no "full screen" ; & eml. file

Hello
2 things
using XP Home edition, w.outlook express 6, at inbox, my full screen key does not work...also the full screen icon/button on toolbar has disappeared.
don't they work at inbox????? it is there now as i post this

2 i sent an email attachment with a picture to a person who also has XP home and he stated picture was too large, and being an eml. file he did not know how to shrink it. i sent a copy to myself and opened it to " "Slide & fax viewer" "he also should have "slide & fax viewer ".????
i can not help him without your help.
it is a cute puppy picture, titled "blond pole dancer" which i can send if you supply e-mail address
Thanks in advance
Mike

 

Thanks
i guess i imagined it worked in OE: would be handy in this case

i only forwarded a picture sent to me, How would i resize it???
MB

 

yiou said "just click on the paper clip in Outlook Express and double click on the image file). "
i click on paper clip and it opens in picture/fax viewer.
no image file.....
MB

 

Click the paper clip and then click save attachments. Save the file and then double click on the file you saved to open it.

 

You may be right about wires being crossed. I just assumed (I know, I shouldn't do that) you were talking about the preview pane paper clip. I myself don't use it (preview pane). I always do it the way you mentioned above but it seems most people I know use the preview pane. So...

 

Where/what is the preview pane???
MB

 

show preview pane is checked
i guess that is the picture that came up with subject line and before clicking on the paper clip
i really would like to post it here, or send it to one of you so you can see how you receive it.

 

Also Tools>Options>Read tab "automatically download messages when using Preview Pane"

Save pic to hard drive. Download and install "Image resizer " . Navigate to pic, right click and follow the prompts.

It sounds like your friend knows less about OE than you do, so I doubt the size of the pic is really the problem. If it wasn't sent as an attachment, as in "embedded in the body of the email ", he will have to right click on it to save it. If the pic exceeds the size of the window he is opening it in, he will have to maximize the window to see the whole thing at once, or scroll it.

As far as this:

Have you checked the settings in View and Layout from OE? If nothing else, toggle them around. Clicking the customize toolbar will let you arrange the bar any way that suits your work style.

HTH
Johanna

 

Ps

Isn't running the Preview Pane in OE a security risk? (Zander and PeteC, tsk tsk ) It's enabled by default in XP, and I always disable it for "security "- is the problem of downloading and running malicious script automatically, resolved? I don't trust the "don't let OE open attachments that could potentially be a virus" switch, and I do receive exe files from time to time, from known and expected sources. If it is not a security risk to run the Preview Pane, then maybe I'll try it out.

Johanna
still using NIS 2003

 

Johanna, you said" "Reduce the size/resolution before sending? " "- resolutions higher than 72 dpi will be magnifiedon the screen

How reduce??

i do not understand why he just did not click ion paper clip,and have it go to Picture & Fax Viewer
i also do not know why he says he can't handle an emlfile
i do not know what kind of file it is (or care) and i can open it
Would using Netscape be a reason he can not work it,he used to use Nets. with Win M.E. but i do not know what is in his "puter other than XP os