Sending Messages

Composing a basic message in Mail is straightforward, and it isn’t all that much different from composing a letter or memo in WordPad. You have a number of ways to get started, not all of them well known. Here’s a summary:

• In Mail, select the Home tab and then click Email Message in the New group, or press Ctrl+N.

• In Internet Explorer, press Alt+F to pull down the File menu, select Send, and then choose one of the following commands:

Page by E-mail—Select this command to create a new message with the current web page as the content of the message.

Link by E-mail—Select this command to create a new message with a URL shortcut file attached. This file is a shortcut for the current website that the recipient can click to load ...

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