In this document I will explain what attachments are, why attachments are useful and a screen shot of the following showing how to add attachments.

What is an attachment ?

attachment s are documents you add to an email to send to a contact or group of contacts of your choice.

The attachment button

What attachments useful for?

• Email attachments are useful because you can attach documents e.g pictures and videos and send them to other people.

How to add attachments ? As soon at you

press reply a new window will pop up. To buttons next to the send button is the attachment button that is in the shape of a paper clip. If you hover over it, it will change colour and say attach file.

How to add attachment ?

After clicking the attachment button the attachment browse document will pop up press browse to brose for you attachment. Press browse to browse

you folders for your attachment.

Adding an attachment?

After clicking the browse button another link will pop up with your area , go into the file of your choice and pick what link, picture or video you wish to attach to your emailing.

Open button, pressed when you wish to open a file and send it.

Final steps . . .

Your chosen attachment.

After the previous link has minimised press attach to attach it to your original email you with to send.

You attachment linked to your original email to the contact or contacts of your choice.

Adding auto signatures

You have probably seen the signatures at the bottom of emails when people email you, and you have probably put some sort of name or signature at the bottom of your emails as well. You do not have to type this out every time. Whether it is a short signature or a professional signature with your contact information most email programs allow you to automatically input your custom signature.

Why useful ?

if you wish to send more than one email or are just in a rush adding a signature can be very useful with a click of a button or automatically your personalised signature will appear at the end of your email.

Adding a signature . . .

At the end of writing your email if you click this button your personalised signature will automatically pop up.

My personalised signature that I created to send an informal letter to one of my friends, many fonts letter, sizes and fonts are available when you create your signature.

Adding a signature . . .

first, click on the options button at the top right hand corner of the screen. After clicking on options a new window will appear (window on the following slide) at the top it will say messaging options, underneath that shall say (Email-signature), if you see this then you know your in the right place.

Adding a signature . . .

Using these links you may personalise your signature.

If you wish for your signature to appear on every email without clicking the signature button.

After personalising your signature and you are happy press save (highlighted in red at top left hand corner)

Setting priorities . . .

I'm sure some of the emails you write are very important. There is a way to let the recipient know: you can assign a message priority to the messages you compose in Windows Mail or Outlook Express. Of course this also works for messages that have low priority. if you wish to send a very important message to someone it will come up on their screen as an important email.

Setting priorities . . .

The high priorities button

Low priorities button

After opening up your email , on the send bar there will be a link for (options) clicking the options button on the top right hand side the link above will appear.

Using the drop down box select the importance status you wish for your emailing to follow.

After changing your settings press ok.

Setting priorities . . .

A mail received from one of your contacts that has a high priority telling you, you need to read it ASAP.

Using folders

you may ask what is a folder ? Mail folders make it easy to organize those incoming and outgoing messages. You can create your own folders in which to store your messages, Mail to deliver certain messages to specific folders.

Using folders

How are they useful? As useful as is it, an Inbox is not for keeping mail, and neither is a Sent Mail folder. If you want to arrange your messages then adding new folders for your mail is the way forward , whether you want to manually sort your mail by topic or recipient, or just throw everything in one big folder. a way of saving you bags of time to get to the email you wish to find.

Adding a folder

CREATE NEW FOLDER- click on for the final steps . . .

RIGHT hand click on the inbox button to bring up a menu to created you folder.

Adding a folder . . .

After clicking on the CREATE NEW FOLDER link a new folder will pop up, name your folder to a name of your choice, you may drag or copy and paste any message into your newly created folder. you may create as many folders as you wish.