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SF Towers computer class blog – search (lop left) for answers http://sftowershelp.blogspot.com   Cleaning up your messages in Yahoo It is a new year, so perfect time to clean out/up your inbox. Best practice if you have   more than 40 emails from previous years you don't want to sort through and want to keep, just in case. Create a new folder labeled "emails older than 2010" and move the emails into that folder as storage. 1.    Open Yahoo Email 2.    Log in to your email 3.    Click the add link beside folder on the left 4.    A new folder appears, TYPE out the new name of the folder, "emails older than 2010" 5.    Click the inbox 6.    Choose all the messages from previous years, by clicking the check box beside each email or…click the top most check box to check all the boxes (if needed do a few at a time) 7.    Click the black arrow above beside move and choose the folder to move your checked emails to 8.    Your inbox should now be cleared out   Changing

Landscape File--->Page setup Create a column format---->Columns Alignment the Text to be centered on the page Format---->Paragraph---->alignment Insert a picture Insert--->Picture--->From File---->choose the picture Resize the Picture go to the corner of the picture and when the arrow turns into two arrows, Click hold and drag Create a new second page while only having 1/2 a page of text on the first page(don't push enter enter enter) Create a PAGE BREAK Insert--->Break---->Page Break **you can also create a column break to start on the next column How can I move the text from one document to another? COPY & Paste 1. Select/highlight what you want to copy (if you want everything in the document go to edit and choose select all) 2. Go to the edit menu and choose COPY 3. Click where you want the text that you copied to appear 4. Go to the edit menu and choose PASTE  Jason Dare Computer Trainer 415/240.4843 jason.dare@sfct.

Creating an automated response to senders of emails notifying them that you are away or that your email address has changed, or whatever kind words you want to share. (you will still receive your messages in the inbox) To make the change you have to go to the source of your emails...your provider. www.yahoo.com , www.comcast.net , www.mac.com 1. login to your account by going to the suffix of your email yahoo.com, comcast.net, mac.com, sftmail.com, etc. 2. look for something labeled preferences or options (as in yahoo on the top right side) 3. Then look for a heading labeled vacation response or auto reply 4. fill in the information 5. be sure to save the change to make it active ***Note. some services like Yahoo allow you to determine dates of when the auto response will show OR you have to turn off the auto response when you return Create a signature for an email which will appear at the end of each email that contains your information or any information you want to include. For Yah