Trainz/CS00-Computer skills index

1 About this TOC page Writing for Trainz Asset Management and Maintenance poses some challenges for how are our contributors to know the skills knowledge in OS-HowTo or education and background of Trainz Users—who span the gamete from children to elderly railway workers and other retirees who had no job experience with computers, computing and only have a computer because of Trainz. The tutorials here are fundamental heavily illustrated HowTo techniques that even the Savvy computer professionals sometimes overlook. We intend to give you the computer skills Know-how to manage Trainz —and perhaps even improve your whole life-skills set here. CS Skills TOC-MAC Want Ad - Someone with good assets repair or creation experience and with Trainz Mac-I or Mac-II that is selfless enough to add parallel HowTo articles with our Windows pages. Yesterdayz-Trainz, who have undertaken the revision of this work since June 2013 can use a contributing partner! Membership is optional, but as a group focused in part on an Trainz educational mission, Mac owners need some loving too! Windows skills white; These pages will be focused as much as possible on a variety of tools applications, but will most often be illustrated with Notepad++ as the editor, and other Freeware applications like L Open Office (esp. Writer and Calc). One feature of the editor and Open Office is custom colorization, or 'reskinning' in Trainz parlance, 'skins' in the vernacular— as one likes—so don't let my choices as the lead editor in these tutorials affect your liking or not. - FrankB 21:34, 5 September 2014 (UTC) Around Windows For convenient reading, this section will be threaded with LMB-clickable page-to-page hyperlinks from the page tops and bottom boxes. Recommended settings and set ups CSW-001_recommended Windows settings and set ups CSW-002_the importance of being the boss CSW-003_optimized hard drive configurations Steps to make sure Trainz runs properly CSW-006_steps to make runs well on Windows CSW-007_one head or two plus with Trainz CSW-011_running more than one Trainz install CSW-013_editing registry entries CSW-016_ CSW-021_ Basic tool apps operations It's not our job to teach you all there is to know about a Widows application program, but herein we'll pass along what you need to know to do the simple tasks we recommend as HowTo tasks. Text editors CSW-030_ Choosing editors, when where and why CSW-030_Crimson or Ruby skills CSW-040_Notepad++ skills CSW-050_Programmer's Notepad skills CSW-060_Comsomething TBDL CSW60 - whatever that N3V one is called CSW-070_ TBDL CSW70 Spreadsheets CSW-100_Open Office Calc skills CSW-160_Using MS Excell for Trainz needs Graphics software CSW-180_selecting graphics programs CSW-181-199_Intros and features of XYZ software overviews series Reviews and pros and cons discussions go here ... series CSW-181-199_Intros and features of XYZ software overviews series CSW-200_MS Paint skills CSW-201_cropping images with MS Paint CSW-202_resizing images with MS Paint CSW-203_making thumbnails images with MS Paint CSW-219_z last topic... images with MS Paint CSW-220_Using IrfanView for Trainz needs CSW-221_cropping images with IrfanView CSW-222_resizing images with IrfanView CSW-223_Thumbs viewer-managing images with IrfanView CSW-224_renaming and managing images with IrfanView CSW-225_lightening images with IrfanView CSW-238_Thumbs viewer-managing images with IrfanView CSW-240_Using GIMP for Trainz needs CSW-241-259_Using GIMP for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series GIMP series of tutorials CSW-241-259_Using GIMP for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series CSW-260_Using Paint.net for Trainz needs CSW-261-279_Using GIMP for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series Paint.net tutorials CSW-261-279_Using GIMP for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series CSW-280_Using XnView for Trainz needs CSW-281_Using XnView tutorials begin CSW-281-299_Using XnView for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series XnView tutorials series ... CSW-281-299_Using XnView for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series CSW-299_Using XnView tutorials cap CSW-300_Using Paint Shop Pro for Trainz needs CSW-301-329_Using XnView for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series Paint Shop Pro series... CSW-301-329_Using XnView for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series CSW-330_Using TBDL for Trainz needs CSW-331-349_Using XnView for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series XnView series... CSW-331-349_Using XnView for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series CSW-341_Using TBDL for Trainz needs CSW-241-259_Using XnView for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series CSW-241-259_Using XnView for AlphaMask generation, resizing...series Other utilities CSW-401_Using filing Apps for managing assets by kuid CSLs CSW-403_FNR.exe_Replace and modifying multiple files CSW-411_REGEX in Replacing and modifying multiple files CSW-413_Notepad++ and modifying multiple files CSW-415_ReplaceText2.2 and modifying multiple files CSW-420_IrfanView skills for managing and modifying multiple files Cross-App skills This section contains techniques using more than one Windows application to achieve what you need. CSW-500_Editors and spreadsheets CSW-501_Getting a kuid CSL in 30 seconds-Calc CSW-506_Getting a kuid CSL in 30 seconds-Excell CSW-511_Tracking-N-trimming CM messages-Calc CSW-516_Tracking-N-trimming CM messages-Excell CSW-530_kuid CSLs organizing Trainz for yourself CSW-531_kuid CSVs to control lists in CM operations CSW-551_kuid CSVs as custom Pick Lists for route building   Web skills Site searching, knowing how to do targeted searching saves tons of time CSW-700_using BING for site specific searching CSW-720_using Google for site specific searching CSW-740_using MSN for site specific searching CSW-760_using Yahoo for site specific searching CSW-800_Making the most of the Auran Forums External Links Listed here are some pages which may aid readers in further OS or Apps Skills building. REGEX HowTo in Notepad++ - Advanced REGEX searching   Notes and references "notes" 1 1 1