I just got rid of a dying computer which had Windows XP, and bought a new one with Windows 7.
My old email worked fine under Outlook Express.
My new email–Windows Live Mail- in polite language, SUCKS DONKEY BALLS.
Specifically: it does not allow you to insert a picture in an email.
HUH?
Sure, I can attach a jpg as an external file to an email—but I can’t have the user see the jpg picture while he’s reading the text… Why not, and who the hell thought up the idea of eliminating a vital function?
I want to write an email like this, to a proud grandma:
Hello proud grandma:
here’s what you missed at the baby’s first birthday party:
(PICTURE OF SMILING BABY .jpg)
And now here he is with his cake:
(PICTURE of CAKE-COVERED SMILING BABY.jpg)
And finally, here he is wearing the cute hat you knitted him:
(PICTURE of CUTE-HATTED , CAKE-COVERED, SIMILING BABY.jpg)
Obviously, it is vital that the jpg’s appear in the body of the message, in order, with each photo directly underneath its caption.
In Windows Live mail, the only thing I can do is type 3 captions, attach 3 jpgs, and hope grandma will click on the attachments in the right order. But even then, each jpg opens in a new window and blocks the body of the email, and the reader loses all continuity with the text.
What the hell is going on here, and what am I doing wrong?
Also-another problem with Windows 7:
There used to be a simple way to re-size a jpg file , reducing it from, say, 4 megabytes to a couple hundred kilobytes. This was a great way to send a lot of pics in an email without requiring the recipient to download a couple gigabytes of data . The re-size tool was called a “power tool”,and worked perfectly with Windows XP. But with Win7, there is no such thing. Why not? And how can I reduce the size of a jpg file ?
I have always joked that with Microsoft, there is no such thing as an upgrade , because every change to Windows is actually a downgrade. And this proves my point!
Please help me get my email back to a point where it is useful.
I don’t want anything fancy from my computer—I just want to send cute baby pics. But I can’t.
Help!
I don’t use Live Mail but it’s the same way in Yahoo mail. I wanted to insert a picture of a chicken into a response to someone’s e-mail but was unable to do it except as an attachment which pretty much missed the point. I guess you could put everything in a Word document in the order you’d like it to be in, and then attach that?
As for resizing pictures you can do that in Microsoft Office Picture Manager if you have that; I’m sure there are other ways. (In Picture Manager it’s easy; Edit, Compress, Compress for e-mail message.)
In Windows Live Mail you can insert a photo by clicking on “insert” --> “image” --> “inline”, and navigate to your pic. You can also resize it right in the body of the letter by dragging the borders of the photo.
I don’t have an “insert” menu.
In fact, I’m not sure I have any menus at all! I have a ribbon with irritatingly large icons labeled “spam” delete" “reply” “reply all” “FW”, and a few more, such as “exclamation point” “calendar” "move to " “copy to”.
And-gasp- I just noticed that I can’t find a way to do a simple attachment, either. No icon for it, no menu for it.
Help! What’s wrong?
Yes, you’re using the Ribbon, but there should be words above it to get to different ribbons.
Just trying it out on my computer, I’ll tell you the instructions from the top. You open Windows Live Mail. You click one of the first two buttons (the ones that mention messages). In the new window that appears, you click the word Insert, which is above the ribbon. Then you click Single Picture to insert it.
Do note that Windows Live Mail is a program you have to install in Windows 8 or higher. The Mail app that comes with Windows 8+ is not Windows Live Mail. It is a stripped down email program for the “Metro” interface. But it also does not have a ribbon, so I doubt that’s what you are describing.
If that’s still not helpful, I suggest downloading a real email client, like Thunderbird, rather than Microsoft’s stripped down version of Outlook.
We got a new PC a few months ago after our old PC died.
On our old PC we had Excel 2003, Word 2003, PowerPoint 2003, and MS Outlook. They worked great. I saved all the files that were made with these. The *.pst Outlook file contains emails going back 10 years, and is over 2 GB.
So when we got the new PC, I signed up for Office Online (www.office.com). Which means I would have the latest versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, woo hoo!!
But as I quickly learned, Office Online sucks. :mad:
Each program is “online”; it is not loaded onto my PC hard drive. When I am in Excel, for example, there’s a little bit of lag time whenever I go from cell to cell. It’s extremely annoying. And you cannot upload a *.pst file to the online Outlook. :mad:
I am now sorry I purchased Office Online. Next week I am going to peruse eBay and will buy a set of CDs that contain Office 2007.
