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MAIL ESSENTIALS 2000 SERVICE PACK 1 AVAILABLE |
Service Pack 1 has been released for Mail Essentials 2000. This version includes a number of fixes. Please contact Centreline 2000 for details on upgrading your system.
Also available is Mail Essentials 5. This is the NT version of Mail Essentials and has had many of the MES 2000 features moved over to older NT version. Useful if you have no W2K systems installed.
See http://www.c2000.com/products for more information
ZETAFAX V7 SERVICE PACK 2 AVAILABLE |
As you might expect from a SP2 release fixes are now fairly esotoric but do cover the full range of server and client software. We do recommend that you keep up to date with Zetafax service packs - if you need more information please contact us.
See http://www.c2000.com/products for more information
CREATING MULTI-PAGE TEMPLATES IN WORD |
I use a number of templates for letters, memos, faxes etc, I guess a lot of people do. But what about templates for documents that *might* be more than one page long - you probably want different headers and footers on the first page compared to the following page.
Well, create you template (or edit it) in the usual way, setup your first page. Then create the second page by pressing Ctrl-Enter at the end of the first page (Ctrl-Enter gives you a forced page break).
Now goto File, Page Setup. On the layout tab tick the checkbox marked "Different First Page".
Now you can goto Header/Footer view and enter different headings on the first and second pages. The second page header is carried on through any remaining pages.
That's fine, but what about your single page document? Well, staying in the template you now need to delete the page break. The template is left with only one page, but the headings for the second page are still remembered.
You might want to leave yourself a reminder about how to get to them in case you ever edit the template again though.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
TURN ON THAT PREVIEW PANE NOW! |
What Microsoft like to demonstrate is the "AutoPreview" option in Outlook, which shows you the first couple of lines in your mail messages, but I think that really misses the best feature which is the Preview Pane - so many users I talk to are quite unaware of this feature.
Turn it on from the View Menu - select Preview Pane. A window appears below your message list. This windows shows you the contents of each message and since many messages are quite short you can often read the whole message in one go.
You can also use the spacebar to move through all your unread messages, just hit space to move to the next message.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
TILING WINDOWS |
Here's an interesting little snippet. You may have noticed that if you click on the taskbar you can select Tile Horizontal or Tile Vertical, which layout all your open windows tiled across the screen.
But what if you only want to tile a couple of windows? Control click on each window you want to tile in the taskbar, then do the right click, tile option.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
DOWNLOADING POP3 MAIL TO EXCHANGE |
This is getting to be a very frequent problem for admins these days, as more and more users have their own "personal" email accounts that they want to run alongside their "business" accounts.
However, Exchange does not have a POP3 connector - it can only handle SMTP mail connections so you need a third party product.
We recommend GFI Mail Essentials for this. Though there are other products on the market the big plus with Mail Essentials is you get POP3 downloading AND mail protection as well. Mail Essentials for example stops the recent SirCam virus dead in its tracks.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
COVER SHEETS FOR REPORTS |
For more formal reports, rather than your work-a-day type reports it's nice to have a cover sheet for the report. Now most folks do this bit in Word then join the two together afterwards but here's a neat trick for doing it within Access.
Use the Access Report Header section - which can be any size you like, create your cover sheet using the normal Access tools, then in properties make sure the section has "Force New Page" set to "After Section".
This means Access prints the cover page, then goes to a new page before starting the report proper.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
AUTOMATICALLY STARTING UNIPLEX AT LOGIN |
Whenever a user logs in, the login process will look for a file called ".profile" in the users home directory. This file is run as a series of shell statements (in fact it's treated as a regular shell script). So anything you typed at a "#" prompt, you can enter in this file.
You can use Uniplex to edit the file, but it won't automatically show up in directory listings because the "." at the beginning of the file hides it from normal view.
Usually you need to goto the end of the .profile file, make sure everything else in the file is processed before Uniplex starts.
If you enter just:
uniplex
as the last line, then when the user logins in Uniplex is started and when they quit Uniplex they get a # prompt.
If you enter
exec uniplex
then when they quit Uniplex they will be logged out as well.
See http://www.c2000.com/uniplex for more information
10 WAYS TO TRIPLE WEB PAGE REPONSES |
1) Write your headline to meet your customers point of view, not yours.
2) Use those magic words "You", "New" and "How To" in the headline.
3) Make your opening sentence continue from your headline.
4) Tell your whole story in the first paragraph.
5) Use very specific (and true) testimonials and customer quotes.
6) Use detailed, accurate and convincing case studies.
7) Offer a powerful guarantee and make sure the reader knows about it.
8) Talk about benefits, not features.
9) Edit your copy ruthlessly.
10) Offer one or more free bonuses so it easier to say Yes than No.
How do we do? Badly!! We are techies, so we're not very good on the sales pitches. We do like to tell it like it is - we're desparately honest about things. Of course, being techies, we always talk about features, not benefits.
This newsletter goes out to just short of 10,000 readers each issue, while we know a lot of people hang on to it for its content we never seem to get the sales response we ought to from mailings that size!
Still, I guess you actually want the information, rather than the sales pitch, so we're not going to change. But if you'd like to buy something, then please call!
WANT SOME TECHNO-GEEK WALLPAPER? |
Try http://www.cybergeography.com/
They have many visualisations of the Internet. Some are purely artistic, some are desparately scientific, some are techie but attractive.
So techies, get yourself an Internet map for your wallpaper and lose that rather dated x-bitmap of Cindy Crawford circa 1980 once and for all.
See http://www.c2000.com/links for more information
TWO WINDOWS ON ONE IMAGE |
With PaintShop Pro you can open a "New Window" on your current image, this gives you two views which you can zoom independently. This means you can zoom in for close-up work in one window and still the whole picture in another.
You can switch between them at any time and carry on editing in either window.
Use the Window>New Window command to open a new view of an open image.
See http://www.justkiss.com/psp for more information
GOVERNMENT NAMES COUNCILS WITH "UNSATISFACTORY" E-GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS |
The names of the 20 councils which were scored as "unsatisfactory" in the recent review of "Implement Electronic Government" statements have been released this week.
We're not in the game of naming and shaming so we won't repeat them here. Councils will be informed formally this week.
Nearly a third of all councils have also been asked to provide further work, but mostly in the area of costing proposals.
Meanwhile the Treasury is still deciding how to make additional funds available, either through hard cash or credit support. This latter is of course no use to debt-free councils who would rather have the cash.
So, with a bit of shameless plugging, our latest version of Minutes Management is now available, including full support for Committee document creation, including decision notices and so on. The system will also help you meet your e-government targets by automatically publishing council documents direct to your web site - removing a fairly large manual effort on your part.
Documentation and demonstrations available - please call Simon on 01242 25500
See http://www.c2000.com/lgovt for more information
USER SURVEY SHOWS W2K IS VAST IMPROVEMENT |
As Windows XP hits the streets is interesting to look at how system administrators have been viewing what we can call "good ol' Win 2000".
This survey conducted by Sunbelt Software covered more than 1,200 W2K users.
They found that:
9 out of 10 respondents rated W2K Pro reliability as 2 to 10 times better than Win98 or WinNT. We agree with that, it's the first O/S from Microsoft that we consider to be stable.
Though 1% did reckon that performance and reliability had declined - certainly it's true that W2K does look for a better specced system, server performance on a 200Mhz, 256MB RAM system is a bit dire from a users viewpoint. We know 'cos that's our mail server! But, as a mail server without user interaction, it's more than adequate.
Our own experience is that this is a viable server platform, much better than the old NT system. We do have a site where on-going niggles - particularly in the area of printers - are proving difficult to resolve.
You should also be a little careful about full access to drivers for older kit as well. Some scanners and printers we've encountered are not supported on the new platform.
See http://www.c2000.com/papers for more information
GET A DATE QUICKLY |
Want to enter the date in Word, press ALT-SHIFT-D.
Want a date in Access press Ctrl-' (apostrophe) (but only in date fields)
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
TOPIC: AMERICANS WITH PASSPORTS |
Topic: Americans with passports
From: Mitchy
Newsgroups: rec.arts.mystery
In article Sat, 22 Sep 2001 JaneHadd writes:-
> Europeans really, really, really don't understand the size thing.
My definition of the difference between Europeans and Americans:-
Americans think 100 years is a long time
Europeans think 100 miles is a long way.
See http://www.c2000.com/fun for more information
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