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Finding Information on the Web

Viewing a Page

Moving to Another Page

Retracing Your Steps

Checking a Page's Security

Viewing a Page's Source Code

Searching Within a Page


Bookmarking Your Favorite Web Sites

Bookmarks let you save the locations (URLs) of your favorite Web pages so you can quickly return to them. You can also create Internet shortcuts that let you jump to a Web page from your desktop.

Creating a Bookmark

Creating an Internet Shortcut

Organizing Your Bookmarks

Checking the Freshness of Your Bookmarks


Copying, Saving, and Printing pages

Copying Part of a Page

Saving a Page

Printing a Page


Customizing Your Browser

Customizing the Toolbars

Changing Fonts

Changing Colors or Backgrounds

Specifying the Component that Appears at Startup

Specifying the Starting Page

Specifying How Long to Track History

Setting Language Priorities

Handling Different File Types


Improving Speed, Privacy, and Efficiency

Speeding Things Up

Improving Privacy

Saving Disk Space


Connecting From Anywhere

Setting Up Roaming Access

Specifying Where Your Roaming Profile is Located

Specifying Files to be Transferred at Startup and Shutdown


Getting Started with Mail

Opening Your Inbox

Choosing How You View the Messenger Window

Choosing Between IMAP and POP3 Mail Servers

Using the Mail & Newsgroups Wizard (Windows only)

Preferences Set with Mail & Newsgroups Wizard (Windows only)


Reading Messages

New Mail Notification

Getting Messages

Saving and Printing Messages


Sending Messages

Composing Mail and Newsgroup Messages

Using the Message Composition Window

Addressing a Message

Recipient Types and What They Mean

Quoting Original Text

Message Sending Options

Turning Encryption On or Off

Getting Confirmation Your Message Was Received

Replying to a Message

Forwarding a Message

Saving and Reusing a Message Draft

Creating or Using a Message Template

Using the HTML Mail Question Dialog Box

Sending Mail from Your Palm Pilot


Using Attachments

Attaching a File

Attaching a Web Page

Viewing Attachments

Saving an Attachment

Opening an Attachment

Downloading an Attachment


Deleting Messages

Deleting IMAP Messages

Choosing How You Delete IMAP Messages

Moving Messages to the Trash


Using an Address Book

Creating an Address Book

Adding a Name to an Address Book

Creating a Mailing List

Looking Up Addresses Through a Directory Service

Searching an Address Book

Importing an Address Book

Exporting an Address Book

Adding a Directory Server

Synchronizing Your Palm Pilot Address Book


Organizing Your Mail

Filing Messages

Creating an IMAP Folder

Subscribing to an IMAP Folder

Renaming an Existing Folder (Windows only)

Filtering Messages

Creating a Mail Filter

Searching through Messages


Setting Preferences

Using the Mail & Newsgroups Preferences Dialog Box

Setting Your Identity Preferences

Creating a Personal Card

Identifying Your Mail Servers

Using the Mail Server Preferences Panel

Identifying Your Newsgroup Servers

Setting Up Your Addressing Options

Setting Up Your Message Options

Organizing Your Messages and Folders

Setting HTML Formatting Options

Managing Your Disk Space


Creating a Web Page

Starting Composer

Creating a New Page

Editing the Page You're Browsing

Editing an Existing Page

Using the Toolbars and Pop-up Menus

Using Drag and Drop

Creating Your First Web Page

Browsing Your New Page


Changing Your Web Page's Appearance

Basic Text Editing

Entering Text

Selecting Text

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text

Finding Text

Checking the Spelling

About the Check Spelling Dialog Box (Windows and Unix only)

About the Edit Dictionary Dialog Box (Windows only)

Formatting Styles

Paragraph Formats

Headings 1 to 6

Address

List Item

Formatted

Description Text

About the Paragraph Properties Dialog Box

Character Formats

Adding Color to Text

About the Character Properties Dialog Box

Choosing a Font

Choosing Font Sizes

Inserting Horizontal Lines

Inserting Raw HTML

About the HTML Tag Dialog Box


Adding Tables to Your Web Page

Inserting a Table

About the New Table Properties Dialog Box

Selecting and Deleting Tables

Adding and Deleting Rows, Columns, and Cells

Setting Table Properties

About the Table Properties Dialog Box

Setting Row Properties

About the Row Properties Dialog Box

Setting Cell Properties

About the Cell Properties Dialog Box


Adding Pictures (Images) to Your Web Page

Inserting an Image

About the Images Properties Dialog Box

About the Alternate Image Properties Dialog Box (Windows only)

About the Image Conversion Dialog Box (Windows only)


Page Properties

Setting Page Colors and Properties

About the General Page Colors and Properties Panel

About the Colors and Backgrounds Panel

About the Meta Tags Panel


Preferences

Setting Composer Preferences

Composer Preferences - General

Composer Preferences - Publish


Linking Your Web Page to Other Pages

Creating Links

About the Link Properties Dialog Box

Linking Images

Linking to Targets


Putting Your Page on the Web

About the Publish Files Dialog


Installing Composer Plug-ins


Getting Started With Newsgroups

Opening Your Newsgroup Server

Subscribing to Newsgroups

Searching for Newsgroups

Listing New Newsgroups

Removing a Newsgroup from Your Subscription List

Updating Newsgroups


Managing Your Newsgroups

Changing Newsgroup Properties (Windows only)


Posting

Posting Newsgroup Messages

Posting a New Message

Posting a Response


Setting Up Newsgroups

Changing Newsgroup Server Preferences

Adding a Newsgroup Server

Changing Newsgroup Server Properties

Using the Newsgroup Server Properties Dialog Box

Working Offline


Choosing Items to Read Offline

Preparing to Work Offline

Downloading Flagged or Selected Messages

Downloading Newsgroups for Offline Browsing

Using the Synchronize Offline Items Dialog Box

Using the Select Items for Download Dialog Box

Sending Unsent Mail


Setting Preferences

Setting Offline Preferences


Security Status

Introduction to Security Info

General Status Information (No Active Status)

Your Current Outgoing Message

Your Current Incoming Message

The Encrypted Web Page You Are Loading


Passwords

Setting Passwords for Your Certificates

Choosing a Good Password


Alerts and Warnings

Warning Concerning Forwarding a Decrypted Message

Warning Concerning Possible Message Tampering

Warning Concerning A Document with Encrypted and Unencrypted Parts

Warning Concerning Failure to Encrypt Message

Warning About Unencrypted Files in Your Disk Cache


Preferences

About Navigator Security Settings

About Messenger Security Settings

Settings for Java Applets

Setting Java Applet Access Levels

Using the Java Security Target Details Dialog Box


Certificates

About Your Own Certificates

About Certificates from Others

Certificates Collected from Web Pages

Certificates Collected from Java Applets

About Certificate Signers


Cryptographic Modules

About Cryptographic Modules


Error Message Guide

Server does not have a DNS entry

Connection reset by peer

Not implemented

Server error

Too much network traffic

404 Access denied

Can't read newsgroups

PowerPlant not installed (Mac)

Unknown error in Address book (Mac)


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June 23, 1998
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