NetScape Communicator 4 for Dummies Quick Reference Book

Introduction: How to Use This Book

About This Book
What Are All These Parts?
Conventions Used in This Book
Cast of Icons

Introducing Groupware
Seeing What All the Components Do

Netscape Navigator 4.0
Netscape Messenger
Netscape Collabra
Netscape Composer
Netscape Conference
Netscape Calendar
IBM Host On-Demand
Netscape AutoAdmin
Netcaster

Using the Communicator NetHelp Features

Acquainting Yourself with the Internet
Accessing a Web Site
Customizing Navigator

Changing the background color
Changing the color of text
Changing the font type
Changing the color of links
Tracking followed links
Starting Navigator with a specific (or no) Web page

Editing Your Web Page
Finding Information on the Web
Finding Information within a Web Page
Plug-ins
Printing a Web Page
Reloading a Page
Returning to a Previously Visited Web Page
Saving an Image on Your Computer
Saving a Web Page on Your Computer
Sending a URL to a Friend
Toolbars

Changing the size of the toolbars
Displaying toolbars without text
Moving a toolbar
Hiding (and unhiding) a toolbar

Uncovering the Component Bar
Uploading Files to an FTP Site
Using Bookmarks

Adding a URL to the bookmark list
Using a bookmark
Adding (and removing) a URL to your Personal toolbar
Setting (and removing) a Bookmark folder as your Personal toolbar
Sorting bookmarks
Creating a new bookmark folder
Moving URLs between bookmark folders

Using the History File

Acquainting Yourself with Messenger's Toolbar
Addressing Your E-Mail with the Address Book

Transferring an address from a message
Typing an address in the Address Book
Editing an address in the Address Book
Creating an e-mail address list
Addressing your e-mail

Attaching a File to a Message
Checking for New Mail
Composing and Sending a Message
Drafting a Message
Encrypting Your E-Mail

Acquiring a digital signature
Getting encrypted messages
Exporting and importing digital certificates
Distributing your digital certificate
Sending an encrypted message
Reading an encrypted message

Filtering Messages with Rules
Formatting Your Messages with Rich Text

Setting Messenger up for rich text
Adding bold, italics, underline, and color to your text
Adding a URL to your message
Adding an image to your message
Changing the font type and font size

Locating Text within Messages
Looking Up a Friend's E-Mail Address
Organizing Your Messages with Folders

Creating a new folder
Deleting a folder
Renaming a folder

Printing a Message
Reading E-Mail
Replying to a Message
Saving a Message to Your Hard Disk

Choosing News Servers

Checking your news server connection
Adding a news server
Deleting a news server
Switching to newsgroups on other news servers

Marking a Post
Posting Messages to a Newsgroup

Creating a new message to post on a newsgroup
Responding to a newsgroup post

Printing a Post
Reading a Newsgroup
Saving a Post to Your Disk
Saving Newsgroup Posts into Folders
Searching for a Post within a Newsgroup
Setting a Limit for Downloaded Messages
Spicing Up Your Posts with Rich Text

Setting Collabra up to use rich text
Formatting your posts
Adding a Web address to your post
Adding an image to your post

Subscribing to a Newsgroup

When you know the newsgroup's name
When you don't know the name of the newsgroup
Unsubscribing a newsgroup

Acquainting Yourself with Web Page Basics
Creating a Page with the Composer Toolbar

Changing fonts
Changing the size of text
Changing the color of text
Changing the paragraph style
Creating a bulleted list
Creating a numbered list
Adding a link
Keeping your links updated
Adding an image
Adding a table
Adding a table within a table
Editing a table
Deleting an image, link, or table

Creating a Home Page Using a Template
Creating a Home Page Using the Wizard
Editing a Page You're Viewing
Previewing Your Home Page
Publishing Your Home Page
Using the Spell Checker

Beginning with Conference
Browsing Together

Cruising the Web together
Getting the browsers in sync

Chatting

Starting up a chat
Editing options during a chat session
Inserting a file into your chat
Saving your chat session text to a file
Toolbar

Editing Graphics with the Whiteboard

Synchronizing whiteboards
Saving a whiteboard image
Undoing your edits
Using the Whiteboard Toolbar and Toolbox

Exchanging Files

Sending a file
Receiving a file
Toolbar

Making a Phone Call

Calling a person listed in the Web Phonebook
Recording a voice message to send via e-mail
Adding an e-mail address to Speed Dial
Setting call receive options
Adjusting the microphone and speaker audio levels

Beginning Your Day with Calendar
Making Entries in Your Calendar

Creating an Agenda entry
Deleting an Agenda entry
Rescheduling an Agenda entry
Changing the time slots within the Day view
Inviting people to an event

Notes

Adding a note to the Agenda
Creating a duplicate note

Printing

Printing your Agenda
Printing your tasks

Setting Notification Options for New Entries
Setting Reminders

Setting a reminder for an event
Hitting the snooze button to postpone a reminder
Turning reminders off and on

Toolbars

Calendar toolbar
Date Control bar

Tracking Tasks

Adding a task
Editing a task
Assigning a status to a task
Viewing all your tasks
Viewing other people's tasks

Viewing Another User's Agenda
Viewing Your Calendar

Day view
Week view
Month view

Working with the In-Tray

Starting an IBM Host On-Demand Session
Starting Your Second Host Session
Working with the IBM Host On-Demand Keyboard

Glossary: Techie Talk

Index