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Karen
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09-07-2004

Monday, July 09, 2007 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
OK... another dumb question...

I bought a new computer today. I'm up and running far enough to get here and start playing with personal settings, etc. Haven't quite started copying yet from the old machine to this sweet, beautiful machine.

They said at the store to create a 'recovery disk' first and foremost. NO IDEA how to go about that. Can anyone help? It's running on Vista. Thanks!!

Karen
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09-07-2004

Monday, July 09, 2007 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
...never mind... I found it... :-)

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 12:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Every now and then I get an e-mail from someone where I am obviously in a group e-mail in their address book. If I click on the group/recipient name, I can't see who all is in the group, nor their e-mail addresses. That's fine and dandy by me, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to re-create that feature in my own address book.

I use Outlook (not Express, the full blown Outlook. I love having calendar feature). I can create groups, but when I send the group e-mail the recipient still sees all the people the e-mail went to, and their e-mail addys.

What am I doing wrong? Or is this just not available in Outlook? Currently the only thing I think I can do is use the BCC field. But I just wonder how the folks I get e-mails from are doing it.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Whomum, sorry I can't help you with your question but just have to say that I really, really dislike being put on those group email lists.

Also, I don't remember how I managed to do this but once was able to see the other recipients from an AOL group email list.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 7:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Who I think that feature works with BCC in Outlook. I have no idea how to use that in Yahoo though.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 7:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Who I am not sure how to do it as "undisclosed recipients" but you can put your email address in the TO box and then put your group list in the Bcc or blind copy box. Then just delete the email that comes to you. All the group will see is your email address, which they would see anyway.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Thanks for providing the term "undisclosed recipients" Serate! That actually helped. I was Googling all kinds of things like "privacy" and stuff to no avail. Once I had the term I Googled it with +Outlook and got an answer.

Its basically what I've been doing, but just providing a visible line in the "To" box. You create a "new contact" and name it "undisclosed recipients" and type in your e-mail address. Then when you send a group e-mail, you put the "undisclosed recipients" contact in the "to" box, and then bcc the rest of the group.

Rosie, I know what you mean about getting put on group e-mail lists. I only create groups if all recipients agree to be in the group. And I'm hoping to set up a group for each football pool game I run this year (TVCH and maybe up to four drum corps boards that will compete against each other). But I wanted a way to e-mail the groups (so I'm not staying up all night doing individual e-mails) without compromising the individual's privacy.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
That is cool, Whomum.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Thanks for posting what you found Who. That would work with any type of email. Never even thought of making a contact, just put my own email address in. I have people that are divorced, yet I want to send them both pics of kids, kitties, hubby's work stuff, etc. They both know I talk to the other one but neither has the other's email addy. This will work great.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 10:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
For e-mail clients that don't have a bcc: feature, such as my Juno account, you use the cc: box and put all of the addressees inside one set of parentheses.

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
for my Yahoo, Gmail, GroupWise & Outlook accounts, i put everybody (in a group or not) in the bcc and my addy in the To spot. only way i know to make it work where others cannot see them.

Giz
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08-21-2005

Friday, August 24, 2007 - 9:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Giz a private message Print Post    
This probably isn't the right place but I need help for a 65th birthday present for my mom. I would like to get her a flat screen HDTV but do not know anything about them. Plasma/LCD, Plasma etc... Whatever happened to just buying a tv without having to study LOL! Can anyone help me?

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL Giz, I know what you mean. You should also post in General Discussions, Buyers Banter.

First you have to figure out what the terms mean, I always thought the ones that went on the wall were plasma, but it turns out they can just be a flat screen. So we figured out that the plasma wasn't going to work and the flat screen can either sit on a table/console or be put on the wall. My sister just bought one and we just went to Best Buy and looked at the different sizes and costs, then she did a little research on the internet. She wasn't concerned about the HG part, so don't know how to decide what is correct in that area.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
somehow a double post!

Giz
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08-21-2005

Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 8:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Giz a private message Print Post    
Thanks Dipo! I will do as you and your sister did, go to Best Buy and then research LOL! I will make print outs and take them to Best Buy for them to answer my questions. I just hope they understand I don't understand tv talk just like I don't understand computer talk LOL! Oh I will get my moneys worth just by driving them crazy with my questions LOL!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Going to Best Buy and talking to the clerks sounds like a good idea.

And hey! I gust Googled "how to buy big screen tv". all kinds of helpful looking stuff came up, like an article in PCWorld. Go read some of that stuff, and you will know more when you go to Best Buy.

Giz
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08-21-2005

Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 9:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Giz a private message Print Post    
Awesome Juju! Thanks a bunch!

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 7:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
How do I get to the Bachelor? I know there is a thread but I only reached it by going to the "recent posts". It used to be listed. Thank you.

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
dogdoc, go to the top of this page and click on the Topics link. that will give you an index of this entire board. then scroll down to The Bachelor link and drill down into the thread you are looking to find.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Here ya go, Doc!

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Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 7:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
LOL, Cnd you are too fast!

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 7:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
jinx! you owe me a Coke, but please make it a caffeine free Diet Coke.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
A coke for each of you. Thank you.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 9:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I have two questions. One for those with internet through Comcast, and one for those who don't have Microsoft Office but need to read Office generated data.

I'll go with the Microsoft part first. Is there a way for someone to read an Excel worksheet without having Excel? I think I read something about Microsoft Works allowing read-only capabilities, but I'm assuming that software that comes with new computers, and/or you have to buy. Is there a free program out there that will enable someone to open/read Excel (Word would be good too), when they don't have Excel?

Next question. I have Comcast high speed internet. I have personal web space available to me. But I don't know how to build a web page. And their templates (from what I've managed to experiment around with) are useless to me. Is there a way for me to post an Excel chart on a Comcast web page? I've done the upload file thing, and that works for most. Except of course, for those who don't have Excel. If there was a way to post a table on the web page, that they can open as a web page, instead of downloading the file I post on my webspace, I think it would work better.

The reason I ask. I run the Football Pool game on two other message boards, but their format is not set up to post tables. So I am posting the results chart on my personal web space. But I have one player who can't open the chart cause he doesn't have Excel.

Can anyone offer a solution?

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 10:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
can you post pictures on your other boards who?