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Thanks for trying to wrap your head around this one Beryl!

Actually, I apparently wasn’t totally clear in my question. I want to cc every single message I write – no matter who it is to – to a certain address (myself, actually, because I use three different computers for emailing and that way one of them – on which this rule would NOT run – eventually has a copy of everything – works great in Outlook, as I mentioned).

I think I could use your workaround if I run the rule on all messages which are FROM me. I’d have to run it every day when I was working on either of the two remote computers, but that could work. Still requires me to remember to do it (unlike the Outlook rule) but with your approach I’d have to remember only once a day instead of every time I write a message. I will give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

-cynthia

You can also open a new message, and then click “View” and then “All Headers”. Once you do this, all new messages will open with the BCC line visible and you can type right into it just like “To” or “CC”.

-cynthia

I also had these very same problems. I bought a new laptop with a “trial version” of Office 2003 installed on it (good for thirty days or something). I had my own never-even-opened-the-box-yet version of Office 2003, so I simply installed that. What a mess – all those problems you mention. I never could get Outlook 2003 to behave properly. I tried a lot of things and the final solution is that I had to uninstall Outlook 2003 and install Outlook 2000 – (and, while I no longer remember the sequence – I remember that it mattered which program was installed first).

-cynthia

Sounds like it is flatfile in an individual database, but then can be linked. Here’s what it says on their site:
“Users can link two databases together, allowing a record of one database to act as a key to other databases. This feature enables users to jump from one relational database to the related items in a linked database.” I suppose if you did this and then wanted to synch (which I do), you would be synching each DB into a table in the Access DB. I tend to write databases with LOTS of tables, so I’ll have to think about how workable this would be – but the ones that I want to use on both platforms are not really all that complicated so it might work.

This feature is also mentioned three times – all positively – in the fifty reviews users have posted on the site.
The site I’m reading all this on is here (you have to get the Professional version to synch with Access – but it is still significantly less expensive than Pendragon)

Thanks again for your insight. This discussion is proving most helpful in my deliberations on moving into the PDA arena.
-cynthia

Sounds like it is flatfile in an individual database, but then can be linked. Here’s what it says on their site:
“Users can link two databases together, allowing a record of one database to act as a key to other databases. This feature enables users to jump from one relational database to the related items in a linked database.” I suppose if you did this and then wanted to synch (which I do), you would be synching each DB into a table in the Access DB. I tend to write databases with LOTS of tables, so I’ll have to think about how workable this would be – but the ones that I want to use on both platforms are not really all that complicated so it might work.

This feature is also mentioned three times – all positively – in the fifty reviews users have posted on the site.
The site I’m reading all this on is here (you have to get the Professional version to synch with Access – but it is still significantly less expensive than Pendragon)

Thanks again for your insight. This discussion is proving most helpful in my deliberations on moving into the PDA arena.
-cynthia

Thanks for sharing your experience with that David. I’ll look into SprintDB as well. I’m hoping not to end up with something that’s as involved to set up as a new Access Database, since I already put the time into the Access DB. SprintDB sounds like it might be complicated (I can do code, but only simple code and it takes time). At least it looks that way on their website. HanDBase looks a lot simpler. Pendragon is expensive but appears to actually create Access talbles so apparently doesn’t need conversion. I can’t really tell on their site how easy the forms are to set up, but in any case their cost approaches prohibitive for me.

If you care to mention what led you to choose SprintDB over HanDBase, that would be helpful, since it sounds like you might be wishing for the simplicity that HanDBase at least appears on their website to offer..

Thanks again,
-cynthia

Thanks for sharing your experience with that David. I’ll look into SprintDB as well. I’m hoping not to end up with something that’s as involved to set up as a new Access Database, since I already put the time into the Access DB. SprintDB sounds like it might be complicated (I can do code, but only simple code and it takes time). At least it looks that way on their website. HanDBase looks a lot simpler. Pendragon is expensive but appears to actually create Access talbles so apparently doesn’t need conversion. I can’t really tell on their site how easy the forms are to set up, but in any case their cost approaches prohibitive for me.

If you care to mention what led you to choose SprintDB over HanDBase, that would be helpful, since it sounds like you might be wishing for the simplicity that HanDBase at least appears on their website to offer..

Thanks again,
-cynthia

Thanks Charlotte,
I’m now poking around the web reading more about these options (wow – there is some price difference there between them!)

I’ve never had or used a PDA, so it’s a little harder knowing how things will really work, but it seemed smarter to do this research before being committed to a particular PDA unit.

One thing I can’t tell for sure from what I’ve read is how one enters text into text fields. Can it read stylus writing on non-keyboard units (I don’t want to have to get out my portable keyboard to simply record a check I’ve written)? I know that if text entry isn’t simple, it will deter me from keeping records up to date, and they mention drop down selection, check boxes, and numerical entry – but say nothing about text entry. I would assume it could read the stylus – but I’ve assumed wrong before…….I suppose that is really a question for a PDA forum, not an Access forum.

Thanks,
-cynthia

Thanks Charlotte,
I’m now poking around the web reading more about these options (wow – there is some price difference there between them!)

I’ve never had or used a PDA, so it’s a little harder knowing how things will really work, but it seemed smarter to do this research before being committed to a particular PDA unit.

One thing I can’t tell for sure from what I’ve read is how one enters text into text fields. Can it read stylus writing on non-keyboard units (I don’t want to have to get out my portable keyboard to simply record a check I’ve written)? I know that if text entry isn’t simple, it will deter me from keeping records up to date, and they mention drop down selection, check boxes, and numerical entry – but say nothing about text entry. I would assume it could read the stylus – but I’ve assumed wrong before…….I suppose that is really a question for a PDA forum, not an Access forum.

Thanks,
-cynthia

Alex,
I’ve just experienced this same problem on a second computer – this one with XP Pro – and your solution about unchecking the thumbnails box seems to have done the trick. It was the FIRST fix I tried, this time.
Thank you again.

-cynthia

Alex,
I’ve just experienced this same problem on a second computer – this one with XP Pro – and your solution about unchecking the thumbnails box seems to have done the trick. It was the FIRST fix I tried, this time.
Thank you again.

-cynthia

Thanks. That helps me understand at least somewhat. We’ll hold our breath and experiment.
I’ll post here the results (might be a few days – she might want to wait until I’m physically there to do it myself)
I’m not sure what you mean by “your own extra settings” but I’ll take a guess and go from there.

Thanks again.
-cynthia

Thanks. That helps me understand at least somewhat. We’ll hold our breath and experiment.
I’ll post here the results (might be a few days – she might want to wait until I’m physically there to do it myself)
I’m not sure what you mean by “your own extra settings” but I’ll take a guess and go from there.

Thanks again.
-cynthia

We’re a little shy here.
On my freind’s computer, the “Extra Settings” Box already contains the following text:
NOS37=12
What does this refer to (if it matters)?
Perhaps more important: Do we just hit return and add the AT Command on the next line? Put a comma between? Delete what’s there? None of my three computers had anything in the “Extra Settings” box, so I didn’t anticipate this.

Thanks for bearing with us. I’m reasonably bold about experimenting with parts of the computer I am somewhat familiar with, but this is totally new territory for me!

-cynthia

We’re a little shy here.
On my freind’s computer, the “Extra Settings” Box already contains the following text:
NOS37=12
What does this refer to (if it matters)?
Perhaps more important: Do we just hit return and add the AT Command on the next line? Put a comma between? Delete what’s there? None of my three computers had anything in the “Extra Settings” box, so I didn’t anticipate this.

Thanks for bearing with us. I’m reasonably bold about experimenting with parts of the computer I am somewhat familiar with, but this is totally new territory for me!

-cynthia