From: Marcie Boerner [webcal@wccta.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:24 PM
To: gowrie@wccta.net
Subject: Your WCCTA.net eNewsletter March 2009
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E-Mail Scam - Beware Of "Stimulus Payment" IRS
E-Mail Scam Don't believe it if
you get an e-mail that appears to be from the Internal Revenue Service saying
you're due for a stimulus payment. According to the IRS, it's part of the
latest tax-related phishing scam designed to get personal information from
you such as bank account or Social Security numbers. These e-mails, often
bearing the IRS letterhead, tell users they must fill out and submit a form
in order for the stimulus payment to be processed. The message then says to
follow a link to a website or to complete an attached document. Webster-Calhoun Announcements: Billing Insert And Password
Tips Billing Insert Ask The Help Desk - Can I Paste Text From A Webpage Without
Tables Appearing? Question: When I'm researching new recipe ideas, I
like to copy and paste text from webpages to a document. Often when I do
this, the text from the webpage shows up encased in boxes or tables. This is
annoying—I just want the text by itself. Is there a way to prevent this
formatting from appearing? I use Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7, and
Microsoft Works Word Processor. Sites Of The Month - Great Sites To Check Out In March On the Fly Short Tutorial - Copying E-mail Message Files To A Backup
Folder A great deal of
important information is contained within your e-mail messages—information
that can be lost in an instant in the case of hard drive failure, computer
viruses, or other accidents. You can help avoid these risks by backing up
your e-mail message files on a regular basis and storing them to an external
media such as a zip disk or CD-R. 1. With Outlook Express open, click your cursor
arrow on "Tools" located on the menu bar and select
"Options..." from the resulting drop-down menu. 2. When the Options window opens, click on the
"Maintenance" tab. 3. Click on the "Store Folder..."
button located in the "Cleaning Up Messages" section. 4. When the Store Location dialog box opens,
copy the file path. 5. Click your cursor arrow on the
"Start" button and then "Run..." 6. Paste the file path from the Store Location
dialog box in the "Open:" field of the Run window and click
"OK." 7. When the Outlook Express window opens, click
on the "Edit" tab and then choose "Select All" from the
resulting drop-down menu. 8. Click on the "Edit" tab again,
choose "Copy," and then close the window. 9. Create a new folder by right-clicking on
your desktop, select "New," and then choose "Folder." 10. Name the folder (something like "E-mail
Backup") and press the "enter" key. 11. Open this new E-mail Backup folder. 12. Once the folder is open, right-click in the
empty space and select "Paste." 13. The file can now be burned to a CD or copied
to your external disk drive—such as a flash drive or external hard drive.
Whichever external media you choose, be sure to keep it in a safe place. Copying E-mail
Message Files to a Backup Folder Using ... 1. With Windows Mail open, click your cursor
arrow on "Tools" in the menu bar and select "Options..."
from the resulting drop-down menu. 2. When the Options window opens, click on the
"Advanced" tab. 3. Select the "Maintenance..." button
in the "Maintenance and Troubleshooting" section. 4. When the Maintenance window opens, click on
the "Store Folder..." button in the "Cleaning Up
Messages" section. 5. When the Store Location dialog box opens,
copy the file path. 6. Click your cursor arrow on
"Start," then "All Programs," then "Accessories,"
and then "Run." 7. Paste the file path from the Store Location
dialog box in the "Open:" field and click "OK." 8. Click on the "Organize" tab and
then choose "Select All" from the resulting drop-down menu. 9. Click on the "Organize" tab again,
choose "Copy," and then close the window. 10. Create a new folder by right-clicking on
your desktop. Select "New" and then choose "Folder." 11. Name the folder (something like "E-mail
Backup") and press the "enter" key. 12. Open this new E-mail Backup folder. 13. Once the folder is open, right-click in the
empty space and select "Paste." 14. The file can now be burned to a CD or copied
to your external disk drive—such as a flash drive or external hard drive.
Whichever external media you choose, be sure to keep it in a safe place. Copying E-mail
Message Files to a Backup Folder Using ... 1. With Thunderbird open, click your cursor
arrow on "Tools" in the menu bar and select "Account
Settings..." from the resulting drop-down menu. 2. When the Account Settings window opens, copy
the file path listed in the "Local directory:" field under the
"Message Storage" section. 3. Click your cursor arrow on
"Start," then "All Programs," then
"Accessories," and then "Run." 4. Paste the file path from the Account
Settings window in the "Open:" field and click "OK." 5. Click on the "Organize" tab and
then choose "Select All" from the resulting drop-down menu. 6. Click on the "Organize" tab again,
choose "Copy," and then close the window. 7. Create a new folder by right-clicking on
your desktop. Select "New" and then choose "Folder." 8. Name the folder (something like "E-mail
Backup") and press the "enter" key. 9. Open this new E-mail Backup folder. 10. Once the folder is open, right-click in the
empty space and select "Paste." 11. The file can now be burned to a CD or copied
to your external disk drive—such as a flash drive or external hard drive.
Whichever external media you choose, be sure to keep it in a safe place. Archiving E-mail
Message Mailboxes to a Backup Folder Using ... 1. With Mail open, select the mailboxes you
would like to archive in the mailbox pane on the left. Use shift-click
(holding down the "shift" key while left-clicking your mouse) to
select mailboxes that are next to each other and command-click (holding down
the "command" key while left-clicking your mouse) to select
mailboxes that are not next to each other. (Some keyboards have an apple icon
on the "command" key instead of the word "command.") 2. Click your cursor arrow on
"Mailbox" in the menu bar and select "Archive Mailbox"
from the resulting drop-down menu. A navigational window will appear. 3. Choose a folder or other location to save
your archived mailboxes, or create a new folder by pressing the "New
Folder" button. The default location is the Documents folder but you can
place your archive on the desktop or on other attached drives or partitions.
For this tutorial, we will create a new folder in the Documents folder called
"Mail Archive." Click on the "New Folder" button and the
New Folder dialog box will appear. 4. Type the name of your folder, in this case
"Mail Archive," and click the "Create" button. The new
folder will appear highlighted in the navigational window. 5. Click the "Choose" button. Your
mailboxes will be archived into the folder you just created. If you do the
same archiving procedure next week, your old archive won't be overwritten. A
new archive will be created with a number appended to the file name. 6. The file can now be burned to a CD or copied
to your external disk drive—such as a flash drive or external hard drive.
Whichever external media you choose, be sure to keep it in a safe place.
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