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Hi Diane these are all great tips and should be helpful. Rolling your pointer a bit so youre using the side of your finger helps and for me leaning my middle into the pointer adds more pressure on the strings and helps with that muting. I just want to add dont sweat that old f chord too much tho. Its a challenge for many players especially at the beginning and of all the open ‘country’ chords its probably the toughest becasue of of that mini barre. Ive been playing for many years, know a lot of songs, post regularly on play forum and last year started busking. My point….when Im playing a song rarely do a play a perfect f, either open or barred. Its usually that damn c note (first fret b string) that gets muted or muffled. Thing is…noone usually notices, and if they do, Im already on to the next chord,Im not sitting on that f for too long. And if its just one muted string, it still sounds like an F, it still works. So keep on working at it, as will I. Its in a lot of songs so need to have it. But dont sweat it if its not always as clear as youd like. Remember learning guitar is a long game…but will time and lots of repetition it gets better. In the meantime dont let perfect get in the way of good. Be easy on yourself and enjoy the journey. Rock on sister