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Hi Again Smash, I appreciate the direction. That's what I have been looking for, good direction. I have emailed a gentleman named Nigel on the site you referred me to. At least I know the name of the type of application I am looking for now. I didn't know I was looking for a mailing list...

Hi again Smash, Well I guess I could see your point, but again I listed an example at the beginning that should serve as an example of what it is that I am trying to accomplish. NO, the vendor would not be interested in doing any of my work, but hey it certainly was worth a mention. Primarily...

Hi Smash, I am unclear how this couild involve spam related issues, I presume you arespeaking of those folks that intend on doing things wrong. Of course, that is not my intention. You cannot keep knowledge from the wicked, the wicked jut do evil things, even with good. My intention is very...

Dear Sirs, Will macros in Outlook allow responses to be generated to an email adress found in the body of text within the email? GBS

I asked this same identical question, last year DEC 28, 2004 and I got the same response: nada. Does anyone have any idea where I might go for the answer? GBS

Dear Sirs, I have a question that perhaps one of you can help me with, or possibly send me in the right direction. Right now I am using OE for sending and receiving email. I would like to be able to make a rule that allows a response to be generated each time an aemail is received. The only...

Hi, I am not sure if I am in the right forum for my question. If I am not, I am sure one of you will gladly point me in the right direction. I am so thankful for tek-tips and all of you that participate on this site. Here is my problem: Currently in our office we use outlook express to send...

Dear Sirs, I have a machine with OE that seems to have lost its spell check....any remedy? gbs

Dear Sirs, I have a machine with OE that seems to have lost its spell check....any remedy? gbs

michbar in group 68 suggested the fix to this as follows: This is a known bug with Word 97. It was fixed in Word 97 SR2. You can download Word 97 SR2 from Microsoft. Microsoft KB article 174304 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;... I downloaded the patch, guess what?!? IT...

I downloaded the patch and................ PROBLEM SOLVED. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH michbar, and the rest for all of your help...... gbs

Tony, I may just have to give up and rebuild my doucmets...but as you supposed their are graphics invloved nad there are several hundred of them. They are "proposals"... gbs

Thanks for all of the comments. Ok I did try re-saving the documents, using save-as. I still get the same effect. Also the file attribute "read-only" is not checked. I am still unclear what caused this problem... When i first had a problem on the old machine, I saved al of the docuemnts and...

Tony, Wow, it seems I have found a problem with no answer, thats unusual on here. No, there are no temp files in the same folder. And an exhaustive search shows no temp .doc files on the computer anywhere. Does this have anything to do with the fact that word was installed on one computer...

Dear Sirs, I a using Microsoft Word 97. When I open a file, a dialog box pops up that reads: C:\...\xyzfile.doc is being used by joe smith. Do you want to make a copy? *xyzfile.doc has been used as an example **joe smith is a fictious name used as an example. This seems to have happened...