Communicating with Email and the Internet: Learning Made Simple

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This handy textbook covers all you will need to know to learn to communicate using email and the internet. Learning Made Simple books give readers skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications, in this case ECDL, ICDL and CLAIT, and written by experienced teachers and authors to make often tricky subjects simple to learn. Every book is designed carefully to provide bite-sized lessons matched to learners' needs. Using full colour throughout, and written by leading teachers and writers, Learning Made Simple books help readers learn new skills and develop their talents. Whether studying at college, training at work, or reading at home, aiming for a qualification or simply getting up to speed, Learning Made Simple books give readers the advantage of easy, well-organised training materials in a handy volume with two or four-page sections for each topic for ease of use. *Written by experienced trainers for inexperienced learners to succeed, matched to main qualifications *Learning Made Simple builds on the multi-million success of the previous Made Simple Books series *Full colour throughout with double or four-page spreads covering key topics Title page......Page 2 Copyright Page......Page 3 Table of Contents......Page 4 Preface......Page 8 1 The Internet......Page 10 The Net and the Web......Page 11 The World Wide Web......Page 12 Electronic mail......Page 13 WWW URLs......Page 14 E-mail addresses......Page 16 Other uses of the Net......Page 17 Jargon......Page 18 2 Internet Explorer......Page 20 The IE display......Page 21 General options......Page 23 Security......Page 25 Programs......Page 27 Multimedia options......Page 28 Customize the toolbars......Page 29 Getting Help......Page 31 Exercises......Page 35 3 Navigating the Web......Page 36 Hypertext links......Page 37 Starting to explore......Page 39 Using the Address bar......Page 42 Favorites......Page 43 Organising Favorites......Page 45 Desktop shortcuts......Page 46 The History list......Page 47 Exercises......Page 49 4 Searching the Web......Page 50 Search engines......Page 51 Google......Page 53 Other search engines......Page 56 Advanced searches......Page 57 Searching Yahoo!......Page 59 Searching from IE......Page 61 Exercises......Page 63 5 Data from the Web......Page 64 Saving pages......Page 65 Text from web pages......Page 67 Saving images......Page 68 Printing web pages......Page 69 AutoComplete......Page 71 Downloading files......Page 72 Shareware at c|net......Page 73 Antivirus software......Page 75 Exercises......Page 77 6 E-mail software......Page 78 Outlook (Express)......Page 79 Display options......Page 81 The working options......Page 82 Help......Page 84 Exercises......Page 85 7 Using e-mail......Page 86 Mail accounts......Page 87 Reading your e-mail......Page 88 Replying......Page 89 Sending messages......Page 91 Selecting recipients......Page 93 The spell checker......Page 94 Files by mail......Page 95 Exercises......Page 97 8 Organising e-mail......Page 98 Address Book......Page 99 Finding an address......Page 100 Groups......Page 101 Folders for mail......Page 103 Moving messages......Page 104 Printing messages......Page 105 Message rules......Page 106 Rules from messages......Page 107 E-mail etiquette......Page 108 Exercises......Page 111 9 Creating web pages......Page 112 HTML......Page 113 Text tags......Page 115 Colours......Page 117 Lists and lines......Page 119 Images......Page 121 Links......Page 123 Exercises......Page 125 Index......Page 126