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Here's a question you may have had sometime:
Q. I'm signed onto a Yahoo! discussion group as a "digest" subscriber, but have decided that it'd be easier to follow the various threads if I were on the individual e-mail distributions. How do I change that?
A. Sign in on the main group page. Once you are signed in and are on the main group page again, look in the upper right for a link that says "Edit My Membership."
Click on that, and you will see a page with all your choices.
Scroll down to message delivery, and you can choose how you want messages sent to you.
You can also change the e-mail address that the messages are sent to and the e-mail format on that page.
Of all the people that were killed building the
Hover dam, the, first and last persons killed were J.G. and P. W.
Tierney father and son.
Q. Can you tell me how to transfer files from an old computer to a new one?
Dee Phillips
A. Hello Dee,
I assume you are using Windows PCs. If all your files are not in the My Documents folder, you will have to search for them. (If they are all in the My Documents folder, you are home free. Skip down to #8.)
1. I have found one of the easiest ways to find out where they are located is to open one of the files by starting the program and opening one of the last ones you worked with.
2. Then click "File", then "Save as" and see where they are located by clicking on the drop down window on the top of the window that opens up.
3. Once you have found the folder where they are located, you can go to that folder by double clicking on "My Computer", then "C:" then drill down in that window by double clicking on the folders to open them up. You can see what folders to double click on in the drop down list you have already open in the program in #2 above.
4. Once you see the files you are looking for, highlight the ones you want to save by holding down the "Ctrl" key while clicking on them. (Or, if there's a long list, click the top file, hold "Shift" and click the last one to highlight everything between them.)
5. Go up to the "Edit" menu, Click "Copy."
6. Then double click My Documents to open the My Documents folder, click "Edit", then "Paste" to put the files into it.
7. If you need to, you can right click in the My Documents window, drop down t0 "New", then "Folder" to create new folders there. That way you can separate the files, so they will be more organized. You will have to name the new folders, then double click them to open them and paste or drag the files in. (Hope I'm not getting too detailed, I don't know how much you know!)
8. Once you get all the files into the My Documents folder that you want to transfer, save the files in the My Documents folder by burning them an a CD (preferable, if you can do this) or putting them on floppies. Hopefully you know how to do this already. You may have to use more than one CD or several floppies to save it all, depending on how many files you have and how big they are.
9. Then you can install them into the new computer into the My Documents folder by putting each of your CDs or Floppies into the computer, and let the computer open it to see the contents.
10. If it doesn't open it automatically, double click on "My Computer", then double click the drive that has the CD or floppy (Usually it's D: for a CD, and A: for a floppy, it should tell you to the right of the drive what it is and that there is something in it).
11. When the window opens up and you see your files, go to "Edit" then "Select All" to highlight everything, then "Copy"
12. Now double click the My Documents folder to open it, click "Edit", then "Paste" and your files should start to show up in the folder. This may take some time if you have a lot of files.
From there on out, I suggest you ALWAYS save into the My Documents folder so you can make back-ups easily if you aren't already doing it. That way you know where everything important to you is located. :-D
That is the easiest way I know. You will have to install the programs that use those files on the new computer so you can open them, if they aren't already there.
You should save your files very often (at least once a week, preferably more often) onto CD's or floppies or whatever you have as a backup in case the hard drive quits suddenly (I have had this happen) or you get a virus that corrupts the files. If you do that, it's simple to reinstall them or transfer them to other computers.
I hope this has helped some of you to cope a little better with all this newfangled tech stuff.
To finish up, I am curious as to how many of you have experienced this:
You go to a website and really want to read an article or some information. The text is a little small, so you go to the top of your browser, click on view, then down to text size and try a larger size. Arrrggghhh, the text is the same size!! It never changes!! The webmaster has decreed that you will have to put on glasses or get out a magnifying glass to read on their website. Or, that you will just have to give up and leave.
I think we should all e-mail each webmaster that builds a website like this complaining about it. It is a simple matter for them to allow you to resize the text, and they are showing you that their layout is more important to them than you being able to access their content. If they don't know how to do it, maybe they will learn how and we will all be happier.
Whew, now I feet better getting that off my chest!
Thanks for reading, see ya next issue!