Email is not only useful for sending short messages to friends,
family and business colleagues. It could also be extremely useful
for distributing information around the community.
Imagine how much easier it would be to communicate with other
organisations if instead of printing out the minutes of your
monthly board of directors' meetings and mailing or faxing them,
you could simply send the relevant files directly from your word
processed document to the destination without moving from your computer.
Netscape Mail or any of the other mail programs you may use will allow you
to attach a file to your email message. The attachment could be a Word document
or a spreadsheet from Excel giving the monthly financial report.
Netscape Mail uses the icon to represent the Attachment button.
In Netscape Mail, attaching a file involves a three step process:
click on the paper clip icon, which will cause a new window to appear
From this window select 'Attach File'. A second window will appear displaying your files and directories.
Use this to find the file you wish to attach and double click on it to open
the file. You will have the option of attaching another file, or simply clicking
OK to confirm the file selection. The file to be attached is then shown for
confirmation.
To complete process simply click on OK to
confirm your selection. This means that the file is now attached to
the original email message and is ready to be sent.
