WebTV will automatically add "www." and ".com" for you. All you have to do is type the middle of the URL.

Example:

1. Select the "Options" Key
2. Select "Go To"
3. Type in yahoo [http://yahoo]

WebTV will do the rest by adding "www." in front of what you typed and ".com" after.

Have you ever received an email from someone and they had something on the page that you really liked or wondered how they did it? Or, maybe you would like to see the coding of the cool email signature you received? This is how you "bounce" an email to yourself to view the HTML codes in it. It's an easy way to see how something is done.

Follow the steps below:

1. Forward the mail to yourself ~ (Remove YOUR Signature 1st)

2. Clear the Subject line.

3. Move the Cursor to the Body of the email and hit your "Return" key 3 times. This moves the Curser down 3 spaces from Subject line.

4. Now press your "ALT" key and "Z" key at the same time, the symbol will look like this §.

5. Press the "CMD" and "A" keys to highlight the Body of the email.

6. Press "CMD" and "X" keys to "Cut". You should hear a high pitch (chirp) if your volume is on.

7. Go back to Subject line, make sure Cursor is right next to the word "Subject", press the "CMD" and "V" keys to Paste the § in the Subject line. ~ (The § will then "move" down 3 spaces on it's own)

8. Send the email to yourself. Now you can view the HTML codes in the email. ~ (Your own HTML will also appear unless you REMOVE YOUR OWN SIG.)

Follow the steps below:

1. Select the "Options" Key

2. Select "Send"

3. Select "Forward"

4. Click here and finish using the
  Bounce an Email  steps.

You can also forward an NG post to yourself by following steps 1 thru 3.

That's It!

Y key - Brings up your Instant Messenger

EDIT key - This will activate your cursor in a "text box" so you can write

ESC key - Will take you out of most pop-up boxes

TAB key - Takes you to the next link and if it's a text box it will activate your cursor

SHIFT + Tab key - Takes you to the previous link and if it's a text box it will activate your cursor

CTRL + M - Follows a hyperlink. (the same as clicking on a link)

• What I do to get connected faster is block my calls. I turn the audible dialing on and keep calls blocked and presto — I'm online fast!

• I turn off Messenger when I'm answering e-mail and playing games. I also clear out all the e-mail in my Sent and Deleted folders every day. I find that my games are a lot faster and I get connected to sites faster also.

• When my MSN TV is slow in connecting or loading, I simply unplug the power cord in the back of the box and then plug it back in. Then a screen will pop up that says: "Have you moved?" I just press Yes, and this gives me a faster and less used line. Works every time.

• I hit the Option key 3 times and press the numbers 217 with the terminal off. Then I power on and press "Connect". This seems to give me a much stronger connection when the Web is running slow.

• If you've been to a site, and go to another, and then want to return to the previous site, hit the Recent key and click on the site. Hope this helps!

These are a few ways I enhance connection time:
• Turn off background music if you have it on.
• Turn off Messenger. You can always turn it back on.
• Use Options "Hang Up" if you expect to resume later.
• Keep e-mail folders "tidy" by discarding frequently.
• Turn off PIP.

• Last month, I read the "Latest News" about Utilities. I went into that page and cleared out "Cookies" after viewing the pages that had piled up. It made a tremendous difference in not only connecting, but also surfing the Web!

• I always sign off of the Web by hitting the Option key and then selecting "Hang Up" and then clicking off with the TV remote. When I'm ready to go back online all I need to do is click on the TV remote and click on the "Reconnect" button. This eliminates powering on and going through the entire process to get online. Most important is the fact that when it's necessary for me to get offline at an inconvenient time, I can click off and then return to the exact page I was working on.

• I turn on my WebTV early, (lots of times 3 am), and have no problem connecting. No one else is up at that time of night. I go to bed early and this has been my routine for about 3 years now.

CC&P is very helpful when you're coping an email, a Web page or simply editing as you're typing.

"CMD" KEY CODES:

CMD key + A = Highlight
CMD key + C = Copy
CMD key + X = Cut
CMD key + V = Paste

"SHIFT" KEY CODES:

Shift key + Down-Arrow = Highlights one line at a time going down

Shift key + Right-Arrow = Highlights one letter at a time going right

[The Left and Up Arrow keys can also be used.]

NOTE: When editing, your browser will ONLY SAVE THE LAST TEXT you Copied or Cut.

When sending an email to someone on WebTV, you can add words before the WebTV addy.

Example:

Instead of: name@webtv.net

Try typing: name@hello.webtv.com

[This ONLY works between WebTV users.]

• Type or CC&P the text you want quoted in your email.

• Place your curser at the beginning of the 1st line of text.

• Type a ">" Less Than Symbol.

• Press & hold the "CMD" key, then press the "Right Arrow" key. This will take your curser to the end of the line.

• Press the "Return" key.

• You should be at the beginning of the 2nd line of text. Repeat the above steps for the rest of the lines of text you want to quote.

You may want to practice first, so send an email to yourself. You'll notice the text lines you quoted with the ">" Less Than Symbol are smaller as well as indented in your email. Also, the ">" symbols are gone.

There are Tools available to achieve the same effect which are time savers. Copy the text you want to quote, Paste it onto the screen of the Tool site, select "Quote" and CC&P the results. Below are two:

The WebTV screen dimensions are 560 pixels wide by 420 pixels high. Ideally, you should not make your pages any larger than this. If the page is wider, the receiver will resize your page proportionally to fit within the 560 pixel width.

Here you'll find instructions for viewing Page Builder home pages created by WebTV users. If you know the name of a user who has a PB home page, you can view it using the format below:

You can get to "Write an email message" without going to your Mail List by doing the following:

1. Select the "Options" Key
2. Select "Go To"
3. Erase http:// and type in mailto:

You can write and send emails from
ANY location on the Web.