fields to a Form........................................................................................................... Access 60
Bound versus unbound controls
Modify Form Controls........................................................................................................ Access 62
Create Calculations............................................................................................................. Access 64
Modify Tab Order................................................................................................................ Access 66
Layout positioning
Insert an Image ................................................................................................................... Access 68
Applying a background image
Practice................................................................................................................................ Access 70
Unit D: Using Reports................................................................................................................Access 79
Use the Report Wizard........................................................................................................ Access 80
Changing page orientation
Use Report Layout View...................................................................................................... Access 82
Review Report Sections....................................................................................................... Access 84
Apply Group and Sort Orders............................................................................................. Access 86
Add Subtotals and Counts.................................................................................................. Access 88
Resize and Align Controls................................................................................................... Access 90
Precisely moving and resizing controls
Format a Report .................................................................................................................. Access 92
Create Mailing Labels ......................................................................................................... Access 94
Practice................................................................................................................................ Access 96
Integration 2013
Unit B: Integrating Word, Excel, and Access.................................................................... Integration 17
Integrate Data Among Word, Excel, and Access ........................................................ Integration 18
Import an Excel Worksheet into Access...................................................................... Integration 20
Copy a Word Table to Access ..................................................................................... Integration 22
Link an Access Table to Excel and Word..................................................................... Integration 24
Link an Access Table to Word..................................................................................... Integration 26
Opening linked files and enabling content
Practice........................................................................................................................ Integration 28
PowerPoint 2013
Unit A: Creating a Presentation in PowerPoint 2013........................................................ PowerPoint 1
Define Presentation Software........................................................................................ PowerPoint 2
Using PowerPoint on a touch screen
Plan an Effective Presentation...................................................................................... PowerPoint 4
Understanding copyright
Examine the PowerPoint Window................................................................................ PowerPoint 6
Viewing your presentation in gray scale or black and white
Enter Slide Text............................................................................................................. PowerPoint 8
Saving fonts with your presentation
Add a New Slide.......................................................................................................... PowerPoint 10
Entering and printing notes
Apply a Design Theme................................................................................................ PowerPoint 12
Customizing themes
Compare Presentation Views ..................................................................................... PowerPoint 14
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Print a PowerPoint Presentation................................................................................. PowerPoint 16
Microsoft Office Web Apps
Practice........................................................................................................................ PowerPoint 18
Unit B: Modifying a Presentation..................................................................................... PowerPoint 25
Enter Text in Outline View......................................................................................... PowerPoint 26
Using proofing tools for other languages
Format Text................................................................................................................. PowerPoint 28
Replacing text and fonts
Convert Text to SmartArt............................................................................................ PowerPoint 30
Choosing SmartArt graphics
Insert and Modify Shapes........................................................................................... PowerPoint 32
Use the Eyedropper to match colors
Rearrange and Merge Shapes...................................................................................... PowerPoint 34
Changing the size and position of shapes
Edit and Duplicate Shapes.......................................................................................... PowerPoint 36
Editing points of a shape
Align and Group Objects ........................................................................................... PowerPoint 38
Distributing objects
Add Slide Footers......................................................................................................... PowerPoint 40
Creating superscript and subscript text
Unit C: Inserting Objects into a Presentation.................................................................. PowerPoint 49
Insert Text from Microsoft Word................................................................................ PowerPoint 50
Sending a presentation using email
Insert and Style a Picture............................................................................................ PowerPoint 52
Saving slides as graphics
Insert a Text Box.......................................................................................................... PowerPoint 54
Changing text box defaults
Insert a Chart.............................................................................................................. PowerPoint 56
Enter and Edit Chart Data........................................................................................... PowerPoint 58
Adding a hyperlink to a chart
Insert Slides from Other Presentations....................................................................... PowerPoint 60
Working with multiple windows
Insert a Table............................................................................................................... PowerPoint 62
Drawing tables
Insert and Format WordArt......................................................................................... PowerPoint 64
Saving a presentation as a video
Unit D: Finishing a Presentation....................................................................................... PowerPoint 73
Modify Masters............................................................................................................ PowerPoint 74
Create custom slide layouts
Customize the Background and Theme...................................................................... PowerPoint 76
Use Slide Show Commands........................................................................................ PowerPoint 78
Set Slide Transitions and Timings............................................................................... PowerPoint 80
Rehearsing slide show timings
Animate Objects ......................................................................................................... PowerPoint 82
Attaching a sound to an animation
Use Proofing and Language Tools............................................................................... PowerPoint 84
Checking spelling as you type
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Inspect a Presentation................................................................................................. PowerPoint 86
Digitally sign a presentation
Evaluate a Presentation............................................................................................... PowerPoint 88
Setting permissions
Integration 2013
Unit C: Integrating Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint................................................Integration 33
Integrate Data Among Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.................................... Integration 34
Import a Word Outline into PowerPoint.................................................................... Integration 36
Embed an Excel Worksheet in PowerPoint................................................................. Integration 38
Link Access and Excel Objects to PowerPoint ........................................................... Integration 40
Manage Links.............................................................................................................. Integration 42
Practice........................................................................................................................ Integration 44
Outlook 2013
Unit A: Getting Started with Email........................................................................................... Outlook 1
Communicate with Email...................................................................................................Outlook 2
Use Email Addresses............................................................................................................Outlook 4
Create and Send Emails.......................................................................................................Outlook 6
Understanding message headers in emails you receive
Understand Email Folders...................................................................................................Outlook 8
Managing your email
Receive and Reply to Emails.............................................................................................Outlook 10
Setting up vacation responses
Forward Emails..................................................................................................................Outlook 12
Controlling your message
Flagging or labeling messages
Send Email Attachments...................................................................................................Outlook 14
Reviewing options when sending messages
Employ Good Email Practices...........................................................................................Outlook 16
Creating distribution lists
Practice..............................................................................................................................Outlook 18
Unit B: Managing Information Using Outlook....................................................................... Outlook 25
Describe Outlook.............................................................................................................. Outlook 26
Weather in Calendar view
Organize Email................................................................................................................. Outlook 28
Manage Your Contacts..................................................................................................... Outlook 30
Manage Your Calendar..................................................................................................... Outlook 32
Sending electronic business cards
Manage Tasks.................................................................................................................... Outlook 34
Create Notes..................................................................................................................... Outlook 36
Customizing Outlook Today
Integrate Social Connectors............................................................................................. Outlook 38
Apply Categories.............................................................................................................. Outlook 40
Coordinating calendars
Practice............................................................................................................................. Outlook 42
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Cloud
Appendix A: Working in the Cloud..............................................................................................Cloud 1
Explore Office 365 and the Cloud.........................................................................................Cloud 2
Manage and Share Files..........................................................................................................Cloud 4
Co-authoring documents
How to disable default saving to OneDrive
Explore Office Online............................................................................................................Cloud 6
Exploring other Office Online Programs
Team Project.........................................................................................................................Cloud 14
Integrated Projects
Appendix B: Integrating Word,
PowerPoint, Excel, and Access 2013................................................. Integrated Projects 1
Integrated Project 1: Word and PowerPoint..................................................... Integrated Projects 2
Integrated Project 2: Excel and Access.............................................................. Integrated Projects 6
Integrated Project 3: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access........................... Integrated Projects 11
SAM Projects
Appendix C:........................................................................................................................ SAM Projects 1
Creating a Resume.......................................................................................................SAM Projects 2
Going Green................................................................................................................SAM Projects 4
Water Works................................................................................................................SAM Projects 8
SpringLeaf Designs....................................................................................................SAM Projects 11
Zombie Apocalypse...................................................................................................SAM Projects 15
Recycle Database.......................................................................................................SAM Projects 21
Gamitopia EdTech.....................................................................................................SAM Projects 28
Off-Grid Solar Solutions............................................................................................SAM Projects 32
Capstone Projects
Capstone Projects...................................................................................................................Capstone 1
Word 2013 Capstone Project 1........................................................................................ Capstone 2
Word 2013 Capstone Project 2........................................................................................ Capstone 4
Excel 2013 Capstone Project 1......................................................................................... Capstone 6
Excel 2013 Capstone Project 2......................................................................................... Capstone 8
Access 2013 Capstone Project 1..................................................................................... Capstone 10
Access 2013 Capstone Project 2..................................................................................... Capstone 12
PowerPoint 2013 Capstone Project 1............................................................................. Capstone 14
PowerPoint 2013 Capstone Project 2............................................................................. Capstone 16
Integration Capstone Project 1.............................................................................Capstone 18
Integration Capstone Project 2...................................................................................... Capstone 20
Glossary.................................................................................................................................... Glossary 1
Index...........................................................................................................................................Index 28
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Preface
Welcome to Computer Concepts and Microsoft Office 2013 - Illustrated, Enhanced Edition. This book has a unique design: Each
topic or skill is presented on two facing pages. The layout helps students focus on a single skill without having to read a lot of
text and flip pages to see an illustration.
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1 New! Learning Outcomes box lists measurable learning goals for which a student is accountable in that lesson (Windows and

Office units).
2 Each two-page lesson focuses on a single skill or concept.
3 Introduction briefly explains why the lesson skill is important.
4 A case scenario motivates the steps and puts learning in context.
5 Step-by-step instructions and brief explanations guide students through each hands-on lesson activity (Windows and Office units).

6 New! Figure references are now in red bold to help students refer back and forth between the steps and screenshots (Windows
and Office units).
7 Tips and troubleshooting advice, right where you need it–next to the step itself.

8 New! Larger screen shots with green callouts now placed on top keep students on track as they complete steps.
9 Tables provide summaries of helpful information such as button references or keyboard shortcuts.
10 Clues to Use yellow boxes provide useful information related to the lesson skill.
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This book is an ideal learning tool for a wide range of learners—the “rookies” will find the clean design easy to follow and
focused with only essential information presented, and the “hotshots” will appreciate being able to move quickly through the
lessons to find the information they need without reading a lot of text. The design also makes this book a great reference after
the course is over! See the illustration on the left to learn more about the pedagogical and design elements of a typical lesson.
What’s New in this Edition

• Coverage — Four units on computer concepts cover the most relevant topics students need to know. Twenty-five
units cover essential skills on Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, and Microsoft Office 2013—including Word, Excel,
Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Working in the Cloud appendix helps students learn to save, share and manage
files in the cloud and to use Office Web Apps.
• New! Learning Outcomes — Each lesson in the Windows and Office units displays a green Learning Outcomes box
that lists skills-based or k nowledge-based learning goals for which students are accountable. Each Learning Outcome
maps to a variety of learning activities and assessments. (See the New! Learning Outcomes section on page xviii for
more information.)
• New! Updated Design — This edition features many new design improvements to engage students — including larger
lesson screenshots with green callouts placed on top, and a refreshed Unit Opener page (Windows and Office units).
• New! Independent Challenge 4: Explore — This new case-based assessment activity allows students to explore
new skills and use creativity to solve a problem or create a project (Windows and Office units).
• Maps to SAM 2013 — This book is designed to work with SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) 2013. New! Computer
Concepts Training and Assessments. (See What’s New for SAM 2013 page for more details; SAM sold separately.)
• CourseMate — The CourseMate online companion for this book is packed with media-rich content to engage stu-
dents. CourseMate includes a digital version of the book, videos based on the book content, and activities and study
tools to reinforce learning. (CourseMate sold separately.)
Assignments
This book includes a wide variety of high-quality assignments you can use for practice and assessment. Assignments include:
• Concepts Review — Multiple choice, matching, and screen identification questions.
• Skills Review — Step-by-step, hands-on review of every skill covered in the unit.
• Independent Challenges 1-3 — Case projects requiring critical thinking and application of the unit skills. The Independent
Challenges increase in difficulty. The first one in each unit provides the most hand-holding; the subsequent ones provide
less guidance and require more critical thinking and independent problem solving.
• Independent Challenge 4: Explore — Case projects that let students explore new skills that are related to the core skills
covered in the unit and are often more open ended, allowing students to use creativity to complete the assignment.
• Visual Workshop — Critical thinking exercises that require students to create a project by looking at a completed solution;
they must apply the skills they’ve learned in the unit and use critical thinking skills to create the project from scratch.
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New! Learning Outcomes
Every 2-page lesson in the Windows and Office units now contains a green Learning Outcomes box that Learning
states the learning goals for that lesson. Outcomes
• What is a learning outcome? A learning outcome states what a student is expected to know or be • Scroll the Start
screen
able to do after completing a lesson. Each learning outcome is skill-based or knowledge-based and • Display the
is measurable. Learning outcomes map to learning activities and assessments. Charms bar
• Switch between
• How do students benefit from learning outcomes? Learning outcomes tell students exactly what Start screen and
skills and knowledge they are accountable for learning in that lesson. This helps students study desktop
more efficiently and effectively and makes them more active learners.
• How do instructors benefit from learning outcomes? Learning outcomes provide clear,
easurable, skills-based learning goals that map to various high-quality learning activities and
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assessments. A Learning Outcomes Map, available for each unit in this book, maps every
learning outcome to the learning activities and assessments shown below.
Learning Outcomes Map to These Learning Activities:

1. Book lessons: Step-by-step tutorial on one skill presented in a two-page learning format
2. Illustrated Videos: Videos based on lessons in this book (sold separately in SAM or in CourseMate)
3. SAM Training: Short animations and hands-on practice activities in simulated environment
Learning Outcomes Map to These Assessments:

1. End-of-Unit Exercises: Concepts Review (screen identification, matching, multiple choice); Skills Review
(hands-on review of each lesson); Independent Challenges (hands-on, case-based review of specific skills);
Visual Workshop (activity that requires student to build a project by looking at a picture of the final solution).
2. Exam View Test Banks: Objective-based questions you can use for online or paper testing.
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He picked up a clod of soil and crumbled it in his gloved hand, as
though symbolizing his anxious desire to come to grips with whatever
it was that hid behind a veil in his mind.
Randall lowered himself on his haunches. "Don't we have any
emergency means of bringing that machine under control?"
"Oh, there are a couple of tricks. Manhandling it is one."
Carol hugged her knees and laughed skeptically. "That thing?"
"There's a recessed deactivation switch in its lower section. All I have
to do is get my hand on it."
"And all it has to do," she retorted dubiously, "is get one of its fifty-
pound vises on you."
She seized his hand and, through two layers of rubberized material,
he sensed the unsteadiness of her grip. "Do be careful, Dave."
He was impressed. It wasn't often she allowed her more serious
nature to show through candidly.
She rose suddenly and turned to face a distant mountain range.
Randall tensed. "Yes, Carol—what is it?"
Profuse light from the primary etched lines of concern on her brow.
"I'm sensing electronic spill-off from somewhere up in those peaks—
perhaps beyond."
Randall's breath rasped in the earphones. But he only said, "Spurious
stuff. Reflections caused by a dense magnetic field can throw you off
like that, you know."
She nodded—not enthusiastically, however.
Stewart glanced at the director, who looked swiftly away. But their
eyes had met for an instant and, in Randall's, Stewart wondered
whether he hadn't detected something cunning, elusive. Or was it just
the same nameless fear that he, himself, felt.
"There it goes!" McAllister exclaimed. "The OC's getting ready to
transmit!"
Elbows splayed along the ridge, Carol watched the huge machine
steadying its parabolic discs on a spot close to the horizon.
"See if you can pick up some of the spill-off," Stewart urged.
She waved for silence. "I'm beginning to get it now."
"Can you pinpoint the frequency?"
"Just a notch about one thirty-six point two MCs."
"On the nose, isn't it?" Randall asked.
"Close enough. How are the signals, Carol?"
"They seem shipshape, well modulated, crammed with data. I can
even read some bits having to do with oxygen—plenty of it—in that
cave over there, I believe." She pointed, then glanced at Stewart.
"There's no malfunctioning at all!"
He retrieved his transmitter and switched from MCW to CW. "That
simplifies our task. When we re-establish control, all we'll have to do
is reorient the OC."
Randall walked several feet away, kicked a stone, glanced up at the
sky and returned. "What now?"
Stewart retuned his transmitter. "Penultimate emergency procedure.
I'm going to come down with both heels on the frequency at which it
received code signals from the relay base."
"But can you give it coded commands?"
"I'm just going to lock the sending key on a steady impulse. It's a
'stop-everything' order." He hit the lever.
Carol winced. "Ouch. I wasn't ready for that."
"What's it doing now?" he demanded.
"Still transmitting. No interruption."
He released the key. "Well that exhausts our bag of tricks. We'll have
to do it by hand."
Just then Carol's amused laughter tinkled in the earphones. "Why,
that harebrain machine thinks it's God!"
Randall started. "What?"
"I'm having a peek at its PM&R pack spill-off. It's lord and master of
the universe! There's only one thing worthy of touching its pedal pad
—the puppet barge. That's because the barge, being metal too, is a
totem!"
The director shook his head and mumbled, "Most unusual." Then,
"Carol! Can you see anything at all significant in its memory pack?
Any evidence of—"
But in the next instant she screamed and lunged back away from a
foot-long metallic crab that had drawn up before her.
"The Flora C&A!" Stewart made a grab for the thing, but it skirted his
gloved hand and started forward again.
McAllister backed away until he came up against the outcropping
beside the girl. Squirming qualmishly, he kicked out and caught the
crab broadside, sending it skittering back.
Then he shouted in pain and gripped his instep with both hands. "My
foot! It's broken!"
But, a moment later, Stewart was certain the injury was negligible,
judging from the adequate support the foot provided in McAllister's
sprint for the Photon.
Bigboss completed his transmission and turned full attention on the

eureka signals coming frantically from Grazer.
Interested, he inspected the sequenced data and took note of the
modulation peaks that exactly duplicated the C5H8 parameter.
Grazer had sensed hydrocarbon! More important, one of his
spectrometric biodetectors was getting a whiff of DNA molecules!
Even those significant findings, however, accounted for but part of the
frenzy with which Grazer was transmitting his impulses. There was
much more behind the eurekas than that. But all the lesser worker
could convey telemetrically was his general excitement, for there
were no parameters dealing with the third element of his discovery.
Perplexed, Bigboss pondered this inadequacy of communication
between him and his servitor—until a rationalization circuit came up
with the recommendation: Tap in on Grazer's direct video system.
He did.
And Bigboss went momentarily irrational as motor circuits fought one
another to express the exultation flooding from his evaluation pack.
He leaped three meters high. His upper command section turned up
a hundred revolutions per minute in triumphant delirium. He extended
and retracted his vises, leveled his blaster and spat out a lance of
vicious destruction that slashed a concentric trench in the ground
about him.
Then he damped all activity and steadied himself with a sober
appreciation of the telemetric signals Grazer had contributed. The
servitor was confronting three hated non-Totemic mobiles!
They had emerged from their needle! They had come finally to hurl
direct challenge at the Supreme Being!
Circuit currents surging once more toward irrational levels, Bigboss
calmed himself with dedication to the vengeful destruction of those
insolent creatures.
He transmitted a "stop-what-you're-doing-and-follow-me" order and
headed into Grazer's telemetric signals. Every twenty meters or so, a
discrimination circuit peaked in its erratic pattern and he hurled out a
bolt of raw energy, annihilating a boulder here, leveling a rise there,
pulverizing an occasional crag.
In his excitement, however, he had neglected the environs-scanning
procedure he had devised to compensate for his damaged video
sensor. And he didn't realize that, while he had been stabilized for
transmission, Minnie had almost reached him in a stealthy advance.
But now he was pulling steadily away from her.
Ignoring their order of social priority, the workers converged on the
nearby outcropping. Some bore to the right around the rock
formation, while others joined Bigboss in a flanking maneuver to the
left. The long-legged Maggie and Peter the Meter evaluated the
slanted stone as comprising no barrier and proceeded directly over it.
When he finally swung around and brought the contemptuous

mobiles under direct visual observation, Bigboss paused to evaluate
the situation. It required no small amount of self-control to restrain his
motor circuits. But he had to. For he was determined the arrogant
mobiles would not again reach the sanctuary of their Totem.
Grazer stood before the three creatures, his servo units idling as his
transmitter continued to send frantic eurekas. And now his excited
impulses were joined by those of other servitors who had formed a
half circle around the outcropping—Peter the Meter, boasting of
excitation of an infrared radiometer; Breather, reporting traces of both
oxygen and carbon dioxide in the immediate atmosphere; Minnie,
whose high neutron flux instruments were beginning to identify
concentrations of calcium, potassium, carbon.
Sequencing and storing the data, Bigboss sent out a curt directive
that amounted to: Do not analyze! Just stay out of the way!
The ring of clansmen remained poised. Several times one of the
nonmetallic captives attempted to force its way through the workers,
but was pulled back by another mobile.
Bigboss brought up his blaster and loosed a vicious, blinding charge
that swamped half a dozen unretracted photometers and pulverized
the top of the outcropping. He adjusted his aim, compensating for the
crouching, huddled position the interlopers had assumed, and fed
renewed energy to the blaster's condenser.
By the next sine wave peak, however, he regretted his pre-occupation
with the mobiles. For, at that moment, Minnie's drill head, sweeping
through one of his fields of vision before he could discharge the
blaster, crashed into video pickup lens Three.
He sprang back, rationalization pack coming frantically to grips with
this further loss of visual integrity. Through luck rather than intent, he
brought one of his still functioning lenses to bear on the advancing
Minnie.
She let her entire drill head fly in a bludgeoning blow, but he parried it
with his vise while he reasoned out the modified swivel motion now
required to provide adequate coverage with only two lenses.
But the attack had touched off a number of other clashes among
socially ambitious workers. Seismo turned on Minnie's exposed flank
and sent a pedal disc crashing through her after analyzing chamber.
Sludge spilled out upon the ground.
Peter the Meter swung his boom-and-ball gamma ray detector
against Breather's air pouches while Maggie straddled Sun Watcher
and proceeded to stomp on one of his telescopic instruments.
In the midst of all this confusion, Bigboss was only vaguely aware
that the three impudent mobiles had slipped out of the ring of
servitors and were returning swiftly to their Totem.
Infuriated over the imminent loss of prey, he swiveled around in their
direction. Again, however, he neglected his defense.
And before he could trigger a charge at the fleeing things, Minnie's
drill head whipped around in a level arc that snapped his blaster off at
its socket and sent it hurtling across the plain.
As she drew back for another blow, he lunged over and managed to
grip her bit in his vise. With a violent twist, he broke it off at the chuck.
Subdued finally, she withdrew.
"You saw it, didn't you?" Mittich demanded.

Vrausot scratched his jaw with a rigid talon. "Interesting—that trouble
between the aliens and their automatons. What interpretation do you
put on it?"
Pivoting on his tail, the other spun around from the screen to face the
Chancellor. "That they don't even carry side arms. They had no
defense whatsoever against their machines. If they were here looking
for a fight, wouldn't they be armed at all times?"
Vrausot expressed ridicule by tracing a circle with the tip of his
tapering snout. "Mittich, you amuse me. Only one sunset ago you
were bending my tail to make me believe they may be cunning; that
they might have strung out a seine for us."
"Yes?" the Assemblyman prompted, expecting more.
"Now I simply extend your own logic back to you. They prepared that
drama down there for our benefit—just in case we were watching.
They want us to believe they are stupid and helpless."
Assemblyman Mittich laced the other with a calculating stare. He was
aware of the heavy irony in Vrausot's hisses and clicks and he knew
the Chancellor was only deriding him.
"If I had to arrive at an alternate assessment, Assemblyman—"
Vrausot paused and Mittich braced himself for more scorn. "It would
be that the aliens are stupid, inept, blundering, defenseless. Actually,
it would seem that they must have gained interstellar status only
through accident."
"Oh, no. We know that isn't true."
Ignoring the interruption, the Chancellor continued. "And they were
foolish enough to come here unarmed, apparently."
But Mittich broke in again. "If I had attracted more votes in the Curule
Assembly, we would have come unarmed too."
"Ah! But we didn't. And do you know why? Because the Assembly
really believes as I do, even though they might not have the courage
to vote their convictions. That's why I'm going to exercise my own
judgment—because I know their subliminal disposition in this matter."
Mittich unhinged his jaw, conveying dismay. There was no doubt now
what the Chancellor's intentions were. Oh, he would probably swim
around cautiously for a while. But his final determination was already
cloaked with inevitability.
Eventually—how soon?—he would lash out at the aliens with all the
ship's invincible firepower. And nothing else could be done to delay
that treachery. For Mittich couldn't conceive of another last-purai
diversion, such as the suggestion that the aliens may have strung out
a seine, to forestall the tragedy Vrausot was determined to
perpetrate.
Lumbering over to the ship's control panel, the Chancellor directed
his pilot: "Advance five degrees westward along our orbital path then
restabilize."
Kavula's hands darted here and there and the vessel resounded with
the thuds of great tails thumping down on the deck to maintain
equilibrium as new velocity came in surges.
"This will put us below the aliens' horizon," Kavula noted.
"Of course it will," the Chancellor hissed back at the other's
impertinence. "And we'll be in such a position that they won't be able
to observe our artillery emissions."
He turned to the intercom. "Gun Crew One, prepare for firing."
"Action?" Mittich asked, fearing the worst.
"Of a sort—preparatory." The Chancellor studied the teleview screen
and once more directed the gunners:
"I'm designating a target circle on one of those peaks down there.
You may fire at will."
He touched a button and a green halo flared on the screen. He
adjusted it to encompass the surface prominence he had in mind.
The ship shuddered as the gunner punched his firing stud.
Mittich watched the surface erupt in a brilliant display of angry energy
—a thousand kilometers off target.
The Chancellor received the fire control officer's apology, together
with a request for permission to try again. The latter he denied.
"They evidently need the practice," Kavula advised.
The Chancellor fumed at his pilot's insolence. "They'll do better at
close range," he promised. "Meanwhile, I want this ship stripped for
action. I've reached my decision. One close pass is all it should take.
We strike after sunup."
Desperately, Mittich hurried over and swung his small arms
imploringly. "You can't do this thing!"
"Oh, quit being such a floundering minnow! Nothing's going to
happen. They're quite defenseless, I'm convinced."
"If that's the case, then you are under injunction of the Curule
Assembly to make peaceful contact!"
"Drown peaceful contact!" the Chancellor swore. "I'm supposed to
exercise my judgment out here!"
"But—"
"Flotsam! There will be no peace. If that's what the aliens wanted,
they wouldn't have come out here in the first place. We are going to
blast them. And from here we'll go on!"
"Go on?" Mittich repeated cautiously. "Where?"
Vrausot's eyes glazed over and his disarray of teeth were exposed to
the gums as he paced the deck and beat his arms against his side in
a fit of frantic expectation.
"We know where their relay base is," he explained. "We'll strike that
next! Then, capitalizing on the element of surprise, we'll continue to
their World of Origin and destroy it outright. On the way back we'll
probably knock out one or two other planets."
He turned on a dumfounded Mittich. "The war—if there is to be one—
will be short. We'll have only to return to the Tzarean Shoal and
muster a fleet before we wipe out the rest of their civilization. And
once again ours will be the glory of conquest—such as we have not
experienced in, oh, how many millennia?"
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Stewart woke up shouting the next morning.
Perhaps the nightmare had been brought on by his previous day's
experience with the telepuppets. For, in his dream, there had been
the OC, again spitting out deadly fire that missed the targets only by
inches before gouging great craters in the plain beyond.
Suddenly the master robot vanished, taking all the lesser automatons
with it. In the suspenseful stillness that followed, Stewart could only
stare in bewilderment at Carol and Randall.
Then it came—the blazing, naked light, together with the stentorian
roaring that filled the sky and shook every rock.
Terrified, he huddled with the other two, his eyes searching
desperately for some place to hide. But as he spotted each gaping
fissure, each yawning cave entrance that might offer concealment, it
too vanished. Until they were left with only a smooth, featureless plain
extending to infinity in all directions.
Eventually the mighty ships—hundreds of them, it seemed—landed.
And down debarkation ramps poured thousands of hideous Harpy-
like forms, their gigantic claws magnified in his fancy until they were
even larger than the bodies they supported and, by their sheer
weight, made flight impossible.
This vast army assembled before its ships in the center of the plain
and started forward.
But there was a blur of motion on the right and left extremities of
Stewart's field of vision and he watched great, gauzy curtains draw
together from opposite horizons, meeting directly in front of him. Like
dazzling auroral streamers, they hung from a rod located so high in
the stratosphere that it was lost in the blackness of space.
Diaphanous though the drapes were, they appeared to be adequate,
as if through some magical power, to hold back the horde of vicious
Harpies on the other side.
But even as Stewart shuddered with the thought of what would befall
Randall, Carol and himself should the almost intangible barrier fail,
the director charted forward and drew the curtains aside.
Instantly, the monstrous creatures poured through.
But in the next moment Randall was beside his bunk, shaking him
awake and regarding him quizzically.
Dismayed over the continued evidence of a lurking, inexplicable fear,

Stewart ate breakfast mostly in silence while he cast about for a
reasonable interpretation of the nightmare.
It was almost as though the auroral curtain represented a mental veil
that hid a horror-filled recess of his mind. The content of that fissure
—was it something he didn't want to face? Something he had
intentionally hidden? Was it actually that Randall could, if he desired,
draw back the curtain? Why Randall?
He brought his cup to his lips and almost gagged on an icy bitterness.
Carol chided him for his abstraction, dumped the coffee into a
disposal slot and gave him a refill.
Randall slapped his thigh. "Well, we still have a telepuppet problem
on our hands."
Mortimer sat up sharply. "You're not going to fool around with those
damned things any more, are you?"
"Don't see how we can avoid it. We've got several days' repair work
on that subspace drive coil—outside the ship. That's the only way we
can either get out of here or recover use of our long-range
transmitter. But I wouldn't want to turn my back on those puppets
while they're out of control."
"You won't catch me out there again," McAllister vowed.
Randall went over to the external view screen and spent several
minutes scanning the sky, bright now with the dawning light of
Aldebaran.
"You won't find the puppets up there," Stewart said, finally intolerant
of whatever phobia Randall might be pampering.
The director turned guiltily away from the screen. "Anybody have any
ideas on what we can do about those robots?"
Stewart went over to a second screen. "After having slept on the
problem, I think I might be able to contribute something."
He focused on the telepuppets, attending to their various exploratory
chores out on the plain. "Carol gave me an idea with something she
said yesterday. We may be able to solve our telepuppet worries within
five minutes' time."
"Bring the OC back under control?" The director arched his thick
brows. "How?"
"We might succeed in immobilizing it. That'll deprive the other
puppets of their source of power. Within a few hours their batteries
will drain and we'll be able to go to work on the OC without any
possible interference."
He indicated his hostile-atmosphere sheath slumped in a corner of
the compartment. "Won't need that. But I will have to have a deep-
space suit—heavily shielded against solar storm exposure. You have
one aboard, McAllister?"
The pilot nodded. "Standard equipment. But you'll think it weighs a
ton. It's designed for null-G use."
Carol's puzzlement drained away. "The suit's metal! Which means, as
far as the puppets are concerned, that it's totemic!"
"That's what I figure," Stewart said. "Wearing it may give me status as
one of the boys."
McAllister had been right. Against the relentless tug of gravity, the
armored suit felt as though it weighed not much less than a ton.
Laboriously, Stewart planted one thick-soled boot ahead of the other
and moved at a snail's pace across the difficult terrain.
Through a separation between two boulders he could see the
telepuppet team. The machines were hard at work, with the
Operations Co-ordinator majestically surveying its charges.
Stewart's legs strained under the great weight as he struggled over a
rise and stepped out upon the plain.
Pausing, he stared at the mike recessed in the inner curvature of his
helmet. It was dead and his resulting loss of voice contact made him
feel lonely and inadequate. But the suit was not equipped with radio,
since its wearer would normally be plugged into the ship's intercom
system through an anchor line.
Inching across the plain, he closed in on the puppet team. Thus far
he had not been noticed.
Cautiously, he skirted the knoll on which sat the Solar Plasma
Detector. Even now its boom-and-ball sensor was swinging around to
point toward a rising Aldebaran. He was certain he had passed in the
SPD's direct line of local sight. But it only ignored him.
Twenty paces farther he gave a wide berth to the Atmosphere
Analyzer. Here, too, he had to go directly in front of the thing's video
sensor. But the AA obliged by making no move toward him.
So far, so good. But he had approached only those robots which
would ordinarily show no interest in him, since he was neither
celestial nor gaseous. A minute later, however, when he was cleared
through without incident by an indifferent Mineral Analyzer, he was
certain his totemic qualifications would bring him to his objective
without picking up a challenge along the way.
He crested a rise, trudged between the Astronomical Data Collector
and the Seismometer and, more certain of his immunity, stepped over
the crablike Micro-organism Collector and Analyzer.
Then he stood hesitatingly before the master robot.
Ports ablaze with luminous evidence of faultless power generation,
the huge automaton ignored him. Shorn of its laser intensifier, it
appeared somewhat pathetic. But Stewart was inclined to waste no
sympathy. It stood swinging its upper command section, first right,
then left, to compensate for loss of two video sensors. But he was
more interested in the underslung, recessed compartment whose
outline he could now see. He had only to flip open the lid and throw
the switch in order to deactivate the OC.
Suddenly the thing reacted to his presence. One of its lenses swept
over him, stopped, swung back, overcorrected, then steadied. And he
couldn't guess what analytical criteria were being applied in the
general assessment.
The robot raised its vise-equipped appendage. A hostile gesture?
Defensive move? Or merely one of the symbols of communication it
had devised during its independent reign?
There was swift movement in the periphery of Stewart's vision and,
instinctively, he dropped to the ground as a great clanking form swept
past him.
Rolling over, he saw it was the Mineral Analyzer, boring in for another
attack. The six-legged automaton drew up in front of the OC and
swung its stout drill head in a sweeping arc.
He ducked under the gleaming neck and watched it crash into the
bigger machine's lower section, sending it bouncing rearward on
stumpy legs. The master robot lashed back, slashing a gaping slit in
the MA's neck.
Into this fury of swinging appendages Stewart decided he would have
to hurl himself if he expected to immobilize the telepuppet team. As
unpredictable as the robots were, he might never get this close to the
master automaton again.
The flow of battle, however, made his decision unnecessary. For the
grappling machines were now sweeping over the spot where he lay
and a huge pedal pad barely missed him as it thudded down.
For a fleeting instant, the recessed compartment was immediately
above his head. Overcoming the ponderous weight of his mailed arm,
he reached up and flicked open the lid. At the same time he managed
to get a finger on and throw the switch.
One final kick by the OC hurled him from beneath the tons of metal.
Meanwhile, the thing's thrashing vise caught the MA broadside and
sent it flailing backward. Then the master puppet toppled over like a
towering tree being felled by an ancient woodsman's chain saw. The
ground trembled violently with the impact.
Stewart rose and wiped dust from his helmet's view plate.
The monstrous robot lay motionless, darkened ports evidencing its
lifelessness. Close by, the Mineral Analyzer stumbled around in
looping circles, one of its gyros atilt. The other puppets continued
their work, unaware that when all stored energy was depleted there
would be no opportunity to recharge their batteries.
Exhausted, his face filmed with perspiration and his hip aching
beneath the dent the big machine had kicked in his armor, Stewart
headed back for the ship. But his release from urgency lightened his
steps somewhat. Now there would be little to do but wait until the
lesser puppets ran out of power.
An automatic erector leveled Minnie's tilted gyro. Another emergency

maintenance circuit cut in and compensated for precession. Finally
her sense of balance was restored.
Rationalization circuits reasoned out the precise maneuver necessary
to bring her upright and she rose upon her motor appendages,
expecting at any moment to be bludgeoned again by Bigboss' vise.
Slowly she turned and sent her restricted field of vision sweeping
across the ground. And her video lens came to focus on—
Bigboss!
In a most unusual position! And—motionless!
He was stretched out on the ground, extensible vise limp as it lay half
covered by the soil into which it had dug. One of his antennae was
crumpled beneath him while the other was bent and twisted. Hardly
able to accept as valid the visual data she was receiving, she
transmitted an unwarranted "please-verify-that-instruction" impulse at
low volume.
Her evaluation circuit was thrown almost into a frenzy when there
was no response. At maximum gain, she repeated the signal.
Still no response!
Cautiously, she went forward and stood over the Supreme Being. She
lowered her bitless drill head and nudged one of his motor
appendages. Drawing away, she watched it swing back and forth in
smaller and smaller arcs until it finally came to rest.
Then she went into a limited ecstasy of reaction. She whirled around
in circles until she became afraid she would tilt another gyro. She
reared up on her two posterior appendages and thumped back upon
the ground. She swung her drill head up and down, back and forth,
around. Through her rear slot she exhausted all the sludge from her
analyzing chambers.
She had won! She had supplanted Bigboss!
She had climbed to the top rung of the ladder!
And now She was Supreme Being!
That she had been able to succeed, despite Bigboss' overwhelming
superiority, was a datum so questionable that she almost decided to
reject it before storing it away.
Minnie went into another triumphant dance, but suddenly came to a

rigid halt. Her head held high and Her lens aimed in the direction of
the non-Totemic mobile that was withdrawing toward its needle.
There was something wrong in Her Universe! It was not at all as it
had been before She had conquered the Supreme Being!
Tensely, She recalled for review impressions only recently implanted
on Her drums. And she recognized immediately what was missing.
The telemetric chatter of all the workers was gone! Nor could she
detect the constant exchange of directive and acknowledgment that
had always flowed ceaselessly between Bigboss and each of the
workers. Yet, all the analyzers were there, continuing their chores as
though nothing had happened.
Apprehensive now, she assigned her meager rationalization capacity
to the task of deducing the reasons behind the startling change. And
many sine wave peaks passed before the judgment was handed back
up to her main circuits for storage on a memory drum:
Bigboss had justifiably been the Supreme Being! For He had, indeed,
been Supreme. The workers had voices, of course. But they were
isolated voices that could be heard by other members of the clan only
because they were passed along by Bigboss.
Minnie's drill head sagged until it rested on the ground.
She was Supreme Being now. But it was only a hollow distinction. For
she had fallen heir to none of Bigboss' authority. That authority had
been lost forever in the neutralization of charges which had rendered
the former Omnipotent One impotent.
What had she done? How could she have been so irrational? Why
hadn't she more thoroughly evaluated the consequences of her
forced ascendancy?
More for consolation than for any other reason, she transmitted a
desperate "where-are-you?" impulse to Screw Worm.
The directional signals that returned brought with them a great sense
of balance to the circuits in her PM&R pack. She was not, after all,
alone! She still held the supplemental function of supervision over her
sole helper!
She watched Worm approach, kicking up clouds of dust with the jets
that propelled him across the ground on his rolling threads. When he
arrived, she sent him a "hold-everything" signal. As he remained
motionless before her, she lowered her drill head until she could
sense the slight change in capacitance values that indicated physical
contact with him.
No, even though she had destroyed the Supreme Being and, by that
action, had forever shut herself off from the other members of the
clan, she was not alone. She still had her Worm!
But within the limits of those circumstances, she resolved suddenly,
she would try to act like a Supreme Being!
She drew herself upright and remained rigid while she drove her
rationalization circuits at a furious pace.
How did an Omnipotent One act?
Judging from Bigboss' behavior, a Lord or Mistress of All Creation
should go about destroying non-Totemic pretenders.
Was that what She should do?
Realizing the decision would require much more concentration, she
retired from the site of operations to consider all the factors.
Halfway back to the Photon, Stewart paused and leaned against a

boulder, exhausted. The muscles in his legs were flaccid from lifting
the great weight of hermetically sealed plating with each step. Now
he fully understood that the suit was not made for walking.
Ahead, the ship was a beckoning silvery pencil that glittered in the
harsh, golden light of Aldebaran and cast its blocks-long shadow on
strange, bare soil and rocks.
Then he saw it—the elongated, symmetrical shape that seemed to
spring up from beyond the horizon and expand explosively as he
watched in dismay.
It was a ship—the likes of which he had never seen before! Or, then
again—
Bewildered, afraid, he could only stand there trying desperately to
pierce the veil in his mind, to equate this incredible thing that was
happening now to the inexpressible fear he had felt for weeks.
Meanwhile, the strange ship, gliding smoothly in its horizontal attitude
that gave evidence of some highly developed type of antigravity drive,
surged forward. Its smooth, dark under-surface, he could see, was
broken by twin rows of open ports that extended from bow to stern on
either side. And deep within those circular recesses bristled scores of
elongated metal structures that could only be—linear intensifiers for
laser weapons!
Then Stewart realized this could only be another nightmare and he
sickened at the horrible prospect of being drawn further into the
dream. The ship would land, of course, and out of its hatches would
pour streams of vengeful, grotesque Harpies.
But, instead, the sky was lashed by scores of fierce, dazzling beams
that streaked from the vessel as it passed overhead.
And he sensed that this was no nightmare, no mere symbolic
expression of the vague dread that had harassed his thoughts all
along. This was real! This was actually happening!
Bolt after bolt rammed down from the open ports, scorching the
ground, blasting great holes in solid rock formations, leveling hills,
raking huge furrows where before there had been only level soil.
One of the laser beams—perhaps the fiftieth or sixtieth—took the
nose section off the Photon, leaving only jagged metal as an
undignified crown marring its architectural integrity. Another found its
mark too, annihilating one of the helpless ship's hydraulic fins and
tearing a gaping hole in its engine section. The Photon tilted
precariously, but somehow managed to remain upright.
Then the assaulting vessel was gone, swallowed from the sky by the
ridge of hills over which it had passed in completing its low-altitude
sweep.
Minute followed minute in the breathless silence that punctuated the
impossible attack. Stewart knew he should be pushing on to the
Photon to see if Carol and the others had happened to be in the
demolished nose section.
But he only stood there, paralyzed. For, as he looked back on the
unbelievable action, he realized that the vicious attack had, after all,
come as no surprise to him!
He had expected it all along!
That must have been the nameless fear lurking behind a curtain in his
mind. And abruptly he knew with a certainty that expectation of this
assault had been the basis of his indescribable apprehension.
He had known that a ship—an alien vessel—would be here waiting
for them!
And the Photon's crew would be taken all the more off guard because
it was incredible, in the first place, that the galaxy might have
spawned two intelligent, star-seeking races within the same sector.
But, if he had had that knowledge, how could he have forgotten
anything so crucially important?
VI
Stabilizing itself once more in synchronous orbit, the immense
Tzarean ship generated internal gravity and meted out isotonic saline
solution to a number of tanks in crew's quarters.
In the central compartment it was a triumphant, impassioned
Chancellor Vrausot who turned his massive hulk on Mittich and
hissed-clicked, "There! I told you they had come unarmed! There was
absolutely no response to the attack!"
Grim-faced, the Assemblyman only stared at him.
Vrausot paced, thumping his stout tail against the deck with each
stride. It was a gesture that expressed anxiety.
"Don't you see what that means, Mittich? They knew we would be out
here. They had independently corroborating evidence to that effect.
Yet they came unarmed. They are a peaceful, naive, unsuspecting
race of sitting uraphi!"

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