Cataloguing

[Cindy C.]

Hi, Eileen, and welcome aboard!

> I've volunteered for Messages 28,001-29,000, but someone had better
> give me exact instructions on what to do, else I'll end up flubbing
> it. (Did I mention I identify with Neville as well as Percy?)
> Here comes the tricky part of the business. 

Good news!  For cataloguing, I don't think you need to understand's 
Paul's document.  Just go to the main list, pull up 28,001 and start 
cataloguing.

>I'm not sure I quite
> understand the best way to go about this. All the old hands are
> swooning over Paul's document (Hello Paul!), but I really don't...
> well..... understand it. 

Oh, it's a thing of beauty!  It's a lot like Russian Literature, if 
you catch my drift.  ;-)

Actually, the way to look at it is to look at the four tabs at the 
bottom of the spreadsheet.  The two on the left (Groups and Club) 
are a list of message number, poster and subject header for every 
post to the main list that has ever been made.  (Clubs is the 
archives).  The two on the right give a count of how many posts each 
member has made; you don't care about this.

Let's say, though, you wanted to find the first post ever from 
someone using the e-mail "lucky-kari."  You would go to the tab for 
Groups.  You would hit CTRL-F, which is "Find."  You'd enter that e-
mail, and lo and behold, you'd be whipped right to that post.  If 
you wanted to jump from one TBAY post to the next to the next, for 
example, you could do it quickly using Paul's Magical Document, but 
you still have to use Yahoo webview to actually read the messages.

For cataloguing, you could use it if you were going along on some 
dreadful thread, and you wanted to know if the thread is finished or 
whether someone is going to revive it 25 posts later, 'cause if the 
thread is through, you'll want to pick the best of the dreadful 
posts for the catalogue and then move on to the next thing.  Other 
than that, I don't think you really need to worry about Paul's 
Marvelous Magical document right now.  


Cindy -- who is not very competent at all in Excel, but who is 
learning quite a lot by manipulating Paul's document.