E-mail attachment "How To" directions
Here's a very simple & easy guide on how to
make/send an 'attachment' to your e-mails...
Directions for how to 'receive' an attachment are below under the bold-heading
"Recive".
Remember, though, that attachments can take-up a lot of disk and/or network
time / space / money, so be judicious in your use of attachments.
We'll 'assume' that you know how to use e-mail to create, send, receive,
etc.
We'll also 'assume' that you're using a Microsoft Windows Operating System
and e-mail client
So - Once you've created your e-mail, once you've addressed it and typed
in a brief note (just a brief note, if you please - if you want to type a
'letter' - please put that in a separate e-mail - only attachments
go in an e-mail - nothing else, and only one attachment per e-mail, also
- this is 'proper etiquette'.
Somewhere on your 'compose' window / or it's borders - there should
be an 'Attachment' button, simply click on that button, and you will
be presented with a window where you can either type the name of the attachment
(assuming you know the name) OR it will have a "Browse" button - and if you
click on that button you will be presented with the file-browser, for your
computer's hard disk(s), and then you can select the file you want by navigating
through your computer's hard-disk(s).
Once you find the file - then just click "Open" or "Attach" or - probably
just press the "Return" key and you're
all set,. Then all you have to do is to 'Send' the e-mail.
Receive:
In 'most' modern e-mail client software packages, there is an icon, presented
in the 'body' of the e-mail. AND - further - in most modern e-mail
client software packages, you can merely 'double-click' on that icon and
the computer's operating system and e-mail client software package with 'conspire'
together to find a software application to open the file for you. ONCE the
file is opened in it's application (say, for instance, Microsoft Word), and
you read the file(attachment) you have the options (just as you do with any
other file in Micorosoft Word) to edit or save the file. You should
probably save the file, at this point, if you want to keep it. - You
could also drag the icon from the body of the e-mail to a file-folder some
where and save it that way - if you don't want to open it while you are reading
your e-mails. However, - be forewarned that "most" modern e-mail
client software packages will delete the attachment when you delete the e-mail.
So - you need to save it with the 'SaveAs' command in the application
(again - example - Microsoft Word) or by the drag and drop method if you
want to save it.
last updated: Monday_24_April_2002; nsc6.2;
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