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Introduction 4
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Opening Outlook Express 5
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Creating a new message 9
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More Advanced Stuff about Creating and Sending Emails 12
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Sending Attachments 13
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Using the Spell Checker 15
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Adding a Priority Flag to your Email 16
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Saving emails to the Draft folder 17
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Sending an Email using a Different Account 17
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Using Auto-complete when Typing Email Addresses 18
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Making your Emails Fancy 19 Selecting Stationery 19
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Creating your own stationery 20
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Changing or Removing Stationery for an Individual Email 21
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Creating Signatures 21
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Removing a Signature from an Individual Email 22
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Adding a Signature to an Individual Email 22
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All about Receiving and Reading Emails 23
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Receiving Emails 23 Reading Emails 23
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Sorting Emails in the Inbox 23 Resizing columns 23
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Picking Columns to View 24 Marking an Email as ‘unread’ 25
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What the Various Icons Mean 26
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Opening and Saving Attachments 27
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The Preview Pane 28 Printing Emails 30
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Deleting Emails 30 Restoring Deleted Emails 31
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Virus checking your emails 32
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Setting Rules for how and when Outlook Express Checks for Mail 33
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Receiving Mail from Multiple Accounts 33
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Displaying the Email Address an Incoming Message has been Sent to 34
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Replying to Emails 36
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Using Reply All 37
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Forwarding Emails 37
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All about Folders 39
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Creating a Folder 40
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Viewing the Contents of Folders 41
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Moving Emails to Folders 41
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Deleting Folders 42
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Emptying the Deleted Items Folder 42
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Using the Address Book 44
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Creating a Contact in the Address Book 44
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Emailing Contacts in your Address Book 46
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Editing Contact Details in your Address Book 46
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Deleting Contacts from your Address Book 46
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Printing Address Book details 46
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Adding Senders and Recipients to your Address Book 48
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Creating groups of contacts 49
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Emailing a Group of Contacts 51
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Appendix A - Email Etiquette 52
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Things you should avoid doing: 53
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Commonly used Abbreviations 55
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Appendix B - Setting up your email account 57
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For people with dial-up internet accounts 57
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Appendix C - Keyboard Shortcuts for Outlook Express 61
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Footnote 62
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About the Author 63