Re: Re: OT! Color Messages

[Guest guest]

Hi ....

I use Windows Millenium so I think you are fine with Windows '98. I will explain how it works for me so you can look. When I hit "reply" to a message there are several icons that show up immediately above the area where I type the message. If you un your mouse over them, it will identify what each icon is. You can select your Font Style with the "F" icon, then you can go to the Text Color icon and click on it, then choose your color.

Hopefully, it works the same for you. I wish that I could lock my color in for all my messages, but with my system you have to choose the color at each reply. Jim's system may be different.

Good luck,

Jo

Strecker wrote:

Dear Jo and Jim,I love the colored messages! Do you need a special program to do that? I am using windows '98, if that matters. Love,

[Guest guest]

> I love the colored messages! Do you need a special program to do that?

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Most people who use Windows use either Outlook or Outlook Express for an Email program. If this includes you, then you can fancy up your messages easily. Outlook works in "partnership" like Microsoft Word - but it's so long since I used it that I don't remember how to start off. If you are using Outlook Express then just go to the top bar of menus and click on "FORMAT" and then click " on "RICH TEXT/HTML". An extra bar will pop up above where you write your message and you can select fonts, colors, bolding, italics, underline text, etc. as well as make

bulleted lists

numbered lists

do special indenting

insert horizontal bars between lines in your message

Don't worry about the three tabs at the bottom - you probably only want to compose your messages in the "edit" window. "Source" will allow you to write (or see) your message in HTML - the special coding that determines how messages look when prepared for internet transmission (the way web pages must be written to show up the same in all web browsers) and preview just shows you the message as the recipient will get it without letting you do any editing.

The only problem is if you don't permanently set your colors, fonts, etc. you may find it will suddenly revert to whatever your "default" settings are in your internet options found on the control panel. Then you have a mid-message change like this paragraph shows... and have to go back and highlight the changes and correct them as you would in a word processing program.

The shortcoming of the fancy stuff is that it slows down delivery of messages as your computer "translates" the plain-Jane message and turns it fancy. And, while you can now include graphics in your messages , graphics REALLY slow things down. Another downside is that HTML messages can carry viruses hidden in the HTML coding so be very sure your mail is checked on the way to your mailbox to filter out viruses before they get to you (or your computer decides to "share" them by sending them out without your knowing it. These are two reasons why most email groups switch off the ability to send messages as HTML.

Sue

[Guest guest]

I am not doing anything different with my computer than I did from the first day. And that was years ago.LOL

Jim