Yearly TV Licence? ...Really? (Side Track)

[Carol]

-Annemehr:
> I'm not sure what you mean by cut-and-paste "icons."

Carol:
The icons are little pictures of scissors and paper and paste up on
the toolbar. In Netscape, I use the Edit menu, but in IE it won't let
me paste in material copied from Netscape. But I *can* do it using the
icons, which I'm *very* happy to know.

Annemehr: 
> Just to be clear, after I highlight something I want to copy, I
click on the highlighted section with the right mouse button, and a
menu  pops up right there.  I choose "copy" from it. <snip>

Carol:
Thanks, that's good to know if I want to copy and paste *from* IE *to*
IE. But I'm talking about URLs that I've copied from Netscape and want
to put it in the address bar on IE because that site doesn't work on
Netscape. I'm *only* talking about copying and pasting URLs into the
address bar (and possibly the Search bar. (And the icons solved the
problem, in any case.) In fact, I'm not sure that I could copy
*anything* from Netscape to IE without the icons. Now I can.


Carol earlier:
Well, I found the icons with a bit of searching, and they work for me.
Granted, they weren't there in the first place--only print, which I
would use, and Feed and IM and so forth, which I wouldn't use. Again,
I'm typing from mem
> 
> I'm using IE7, and I've never had any trouble with toolbars rolling 
> away (nor in any of the previous versions), so I can't help you there.

Carol responds:
Neither have I, till today. I think I must have clicked Maximize
(which I always use in Netscape) or some such thing. They rolled clear
off the page, making it look naked. Well, topless. And since I use all
the buttons, include the blessed X that lets me escape from IE, I
*need* the tool bar. And on top of that, it wasn't even a complete
toolbar with all the menus and buttons that I needed. But now,
somehow, I've retrieved the full menu and managed to keep it from
slipping away. My cute little icons are there if I need them. So if I
have to use IE I can use it now without cursing, weeping, or
screaming. I still prefer Netscape for its simplicity and familiarity,
but my biggest IE headache has been solved.

If you still don't know which icons I'm talking about, I'll bet that
your toolbar has a little house for "Home," a printer for "Print," a
gear for "Tools," and a question mark in a circle for "Help," among
others. You can add two pieces of paper for "Copy," a bottle of paste
for "Paste," and a pair of scissors for "Cut." I haven't used "cut"
yet, but I copied a URL from Netscape
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lovell,_Viscount_Lovell)
clicked the address box where I wanted the URL, clicked my little
paste bottle and voile!--just like pasting from the Edit menu on Netscape.

Carol, recommending that anybody who uses IE get those cute little
icons, which, I confess, are "cooler" than the similar icons in Netscape 9

> 
> Carol:
> > I don't have any problems with Yahoo mail in Netscape because I've
> > turned off all the fancy features and just use plain text. (I have a
> > "real" e-mail address for business e-mail.) 
> 
> There, see -- I like lots of the fancy features, when I'm playing, or 
> when I'm carrying on an intricate conversation with someone (color-
> coding comes in handy then).  Besides, some people would send me mail 
> with smileys in it sometimes, and Netscape just stripped them all 
> out -- I never even knew there was anything missing until I happened 
> to look at one in IE one day.
> 
> Annemehr,
> who still, for some reason, can't be bothered to post to groups using 
> Rich-Text Editor, unless there is a long link to be kept whole.
>