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Differences Between Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail,
and Web-based Email Programs + Some "Drop & Drag" Tricks Matt Henken asked how to have his Yahoo Mail account open as his default email program, rather than Outlook. I told Matt he could click on Start>Set Program Access & Defaults to find several options. However, the options tend to favor Microsoft products and make it difficult to choose certain others, such as Yahoo. If someone knows an easy work-around I'd love to hear from you. Outlook-user Mary Tyer asks why she can't hear the music that arrives with some of her email messages. Well, many email programs block certain attachments by default. In Outlook this default can be changed by clicking Tools>Trust Center. In Outlook Express this choice is found at Tools>Options>Security. Most other programs display a "Click to Allow Pictures/Music, etc." message. Another reader asked how to create folders in his Yahoo Mail account. Well, the answer also works in most other email programs; right-click Inbox and choose Create Folder. Name the folder and make as many as needed to organize your mail. Bear in mind that your Inbox is on your own hard drive if you use Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail. It is on a server somewhere in cyberspace when you use Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail, and other Web-based services. It's also helpful to know you can "drag and drop" messages onto your Desktop from certain email programs. Outlook Express, WLM, Juno, NetZero, and the "Windows Live" version of Hotmail will let you drag messages from their Inboxes onto your Desktop (or into folders created by right-clicking the Desktop and choosing New>Folder). I do this with all my important Outlook Express messages and then drag the folders onto a USB thumb drive for extra backup security. Such dragging does not "move" the items; it simply "copies" them. Another handy "drag & drop" trick is to drag attachments, such as songs or pictures, directly into the body of an outgoing Outlook Express message, whereupon an "Attach" field materializes to contain them. This is easier than the traditional clicking of the "Attach paper clip" and navigating to the file or files. Likewise, email addresses can be dragged from a list in a document directly into the "To:" or "CC:" or "BCC" fields of Outlook Express. Be aware, however, that such dragging of email addresses does physically move them unless you press CTRL while dragging so that they will be copied instead. By the way, I keep all my email addresses in an Excel spreadsheet so that if I change email programs I don't have to struggle moving an Address Book from one program to another. Another "drag & drop" trick is to mouse-select some text in a Word document and then drag it onto your Desktop, where it becomes a file named "Document Scrap" (with some dragged text appended to the name). I do this to make a quick copy of part of a document. Later, I simply double-click the "scrap" to have it open as a separate Word document. © Donald Ray Edrington - All Rights Reserved
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