MOVING FROM PAGE TO PAGE

In Netscape Navigator for Windows, clicking Ctrl/Tab lets you quickly cycle through multiple open Web pages.

WHICH BACK WOULD YOU LIKE?
                  There are many ways to get back to pages you have visited in a browsing session. You can  click "Back" and go to the site you visited immediately before. You can also select Go from  the Navigator menu and choose the previously visited site from a list of all sites. Netscape  Communicator adds another way to do this. Click "Back" and hold down the button with the   mouse, and you get the list of previously visited sites. This also works for the "Forward"  button.

EMAIL
If you file a lot of email messages in folders, compress them occasionally by selecting the folder  you want to compress, then click on the Compress This Folder menu item in the File menu. Also  - empty your trash (File/Empty Trash Folder). Every unnecessary bit of data contributes to  clutter in your system, and you know what happens when there's too much of that.

COPYING TEXT FROM WEB PAGES

To copy all of the text but none of the HTML code from a Web page to another application, choose Edit/Select All, copy, then paste into your application.

ADDING EMAIL ADDRESSES

Have an email address you want to add to your Navigator address book? Do a right  mouse-click while you're in the message frame and choose "Add this email address to address  book."

MAIL BACKGROUND CHECK

                  Netscape Communicator now will notify you when you have mail without your even having to open Communicator or the Message Center (although it only works for Windows). To set this  up, click the Windows Start menu, then select Programs|Netscape      Communicator|Utilities|Netscape Mail Notification. The function icon, which looks like a  rotating blue circle, immediately appears in the Windows taskbar. When you right-click the  icon, you get a pop-up menu with several Netscape Mail Notification commands. Click on  Stop to prevent the program from checking your mail immediately, or click on Check Now to  resume. Otherwise, Notification checks mail every 15 minutes (or whatever interval you set as  the default). Other options in the pop-up menu include Run Mail, which opens the Messenger  window; New Messages, which opens a new Composition window; Options, which lets you  set Notification's properties; and Enable, which toggles automatic mail-checking on and off.

  PICTURE LINK

                  Pictures can make great links in Web pages. This is really easy to do in Composer. Select the image that you want to make a link, then right-click. A context menu appears, from which you  select "Create Link Using Selected...". The Image Properties dialog box opens to the Link  tab. Note that the image file name is shown in the Link Source box. Now just enter the URL  or local file that the image links to in the "Link to" section. Click Apply and you're all set; the image becomes a click able link.

OPTIONS FOR GETTING THE MAIL: IMAP VERSION

If you get your mail from an IMAP server, the messages are always            kept on the server after you retrieve them. You re-access them every  time you access the server. Your option here is to store copies of your messages on your own computer so that you can view them when you're
not attached to the server. To do this, open the message center and choose Edit, Preferences, Mail & Groups-Mail Server, then check the option "Keep copies of messages locally for offline reading." Click on OK to close the Preferences box and save your settings.

LAUNCH MULTIPLE WINDOWS IN IE
As you surf the Web, there are occasions when it's convenient to have more than one Internet Explorer window open at the same time. For example, when you're investigating the results of search engine, you can leave the search results in one instance of Internet Explorer and investigate each site in a separate instance of Internet Explorer. To do this, hold down the [Shift] key as you click links on the search results page. When you do, a separate Internet Explorer window will instantly launch and connect to that site. To investigate the results faster, use the [Shift]/click technique to launch three or four separate instances of Internet Explorer. Then, while the second, third and fourth pages are loading, return to the first one, which should be done loading, and investigate the contents. You can then access the second page, and so on.

FREQUENT DISCONNECTS

Recently I was experiencing frequent disconnects from the internet. The cause turned out to be a faulty line from the telephone pole to my computer. I installed a new line and that cleared up the problem.