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May 18, 2007
Insert a Picture, Any Picture
Dear Larry,
I was delighted with the subject of your last column and have
downloaded the image resizing program you suggested. Would you also address the
process of sending a resized group of photos as an attachment—or an insertion—in
an email?
A. S.
Dear A. S.,
For those of you who were away last week, my previous column
discussed resizing images to make them smaller in size (size as in kilobytes and
megabytes, not inches). You can check it out at
http://www.accentoncomputers.com/logon/2007/20070511.htm.
How you actually attach a photo to an e-mail or insert it
within the body of an e-mail will vary depending on the e-mail program you’re
using. Note that more often than not, your e-mail program will be independent of
the company who hosts your e-mail. For example, your e-mail address may be with
optonline.net or verizon.net or one of thousands of other Internet/Mail Service
Providers. But the program you use to send and receive that mail will not
necessarily be related (in much the same way that your brand of TV is not
related to whether you use cable, satellite, or a plain old antenna to access
the airwaves).
The two most popular e-mail programs are by far Outlook
Express (renamed Windows Mail if you’re a Vista user) which comes free within
Microsoft Windows, or Microsoft Outlook, which is part of the Microsoft Office
suite. (Don’t be confused by the fact that Outlook Express and Outlook have
similar sounding names.) Fortunately, the method you use to attach or insert a
picture in an e-mail message is identical regardless of which of these programs
you use.
If you want to attach a picture to an outgoing e-mail, you
accomplish this the same way you’d attach a Word document or any other file.
Start by clicking the paperclip icon in the e-mail toolbar (or click Insert,
File via the menu bar). Next, you’ll be prompted to locate and identify the
file/picture you want to attach. For example, you might start by finding the My
Pictures folder via the Look In box, then you might select the “Birthday Party”
folder stored within it. Once you’ve found it, click the picture you want to
attach. You’ll find it listed in the “Attachment” section of your outgoing
e-mail window. If you want to attach additional pictures/files, simply repeat
this procedure; naturally, the pictures you’re attaching need not be stored in
the same folder.
If you want to embed a picture directly in the body of your
e-mail message, click Insert, Picture in the menu bar, then click the Browse
button. Locate and select the picture you want to embed in your message, then
click OK. Note that the picture will have “handles” on its corners when it’s
selected in the message; drag one of the corner handles toward or away from the
opposite diagonal corner to have the picture occupy less or more physical space
within the body of the message. The text of your e-mail will align above, below,
or in line with any pictures you’ve inserted.
This is Larry Schneider, logging off.
