This page is to help you clean off your EMAIL FILES ON AOL:
One word about AOL EMAIL when you first click AOL ON YOUR DESKTOP to sign on. You can check your saved mail and mail you have sent there without going online if you need to check an email that you have already read.
You can also go to settings and clean off your graphics and www. files while you are in this same area before you sign on.
You can bring up things from your desktop here as well and look at them if you make a webpage, graphics wont come up but it will give you an idea what the page will look like
First AOL is a great server but it requires maintenance to keep it running faster and smoother.
Cleaning out your mail areas will help your email run smoother and believe me, Aol saves the email in several places so you can retrieve it if you need it.
Different aol levels are different in their email areas: the one I am telling you about is AOL 7.0
The other aols are the same and similar but you will have to find the area to delete these emails:
AOL 7.0
Top left toolbar has a mail box and the word mail above it
over from the MAIL on the right is a small triangle arrrow turned down
Click on that triangle arrow
a box comes up
several things you can do in this box
1.....first in the middle area is FILING CABINET MAIL AND THERE IS ALSO AN AREA CALLED DOWNLOAD
GO TO DOWNLOAD FIRST IF YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED A LOT OF FILES, CLEAN THESE OUT
You dont have to do this one at a time
left click on one of the emails you dont want highlighting it
hold down the ctrl key on the computer in the left bottom corner
highlight any others you dont want while holding down this key, (CLICK ONCE ON IT HIGHTLIGHTS IT) let up on the key when you have finished highlighting all you want to delete.
being careful not to highlight ones you want to keep.
then delete all the ones highlighted by clicking delete
it will ask you if you want to delete the selected items before you do
NEXT GO TO MAIL
it has three areas:
- 1st area of filing cabinet:
incoming mail saved, which you should keep cleand out regularly any mail you no longer want.
You dont have to do this one at a time
left click on one of the emails you dont want highlighting it
hold down the ctrl key on the computer in the left bottom corner
highlight any others you dont want while holding down this key, let up on the key when you have finished highlighting all you want to delete.
being careful not to highlight ones you want to keep.
then delete all the ones highlighted by clicking delete
it will ask you if you want to delete the selected items before you do
2nd area of filing cabinet:
mail waiting to be sent is the second area. I never use this but if you do check the area you may have something there to delete
3rd area of filing cabinet:
this is a widely overlooked area, may have emails in here you havent cleaned for months.
you should keep cleanEd out regularly any mail you no longer want to keep copies of that you have sent to people.
You dont have to do this one at a time same as cleaning above
left click on one of the emails you dont want highlighting it
hold down the ctrl key on the computer in the left bottom corner
highlight any others you dont want while holding down this key, let up on the key when you have finished highlighting all you want to delete.
being careful not to highlight ones you want to keep.
then delete all the ones highlighted by clicking delete
it will ask you if you want to delete the selected items before you do
2...Secondly click the triangle arrow again, and go to
READ MAIL
3 areas are here as well
believe it or not AOL saves the mail here as well
it is a safeguard for you to keep it but is tiresome sometimes to clean all these out but it makes aol very good in that it is for your benefit.
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1st area
NEW MAIL
Clean out any new mail. it wont take it off of your mail saved but if you havent read it yet dont do this one
2nd area
OLD MAIL
Clean this out:
you can clean this out by selecting edit at the top left tool bar:
select all and all should highlight automatically
then delete
3rd area
SENT MAIL, Yes, it kept your sent mail again in this place
click edit in in top left tool bar:
select all
delete
Then after all this there is another area
RECENTLY DELETED MAIL mail
ONCE YOU DELETE MAIL HERE IT IS GONE FROM GOOD SO CHECK THEM TO MAKE SURE THERE ISNT ANYTHING HERE YOU WANTED TO SAVE
IF THERE IS CLICK ON IT READ IT AND IT WILL SAVE IT AGAIN
click edit in top left tool bar
select all
permanently delete
the all your mail areas are cleaned out
WHEW!!!!!! takes maintenance
but is well worth the effort
in this mail box area there is also an area called
MAIL CENTER
you can go here and fix your mail controls and preferences
days you want mail kept etc. I like to save any mail I click on and read
if you dont set this it wont do it
Many good areas in aol but they have to be set
also signatures can be set from here and many other things and from the box that you send email from
We will set them in the email box
Open a box like you are going to send an email
There are many things along the tool bar in this email box you can use
remember you can change one word or all by highlighting the word you want changed
but unhighlight the next ones
- 1...first one
usually says arial, this is the font, you can click the arrow and change the font. or you can just change one word, by highlighting it then changing font then unhighlight it then change the font back. easy not too complicated.
I very seldom change font in emails but you can
2...next is usually a 10
size of your type,
if you want a great big happy birthday change the size number the larger the number the larger the type
3...B
B means bold if you want the type BOLD then click this and then unclick it as you need it
4...I
I means italic, if you want you type italic
5...U means underlineU if you want a word or phrase underlined
6...7...8...are where you want the type positioned on the email
6 is to the left which most of us use
7 in the middle
8 on the right
9...is text colors, change the color of the type
10..is the color of the background you can have red background with white type etc
11..is a small camera here is where you can inset photos or things into the email
12..is a heart you can insert a favorite place you have saved in your favorite places and send it to someone by clicking this heart and then clicking on the place
13..ABC is plaily a spelling check if you are particular about typo's
14..is a set up for an automatic signature. you can have several different ones set up and click on it at the end of an email to sign however you want to sign your email
tips brought to you by:
Gayl Wells
