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Subject:Re: Looking for a static icon From:Susan W. Gallagher <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:46:21 -0400
If you're on Windows (you didn't say...), all of the mouse pointers available for your system are accessible from the Control Panel/Mouse utility. Choose the "Pointers" tab, browse until you find the specific version of the "finger" pointer <g> you want to show, and take a screenshot that you can then crop in the bitmap editor of your choice.
> You know that nifty little "pointing finger" icon that your cursor changes
> to when you hold it over a hyperlink on a Web page? Well, I am trying to
> find a static graphic of this icon. I am writing a guide for users that may
> never have seen the Internet before or used the Internet (no joke), so I
> have to be as literal and detailed as possible. When I say if you hold your
> cursor over a hyperlink, the cursor changes to a Hand or Pointed Finger (or
> something similar) icon and I want a picture of this to put into the
> instructions.
>
> I have googled and also searched IE's help, but to no avail. Any thoughts on
> how to get a graphic of this?
>
> Thanks,
>
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