Inbox

Compiled by MICHAEL FOREMAN

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

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Garrick has received several e-mails with attached photos that are so big they will not fit on his screen. "Is there some way I can reduce the size so I can see them?" he asks.

There are a couple of ways to skin this particular cat, Garrick, but first you should save the photo to your hard disk. Do this by right clicking on the photo and then click on "save image as." Now you can open it with an image viewer program such as Paint, which you'll find on any Windows PC at start/programs/accessories/paint, or Irfanview (available free). With Paint you'll be able to zoom out of the photo until it you can view it but Irfanview can be set to resize photos to fit your screen automatically - click on options/properties/viewing/fit to screen. Alternatively use either program to make a smaller copy of the photo. In Irfanview click on image/resize or in Paint go to image/stretch skew and enter a suitable percentage (that is less than 100) in the horizontal and vertical stretch boxes. Once you have resized the photo, save it under a new name.

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Following a recent query about saving the Outlook Express address book to a floppy disk, Netscape users Mike and Andy, who use Eudora, want to know whether they can do the same thing with their e-mail programs.

Yes you can - within Netscape's Inbox, click on communicator/address book. Now click on file/export and save the address book under a suitable name to your floppy drive. The import function in the same window will read the address book back into Netscape. With Eudora it's a bit more complicated - first you'll have to find the main Eudora folder on your hard drive (probably in the Program files folder) and look for two files named nndbase.txt and nndbase.toc, which contain the default user's address book. These files may be saved to a floppy disk and restored by copying them back to their original location on the hard drive.

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Chevron symbols in e-mails continued. Thanks to Drew, Terry, Michael, Bill and Wendy for alerting us to various utilities that will help Jim remove unwanted chevron symbols from his incoming e-mails.The most popular solution was a 450kb download called e.cleaner. Drew says he has used this program for about a year and has found it to perform very well.

Links:


Irfanview

e.cleaner download

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