Dear Friends Various members are facing problem in sending mails with attachments, others feel uncomfortable with new methods. To maintain high level of activity members are requested to use any method convenient to them:
1. Those who want to retain older method are requested to attach a photograph of roughly 60-70 KB with first mail, a photograph which represents the plant best. You can attach more photographs in subsequent mails in the same thread. 2. Write details in the mail but instead of attachments give links to your albums such as Picasa, Flicker, etc. 3. Use Google docs (link https://docs.google.com/ #home<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. For other mails drop prefixing "Convolvulaceae Week" 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 ( indiantreepix@ ooglegroups.com <[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. *Those working within a web mail can simply copy the whole content of doc. using ctrl + A and then ctrl + C. Next go to webmail (say Gmail), click compose button, enter email ID of the Group under To window, enter subject line in subject window, next click inside body of the text window and paste copied contents (ctrl + V). Send the mail. Your paste will appear similar to above option.* 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. . Preparing Google docs and sending these as email attachments (this makes the mail much compact with just 1-2 kb attachment link. This needs a single click to show all photographs from the original page of the member) or share doc with the option of pasting photographs in the mail (agreed this looks slightly lengthy process, but after you have sent a few such docs to the group, you will find just a routine normal process. Although mail becomes longer and reader has to scroll down in the mail, but it saves the botheration of clicking each link or thumbnail to see each photograph. I find mail looking very impressive with embedded photographs. I wish more and more members find it a convenient method to use. * * -- 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/
