Dear members As all of you know, the Convolvulaceae Week scheduled for this week was postponed due to sudden reduction of mail size (incl. attachment) to 100 kb, to find solutions and alternate ways of communicating. After a lot R & D by many of us including Garg ji, Pankaj ji, Balkar ji, Vijayasankar and today hectic trials by mainly Dinesh ji, Surajit ji, Giby ji, Satish ji and myself it has been decided to go ahead with the Comvolvulaceae Week from coming Monday, March 12 to continue up to 18th March. The members are requested to use any of these options as per their convenience, though first option is to be preferred.
1. Members can use Google docs (link https://docs.google.com/#home); you may have to log in to Google to access it. Click on *Create * button on top left (red) and select document. Working as you do in Microsoft word set the page size to A3 and then insert images one after another, taking care that each image as usual should be 800 x 600 (it wont accept image larger than 2000 x 2000 pixels). Please remember to write information about the plant (Botanical name, place, habit, habitat or any other information that you want to share on the top of the page. Please remember to label each picture so that images can be properly documented and discussed. Please remember to click *untitled document* and enter the subject line (for Convolvulaceae members coming week it would be "Convolvulaceae Week: ..............(name of plant) from ...........(place)" or "Convolvulaceae Week: ..........................(Unique ID) for ID from ..............(place)". Save the file. Now you have two options. Choose which ever is convenient to you: A: Preferred option: click *share *(top right blue button) . The first option should be *Private - Only the people listed below can access. *In the Add people window enter email ID of the group ([email protected]), on right side change option can edit to *can view, *Next tick the option *Paste the item itself into the email. * Next click* Share and Save. *This way your images will appear directly in the email. Mail may be longer and members may have to scroll down but they don't have to click a thumbnail to see an image. It will save them a lot of time. B. Alternately simply choose the option of *Email as attachment *from File menu, enter email of the group in next window and send. This way the doc file will be attached at the bottom of email. No thumbnail or image would be visible to the members, but once they click *view* on the attachment whole file with text and will be visible. * Members using this option are requested to write information in the mail body and not in document containing images, so that it is visible to the * * members in the mail **itself.* * * 2. Use the old method but attach only one or two images (total size less than 100 kb), In subsequent mails in the same thread you can add more images. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
