Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 Tips #6



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*1. CC YA LATER        
  
You can send a single message to multiple recipients using
 Internet Mail. Click New Message, then double-click the To icon
 to open the Address Book. Select a recipient and click To.
 Repeat until you've selected all the recipients. 

Once you've selected all the recipients, click OK and click Send.
 (As you know, the message may not get sent until you also click
 Send And Receive.) The only drawback is that all the recipients'
 names appear on all the messages. So if you don't want Tracey
 to see that you also sent the message to Stacey, you'll have to
 send them separately.


*2. WITH A SNIP, SNIP HERE...        
  
Almost all Windows programs allow you to cut or copy and paste
 data between programs. This applies to Internet Explorer as
 well. If you have an Internet address in a Windows document
 (Word, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Word Pro, and so forth) that you'd
 like to visit, you can get that address into Internet Explorer
 without a bunch of typing. 

Select the address in your Windows program and copy it using
 Ctrl-C (in most programs). Then go to Internet Explorer and
 click the Address Box. Press Ctrl-V to paste the address. 

Note: This applies to addresses that are not hyperlinked. If the
 address appears as a link in the application, you can simply
 click it to go directly to the address.


*3. LOOKING FOR A LONG HISTORY?        
  
If you depend heavily on your History files, perhaps you'd like
 to save them for longer than the 20-day default. You can save
 history files for up to 999 days (as long as your disk space
 holds out). Choose View, Options and click the Navigation tab.
 Double-click the spin box labeled "Number of days to keep pages
 in History" and type the new number. 

Click OK to close the dialog box and record your change.


*4. ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS        
  
When you set out to read the entries in a newsgroup, you usually
 run across a topic of special interest. To see all the messages
 in the thread, you have to expand it. To do this, click the
 small plus sign to the left of the message icon. 

If you're sure you always want to see expanded threads, you can
 convince Internet News to do the job for you. Choose News,
 Options and click the Read tab. Now select the check box labeled
 "Auto expand conversation threads" and click OK to record your
 change and close the dialog box. Now, whenever you open Internet
 News, the program automatically expands all the threads.


*5. SELECTIVE MEMORY        
  
If your History folder is getting a bit full, you can choose
 View, Options and click the Navigation tab, where you'll find
 the Clear History button. If you click Clear History, all your
 History files get dumped. 

But what if you'd like to keep some of those files while
 reducing the overall size of your History folder? Open Windows
 Explorer and double-click the Windows folder. Now look for the
 History folder and click it. All your History files appear in
 the right pane of the Explorer window. 

Press Ctrl-A to select them all. Since you want to keep some,
 hold down the Ctrl key while you click every file to keep. This
 deselects them and prevents their deletion. After you've
 deselected all these files, press Delete. 

If you only want to delete a few entries, you can approach this
 from the opposite direction. Forget about Ctrl-A. Just hold down
 the Ctrl key while selecting the files you want to delete. When
 you locate one, click its icon to select it. When you press
 Delete, all the selected files get deleted.


*6. DON'T LOSE THOSE ADDRESSES        
  
How do you back up the Address Book? To locate the Address Book
 file (its location depends on where you put it), click the
 desktop and press F3 to open Find. Now search drive C: and its
 subfolders for *.wab. Copy the file to a floppy in drive A:. You
 have just backed up your Address Book. 

The default location for the file is
 C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book.


*7. GETTING THE BIG PICTURE        
  
If you like to use the toolbar, the address box, the links, and
 the status bar, you're taking away lots of Internet Explorer
 window space from your Web page viewing. But if you've been
 using IE for a while now, you may prefer to see more of the Web
 pages and less of the toolbar. 

To see how you like the maximized window, choose View, Toolbar.
 Since this command is a toggle, choosing it turns it off. The
 next time you choose View, Toolbar, the toolbar reappears.
 Although the remaining menu takes up a minimal amount of window
 space, all the commands you need are still available to you. To
 go back to the previous page, you can press Alt-left arrow (or
 Backspace). To go forward, press Alt-right arrow (or
 Shift-Backspace). To read your e-mail, choose Go, Read Mail.
 It's all there except the address box and the links.


*8. MINIMALIST TOOLBAR        
  
In the last tip, we showed you how to eliminate the Internet
 Explorer Toolbar to maximize your Web page window. If you don't
 want to give up the Address Box, you can still get by with a
 fairly minimal Toolbar. Choose View, Toolbar to toggle it back
 on. Now move the mouse over the bottom edge of the toolbar until
 the pointer turns to a double-arrow icon (pointing up and down).
 Press the mouse button and hold it down while you drag toward
 the top of the screen. At some point, the links will disappear.
 If you continue dragging, the address box will disappear, too.
 Continue dragging until Internet Explorer won't let you drag
 any further. 

At this point, you'll see that the address box, the links, and
 all the toolbar icons appear in the same bar. Look for the edge
 of the address box and use the mouse to drag it to the size you
 want. With a bit of work, you can probably reach an acceptable
 compromise between the space the address box, links, and toolbar
 icons use.


*9. BACK IT UP AND TURN IT AROUND        
  
Several subscribers have pointed out that you can go forward one
 page in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 by pressing
 Shift-Backspace. You can also go forward by pressing Alt-right
 arrow key. 

Pressing the Shift key generally reverses a navigation key in
 standard Windows programs. For example, if you habitually use
 the Tab key to move forward in a document, pressing Shift-Tab
 moves you backward in the same document. 

Don't forget that you can return to a specific URL you've already
 typed in the Address Box by clicking the arrow to the right of
 the Address Box and choosing the site from the drop-down list.


*10. SAVING GRACE        
  
As you read through newsgroup messages, you may run across some
 you'd like to save. With a message selected, choose File, Save
 Message. You won't see anything happen, but the message gets
 saved in the Saved Items folder. 

To get to the Saved Items folder, click the icon in the
 Newsgroups folder list (or the Down button to its right) to
 expand the folder list. In it, you'll see other newsgroups (if
 you've subscribed to more than one) and the Outbox, Posted
 Items, and Saved Items folders. Select the Saved Items folder
 to view its contents.
