New features

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New features

Microsoft® Outlook Express Macintosh Edition enables you to communicate with others on the Internet through electronic mail and newsgroups. With electronic mail, or e-mail, you can exchange messages and files with other people on the Internet. Internet newsgroups consist of messages by individuals, organized by topic. You can take part by posting a message of your own, responding to a message, or sending an e-mail message directly to the author of a message. Outlook Express Macintosh Edition presents new features that make e-mail even easier!

Multiple signature support
Multiple signature support lets you be creative with your e-mail messages. You can specify a group of signatures to be part of your "random list" and Outlook Express will select one from the list for each outgoing message. Or, you can specify a signature for each message. For more information on signatures, see Creating a signature.

Colored quotes
Reading mail with quoted material is easier. Each level of quotation has its own unique color. See Setting up colored quote text for more information.

Drag and drop install
Installing Outlook Express is as easy as dragging the folder to the location you want to install it!

Self-repairing application
Outlook Express is easier than ever to maintain because it will automatically fix things that are broken by itself. You don't have to do anything!

Reformat text automatically
Use Auto Text Clean Up to straighten quotation marks, rewrap paragraphs, remove quoting, and change text from upper to lower case, and vice versa. For information, see Formatting a message with Auto Text Clean Up.

Message list features
Additions to the message list make you more efficient. Now you can:

• Use ScreenTips to read information that doesn't fit into the column width. Just pause the pointer over a message list item. ScreenTips are especially useful for long message subjects.
• Use message action indicators to quickly see whether you've read, replied, or forwarded a message.
• Use relative dates such as "today" or "yesterday" to view the history of a message. For more information, see Using relative dates in lists .

Attachment handling
With support for AppleDouble you can send and receive files without having to worry about what type of computer your recipients use. For more information on encoding, see Changing the message attachment encoding.

Rule and scripting improvements
Increased rule support helps keep you organized.

• Drag and drop support in the Rules list lets you quickly prioritize your rules.
• The "Run AppleScript" action in rules lets you use your own AppleScripts to handle your messages.
• Create a hierarchical Script menu by placing scripts inside folders.

For more information on Rules and AppleScript support, see Automating tasks for mail messages using rules, Automating tasks for news messages using rules, and Scripting Outlook Express.

HTML mail
Use the Fonts command from the Format menu to specify the font for outgoing HTML messages. For more information, see Applying styles to a message.

Send messages now or later
Use the Send Later button to store your messages in the Outbox so that you can send them all at once. Outbox messages will be sent when you use the Send All or Send & Receive commands, or during the scheduled Send & Receive as specified in Preferences. For more information on sending messages, see Sending a mail message and Posting a message to a newsgroup.

Using Help

• Click Index to see the index. Use the index just as you would an index in a book.
• Below the index is a list of topic areas. Click a topic area on the left to see a list of related procedures. To open the procedures in a separate window, press and hold on the topic area link, and then choose Open Link In New Window from the context-sensitive menu.
• Click Tips & Tricks for tips, tricks, shortcuts, and command definitions.
• Click Troubleshooting if you are having problems using Outlook Express.
• Click Glossary for definitions of the terms used throughout the Help system.
• Click the Internet Explorer logo at the bottom of the topics list to go to the Macintosh Internet Products home page on www.microsoft.com.
• To print, click in the frame that contains the information you want, and then choose Print from the File menu.

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