Where Learning is Fun  
HRCC Newsletter
Issue 9
April, 2008
Editors: Marilyn Ross
Howard Essig,
Hunters Run Computer Club

Next Year the Computer Club will be meeting on Wednesday nights.  The day was changed due to too many
conflicts on Tuesday night.  We hope that this will work for you.  Sandy Mendelsohn, along with the board, is
working on our schedule for next year using your input.  We will keep you informed.  Visit our Web Page during the
summer for more Tips and Tricks and more useful Websites.  Have a great summer.

We had two meetings since our last newsletter.  



On April 8th Howard Essig, who chairs our Technical Committee and Publicity, followed up our March 28th Quicken
meeting with more Quicken information concentrating on investments. After a brief review of how to get started, he
created a file and accounts and discussed how to get investment data into Quicken.

He advised that you can register your Quicken brokerage and bank account with Quicken and have data entry by
requesting to update your file. Quicken will also keep track of your credit card account and pay your credit card bill
from your bank account. The degree of service you receive will depend on what services you want.

Howard stated that he does most entries manually by clicking on a button that says “enter transaction.” Select, from
a long list, the type of transaction which may be:  buy shares, receive a dividend, enter a split or spinoff, make a
cash withdrawal, or any other type of transaction you are likely to have in your account. Next, he showed how to
update the price of equities by going to Quicken services and requesting an update. You do not have to be
registered for this free service

After entering data into Quicken, you can request information. Select the name of the equity to get a box with two
choices – quotes and graphs. Quotes give the stock’s current price and the price of available options. Graphs of
the equities performance can be requested for various time periods and can be made into a comparison with an
index and/or a different stock. With this graph is a list of other options such as company profile and recent news
articles. Recent news articles may also be retrieved from the portfolio watch list.  

In addition, Quicken offers many special reports based on the data that has been entered. These include a
performance report (shows all activity on that stock and gives the average annual yield), a capital gains report, an
investment income, and others.

Another report is your allocation of large cap, small cap, international, fixed income, and cash as a percent of your
total investment. Quicken also shows you how to set up a target allocation and presents models based on your risk
tolerance. Once set, you can use Quicken to compare your actual allocation with your target and get advice on how
to adjust your portfolio to meet the target.

As usual the meeting ended with coffee, cookies and one on one questions.



The final meeting of the Computer Club for the 2007/08 season was held on Tuesday, April 15, with another great
presentation by our own Bobbie Saul, Director of Education. The topic was GREETING CARDS, and using the
“Greeting Card Factory” program, she demonstrated the ease and fun of making your own greeting cards. She then
mentioned “Print Shop” as another greeting card program and that there are many others that you can buy. Most
programs range in price from $20 to $40.

One way to make a card is to print one from the program’s library. However, if you want the fun of being creative,
design your own by selecting a blank card that can be half fold tall, half fold wide, quarter fold, or others. All card
shapes are printed on 8 ½ x 11" greeting card stock which are usually scored to create a clean fold line.

The greeting card programs have a library of designs to select from and place on the front of the card, but you can
also select a picture from any other program in your computer. After placing the design on the front of the card, you
can add a border and/or a background, type a greeting such as “Happy Anniversary”, “Get Well Soon,” or another
text on the front of the card. Then select “inside” and type the message. You can also include another picture.
When typing text, you can select different fonts, colors, and special effects. You can also create freehand pictures
and create a logo on the back of the card. You can then print your card and an envelope. In addition, there are
many other forms that can be made from these programs, such as photo cards, note cards, announcements, labels,
flyers and more.

Bobbie suggested using the website: jacquielawson.com for sending E-cards. For $10.00 a year, you can send
unlimited E-cards. The cards are animated and very well done.



How to Forward an E-Mail

Did you ever get e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? This is
very annoying and time consuming. So stop it! By selecting the “Forward” button from the actual page you wish
someone to view, you stop them from having to open too many e-mails just to see what you sent.

(1)        You MUST click the 'Forward' button first to have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of
the message. If you don't click on 'Forward' first, you won't be able to edit the message.
(2)        Remove any 'FW' in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.
(3)        When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at
the top). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you
know how to do. It only takes a second.
(4)        When addressing, always enter your receivers in the BCC: area of the e-mail address box. This way you are
not exposing all of these e-mail addresses to the internet.
(5)        Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays,
check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for Years! Just
about everything you receive in an e-mail that is in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to: http://www.
snopes.com it’s really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on.
April 8th Program
April 15th Program
Tip of the Day