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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
Ever received an email that is completely filled with weird
symbols? The reason why is because the format the other person sent
that e-mail in is incompatible with your reader, (Outlook,
Communicator, Eudora etc)
Most e-mail readers allow people to read e-mails that are set up
like little webpages, i.e. they are written in html. Anytime you send
an e-mail through word, or have colour on it, your e-mail becomes
html.
But some readers don't allow html, or they are strictly limited to
just a few colours and fonts (styles of writing). So html to
them is almost completely unreadable. Be careful to ask people's
preferences before sending e-mail, or always send plain text unless
you know they have a modern reader.
To check which type of e-mail you are sending, write your e-mail as
normal, then go to FORMAT on the menu bar, and check to see if plain
text (or txt) is ticked, or html. If you want to change from one to
the other, just click on the type of format you want.
To send all your e-mails as plain text or html, go to TOOLS, then
OPTIONS on the menu bar, and check on either the send tab, or the
format tab (depending on which version of reader you have) and there
will be a box there listing either plain test or html options.
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let them know I wrote it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of
Vocational and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14
years of having to make sales or starve that makes her think she has
really learnt what does and doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she
specialises in helping people get started on the long road to
technology.
"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to
work."
