Lesson Two:

  • Opening a Message

  • Printing a Message

  • Closing a Message

  • Exiting PEGASUS

  • Repeating the Lesson


Lesson Two will have you working with an actual message that you will retrieve when you check for mail. I have sent you an e-mail message with a subject heading reading:

"Subj: # 2. Double Click Here To Open The Message"

Before starting refer back to Lesson #1 and follow the steps up through step 4. You will always start the lessons following the steps in Lesson #1.

OPENING a Message


As you can see from the prompt the subject line on the message is showing you, double clicking on the message line will open up that message so that you can read it.
Double click on that line now. You should now see the message.

Printing a Message


Click on the Print option above the message, shown below.



The following action box appears.
print

Just click on the box with OK and the message prints out.

CLOSING a Message

Now close and then reopen the message. Look at the picture where you see a box around a letter in the corner. Single click on that image a drop down menu appears. Click on the word close. Windows TIP: Any time you are working in what appears to be a box you can close the box using this method. (NOTE: In Windows it is a hyphen in the corner.)
close message

Notice that the message has a check mark by it on the left side, meaning that is was read.

EXIT Mail


Click on File
exit mail
Click on the word EXIT from the dropped down menu.

Repeating the Exercise for Practise


  1. Open Mail by clicking on the Pegasus flying horse.
     
  2. Follow the steps to "Check the Host for New Mail" (probably no mail down loaded).
     
  3. Click on "File" (top left)
     
  4. Select "Mail folders..."
     
  5. Highlight Main folder and double click, below is a picture of this box.
    main folder picture

  6. Select the message by double clicking on it.
     
  7. Close the message
     
  8. Close the folder, below is a picture of where to click to select close from the folder's drop down menu. Note this is the same concept as closing a message, by selecting the hyphen in the the active boxes right corner in Windows. It's looks like a folder because you are working in folders.
    close folder

  9. Click on "File" again and select "exit"

Contact us on any mail problems. It is important that you feel comfortable handling and managing electronic mail.

printerPrinting tips for information on how to print.

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