Fretting Hand Technique and Keeping Fingers Straight

This is a 2.05 minute video response from Steve Eulberg on Dec 9th, 2008

Question:

"Art snyder wrote "How do I straighten my fingers when I press all 4 fingers on the low e string...my first finger points too far the the left so that I am fretting it with the outside not front of the finger...are there exercises that would help...Art.""