New To MSN Groups?

Here are some tips to help you out

New Members 

Welcome to our great group of friends. If we don't have something you need to know here, just go to the HOW TO BOARD or VIEW ALL CURRENT TOPICS BOARD and ask away, we will do our best to help you.

Hide your email addy and keep your email settings set to read on web

To hide your email addy: Go to member tools, click on email settings then click on hide email address.

To change your email settings to read on web, go to member tools, click on email settings then click on:

NOTE: Important messages for Chat Reminders, Members Turning Gold, Platinium, etc. will still be sent out via the MSN tool for Managers to do so to all members from time to time.

Click on one the appropriate message boards and then click on New Discussion, type something in the subject line, type whatever you want and then click send. (if you need more HELP with this click on our HOW TO POST  link.

To Reply: Click on a message, click reply, type what you want then click send

you can change your text size using this icon.  The following box opens and displays different sizes.

 

Change font style

 This icon copys text

 

  This icon pastes text

 

*How to copy and paste

To copy: Put your mouse to the left of what you want to copy.  Hold down your left click button and drag your mouse down and to the right until what you want to copy is highlighted.  Let go. What you want to copy should be highlighted now.  Right click on your mouse click on copy.  You have just copied.

To Paste:  In your message, left click on the paste text icon, looks like a clipboard, and what you have copied will show on your message.

*How to insert gifs into your messages: After clicking on reply or start a new topic you will see your tool bar up top.  Click on the insert picture icon. (looks like 2 little mountains).   This will bring up a page that says MSN My photos.  On the left you will see the Groups that you belong to.  Click on the one that has the albums you want to use.  Underneath it will show you the albums.  Click on the album you want to see, Click on the gif you want to use, click on add photos.  This will add your gif to your message. 

 

*How to create a photo album.

On the left hand side of the page you will see "pictures".  Click on this and it will take you to the albums.  At the top of the page click on "create new album".  It will ask you to name your album etc.  When done, click on create album.

MSN Pictures in 10 Easy steps.doc  

Open a Internet Explorer window, copy and paste this on the address bar-
C:\Windows\Downloaded Program FilesThen click Go.

• It will take you to a file in your computer.
• Then look for a yellow "dialoge" bubble icon, and under it will say msn chat control
• Right click on it and then click on update. Problem should be solved.

If the problem is not solved by just updating it, then left click once on the chat control bubble to highlight it then go to the top of the browser to file and on the dropdown list choose delete.  It will delete it from your folder.  Then go to a chatroom and let it download a new control when you try to get into chat.  Keep trying until it does download it.  That should get you in.

Icons and they they are used for

 Makes your background different colors

 selects text color

 

 Inserts emoticons 

 

  Makes bold type

 

  Makes italic type

 

   underlines text

 

   makes numbered lists

 

  makes bullet lists

 

  indents to the left

 

    indents to the right

 

  cuts text

 

  copys text

 

    pastes text

 

  Aligns text on the left

 

   Center aligns text

 

    Aligns text on the right