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I think (based on no knowledge at all, but just a hunch from observation) that the tiny size of these windows comes from the popups that are specifically sized. I had thought that if a popup was the last window closed, IE would then open in that size. I’m pretty sure now that opening a maximized window last is not enough to get IE to open maximized next time. But I do suspect that when popups are closed, that resets the size for the next time the nth window opens, so doing all this stuff is quickly undone. Even the programs that automatically remove the popups close them after they’re opened. I read about one program whose description said it would keep the windows from opening, but I can’t find that now.

Does anybody have any idea whether the popups are really involved in this problem?

Thanks, Andrew. You sent your answer as I was typing my last post. I see what you mean about the bulletin boards. Mystery entirely solved! Thanks for the help.

I hadn’t thought of properties. When it’s open, properties says “Type: Post”, location: inbox.

And now I just found it: on the New dropdown list , the second item is Post in this folder . So now I’m back to the original question I typed into the post: what’s it for? Maybe if it goes into a shared personal folder, so other people can read it? Why not just send them a note and file it in that folder? So you don’t have to bother them? Then why bother with the post, and who would find it? I suppose someone actually asked for such a thing.

No, the senior moment is apt. But the question is, what is a discussion item and how (where) does one create them?

Yes, it’s Norton Anti-Virus 2002 with definitions updated as of Oct 16. Why do you ask?

Well, I don’t get it, but renaming my .nick file fixed it (your suggestion in one of the ‘nickname’ postings). I’m on Outlook 2000. I had only one .nick file (called “Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings.NICK”), I have no .pab files, and one .wab file that seems to be empty (but 173 kb). I ran the nick2K.exe to delete the nickname, and when I used the nickname in a new note, it still resolved to the same name and then said it couldn’t find the record. So I ran the utility again to delete the name, then added ‘my friend’ after his name in my contacts. Then it worked fine because it no longer matched the name I deleted. It seemed to me that if the name isn’t in the file and Outlook still uses it, it must be getting it from somewhere else, but when I renamed the file, the problem was solved, so the problem was in that file, and deleting the nickname with the utility did not deal with it. It’s a nifty utility, though.

Thanks for the help and for pointing me to the other postings.

No, MaryJ, it didn’t let me delete the the .nick file. I should be able to? And then what – does it recreate it?

Hi, Jefferson. I just had a friend send from Outlook on Exchange and I looked at the notes in the browser interface and then in Outlook. When she initiated the notes, there was no attachment. When she replied to my note, I saw the ATT00005.dat attachment in Telus’s browser interface and in Outlook. In both cases Outlook said the message was in plain text.

Maybe if she always sends in plain text and is replying to a note sent rtf, then it has to send back the formatting – not bothering to recognize that it’s going to send in plain text so the formatting attachment will never work. OK, I guess I understand that. Thanks.

Yes, I am using Internet Mode Only. I do realize I could change the format for everyone, or go into tools to change it whenever I want one format or the other, or try to remember to go into format to change it for specific people, but I just assumed that if there’s a check box for plain text only associated with each contact, that it would send mail to that contact in plain text only. Not so apparently. What’s that check box supposed to be for?

Thanks, Jefferson. I’ll have to set up a test – my adsl host has a browser interface. I hardly ever use it, though – I’ve been using Outlook exclusively.

I did get a note out without the .dat file by remembering to change it under Format (and they got the attachment I was trying to send, too – a bonus). I never remember to do that, though, and it seems if I always send it plain text, then I have to go into Tools to send a particular note in rtf. I seem to remember that even if I reply to a note that’s rtf, and format it nicely, it would still go out in plain text. I didn’t like that when I had it set that way.

The picture you attached is what a contact would look like, right, not what your own setting is? On my system, the question is plain text (tick the box) or no, and where plain text is CLEARLY ticked, it goes out with the .dat formatting anyway.

That sounds like an intriguing solution, but my system doesn’t let me delete that file.

Thanks to all who replied. The tech support people for Exchange were able to get her access to the file, but they did not tell her how. We don’t know if they used one of these recovery keys or if someone figured out how to reset the password.

This is SO inconsistent. It worked the day you told me about this, Phil, and it worked a few times today. But I was testing a few combinations of going back and forth from the taskbar or via the back arrow on the web toolbar, and now the n in Word doesn’t even work any more. Even worse, I started getting error messages about the Excel spreadsheet already being open when it wasn’t visible and could not be made to be visible.

I think it’s best to stay with my original explanation about the flakiness of the way the two apps work together and just give people options to try to get back and forth.

You’re saying it would look like:
=HYPERLINK(“[LANdirREFERENCMISDOCProcessingGuidesspecproc.doc]ACTIVITY_CODES” n,”startup”) ?
That’s one of the many possible syntax errors I tried.

The right click … open in new window works. I’ll add that to the documentation (though I do believe NO-ONE reads documentation). So presumably that executes some command. When I recorded that action, the code was:
Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Follow NewWindow:=False, AddHistory:=True
I don’t know what to do with that info. It appears to me to say the opposite of what happened, and I don’t want macro code anyway. Anyone know if I can I turn that into a function?

Have a happy new year, y’all. And don’t hang around rushing an answer to me tonight . I’m off now till Wednesday. Well, I suppose it’s the end of the day for most of you by now anyway.

Ok, I see that that works from Word to Excel. Now I get to bring this back to the appropriate group : can I do this in Excel?

I don’t see anything about field codes in Excel, except I did find the syntax for the HYPERLINK function. I tried
=HYPERLINK(“[UNC for the LAN driveREFERENCMISDOCProcessingGuidesspecproc.doc n]ACTIVITY_CODES”,”startup”)
but that didn’t work any differently than without the n (it got there, but closed the Excel file). The other locations for n that I tried were invalid syntax.

If there is some syntax that works, I also need to know if I have to replace all the existing hyperlinks with hyperlink functions or is there some way to correct the existing link to what I need directly?