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[Jay]

These are probably Outlook Express questions, but I thought that
someone here may know.

1) I use OE to check these forums. It seems to keep around 2 months
worth of messages, then the older ones disappear. Is there a way to
change this time limit?

2) Messages seem to be broken up into several lines. When I paste
messages into Word, I can see the new line characters (when I choose
Reveal Formatting). Is this done when messages are posted on the forum
(in which case there's nothing I can do about it), or is it when OE
reads messages off the forum (in which case perhaps there's a setting
in OE which allows me to turn this off).

3) Perhaps there's something better than OE to look at these forums -
I'm interested in any suggestions.

 

[Tony Jollans]

I've not been doing this long enough to know all the ins and outs of it ,
but ...

1) Under Tools > Options > Maintenance (tab) you can set the nmber of days
(up to 999) to keep messages

2) I think it's done when posted but there are techniques for stopping it as
I see occasional posts where it hasn't happened.

3) There are other tools but I know nothing of them

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Messages are only retained on the Microsoft News Servers for about 60 days.
They are however all archived in Google Groups at:

http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=33606782&expand=1

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Tony Jollans]

Yes, but if they have been downloaded then OE can be set to keep them for
longer, can't it?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Yes, it can, but I am not sure that I would want to be keeping all of the
thousands of messages on my computer. Those that I do want to keep, I copy
(drag) into a local "Tips" folder. Otherwise I use Google Groups when I
want to refer someone to a response that I know I created maybe years ago.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Tony Jollans]

I agree completely. I have mine set to 21 days and that is plenty. Which is
why I wasn't sure what happened with higher values.

 

[Jay]

Thanks everyone for your replies.

Best wishes,

Jay