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I don’t have 2002 yet. I am ordering my new machine within the week. I was just hoping that there might be some way to so what lightning did for me. What a great little program that is. Too bad it is no longer being supported. It even had something as “stupid” (but so useful) as a continual calendar. If you wanted to count 17 weeks from Thursday you could just hit Shift+UpArrow and count. It was aptly named Lightning.

I have decided to make a 2nd contact for those with shortcuts that I will use for mail merge and add my shortcut to the name field and work with that saving the 2nd just for the mail merge. A work around but still doable.

Thanks for your and for everyone else’s help.

Thanks – but that is more work than going through the contacts themselves. I really like the shortcuts that I have created. I think that I will just put the shortcuts in the name field and the Name in the Company Field and use Find as it stands. Most of the things I have shortcuts for I would never use in a mail merge, so it won’t be that terrible. I just want my Lightning for 2002

Already tried it. No luck. Also, it does so much more than I need. I really wanted to keep this as small as possible. We run AutoCAD Architectural Desktop 2002 on this machine and it is very quirky. It barely liked Lightning. I think that something as large as OutlookCRM would probably give Desktop a case of the heebee jeebies.

I dio not have a URL:MailTo Protocol.

I just looked at it now and the options do not help me. I have set my e-mail program (First Class Client by Centrinity http://www.centrinity.com) manually as the default e-mail server but sometimes, when I click on a mail link in IE it directs me to Hotmail and sometimes it directs me to Outlook Express. Under Tools-> … etc. It lists Hotmail first. So I would understand that. But why it sends me, on occasion, to Outlook Express, is beyond me. It’s not a big deal. I just cut and paste the e-mail address into my program, but I was just wondering.

Thanks – I’ll try it. (Actually when my friend gets home tonight I’ll get him to try it – I am deadly and have sworn off messing with the registry). I had already done what the previous poster had recommended.

Gosh Jim –
When I sent you here I really thought you would get a response! I guess that my work around about not using the wizard and using normal page set-up to the size of your envelopes and text boxes is the way to go.

It actually is not too complicated when you think about it. You could create a document template for different size envelopes with your return address in an appropriately placed text box and a blank text box for the address. To add a delivery point barcode just use the field command as the first line of the address text box.

By using it this way you can add a logo or fancy lettering (or a clipart bicycle helmet ) or the like to your return address. You can not do that with the wizard

Since you are new to word… There are plenty of ways other than hitting “enter” to add space. Where are you looking to add space? Are you looking to add space between paragraphs? There is a wonderful tool in Word that is “Format Paragraph.” Either go to Format and then to Paragraph or just right click anywhere in the paragraph and play a bit with the dialog box that comes up. Lots of neat stuff you can do with the dialog box that comes up. There is even a preview pane so you can see what you are doing. And while you’re playing, go to Format Font, or right click and go to Font or highlight some text and hit Control+D and play a bit with that dialog box. Word is a fun program (at least I think it’s fun). Enjoy your exploration. I believe that the best way to learn a program is to play with it. Make a play document (one that you care not about – one that you can run amok with). Then right click everywhere and just see what happens when you do stuff. Neat – real neat.

Thanks you, thank you, thank you! I already have it as a separate page as it was easiest to access it that way. Now all I have to do is use the include command and voila. I have to play with this program a bit more. (god forbid I should RTFM!

I just found Cascading Style Sheets. I feel like such a dummy for not having found them before – I use my own styles all the time in MSWord. l should have figured that they were in Front Page as well. I just never checked.

Thanks again,

Auto Text does not only have to be text! For one of the offices in which I spend some time we have an entry that contains a .gif file. It is a signature block with the .gif (scanned) signature sitting on a drawn line (they are grouped), with the printed name underneath that and then the name and business information under that. Works really well in faxes that go right out from the computer. Of course the .gif can be lifted from the faxed file but this is possible with hand signed faxes also. We have found that this works best when the print is in text boxes so we can line it all up exactly and then group the whole thing. We then highlighted it and clicked on new auto text and voila. NEAT!
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I figured it was on my end.

I am on with a cable modem (currently running at 1.1 megabits per second as per http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/results.html) and am using IE 6.0 with my resolution set at 1024×76 on a 2.5 year old Pentium III 650 mhz running Win98 SE with 256 K RAM and a 64 MG ATI Rage Fury MAXX video card.

I have had no problems with any other site I have tried, but that doesn’t mean, as you know, that the problem is NOT with me. Chances are it is. And now, at least I know how to get in.

The only other thing I thought it might be was ZoneAlarmPro (version 2.6.231) as the ISP guy commented that I was using a firewall (I guess he couldn’t ping me or whatever). But I tried with that turned off (and rebooted with it disabled) and still no luck.

So I am pretty sure it is my ISP, Optimum Online.

BTW – Thanks for the site. There are lots of neat things there.
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Well I finally got in.

But I had to do it via the backdoor. I called my ISP and the guy I spoke to first had trouble also. He finally got through after about 60 secs. wait. Then he gave me the numerical address to see if I could access that. No luck. Got the same message.
Then the ISP guy asked me to try http://www.mercury.org.uk/merfree.htm. It was slow – really slow, but I finally got there.
So I figured, well, now let me try again. So I closed out my browser and reloaded it with the http://www.mercury.org.uk/ address. Same “page can not be displayed”. The ISP guy and I were both dismayed (me more than he as I wanted to get to this site!).

Then, I figured, let me be weird (many who know me will tell you that is not a difficult thing for me to do – some might even say it is my normal state of being – but I guess that belongs in scuttlebutt). So I went to http://www.mercury.org.uk/merfree.htm and got it. I then used the “UP” icon on my Google toolbar and I got it!!! Hooray. I then closed the browser, reopened it and tried again. No luck. I can only seem to get into it by backing up (Hey – no comments – I’m a shrink!)

So, I’m in. But via Google’s back door. Whether Optimum Online (my ISP) cares at all is up for debate. But now I can go there from here. It is just that I have to do it _ss backwards.

Thanks for the site. I will have fun seeing all that is there. (And I love these smilie things. I need them tonight – I just got back from a lecture on
Repetition and Creation: The Analytical Act and Transmission in Psychoanalysis
and I need to be silly.

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I just tried again. No luck. I have never had any problems accessing any other site before (that others have been able to access). I will try again later and if I am not successful I will contact my ISP, Cablevision’s Optimum Online and see what’s up.

I have been unable to access your site since yesterday (That is yesterday NY time .)
The site that is linked through your signature,
http://www.mercury.org.uk/
gives me a
Cannot find server
This page cannot be displayed

Yes, it does help a lot. Thanks for your reply. Now I have to get about to doing this.
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