America Online for Dummies: Quick Reference
by Kaufeld, Jennifer; Kaufeld, John; Kaufeld, JennyEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-02-01
Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary
This handy lay-flat reference provides users with the information they need to get connected and explore all the great information and resources America Online has to offer. The book includes step-by-step instructions on cruising the Internet, as well as how to download files, chat with others, join a newsgroup, find the latest news, and more.
Table of Contents
| How to Use This Book | p. 1 |
| Organization Is a State of Mind | p. 2 |
| Deciphering the Scrawls | p. 4 |
| The Cast of Icons | p. 5 |
| 3, 2, 1 -- Off You Go! | p. 6 |
| Getting to Know America Online | p. 7 |
| Browser Bar | p. 8 |
| Exiting the Program | p. 8 |
| How AOL Works | p. 9 |
| Menus | p. 10 |
| Signing Off | p. 10 |
| Signing On | p. 11 |
| Starting the Software | p. 12 |
| Toolbar Buttons | p. 13 |
| Personalizing Your Corner of the World | p. 15 |
| Bringing the News to Your Mailbox | p. 16 |
| Changing Your Member Profile | p. 16 |
| Changing Your Password | p. 16 |
| Changing Your Preferences | p. 17 |
| Auto AOL | p. 18 |
| Chat | p. 19 |
| Download | p. 19 |
| Font | p. 19 |
| General | p. 19 |
| Graphics | p. 19 |
| Language | p. 20 |
| p. 20 | |
| Marketing | p. 21 |
| Passwords | p. 21 |
| Personal Filing Cabinet | p. 21 |
| Spelling | p. 22 |
| Time Zone | p. 22 |
| Toolbar | p. 22 |
| World Wide Web | p. 22 |
| Creating a Screen Name | p. 24 |
| Deleting a Screen Name | p. 25 |
| Limiting Your Child's Online Access | p. 26 |
| Making Your Member Profile | p. 26 |
| My AOL | p. 28 |
| News Profiles | p. 29 |
| Parental Controls | p. 29 |
| Kids Only (ages 12 and under) | p. 31 |
| Young Teen (tailored limits for older kids) | p. 31 |
| Mature Teen (restricted access for the near adult) | p. 32 |
| Custom Controls | p. 32 |
| Restoring a Screen Name | p. 34 |
| Navigating Here, There, and Everywhere | p. 35 |
| Adding Something to Your Favorite Places List | p. 36 |
| Browsing through the Channels | p. 36 |
| Building Your Own Shortcut Keys List | p. 38 |
| Changing Something in the Favorite Places List | p. 39 |
| Deleting Items from the Favorite Places List | p. 39 |
| Favorite Places | p. 40 |
| Finding Almost Anything on America Online | p. 41 |
| Flipping between Windows | p. 41 |
| Getting a List of Keywords | p. 41 |
| Going to a Favorite Place | p. 42 |
| Locating Keywords | p. 43 |
| Remembering Your Favorite Online Spots | p. 43 |
| Using a Keyword | p. 44 |
| Locating, IM-ing, and Chatting with Everyone | p. 45 |
| Blocking Instant Messages | p. 46 |
| Changing a Buddy List Group | p. 46 |
| Chatting on AOL | p. 46 |
| Chat room fonts and formatting | p. 47 |
| Chat room Notify AQL button | p. 47 |
| Right-clicking in chat rooms | p. 47 |
| Role-playing chat rooms | p. 47 |
| Chats run by AOL Protocol | p. 48 |
| General chat room do's and don'ts | p. 49 |
| Creating a Buddy Chat Room | p. 49 |
| Creating a Buddy List Group | p. 51 |
| Creating a Members Chat Room | p. 51 |
| Creating a Private Chat Room | p. 52 |
| Creating a Profile | p. 53 |
| Deleting a Buddy List Group | p. 53 |
| Expressing Yourself in a Chat Room | p. 53 |
| Finding a Chat Room | p. 54 |
| Using AOL Live | p. 54 |
| Finding member-created chat rooms | p. 55 |
| Getting Help in a Chat Room | p. 55 |
| Going to a Friend's Chat Room | p. 55 |
| Ignoring Someone in a Chat Room | p. 56 |
| Instant Message Notes (IM) | p. 57 |
| Formatting Instant Message Notes | p. 57 |
| Adding links to Instant Message Notes | p. 57 |
| Locating Someone on America Online | p. 58 |
| People Connecting | p. 58 |
| Playing Sounds in a Chat Room | p. 59 |
| Reading Someone's Profile | p. 59 |
| Receiving Instant Message Notes | p. 60 |
| Reporting Problems in a Chat Room | p. 60 |
| Reporting Problems in an Instant Message Note | p. 61 |
| Someone's asking for your password or credit card | p. 61 |
| Someone's being generally obnoxious and annoying | p. 63 |
| Rolling Dice in a Chat Room | p. 63 |
| Searching the Member Directory | p. 63 |
| Taking a Road Trip | p. 64 |
| Using a Profile | p. 66 |
| Expressing Yourself with E-Mail and Discussion Boards | p. 67 |
| Addressing E-Mail with the Address Book | p. 68 |
| Adding an entry | p. 68 |
| Changing or deleting an entry | p. 69 |
| Writing e-mail with the Address Book | p. 70 |
| What's your e-mail address? | p. 70 |
| Attaching a File to an E-Mail Message | p. 70 |
| Automating Your AOL Sessions | p. 72 |
| Setting up Automatic AOL | p. 72 |
| Using Automatic AOL | p. 74 |
| Checking E-Mail Status | p. 74 |
| Checking for New Discussion Board Messages | p. 75 |
| Copying Others with CC/BCC | p. 76 |
| Dealing with Undeliverable E-Mail | p. 77 |
| Deleting an E-Mail Message | p. 77 |
| Expressing Yourself in E-Mail | p. 78 |
| Emoticons {*},;) | p. 78 |
| Keyboard shorthand | p. 79 |
| E-mail etiquette | p. 79 |
| Formatting E-Mail | p. 80 |
| Posting a Reply to a Discussion Board | p. 82 |
| Reply to the board | p. 82 |
| Reply via e-mail | p. 84 |
| Reading a Discussion Board Message | p. 85 |
| Reading E-Mail Offline | p. 86 |
| Reading E-Mail Online | p. 87 |
| Receiving an Attached File in an E-Mail Message | p. 87 |
| Replying to an E-Mail Message | p. 88 |
| Sending E-Mail to an AOL Member | p. 89 |
| Sending E-Mail to Several Addresses | p. 89 |
| Sending E-Mail to Someone on the Internet | p. 89 |
| Setting Your E-Mail Preferences | p. 90 |
| Sharing Favorite Places in an E-Mail | p. 90 |
| Unsending E-Mail | p. 90 |
| Writing an E-Mail Message Offline | p. 91 |
| Writing an E-Mail Message Online | p. 92 |
| Logging, Saving, Printing, and Downloading | p. 93 |
| Chat Logs | p. 94 |
| Downloading Files from E-Mail Messages | p. 95 |
| Downloading Files Later (The Download Manager) | p. 96 |
| Downloading files in waiting | p. 96 |
| Removing files from the download list | p. 97 |
| Seeing which files you already downloaded | p. 97 |
| Checking file descriptions | p. 97 |
| Choosing where to store files to download | p. 97 |
| Downloading Files Right Now | p. 98 |
| Finding Files to Download | p. 100 |
| Instant Message Logs | p. 100 |
| Printing | p. 101 |
| Saving Text from a Window | p. 101 |
| Session Logs | p. 102 |
| Uploading Files | p. 103 |
| VBRUN Files (Visual Basic Runtime Modules) | p. 105 |
| ZIP Files | p. 106 |
| Exploring the Internet | p. 107 |
| p. 108 | |
| File Transfer Protocol (FTP) | p. 108 |
| Downloading from FTP sites | p. 109 |
| Uploading to FTP sites | p. 110 |
| Using a particular FTP site | p. 111 |
| Gopher | p. 112 |
| Going to a specific Gopher site | p. 113 |
| Remembering a Gopher site with Favorite Places | p. 113 |
| Searching Gopherspace | p. 114 |
| Mailing Lists | p. 114 |
| Newsgroups | p. 115 |
| Posting messages to a newsgroup | p. 116 |
| Reading newsgroups online | p. 117 |
| Reading newsgroups offline | p. 117 |
| Remembering a newsgroup with Favorite Places | p. 119 |
| Replying to a newsgroup posting | p. 120 |
| Subscribing to a newsgroup | p. 120 |
| Searching for a particular topic | p. 121 |
| Browsing through the lists | p. 122 |
| Unsubscribing from a newsgroup | p. 122 |
| Searching the Net | p. 123 |
| Winsock Applications and AOL | p. 123 |
| World Wide Web Adventures | p. 124 |
| Building a home page | p. 125 |
| Making your own Web page | p. 125 |
| Going to a specific Web site | p. 126 |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer and AOL | p. 127 |
| Netscape Navigator and AOL | p. 127 |
| Remembering a site through Favorite Places | p. 128 |
| Visiting friends at Hometown AOL | p. 128 |
| Taking AOL on the Road | p. 129 |
| Connecting from a Hotel | p. 130 |
| Finding a New Local Access Number | p. 130 |
| Making Location Entries | p. 133 |
| Creating a location | p. 133 |
| Creating a location with Expert Add | p. 135 |
| Deleting a location | p. 137 |
| Changing a location | p. 137 |
| Signing On through Someone Else's Computer | p. 138 |
| Solving Problems and Finding Help | p. 139 |
| Adding Your Own Two Cents Worth | p. 140 |
| Billing Problems | p. 140 |
| Calling America Online for Help | p. 141 |
| Finding a Lost Window | p. 141 |
| Free Help from Other Members | p. 142 |
| Host Not Responding | p. 142 |
| Lost Carrier | p. 143 |
| Member Services Area | p. 144 |
| Top Tips from the Insider | p. 145 |
| World Wide Web Page Won't Load | p. 146 |
| Places of Our Hearts | p. 147 |
| AOL Channel Guide | p. 148 |
| Ask a Teacher | p. 148 |
| Auto Center | p. 149 |
| Baby Name Finder | p. 149 |
| Bed and Breakfast Guide | p. 149 |
| Best AOL Tips | p. 150 |
| Billing | p. 150 |
| Blackberry Creek | p. 150 |
| Bonjour Paris | p. 151 |
| BoxerJam Game Shows | p. 151 |
| Building Home Pages | p. 152 |
| Business Week Online | p. 152 |
| Collectable Cards Forum | p. 153 |
| Conspiracies and UFOs | p. 153 |
| Consumer Reports | p. 153 |
| Demographics | p. 154 |
| Funny Pages | p. 154 |
| Games | p. 154 |
| History | p. 155 |
| Homeschooling | p. 155 |
| Hometown AOL | p. 155 |
| International | p. 156 |
| Internet Connection | p. 156 |
| Keywords | p. 157 |
| Language Dictionaries | p. 157 |
| New York Times on AOL | p. 157 |
| Notify AOL | p. 158 |
| Online Campus | p. 158 |
| Puzzle Zone | p. 158 |
| Random | p. 159 |
| Road Trips | p. 159 |
| Science | p. 159 |
| Sports Cards | p. 160 |
| Start-Up Businesses | p. 160 |
| The Teacher's Lounge | p. 160 |
| ThirdAge | p. 161 |
| Trivia | p. 161 |
| Westwood | p. 162 |
| What's New | p. 162 |
| Clicking through the Channels | p. 163 |
| AOL Today | p. 164 |
| Computing | p. 164 |
| Entertainment | p. 166 |
| Families | p. 168 |
| Games | p. 169 |
| Health | p. 171 |
| Influence | p. 172 |
| Interests | p. 174 |
| International | p. 175 |
| Kids Only | p. 177 |
| Lifestyles | p. 178 |
| Local | p. 179 |
| News | p. 180 |
| Personal Finance | p. 181 |
| Research and Learn | p. 182 |
| Shopping | p. 184 |
| Sports | p. 186 |
| Travel | p. 187 |
| WorkPlace | p. 188 |
| Techie Talk | p. 191 |
| Index | p. 201 |
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