Inbox

Compiled by DON McALLISTER

Welcome to InBox, where we attempt to answer your internet questions.

Forward, Send and Receive used to sit boldly in a toolbar at the top of "G's" Outlook Express e-mail software. Now it refuses to return.

The settings are hiding in View/Layout. Select each bar or list you want by placing a tick beside it ("Toolbar" is the one you are after) then press "Apply."

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Jared has a similar problem, but because he uses Outlook 2000, it hides in a different place.

Got to View/Toolbars/Standard, Jared. That will put the standard toolbar with the send-and-receive button in the top panel again.

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Gloria and Ralph have an image-size problem. They have tried unsuccessfully to downsize photos in 'MS Paint' and wonder if "Imaging" will do any better.

Yes, it will. Open the photo in Imaging. Click once on the photo to select it. Then select Page/Properties/Size. You can either change the Custom settings or select from preset sizes.

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When sending an e-mail to a group, Graeme wants to know how to suppress the names of recipients from all others. He cannot find it anywhere in Outlook Express Help but notices that when he receives a "group" e-mail from an outside source it says "recipient list suppressed" in the "to" box. What do they know that he doesn't?

They simply use the "BCC" button, Graeme. That address field will hide the other addresses, whereas the "To" or "CC" fields will show all the addresses you're sending to - something that's a big netiquette no, no because it breaches privacy and provides more addresses for those dreaded spammers.

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Pesky popup windows are driving Brian mad.

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