Tuesday, August 19, 2008

How to insert a picture into a document to email it .

Log into your GMAIL account.
Click the Documents link at the top of the page.
Click the button that says NEW in the blue navigation bar.
Scroll down and click Document.
A new window opens with this at the top left corner:
Google Docs
Type in any words you want in the message.
When you are ready to insert a picture, click Insert (in the blue navigation bar), scroll down and click picture.

Choose one of the following:

If you want to upload a picture from your computer, click "click "From the web (URL). Open a new window and go to the website where you saw the picture. You can copy and paste it, or you can right click the picture with your mouse, click copy image location, then go back to the window in Google Docs and right click with your mouse, scroll down, and click paste (to paste the location of the picture). Then click insert, and the picture magically appears within your message.

Example of a picture in with the text:

historic house
(image courtesy of Howard Hall Farm)

When you are happy with what you've written, and are ready to send it, click the blue SHARE button (upper right side of your google doc), and scroll down to "email as attachment". A little window pops up.

In the To: section, enter the email address you want to send it to.

Click "Paste the document itself into message".

You can type in a subject and extra message, or leave it blank.

Click CC me if you want a copy sent to yourself.

Click SEND.

You're done.



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