1.) I use Outlook Express for e-mail and Netscape for web browsing. Is there any way to get Netscape to open when I click the links in Outlook Express instead of Internet Explorer?
2.) Whenever I bold anything on my computer, in any program (Outlook Express, Netscape Composer, Word, Excel) my computer also italicizes it. What’s up with that?
Dr. J
1- don’t know - try setting netsacpe as your default internet app.
2- don’t know - never heard of that
but at least you got a bump
I don’t think you can. Netscape’s mail client has the same insistence on launching Netscape for http links.
You didn’t really give enough information to solve problem #2. Does this also happen if you explicitly set a font and try bolding? For instance, select a line of text in Word, change it to Arial, and then try bolding it. Same symptom?
Setting Netscape as your default internet browser should take care of the first. I also use Outlook for email, but I use Opera for browsing.
Good luck on this one. I’ve never heard of this problem.
1 - One might imagine that setting Netscape as your default bowser would fix this, but I would not be sure quick to assume this. You gotta remember that Outlook is a MS prduct, as well as IE. There is no law or rule that says you must be able to make one of your products integrate with another one of your products. I doubt if MS would let this occur.
2 - I am thinking that you are doing more than just Bold. It does seem odd to me that this would happen in any program, and I am inclined to believe that you are imagineing it. The computer has no set typeface, and it would be unphazed by the simple act of changing a paragraph, sentance, or a single word, to bold. It may be the particular font you are using, and it could appear to be italicized(???) whenever you bold it. Then again, who knowsd with computers anymore…
Doc, did you try looking in the Outlook manual? Im not sure what version of it you are using or what version IE, but it should be in the manual.
Regarding (2) - it’s a long shot, but I had a similar problem when I accidentally deleted the bold version of the font I had set as my default web font. Every time my PC tried to use that font it couldn’t be found, and it switched to using the bold italic version instead.
Obviously this will only be the case for fonts where the different ‘styles’ (italic, bold, bold italic) are separate files on your PC. Take a quick peek into your C:\WINDOWS\FONTS folder and check that the font is still there.
I checked my Outlook (Express, unfortunately, but it may have similar functionality). The Options menu states that OE shares internet settings with IE, so it may prove difficult to ‘unbundle’ them and use Netscape as the default browser. Attempting to change the default programs used (e.g. as text editors or newsgroup readers) doesn’t offer an option to change the default browser, since the program selection screen is actually part of IE and not OE.
Mac or PC?