http://www.kitchenlink.com LESSON 3: POSTING TO CHAT OR THE MESSAGE BOARD If you want to participate in submitting recipes or URLs, as it is on Thursday night, check TKLs suggested topic for the evenings chat at this site: http://www.kitchenlink.com/talktkl.html My suggestion is that you go to 'Start' to 'Programs' to 'Accessories' and to 'Notepad'. Click on 'Notepad' to bring it into view. Go to upper right hand corner, and minus it to the 'Task Bar' below. If you have to type in recipes, now is the time to type them onto 'Notepad'. If you already have recipes in a file or from another recipe archive, then you can 'cut and paste' them to your 'Notepad'. Be sure to leave about three or four spaces between each recipe, for you are going to highlight them individually, and you don't want one recipe running over into another. When you log on to Chat, you are ready then to post your recipes or URLs. It may be a little more trouble and take longer, but I find that if you go to your 'Bookmarks', and bring up each site into 'Location', and then highlight it by scrolling across it until it turns blue, and press 'Control' and 'C' at the same time, thus cutting it, and then pasting it to your 'Notepad' by pressing 'Control' and 'V' at the same time that you are less likely to have typographical errors in your URLs. I'm sure you realize by now, that every little 'jot & tittle' has to be correct. Now that you have everything ready to go, so that you can post to the board, it is very easy. You just 'cut' from notepad, and placing your cursor in the message space in Chat and paste it. If it is a recipe, then click on 'Recipe' so that it will go to the right side of the board, and the same with URLs. It is so much nicer if you put the whole URL including http://www. etc. That way you can cut the URL from the Chat site, and paste it into 'Location' and then press 'Enter' to have the program appear. You can use the same process to post a recipe into a Recipe Request Board. If you have a recipe to contribute to a request, just cut it from your files, and paste it onto the message board. NOTE: I have found it is very important to save your 'Notepad' to 'C' drive until you are ready to use it. I've spent lots of time typing material in, only to have it disappear into thin air. If, when you are finished with it and Velma McMahan (macvel@nc5.infi.net)
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