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4.Type text in the Subjectfield that clearly explains the

topic of your message and press the Tabkey.

5.Type whatever text you wish in the main body of the mes-

sage. If your e-mail program provides them, you can use

text formatting tools to apply different fonts, colors, bold,

or other effects.

6.When your message is complete, click the Sendbutton.

Believe it or not, e-mail messages have been known to

suddenly get sent before you finish writing them.

Great minds have conjectured that this happens when

you hit some odd keystroke combination unknow-

ingly, or perhaps it’s done by magic. For this reason,

some people prefer to leave the To: line empty until

the message is written just as you want it to be so

you’re not embarrassed by an unfinished or unpol-

ished e-mail going out before you intend.

Any time you send or forward e-mail to a group of

people who don’t know each other, you need to

respect and protect everybody’s identity by placing all

the e-mail addresses in the Bcc: (or blind carbon

copy) field of the message so you don’t expose every-

body’s name to everybody else. See Chapter 3 for

details on how to do this.

Add an Attachment

You can add any kind of file to an e-mail, such as a picture or docu-

ment. The procedure is pretty standardized.

1. In Windows Live Hotmail, with an e-mail form open, (see
   the “Send an E-Mail” task earlier in this chapter) click the
   Attachbutton. (See Figure 5-10.)

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Chapter 5: Risk-Free E-Mail