AOL USERS
Hanging HOURGLASS
Sometimes when you click on a button or a hyperlink, you may find that instead of a new screen popping up, you just sit there staring at an hourglass. No matter what you do, you just have to wait for AOL to respond. Now there is a solution. Move your mouse cursor to the grey navigation bar at the top of your screen. Click on Help three times in rapid succession, then scroll down and select About America Online. You should now be able to resume using AOL.
Customizing Your AOL TOOLBAR
If there are AOL screens or Web sites that you go to frequently, you can add them to your AOL toolbar. If you find that you need to remove one of the pre-populated icons (Quotes, Perks, and Calendar), right-click on the icon and choose Remove from Toolbar.
AFTER YOU REMOVE THESE. YOU USUALLY CAN ADD 2 WEBSITES OF YOUR OWN
GO TO THE WEBSITE YOU WANT ADDED HERE.
LEFT CLICK ON THE HEART ON THE PAGE HOLDING IT DOWN AND DRAG IT TO THE TOOL BAR, A BOX WILL COME UP USUALLY ASKING YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO NAME IT AND CHOOSE AN ICON TO USE.
THIS IS GREAT FOR THE TWO PAGES YOU FREQUENT MOST. YOUR MAIN WEBSITE OR SOMEONE ELSES YOU GO TO A LOT.
Simply drag the favorite place heart from your AOL screen or Web site to the right side of your AOL toolbar and let go. Follow the onscreen directions to choose your custom icon and label.
How to UNDELETE
If you are using Windows and you delete or backspace over text by mistake, try pressing Alt ON YOUR KEYBOARD and Backspace at the same time. Many times your deleted text will return.
ATTACHING FILES TO EMAIL;
To attach a file to your e-mail
1. Click the Write icon on the AOL toolbar.
2. In the Write Mail window, click Attachments.
3. In the Attachments window, click Attach.
4. Navigate to the folder that contains the file you want to attach.
5. Double-click the file you want to attach.
6. Repeat steps 3-5 for any other files you want to attach.
7. Click OK.
8. Send email
Notes:
• The maximum size for a file attachment you can send is 16 MB.
• The recipient must have software that is compatible with your file(s). For example, if you send someone a WordPerfect file, your recipient must have either WordPerfect or a word processing program capable of opening WordPerfect files.(Text files are best to send in this case) Also make sure the file is compatible with your recipient's computer; a Macintosh machine may not be able to read some Windows files, and vice versa.
DOWNLOADING ATTACHED FILES;
To download a file attached to e-mail you receive Sign on to AOL.
1. Read e-mail with a file attachment.
2. Click Download Now.
3. In the Download Manager window, click Save.
All files you download are placed in the Download folder within the America Online folder, unless you have set a preference to change the default download folder.
Note
• If you receive a suspicious file from someone you do not know, click FORWARD and send the e-mail to screen name TOS Files (AOL ONLY)
KEYWORDS;
MANY OF THE KEYWORDS CAN BE TYPED INTO ANY SEARCH AND INFORMATION WILL COME UP NOT JUST AOL KEYWORD.
Keywords are the quickest and most direct route to most areas on AOL. Instead of clicking from screen to screen to find what you are looking for, you can use keywords as the ultimate shortcut to just about anything on AOL.
Simply press the Ctrl key and the K key on your keyboard at the same time (or the Apple key and the K key on the Mac) and the keyword box will appear.
OR ON AOL YOU CAN JUST HIT KEYWORD IN THE TOP RIGHT OF YOUR SCREEN.
Now type in a word associated with an area that you would like to go to. If you type in 'Screensavers,' for instance, the AOL screensavers special will appear. You will notice that many areas on AOL display the keyword on the lower right of the screen.
If AOL does not have an area for the keyword that you chose, you will automatically receive AOL Search, highlighting the best content associated with your keyword on AOL and the Web.
The keyword box will even work for web addresses. Simply type in a web address, like www.aol.com, and the web page will appear.
For more information on keywords, visit:
-- Keyword: KEYWORD
Many of these things you probably already know but if you dont here they are;
for AOL users only:
DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS
click on edit in the toolbar, in the box that comes up is a dictionary and thesarsus
SENDING URLS THROUGH EMAIL OR INSTANT MESSAGE
If you are on a page and you want to send it in an email leave the page website on
open the email:
put your arrow on the little red heart on the right top of the page and right click and hold click down and drag it into the email or the Instant message box
then you can send that page to whoever you are talking to or in an email
if you right click on it without holding it down a box comes up and asks if you want to save it in your favorites
If you want to go to another page on the internet but leave this one open, click the MINUS SIGN - in the right top of this page and it will make it smaller and put it in the lower bottom of the screen. then you can go to other pages. dont leave a lot of pages open. takes up graphics
you can leave a page open and then go down to the desk top if you want and work
the MINUS - in the right top puts any page in the lower area until you click on it again even aol or any server you have EVEN THE DESKTOP WORK IS PUT IN ANOTHER BAR BELOW THE ONLINE BAR, SO YOU CAN WORK ONLINE AND OFFLINE AT THE SAME TIME.
the square in the right top makes the page smaller or larger
You can also click on start and bring anything up from the desktop while you are online
If you have aol 6.0 or 7.0 and you have more than one sceen name you dont have to sign off to change it. Click on sign off in the top toolbar and it will let someone else sign on without going off of aol.
USING AOL KEYWORD:
SOFTWARE ON AOL, SOME SHAREWARE SOME FREE
Click on Keyword:
type pc download in the keyword:
a box comes up with files you can download
click on the sharware area:
another box comes up:
usually has all dates marked which is fine;
if you dont choose a category it will search all:
you can type in anything here: address book, games, card games, soliataire, video library,
vcr library. anything you might be interested in, music, puzzles,etc.
these are sometimes free and sometimes shareware, which is letting you use it for a month then if you want it you can buy it for a fairly decent fee.
Click on Keyword: type in BROWSER it will tell you if you are using the latest updated browser
Click on Keyword: type in genealogy
AOL GENEALOGY FORUM WILL COME UP AND ALL OF AOL'S GENEALOGY INFORMATION
Any word can be typed in the keywords area in aol or any search. Its untelling what you might come up with, so be careful what word you type in.
EXAMPLE OF KEYWORDS TO TYPE IN:
REV WAR
RIDDLER
ANY STATE NAME
MAJOR CITIES IN THE USA AND OTHER COUNTRIES
HEALTH
WINDOWS
TRAVEL
PRESIDENTS
TELL US
Gayl Wells
