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Welcome to this week's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, April 18, 2004
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Forward Part of an Email
Tips & Tricks: Keyboard Shortcuts: Internet Explorer
Featured Computer Term: Font
This Week's Topic: Email Address Book Groups
Tips & Tricks: Keyboard Shortcuts: Internet Explorer
Question: Alphabetizing Email
Websites of Interest: Earth Day; Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work; The Caves of Lascaux; A Tale of Three Cities; Clockworks; The Paperboy
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Using Links
A Link is a reference to a website. In this newsletter you will see links to
many worthwhile, informative and fun websites. Here are the instructions on
how to use links:
A link will be used one of two ways, depending on your email program.
If you see the link in blue, underlined text, all you have to do is click on
it and a window with the Website in it will automatically appear on your
screen.
If you see the link in plain text, you can copy and paste it into the address
bar on your browser. Highlight the link with your mouse, click Edit up on
the menu bar, and then click Copy from the menu that you just opened up. Open
your browser (click the Start Button, point to Programs, click on Internet
Explorer); click on the address bar. Click Edit up on the menu bar, and then
click Paste from the menu that you just opened up. Press the Enter key on the
keyboard and this will take you to the Website.
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Special Feature: Forward Part of an Email
Question: Can I forward an email without including all the other names and email addresses that are in the email I received?
Answer:
Yes, you can. You can read the steps at our website:
http://www.stsico.com/html/forwardemail.html
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Tips & Tricks: Keyboard Shortcuts: Internet Explorer
Hold down the Alt key and press the Home key to return to your home (starting) page in Internet Explorer.
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Featured Computer Term: Font
A Font is a complete set of characters in a specific face, style, and size. Each set includes upper- and lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation marks.
To learn more about fonts, how to change the style and size, preview and print them, visit our website:
http://www.stsico.com/html/fonts.html
Is there a computer term or phrase that you'd like to see an explanation of?
Email it to info@computerkindergarten.com and we'll put the term and its
definition in an upcoming newsletter.
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Today's Topic: Email Address Book Groups
Question: I am a member of several organizations. In the positions that I hold, I send out email to other members. I have the email addresses of all the members in my address book but can I send an email without clicking them individually to add each to the email address line? This would be such a timesaver!
Answer:
You can create a group and add all the members you want to that group. Then when you put the group in the To: section of your e-mail, the email will go out to each member of the group.
The exact steps to do this will vary slightly from email program to email program but the basics will be the same.
First, create the group. Open the address book and click on New, Add or New Group.
Give your group a name.
You can add members to your group by selecting the individual addresses from your address book or inputting new addresses.
Look through your list of contacts, and for each one that you want to be a member of this group, click on the address and then on an Add or Select button.
When you are finished selecting members, click OK.
When you want to send an e-mail to your group, find the group in your address book, select it and click the To button.
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Tips & Tricks: Keyboard Shortcuts: Internet Explorer
The Home key alone will jump to the beginning of any Web page, while the End key goes to the end of the Web page.
Use PgUp or PgDn keys to quickly scroll up or down on a Web page.
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Question: Alphabetizing Email
I use Outlook Express for my email. I know this can be done because I used to see my email in alphabetical order. Now it is in random order and I would like to get it back to alphabetical. How can I do it? Thanks! I love your newsletter – I learn so much from it.
Answer:
In Outlook there is a row just above your e-mail messages that labels what that column is for. You will probably see From, Subject, Received. If you look closely at these, you will see that they are buttons.
Click right on the word From to sort your e-mails by that column. If you want your e-mails sorted by the date you received them, click on the Received heading and they will sort by the date.
If you want them sorted by the subject, click on the Subject heading.
Click once and the column will be sorted in ascending order; click again and it will be sorted in descending order.
America Online
Note the column headings Type, Date, Email Address, and Subject above your list of emails. Click on any of these to sort your emails by that column.
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Websites of Interest:
Earth Day
Thursday, the 22nd is Earth Day. Visit the Earth Day website to read more about this observation.
http://www.earthday.org/
Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work
On Thursday, April 22.
http://www.daughtersandsonstowork.org/
The Caves of Lascaux
Explore the underground cave and look at photos of the artwork created 17,000 years ago.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
A Tale of Three Cities
Here is a very interesting site by National Geographic, comparing cities that, in their time, were the greatest cities in the world: Alexandria, Egypt and Cordoba, Spain to New York City.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/3cities/
Clockworks
If you are interested in time, clocks and timekeeping, you will find this site fascinating.
http://www.britannica.com/clockworks/startpage.html
The Paperboy
At this website you can read just about any newspaper from anywhere around the world.
http://www.thepaperboy.com.au/welcome.html |
