Maynard, Glad you approve. I'll be glad to continue re-posting stuff that way whenever you send it to me. It makes it so handy to have it in the List Archives, as an always-available back-up storage site for all of us. With an internet connection to our Archives, we can consult previous documents when we've gone to some other research location, for example, and don't want to duplicate work that has already been done. I think the fact that the documents each become small enough to fit into becoming a free-standing message, is only due to changing the document from a Word document to a pure "text" document. With a r-e-a-l-l-y long document, I would no doubt hit CompuServe's limit on the length of the message, too. (I know it has a limit, because I have hit that limit before when attempting to copy bunches of stuff into one message.) And I think the not-messing-up of the spacing actually occurs before I copy the file into CompuServe's blank email message field, when I am actually in Word. For the benefit of anyone wanting to do a similar thing with any other document, here is the cookbook version of what I'm doing: - first have the document open in Word (unzipping the file if necessary) - second (if that document hasn't already been saved on my computer where I want it to be filed) I hit "Save As" and give it a Word file name, ending in ".doc" and make sure it is saving it where I want it to be - third, I print out the document & write the file name on the upper corner - fourth, hit "Save As" a *second time* and this time in the "file type" box at the bottom, I select "text only" and that changes the file name that I chose immediately above into the same named file except ending in ".txt" - close the document (this step may not be essential, but I find it helpful since the appearance of the document on the screen hasn't changed yet) - "Open" the ".txt" version of the document & briefly look over the document that now shows on the screen in pure text like we normally see in our emails (to make sure it looks okay) - hold down the "Control" key & hit the letter "A" to block the entire document - hold down the "Alt" key & hit the letter "E" for Edit & then select "C" for copying that entire blocked document - go to my email program (in my case CompuServe) & open a new blank message & address it to the List with a message title that is descriptive of what the file/message is - in the message-content field, put my cursor and hold down the "Alt" key & hit the letter "E" for Edit & then select "P" for pasting the entire blocked document into that message field This way, when folks receive the message/file, they can just "save" the message wherever they want it on their own computer, giving the file whatever name they want it to have. Then if they wish to fancy-it-up some, they can re-open it in Word & make the font one they like better, & make titles bigger, etc. Cheers, Barbara (BPN) ----------------------- Internet Header -------------------------------- Sender: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 12:00:09 EDT Subject: BPN Re-posts To: [email protected] Hey, Barb, NEAT idea. Since AOL clamps me down at about 2.5MB per e-mail itself and zips all attachments in excess of that.....its a neat idea for you to re--post to the list "in the clear" and "inside the e-mail" (as apparently Compuserve allows you to do with a much higher size threshhold than AOL). And even better, when Compuserver "scans" the stuff to e-mail it doesn't trash up the spacing to some intolerable level as many other servers do. I guess the only potential downside is if some member's OWN server trashes up the spacing badly. Anyway, in future I'll only send this stuff to the list and "my" list and you can repost for the others if that's okay.....looks like a better method than the one I dreamed up. Maynard