Since we have so many new subscribers, and so many "newbie" computer owners (GRIN), I thought it might help if I posted again and explained how to reply to an email and NOT send back the entire message to which you are replying. As one user just stated, it is not necessary to send back the entire quoted message, just enough (maybe a line or two) to let the readers know to what you are replying. First, this section is for NON-AOL users. Click on Reply. That brings up a new message window with ALL the text of the message to which you are replying. Decide how much of the original message is necessary in order for users to understand your reply. Then, put your mouse cursor at the beginning of the text that you wish to DELETE. Hold down the left button (keep it held down) and drag the cursor to the end of the text you wish to delete. Now release the left button. Viola, all that unwanted text is highlighted. Hit the DELETE key and it disappears into the ether. What you have left is the necessary quoted text. Be sure you delete all the junk at the end of the message, you know, the "tag line" that I cause to be added to the end of every message posted here. Now, unless AOL has changed, when you reply to a message, there will be no text in the reply UNLESS you highlighted it in the original message before clicking Reply. Just do the same thing as explained above to highlight JUST that text you wish to be repeated in the reply. You might not believe it, but I have helped some users who were deleting text in their replies BY HITTING THE DELETE KEY OR BACKSPACE KEY hundreds (thousands) of times to get rid of the unwanted text. More hints. Now you know how to "highlight". Any thing else you can do with this highlighted text? Sure! How about, once you have high- lighted an email address, you want to copy it to the Clipboard? Easy. Once the address is highlighted, hold down the Ctrl key and hit the "C" key. That puts the highlighted text on the Clipboard. Next, how do you paste that address on the Clipboard into the TO: line of a message you want to send? Again, easy. Put the mouse cursor where you want to paste the text, left-click the mouse, then hold down the Ctrl key and hit the "V" key. Lo and behold, the text from the Clipboard is now in the TO: line of your message. Couple of other shortcuts: To delete highlighted text and, at the same time copy it to the Clipboard, hold down the Ctrl key and hit the "X" key. To highlight all the text AND headers of a message, hold down the Ctrl key and hit the "A" key. Now a Ctrl+C copies all that stuff to the Clipboard. To move from one open application in Windows to another open application, hold down the Alt key and hit the Tab key. The first time you do this, you will see one open application -- DON'T release the Alt key! Successive presses of the Tab key cycles you through all the open applications in Windows. To see ALL the open applications in Windows, and be able to select the one you want to go to next, hold down the Ctrl key and hit the Esc key. That brings up a Task LIst. Very handy for switching back and forth between applications. Give it a try. SgtGeorge List Maintainer ==== WILHITE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from WILHITE, send an e-mail message to: [email protected] (for individual messages) [email protected] (for Digest mode) Subject: unsubscribe In the body include only one word: unsubscribe (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command)