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Young Simmo

Young Simmo

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OK, I progressed up to Windows 8, from Windows 7 about 6 months ago and have most of the things I need, sussed out.:)
However this may sound like a dumb question, but what is the easiest cheapest way to put Spell Check into Word Pad?:confused:
I didn't like the Windows 8 E-mail program my mate uses,:mad: so I installed Windows live Mail which I used in Windows 7.:D I can receive e-mails with heaps of photos and pics no worries but, when I send an e-mail with a pic I get a message saying the e-mail will go through but with no pictures.
Help, my 75 year old brain is getting a bit slower.:eek:
 
Download and use either Open office or libre office, both are free and offer spell check.

As far as live mail goes, its probably an email setting blocking the pictures. Are you attaching the pics or embedding them?
 
Thanks johnb35, actually it is photos I have pasted into the main body of the e-mail.
Now another annoying problem which goes like this.
We now have 2 Desktops, Windows 7 for my wife and Windows 8 for myself. I can move a document or photo on Windows 7 to a memory stick, and then when I try to install it onto my Windows 8 I get a million letters, numbers and dots and commas ect. Not the image or info I originaly put onto the memory stick. HELP.
 
Is the image opening in an image viewer like Picture Viewer? It sounds like it's opening in Notepad.
 
Yeah, sounds like the default program to open pictures is set wrong. Go into control panel and click on default programs. Set windows photo viewer to open all photo types.
 
Hello John, I am still having trouble. I have windows 8, and am using Windows Live Mail as it was easy on windows 7.
Can you give it to me in Kindergarten language, as I couldn't find default programs and went into "Programs, uninstall a program" and got lost.
I can receive an e-mail with a dozen or so photos, but can't seem to send the same e-mail on, or at least get the message saying the photos won't be included.
Cheers.
 
Young Simmo said:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/w...s-uses-default

I put that link in twice and got.


Oops! This link appears to be broken.

Did you mean: microsoft.*com
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Link works fine for me.

Microsoft said:
Choose the apps Windows uses by default
Applies to Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1

A default app is the program that Windows uses automatically when you open a particular type of file, such as a song, movie, photo, or webpage.

For example, you might have more than one photo-editing app installed on your PC. You can choose one of them to be the default app that starts whenever you open a photo.
To open the defaults page

Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings, and then tap Change PC settings.
(If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, click Settings, and then click Change PC settings.)

Tap or click Search and apps, and then tap or click Defaults.
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