Microsoft word email question
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Microsoft word email question
I wrote something and put it in Microsoft word and would now like to send it in an email but I'm confused as to how to set it up. First it goes to Internet Connection Wizard and it wants me to put down the name I want to use. So I did. The next one goes to Internet email and asks for an email address that I want to use. Am I supposed to make one up for this or use my AOL address? The next one says that I'm supposed to select one of three choices ... POP3, IMAP or HTTP as an incoming server, and also wants me to choose an outgoing server (no choices). I have no idea what to do here. Any hints? I am on AOL. I don't do computers so bear with me. Thanks.
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hi back atcha Michelle. i was wonderin where ya ran off to.
when i do stuff like that, i just right-click highlight and copy what i typed, and paste into the content box of my email.
i have never been able to figure how to do it the way they want to do it.
when i do stuff like that, i just right-click highlight and copy what i typed, and paste into the content box of my email.
i have never been able to figure how to do it the way they want to do it.
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It's really easy to attach a file. If the person receiving the Word document doesn't have Word on their computer, they might not be able to open it. I have an AOL email so I took some screen shots.
1. Click the word "compose" so you can send an email.
2. Click the box with the paper clip in it, this will allow you to attach a document. See pic below.
3. When you click the box with the paper clip in it, it will open a new window. Open the folder that has the file, I'm guessing "documents". Once you are in your documents, find the file you want to attach. You should just click on it once, and then click open, or attach. Here is a pic of the window that pops up.
I hope this helps.
1. Click the word "compose" so you can send an email.
2. Click the box with the paper clip in it, this will allow you to attach a document. See pic below.
3. When you click the box with the paper clip in it, it will open a new window. Open the folder that has the file, I'm guessing "documents". Once you are in your documents, find the file you want to attach. You should just click on it once, and then click open, or attach. Here is a pic of the window that pops up.
I hope this helps.
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I discovered something about emailing attachments when I was busy sending resumes out. Many potential employers would rather have a .pdf file than a .doc document. Apparently, word docs don't always make it through the email environment very well. But, under no circumstances would I recommend sending an important document in the body of an email text. The spacing, lines and indents will be completely messed up. Always attach the file. As for using aol, I was wondering who that person was... lol. Get yourself a gmail account through google. If you need an invite, let me know (pm). I'll be glad to send you one.
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I wrote something and put it in Microsoft word and would now like to send it in an email but I'm confused as to how to set it up. First it goes to Internet Connection Wizard and it wants me to put down the name I want to use. So I did. The next one goes to Internet email and asks for an email address that I want to use. Am I supposed to make one up for this or use my AOL address? The next one says that I'm supposed to select one of three choices ... POP3, IMAP or HTTP as an incoming server, and also wants me to choose an outgoing server (no choices). I have no idea what to do here. Any hints? I am on AOL. I don't do computers so bear with me. Thanks.
Hi everyone. I've missed you.
Hi everyone. I've missed you.
You are getting the questions because you do not have a default mail program setup.. It is probably set for Microsoft Outlook and you use AOL..
Open internet explorer.
Goto Tools
Internet options
Select the programs Tab.
For the email box make sure it says AOL..
This change will make AOL the default and will open AOL and attach the document to the email..
Another way is just open AOL.
Start a new email message.
At the bottom hit the Attach button.
Then select what you want to attach.
Select open.
Then it will be attached
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OK ... this is really going to freak everyone out. Besides my still being on AOL, I am also still on DIALUP. The reason being is that I've been writing a book and I'm afraid to touch anything for fear of loosing what I have saved. I have had that happen, by an expert no less. Lost everything on my computer. Then AOL has messed me up loosing things from time to time as well. So now I have over 140,000 words divided up into 24 chapters saved in AOL, on my computer in AOL and also in Microsoft word. My computer is so slow now that I can go and get some shopping done by the time a page loads up.
I tried gmail but it didn't do very well with my being on dialup. Yahoo gave me a problem too. I will be off AOL and will be getting that fast ***** as soon as I'm done with this task. I didn't want to send the manuscript in an email ... as an email ... for reasons yall mentioned. I do have an attachment down at the bottom of my AOL emails so that is a super idea. How many attachments can be sent at one time, and do they have a word limit?
Thanks for the advice yall. I hope that everyone who experienced the deep freeze we've had lately made it though OK. Even where I am, by El Paso, we had zero degrees. It brought everything to a standstill. All of the power companies broke down as well.
I tried gmail but it didn't do very well with my being on dialup. Yahoo gave me a problem too. I will be off AOL and will be getting that fast ***** as soon as I'm done with this task. I didn't want to send the manuscript in an email ... as an email ... for reasons yall mentioned. I do have an attachment down at the bottom of my AOL emails so that is a super idea. How many attachments can be sent at one time, and do they have a word limit?
Thanks for the advice yall. I hope that everyone who experienced the deep freeze we've had lately made it though OK. Even where I am, by El Paso, we had zero degrees. It brought everything to a standstill. All of the power companies broke down as well.
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Michelle..
The size limit of the attachment is 10Mb in most cases.. some ISP's may be more or Less.
I tell people to stay around 8Mb to make sure it doesn't get bounced for being to big.
There is no word limit and you can send more than one file at a time..
If you have multiple documenst AOL automatically puts them in a Zip file before sending.
Nothing wrong with AOL.. I still use them, but not on dial up..
AOL is free if you have Internet access from another carrier like Comcast or Verizon..
The size limit of the attachment is 10Mb in most cases.. some ISP's may be more or Less.
I tell people to stay around 8Mb to make sure it doesn't get bounced for being to big.
There is no word limit and you can send more than one file at a time..
If you have multiple documenst AOL automatically puts them in a Zip file before sending.
Nothing wrong with AOL.. I still use them, but not on dial up..
AOL is free if you have Internet access from another carrier like Comcast or Verizon..
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If by 24 chapters you mean 24 seperate documents then yes you can send them all at once.. As long as they are small enough to be under the 10Mb limit..
Otherwise you will have to send them in groups of maybe 5 or 10..
If you have 1 document with 24 Chapters it only will depend on the size of that 1 file
Otherwise you will have to send them in groups of maybe 5 or 10..
If you have 1 document with 24 Chapters it only will depend on the size of that 1 file
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If you look at the file size after you attach it to your email it tells you the size right next to the file name at the bottom of the message..
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As a general rule, a MB is 1000 KB. Some engineers and computer geeks will say a MB is 1024 KB. The difference is rather small unless you're talking MANY MB's....
To get a rough guess on the size of the entire document, a printed page in a book is about 1KB.
Text files for this have almost no "fluff" in the file size. Your 10-page chapter will be right around 10K.
Microsoft Word puts a whole lot of "fluff" in the file size, so your 10-page chapter might wind up being an entire MB.
In this case, "fluff" is things like paragraph formatting, font(s), pagination, etc....
-blaine
To get a rough guess on the size of the entire document, a printed page in a book is about 1KB.
Text files for this have almost no "fluff" in the file size. Your 10-page chapter will be right around 10K.
Microsoft Word puts a whole lot of "fluff" in the file size, so your 10-page chapter might wind up being an entire MB.
In this case, "fluff" is things like paragraph formatting, font(s), pagination, etc....
-blaine