Department of Politics

Important: Although regular e-mail is suitable for correspondence and informal submissions to your professors, formal papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments to preserve your word processor's formatting.

Whenever you are submitting assignment electronically, you should

1. Retain electronic copies of your work in at least two separate places, e.g., on your hard drive and a portable diskette or CD.

2. Use the feature on your e-mail program that requests notification when the e-mail is delivered.

3. Send a copy of the e-mail to yourself, and check immediately to see that the attachment was transmitted properly and that it is the attachment you meant to send.

Using Outlook:

1. Complete your work as you ordinarily would using your word processing software. If you are already working in WordPerfect® or Word®, save your work as you ordinarily would. If saved in WordPerfect, be sure your filename ends with .wpd. If saved in Word, be sure your filename ends with .doc. If working in Microsoft Works®, please save your file at Rich Text Format, and be sure your filename ends with .rtf. Save the final version to your hard drive or to a diskette.

2. Open Outlook and display the Inbox.

3. Click on the New Mail Message icon in the button bar.

4. Address your e-mail appropriately.

5. Place your cursor in the body of the message, and select Insert | File from the pull-down menu.

6. Use the tools in the Insert File dialogue box to find the file you saved in step #1. Highlight the file name and click Insert. A file icon and file name will appear in your message.

7. Click Send.

Using Netscape:

1. Complete your work as you ordinarily would using your word processing software. If you are already working in WordPerfect® or Word®, save your work as you ordinarily would. If saved in WordPerfect, be sure your filename ends with .wpd. If saved in Word, be sure your filename ends with .doc. If working in Microsoft Works®, please save your file at Rich Text Format, and be sure your filename ends with .rtf. Save the final version to your hard drive or to a diskette.
   
2. Open Netscape and display the Inbox.
   
3. Click on the New Msg icon in the button bar.
   
4. Address your e-mail appropriately.
   
5. Place your cursor in the body of the message, and select File | Attach File from the pull-down menu.
   
6. Use the tools in the Enter File to Attach dialogue box to find the file you saved in step #1. Highlight the file name and click Open. A file icon and file name will appear in your message.
   
7. Click Send.

Using Outlook Web Access:

1. Complete your work as you ordinarily would using your word processing software. If you are already working in WordPerfect® or Word®, save your work as you ordinarily would. If saved in WordPerfect, be sure your filename ends with .wpd. If saved in Word, be sure your filename ends with .doc. If working in Microsoft Works®, please save your file at Rich Text Format, and be sure your filename ends with .rtf. Save the final version to your hard drive or to a diskette.
   
2. Go to the Outlook Web Access page at https://mymail.cornellcollege.edu/exchange/. Log on and go to your Inbox.
   
3. Click on the New Message Compose icon in the button bar.
   
4. Address your e-mail appropriately.
   
5. Click on the Attachments Tab.
   
6. Click on the Browse button to locate the file you saved in step #1.
   
7. When the File Upload window opens, the file type specified will be HTML. Your file is not HTML. You will need to select All Files from the pull-down list in the Files of Type window. Highlight the file name and click Open. The full path and file name will appear in the window next to the Browse button.
   
8. Click the Add Attachment Now button, and your file name will appear in the space below the Add Attachment Now button. Do not check the box next to your file name as that will delete the attachment.
   
9. Click the Send icon.