Saving Pages Files

Some teachers and students are having trouble sending the files created with the new version of Pages.  This is giving people trouble, because our mail system doesn't know how to handle this new type of file, and they become corrupted.

There are three ways to solve this.  First and best option would be to use the File menu and Export the document as a Word document.  It will create a file that ends with the DOCX extension.  With this file, a user should be able to open and manipulate the file you created.

The second option would be to use the same File menu and Export the document as a PDF.  By doing this, it makes an image of what the file would look like which becomes very hard to change.  This is good when you don't want people changing your work.

The final option is to compress or "zip" the file.  Holding Control and clicking on the icon of the file will give you the option to compress the file.  The resulting file is a "zip" file that preserves the structure.  Emailing the "zip" file allows the recipient to open the file if they have the same version of Pages that you created it with or a newer one.

Managing Your Quarantine for Junk Mail

Quarantine Summary

Every morning around 11:00 AM, users in the Madawaska schools are sent an email message with a subject line called, "Quarantine Summary."  This message shows all of the email messages that were not sent to your Inbox because they were judged to be junk email (SPAM) on the server.  

The YouTube video on the right shows how to login to your mail account's Message Center to check for undelivered or quarantined mail.

Message Center

 Enter your school email address and password here.

See the YouTube video on the right to see how to access the Message Center in Postini Services (a division of Google) and get the email messages that weren't SPAM delivered to your Inbox.  

Deliver Messages
To deliver the messages you found in the quarantine, select the message using the checkbox on the left side of the message.  Then press the Deliver button on the far right.  The selected message will then appear in your Inbox.

Postini's Junk Mail Quarantine.

Approve Senders

When you approve a message to be delivered, immediately after you press the Deliver button, you will go to a screen that tells you that the message was delivered.  It then gives you a checkbox asking if you would like to approve the sender so that the messages from that person don't get quarantined again.  

Postini's Approve Senders screen.