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How do I add a contact to my address book in Outlook 2000?
How do I add a picture to a flyer in Top Producer?
How can I create mailing labels in Publisher?
How To Add a Contact to Your Address Book in Outlook 2000
Outlook 2000 does not automatically add addresses to your contact list. When you receive an e-mail from someone who you want to add to your Contact List, do the following:
- Open the e-mail message
- Right-click on the e-mail address that you want to add to your Contact List
- Select Add to Contacts
Outlook Express can be set up to automatically put an address in your Contact List when you Reply to a mail message.
- Under the Tools menu, click Options
- Click Send
How To Add a Picture to a Flyer in Top Producer
- Click Presentations.
- Click Flyer.
- Choose the category and type of flyer.
- Click Select property.
- Choose the contact.
- Click Easy flyer entry.
- Click Advanced from the menu that appears on the right of your screen.
- Click on any text box to delete or resize.
- To insert the pictures:
- Click Insert Photo or Clipart Icon.
- Move the crosshair pointer to the flyer.
- Click and drag to form a box for the picture. The Picture Loader window will open.
- Select your picture (External will be from a disk or folder, Internal is Top Producer's standard graphics).
- Click Save
How To Create Mailing Labels in Publisher
- Open Publisher
- Select File.
- Click New.
- Under the Wizards column, click on Labels.
- Select a label style.
- Click Start Wizard.
- Make any changes, then click Finish.
- Click on the Mailing Address Line 1 (all of the text should be highlighted).
- Hit the Delete key.
- Click Mail Merge on the top menu.
- Select Open Data Source.
- Select Merge information from another type of file.
- Select the Text File you saved earlier (at the bottom of the screen, in the Files of type box, select Text files).
- Click Open.
- In response to the message box "Do you want to use the entries in the first row of you data as field names?" click No.
- Choose Comma as the Separator Character.
- Click OK. A box will appear with F1, F2, F3, etc.
- Highlight F1, click on Insert, and hit the Enter key on your keyboard
- Highlight F2, click on Insert, hit the Enter key on your keyboard
- HigHlight F3, click on Insert, hit the spacebar twice;
- Highlight F4, click on Insert
- Click Close.
- From the menu at the top, select Mail Merge.
- Click Merge. The names should appear on screen one at a time. Use the >> to move through your labels.
- Click File.
- Click Save As to save your mail merge.