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My AOL Today for AOL Communicator

Using My AOL Today Ticker

Viewing and Controlling the Ticker
Customizing the Ticker

Viewing and Controlling the Ticker

AOL Communicator Ticker gives you another way to monitor news and information you care about. It provides a continuous stream of up-to-date information across the top of your screen, including customized headlines, stock quotes, and weather.

The headlines streamed by the Ticker are based on the My AOL preferences for the screen name listed under AOL Synchronization Settings in AOL Communicator Address Book.

If you're not already viewing the Ticker, open the Window menu in any AOL Communicator application and choose My AOL Today Ticker.

Ticker tips:

- Move your pointer over a Ticker item to pause the streaming and display a tooltip summarizing the item.
- Click a Ticker item to open a Details Window with complete information.
- To the right of the streaming headlines are two arrow key buttons. Click the right button to move to the end of the currently displayed topic section, or click the left button to move to the beginning.
- Click the pause button to pause the headlines midstream. When the headlines are paused, the pause button becomes a start button. Click the start button to resume streaming.
- The icons to the right of the arrow keys are just like the taskbar icons in any other AOL Communicator application. Click them to move from one application to another.

To change Ticker settings: Click the checkbox button near the right side of the Ticker and choose the appropriate menu item:

- Choose Customize Ticker to select which categories of customized information the Ticker streams across the top of your screen and to edit your My AOL settings for each category.
- If Always on Top has a checkbox beside it, the Ticker is always visible on top of all other applications. Select Always on Top to toggle this option off or on.
- The Scroll settings control how quickly the Ticker scrolls headlines across your screen.

Related topic:

You can use Launch Options to open the Ticker automatically every time you launch AOL Communicator: see AOL Communicator Launch Options.

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Customizing the Ticker

There are two ways to customize the content displayed by My AOL Today Ticker:

- Select My AOL categories to be displayed (affects the Ticker only)
- Customize your My AOL content settings (no matter where you sign on)

If you're not already viewing the Customize My AOL Today Ticker window, click the checkbox button near the right side of the Ticker and choose Customize Ticker.

The window has two sections:

Customize Ticker

This part of the window lets you select the categories of information from your My AOL web page that the Ticker will include in its scrolling headlines.

Categories with checkmarks beside them will be displayed. Click the plus sign beside each category to see its subcategories. Click a checkbox to select or deselect it.

The types of headlines displayed within each category are determined by your corresponding My AOL settings.

My AOL Ticker Content

Click Customize Content to edit your My AOL settings for News, Portfolio, Weather, Sports Scores, or Horoscopes.

The Customize My AOL Today Content window opens to Customize News. You can select different categories from the drop-down list at the top of the window.

Related topic:

Customizing My AOL Content

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Last Updated September 16, 2003