Re: [gardeners] OT: software question
Shirley,George (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:55:41 -0600
I don't have ME. I was told by the local software vendor that it didn't have
MSDos in it because it wasn't DOS based. Shows how wrong a salesman can be
doesn't it! Thanks anyway Olin.
George
olin wrote:
>
> George - My WindowsME has the MS-DOS Prompt in the hard drive's root
> directory. Push the START button, press RUN and type c:\command <ENTER>.
> This brings up DOS and the method suggested by David should work. -Olin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shirley,George" <gshirley@deltech.net>
> To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [gardeners] OT: software question
>
> > I don't know, I had forgotten about using DOS for the action. Good thing
> I'm
> > still using Windows 98 SE, the new Windows ME is not DOS based.
> >
> > George
> >
> > > David G Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't know a way to do that in Word, but I'm not much of a Word user.
> You
> > > can always bring up a DOS window and do something like this:
> > >
> > > cd\mydocu~1
> > > dir >prn
> > >
> > > Or this:
> > >
> > > dir >dir.txt
> > >
> > > You can then open dir.txt in Word and do whatever you want with it.
> > >
> > > Does that help at all?
> > >
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Shirley,George <gshirley@deltech.net>
> > > To: Gardeners List <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 7:56 AM
> > > Subject: [gardeners] OT: software question
> > >
> > > > I'm an old WordPerfect user who switched to Word a couple of years ago
> > > (about
> > > > the time Corel started bundling WP in with a bunch of stuff I didn't
> need).
> > > I
> > > > was accustomed to being able to print out the titles of the contents
> of a
> > > folder
> > > > or menu. I haven't found a way to do this in Word as yet and the Help
> index
> > > > isn't helpful at all. Do any of you out there know how to do this
> within
> > > Word. I
> > > > guess I could buy some printscreen software but it looks like Billy
> Bob
> > > Gates
> > > > would have set it up to do what I need. Help!
> > > >
> > > > George
> > > >