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Tech Tips: Easy as BCC

Keeping Your Mass Mailing Contacts a Secret is Easy as BCC

You may not give it a second thought when you receive or pass on an email with a ton of addresses in plain sight but it's not unlike posting your home address on a billboard overlooking the 405 freeway. Every email address on that email becomes vulnerable to opportunistic marketers and advertisers. What can you do? It's really quite simple. Hide addresses by using Bcc: (Blind Carbon Copy).

When you create or forward an e-mail in Outlook, you usually click on "To..." and make selections from your address book. But if you look down, you'll see other options: "Cc:->" and "Bcc->". Simply highlight the addresses you want to send to and click "Bcc:->".

When you finish your selections, click OK and you will return to the New Message window where you can type your e-mail. Put your own address in the "To:->" field.

If you've received an email that shows 175 email addresses (including yours) and you want to forward it on, click "forward", delete all email addresses you see in the email, be sure you use the bcc-> field when addressing your email, and click "send". Your family and friends will appreciate this extra effort!

How To: The Mouse-less Right Click

But what about the rest of you? The ones who love to use the keyboard as much as possible, but still want to complete the same tasks the tips are covering.  Is there a mouse-less solution for you? Of course there is.

Take a look at your keyboard, to the right of the space bar, just past the Alt and Windows keys...See it?

Press this menu key and you've replaced the right-click. From there you can use the arrow keys to navigate through the pop-up menu and the Enter key to select your choice. Just in case: If you've hit this key accidentally or just plain need to get out of the pop-up menu, hit the Esc key.

On a laptop, the key may be in the top section of the keyboard.

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Did You Know?: Disappearing Web Outlook Email

A: One of the great things about technology is what you can learn every day regardless of your techxpertise!
In this case, we discovered that in Web Outlook, in the blue bar next to Outlook WebAccess, you see a folder called "How-to's". Next to that, there are words in parenthesis with a down arrow. Click that down arrow and a menu appears. If your menu reads Unread Messages, you'll only see new messages in your Inbox, and any messages you've already read won't show up. If you change that setting to Two-Line View or Messages, you'll see all of your messages. Voila! Don't you wish a faulty memory could be this easy to fix?

So, you consider yourself pretty well versed in matters regarding Christmas traditions? Here are a few quizzes that may prove to to be a challenge. Quiz topics include Traditions; The Bible; Santa & Company; Books, Movies & TV; and Songs & Carols. These questions are fun as well as informative, and can be shared in the classroom as well as in social gatherings. Ready? Click on the link below. Good luck!

http://www.geocities.com/christmasquiz2002/

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