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What's the difference between an Inserted attachment and an un-Inserted attachment? Find out what happens when attachments are inserted into the text of your message.
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Today we're going to have a look at exactly what are inserted attachments.
They can be a bit confusing when we first encounter them, so hopefully we'll clear that up.
So here I've started a message, a new topic, I've entered a subject line, I've written six paragraphs or six lines of text, and it's attachment time.
So let's just attach some files in the normal way.
So I'll go down here to the attachment bar, single left click, I'll select these three - one, two, three - open them up, they load up.
OK, now at this point, if I save the message, those files will be attached.
I'll do that.
So there they are, we have our six lines of text, this faint grey line signifying that's the end of the message, and then at the end we have our three attachments, one, two, three.
Now if I go down to the More button here and click on Modify, we open up our message again, and let's say I want to insert the images amongst the text.
So I go up here to the end of line two, put the cursor there, hit Enter, say three times to create a bit of space, put the cursor in the middle, hover over the blue arrow here on the particular image, and we see Insert come up.
So single left click on that, gives us an option to enter dimensions. We'll just leave those blank and it'll insert the photo at the default size.
So I click Insert and we see this line of BB code appear.
Now if you have your WYSIWYG editor toggled on, this is the WYSIWYG button up here, so I'll single left click on that, then we see the image displayed as it will appear.
So there's our first two lines of text, the image, and our last four lines of text.
So we'll turn it off again because it gives us a good view of what's going on.
Now what's happened here is the insertion process has just put in this line of code - it's just a line of Bulletin Board code, BB code.
That consists of two tags, an opening tag and a closing tag, each of them between square brackets.
This one just says, to attach this attachment number, blah, with this file name, and then that's the end of the attaching command.
Now I'll do another one, so we go down to the next one, we'll put the cursor there, go down to the second image, Insert, and there it is.
Now we'll save this and have a look at it.
So we've got two inserted images, 1, 2, 13 and 14 are inserted, and 15 isn't.
So here's our two lines of text, here's our image, and now if we hover over it we see Douglas number 13 comes up.
We've got two more lines of text, and we hover over this image, Douglas number 14 comes up, then two more lines of text, the grey line signifying the end of our post, and then the one remaining file that was unattached is displayed at the bottom as normal.
So I'll go back in so we can summarize it.
Now if you want more room you can pull this down, and if you really want a lot of room you can click on this, and you'll get a full screen display and you can toggle on your WYSIWYG, see your images, see the text, you can edit it here, but you can't post from this window, you see the posting controls aren't there, it's just an expanded editing window.
So we'll bring that down and we'll toggle the WYSIWYG off.
The three attachments are all attached, that's essential for the process.
And then, as an add-on option, we've inserted these first two, 1, 2.
Now we can take them out just the same as we put them in there, Ctrl-X to cut, Ctrl-X to cut, save them, and they're gone.
Oh, there's one thing I forgot to show you, that's the Preview. So we'll just go back in, Modify, we've probably got one on the clipboard still, so we'll just paste that back there.
Now if I Preview, we've got one inserted image and two uninserted.
If I preview, the inserted image displays and the uninserted images don't.
So that's another difference between inserted and uninserted images.
So on its own, that's quite a good feature.
So there you have it, I hope that's clarified things a little bit.
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