[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

All excellent decisions. I do put our weekly Rotary bulletin online in the
unprotected section of our club Web site, but, for that reason (and also
because the bulletin is mailed to people outside our club), I never include
such personal information in the bulletin. Our club directory is in a
password-protected section of the site (which is a Rotary International
requirement for club Web sites that post any personal information).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message
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That was our original plan (provide a link to our church's web site).
However, we have decided to continue to offer printed copies to those who
want it instead of using a link to the web site. The problem with the
link is that we realized that we often include a lot of personal
information in the newsletters--names, addresses, phone numbers,
birthdays, photos, even maps to people's homes. So, we don't think it
would be a good idea to put all that information on the Internet,
especially without people's permission. We will only send copies via
e-mail to those who request it, and I will use Bcc (recipients suppressed)
so people won't have to scroll through a couple of hundred names to get to
the message.

Thanks,
MaryL

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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So the PDF is at least smaller than the .doc file. That size won't be
much of a burden on those with broadband but will definitely be a large
lump for dial-up. I would suggest offering members the option of getting
a link (to the file online) rather than an attachment. It will still take
(almost) as long to download, but they will be able to choose the time to
do it instead of having it unpredictably gumming up their email. I
remember how much I hated that when I was on dial-up, and I'm still not
crazy about it--because you have no idea what it is you're investing so
much download time on until it actually arrives (and then it's usually a
PPT of cute baby animals or scenic landscapes, accompanied by kitschy
music and typo-ridden captions, from my cousin!).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message
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Thanks for the help, everyone. The suggestion for using PDF turned out
to be an excellent idea. The download worked smoothly, and it only
takes about two seconds to "save as" to PDF. That even solves another
issue that I have been considering--that is, how to make this file more
functional for those with some vision problelms. By using, PDF, they
can easily click on the arrow at the top of the screen to enlarge
everything, yet all of the original boxes and other settings are
retained.

The one remaining problem (not as important) is that the file size is
now truly massive! I haven't tried compressing, as someone on the NG
suggested, because this newsletter does not contain any photos. And,
despite that, it is extremely large, and I do have a fear that the size
may cause a problem for some people. The original size of the
newsletter is 2.80 MB. The size when sized to PDF becomes 840 KB.

MaryL
"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message
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As some of you know, I prepare our church newsletter and e-mail it to
the church. It is then printed and sent out by U.S. Mail. We are
thinking of sending it to members of the congregation by e-mail to save
expense (postage and paper) and also trees. However, I use a variety
of clipart, photos, borders, text boxes, and fonts. That sounds like
"too much," but I don't include everything in every newsletter, and
many people have thanked me for the changes I have made. The problem
is that some items do not "hold" on a page when I e-mail them to our
secretary. In fact, one person sends messages to me in Calibri. It is
always set with 1.15 spacing. I often change it to single-spacing to
fit properly within certain areas of the newsletter--but when our
secretary receives, it sometimes reverts back to 1.15. That is easily
set back to single-spacing, but I am wondering if there is any way to
save the newsletter in such a way that it will be seen properly on a
variety of computers if we use e-mail for the congregation. In other
words, I want to make sure that page breaks are viewed properly, photos
remain in place, etc. Obviously, we will not have any control over the
types of settings that various recipients use.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
MaryL