An e-mail of great magnitude arrived this week from faithful reader Walt. “I am traveling up north and make sure I read your column each week in the electronic version of the Sun. I also like to send the column to some family members. The printed version I just cut out, copy and send, but this electronic version will not allow me to highlight the column and paste it into an e-mail. If I send a link from the page, my relatives are asked to subscribe before they can view the column. Is there any way to send the electronic version to my family?”
This question arises fairly often but Walt even followed up with a phone call so let’s examine the issue. The starting point is a subscription to the Sun. Fire up the computer and surf over to yoursun.com. Click on the copy of the paper of choice. Navigate to the Electronic Edition. The options available are a seven day trial or for just $3 a month, the paper and of course Bits and Bytes will be available anywhere we travel and can reach the Internet. If already a subscriber to the printed version, we automatically have a subscription to the electronic version as well.
The next step in sharing with family is to login to our Electronic Edition, use the navigation tools to find the Bits and Bytes column. Double click on the column to open it in a separate window. From the toolbar at the top click print. This opens a printable copy of the column. From here we have a few options. The column can now be highlighted, copied and pasted into an e-mail for that nephew in Michigan, or when the printer dialogue box appears, send the print job to the printer listed as Microsoft XPS Document Writer. The print job will ask us to give the job a name and save it on our computer. We can then e-mail that document to anyone and they can open it in Internet Explorer. Or the long way would be to print the column, put it in a scanner, and then e-mail it from the scanned copy. Note to those that want past columns, the Electronic Edition archives past copies of the paper. If searching for past Bits and Bytes columns simply search the Wednesday copy of the papers. (Martha, what date was that great column?) Don’t forget, additional columns appear at courtnederveld.blogspot.com.
Special alert: A new scam appears to be making the rounds. We have all gotten the e-mail from friends whose e-mail account has been hacked telling us to click a link because it is something neat. Spammers are trying to infect machines or get us to wire money to Elbonia. Now, the e-mails claim our friend is updating their phone book and please send them our phone number or have gotten robbed in some foreign country losing their passport/money and would we wire them a few thousand till they get home. Call and verify, don’t e-mail the phone number.
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