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§ ita § - Apr 09, 2008 11:44:41 am PDT #5542 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm in Excel 2003 and I select File/Send to/Mail recipient. Blah, blah, blah distraction, never send, close Excel, save changes, reopen that spreadsheet.

The whole mail header section is still there: To, CC, BCC, Subject, Attachment...and I can't work out how to make it go away.

I'm about to mail it to myself to see if that gets me out of the loop but that's insane! There must be a way to get that to go away.

(Yeah, emailing it to myself worked. But there must be a better way...)


Polter-Cow - Apr 09, 2008 12:02:35 pm PDT #5543 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Anyone have a recommendation on a free site to send large files? I seem to remember sendspace, but any other recs?

Vortex, WOOfiles is pretty good. I got a 500+ MB file up there, no sweat.


omnis_audis - Apr 09, 2008 4:03:10 pm PDT #5544 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Ooo! Weather Underground for the iPhone! [link] A lot more detail than the lil link on the desktop.


dcp - Apr 09, 2008 4:38:43 pm PDT #5545 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I have given up on the iPod Touch, and traded it in for a Palm T|X.

Slightly thicker, same display size and resolution, same WiFi access, plus: now I have my contacts imported, all my notes, all my add-on apps., and all my games. I have stylus input again so I can write at speed and/or doodle, and I can write stuff on my laptop and sync over! Yay!


Hil R. - Apr 10, 2008 8:41:49 am PDT #5546 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I just got a BlackBerry. If I set it up with my gmail account, then will the emails sent to gmail only go to the BlackBerry, or will I also still have access to them if I access gmail through the web?


bon bon - Apr 10, 2008 8:45:53 am PDT #5547 of 25501
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

The latter. It's just like checking your gmail on another computer.


Hil R. - Apr 10, 2008 8:49:47 am PDT #5548 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

OK, perfect. Thanks.


Hil R. - Apr 10, 2008 9:03:09 am PDT #5549 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

OK, what if someone sends me a message, and I read it and delete it on the computer. Does it then get deleted from the BlackBerry? I tested it, and the answer seems to be no, but I might not have waited long enough. Or is this something that I can change in the settings somewhere?

edit: nevermind. I figured it out. I think.


Vortex - Apr 10, 2008 9:10:10 am PDT #5550 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I think that's an IMAP versus POP issue. It was explained to me like this:

when you have a POP account, it's like you have two different mail boxes with two different doors. copies of mail get put into both boxes. If you delete the mail in one box (your computer), it stays in the other box (your blackberry)

an IMAP account is a one box with two doors. Regardless of which door you use to access the box, the actions affect the other door.


Jon B. - Apr 10, 2008 9:13:02 am PDT #5551 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

when you have a POP account, it's like you have two different mail boxes with two different doors. copies of mail get put into both boxes. If you delete the mail in one box (your computer), it stays in the other box (your blackberry)

That's not necessarily true. Many POP mail clients will automatically delete a message from the server when you delete it from the client, depending on the the user's settings. However, my experience with Gmail is that it stays on the server unless you go to Gmail directly and delete it.