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        CHURCH BULLETIN and Other documents - Prep for Upload

        NB - These instructions are meant to be general in nature but try to give most of the important steps in preparing a " html " document. They WILL NOT apply to every situation, only when using MS Word, or a similiar program.

        NB1 - You can rename files using Windows explorer - right click on the file, and rename it with lower case letters etc. Remember, if a file with a non conforming name has been inserted into a " .htm " document, it will need to be deleted from the " .htm " document only and then reinserted. Be careful here NOT to delete the file from your drive.


      Directions for Changing .doc file to .htm for bulletin upload
      1. Open .doc file
      2. Remove any information from boxes (they are not html compatible)
      3. Reinsert the information near the box
      4. Delete the old box
      5. Delete any graphics (you can upload pictures but, see the general instructions - we are not covering that here.)
      6. Click on "file" (upper left) and do a "Save as HTML" and save the file as a " bulletin1.htm " file
      7. Save bulletin1.htm to the a: drive (floppy)
      8. Take the floppy to computer #1
      9. Open Visual Page
      10. Open "bulletin.htm" (located, e.g. in the "site" web folder)
      11. Doing a "shift and using the arrow keys" - highlight all the OLD WEEK'S text
      12. Delete the text from the OLD WEEK
      13. Open the bulletin1.htm file from the floppy
      14. Do a " Control A" to select all the info
      15. Do a "Control C" to copy all the info
      16. Close (diminish) the file bulletin1.htm
      17. Return to the regular bulletin.htm file (we have stripped out all the data)
      18. Do a "Control V" - This will insert all the data into the "bulletin.htm" file
      19. Review for any extraneous control characters
      20. If they exist, copy (Control C) a sample of these characters and do a "edit" and "find/replace"
      21. Do a Control V and insert the characters into the "find" part of the field
      22. Do not enter anything in to the replace field
      23. Hit return - this will replace all extraneous control characters with "nothing"
      24. Save the file "bulletin.htm"
      25. Go into CSNmail
      26. Go to Extras - file manager -
      27. Browse for the file and upload it
      28. Click on the file in the list under the word Files to check it out.
      29. Assuming all is well, be happy.

        FILE NAMING:

        NB - When uploading files into your csnmail IC account, make sure that the file names are in lower case (small) letters, with no spaces or control characters (e.g. ' ^ > etc.) and, if possible, 8 characters long (short is good).

        NB1 - You can rename files using Windows explorer - right click on the file, and rename it with lower case letters etc. Remember, if a file with a non conforming name has been inserted into a " .htm " document, it will need to be deleted from the " .htm " document only and then reinserted. Be careful here NOT to delete the file from your drive.