Computers - Managing files and folders

I have made this post as a record for myself and I thought it would help others

Apple - Creating Folders

Create a new folder by looking at the menu across the top of the screen. You'll find create new folder under file or edit.

Apple MacBook - Titling folders

The new folder pops up at the end of your list of folders after you've opened Finder. You click on the text and type in the new name. The folder disappears! Relax. It's moved up the alphabetical list from U for untitled to whatever letter you started the name with.

Apple MacBook - Moving files into folders.

Now you can move other files into your new folder. You can even move one folder into another if you've accidentally created two folders with the same name. You can find your folder easily by clicking on an icon at the top next to the eye (which means quick look - open it without altering it). This gives you a series of colours you can click on. The colour is not font colour but a highlight.

Filing Emails in G-mail

I create a file called 'A filing folder', using the letter A to bring the filing folder to the top of the list of files alongside my incoming mails. Then I can slide them across from my inbox into the filing folder. 

That way I haven't lost anything. I don't have to read the message. Just get it out of the way. 

I leave in the inbox meetings whose dates I need to check

I can later clear A Filing Folder and file a whole batch together. Which saves time.

Word - Filing files

To get a file to the top of the list, put an exclamation mark at the start.

Wedding Etiquette - by the author of Etiquette For Every Occasion

My old wedding etiquette books are available from several publishers on line. These books cover the basics, in chatty style.

Wedding Invitations

Wording can vary such as:

Formal:

(3rd person) xx request the honour of the company of 

Informal:

(2nd person)

xx invite you to help them to celebrate

have much pleasure in inviting you

Use a magnifying glass and you can read the wording of invitations shown to illustrate font and layout in wedding stationery printers.

Warning - you'll be tempted to order from them. 

Useful Websites

www.specialdaydirect.co.uk

freephone 0800 072 6585

Order online to save 5%

Stationery with laser cut lacey cut outs, printed roses, attached mauve ribbons, silver, gold and black printing, all sorts of things you would find it hard to do on a home computer. Seals for envelopes. Silver plated cake slicers. Order of service cards. Serviettes printed and personalised with your names and the date. Cakeboxes.  

www.confetti.co.uk 

Orderline 0844 848 9696

(Not just confetti - balloons, candles, ribbons, placecards, table number holders, invitations, presents for bridesmaids and helpers, cuff links, teddy bears - you name it.

About the Author

Angela Lansbury's books include

Wedding Speeches and Toasts

Etiquetter For Every Occasion

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

Wedding Invitation Wording

A contact on Linked-in wrote to me from India:

Need a little help... Am getting married in the month of April... I need your expertise in having some words wordings / para-phrases for my invitation card. The invite is going out to all friends, relatives etc from my parents.. Am so confused or rather clueless on what I would get the invite card printed as... I hope you could help me here...

My reply is:

In England usually the bride's family pays and issues invitations. However, modern families often have parties in two or three countries, his birthplace, hers, and a third country where the young couple worked and met.

You can see sample invitation working in the following places:

1 Books 

For example: The Wedding Planner by Angela Lansbury which is some libraries and may be available second hand on the Internet.

2 Internet printers who supply invitations.

3 A local printer of wedding invitations will have sample cards and offer you a choice of wording.

4 

basically it is all variations on Mr and Mrs X request the pleasure of the company of (recipient's name) at the marriage and/or reception of .........

List all the facts which must be given: (who what when where why)

Name of parents. Maiden name of bride to be. Location of wedding. Location of reception. Time of start. Whether ceremony time is prompt or approximate. Time of end. Dress code. Is reply necessary. If so, by when? Who do you reply to at which address and is a phone or email to be given?

Is the groom only son, elder son (ie of two sons) eldest son (of three or more), younger son (of two) youngest son (of three or more?

Is there a wedding list at a department store? Is there a best man or matron of honour to whom queries can be addressed? 

Are the bride's parents also to be mentioned. (Merely saying she is daughter of - or also their address for people who know both sides.)

Other books in your nearest library.

Correct title of father or mother?

Which wording will parents want? Are they happy, delighted, pleased, to announce?

Will food or drink be provided?

Will your invitation be separate to a reply card - in matching paper? With ribbons attached? In lucky or pretty colours? Formal and elegant? Or informal and welcoming.

Is it seated with numbers strictly allocation?

Or are all friends, relatives, colleagues, acquaintances, relatives of friends and well-wishers welcome?

Write out two or three version. Add in missing facts. If possible, ask the opinion of parents and bride to be.

You will also find websites for wedding organizers.

And DIY cheap weddings - which will give you ideas.

5 Wedding Magazines.

Your first attempt will look something like this:

Mr and Mrs John Smith are delighted to announce the forthcoming marriage of their elder son, Harry, to Jennifer Ann, youngest daughter of Mr and and Mrs Stephen Brown. The marriage will take place at the Willows Register Office, Forest Road, Hopville NW19, at 9 am on Monday June 9th 2100, following by a blessing at the Elephant Temple, West Road, Green Mountain, WJ294 at approximately 10 pm. (Dress code: Hats required.) A buffet lunch with drinks included will be served to all comers at the Haringay Hotel ballroom from 1 pm until midnight. All are welcome come as you are. Please reply to the groom's mother, Jenny Brown, 12 Kingsgate, Outriver, W239, tel: 2929 297 or to the bride's mother Elizabeth Smith, tel: 25943. 

Map enclosed for your convenience.

RSVP using enclosed card by March 11th 2009.

Another system is to have the address of the bride's mother lower right. and address of venue on a separate card, perhaps in bold or embossed in silver.

You might add purple ribbons, pressed flowers, sequins, or print the invitations on your own computer or even ask a relative with beautiful handwriting to write them or make a template and enlist your half a dozen siblings to help copy (checking each invitation for accuracy).

You might choose matching envelopes.

Bridal magazines have lots of advertisements including websites. For example the Uk distributed magazine Wedding (www.weddingmagazine.co.uk) contained a wonderful brochure of wedding invitations and favours. 

One company advertising in that issue is weddingbirdcards.uk.

You should also ask the venue for help.

You may find that your grandmother has definite views that certain people should be addressed as Honorouble, or Mondays are unlucky, or midweek weddings look cheap, or you can't invite anybody to a vegetarian / meat meal, or that you must provide free alcohol, or that the religious venue will not allow alcohol, or the priest must be mentioned, or that to use a woman's first name implies she is a widow, or that her maiden name must be mentioned.

The first people to keep happy are the grandparents and elders. Then both sets of parents. Then the bride and groom and their siblings, aunts, uncles, finally cousins, friends and so on.

The more information you can give prospective guests the better.

Sending e-cards - Valentine's Day Card at the office

When I used Word I had loads of CDs and downloads for making greetings cards.

Then along came free animated cards.

Now they all seem to demand money or are so complicated I never get them finished and uploaded. 

(Or they are too rude).

Now I'm on a MacBook.

Under Pages it has templates section and a list of cards including Miscellaneous.

But you can't rotate you picture in it, which you need to do if you print off an A4 page and fold it in half. 

My solution. I wrote a wonderful Valentine's Day poem.  (Anybody can do this. Write couplets. Four or eight is a easy number to count by sight or on your fingers.  Instructions are in my poetry workbook which I sell through Lulu or at Writers' Circle meetings or you can contact me.) 

 I printed my poem in colour with a coloured border on A4 paper.

In my MacBook I downloaded hearts and typed Happy Valentine's Day.

I printed the two A4 pages. How to link them? Easy. Make a hole in the top of both. Thread through a piece of gold thread (saved from the label on a new garment, a box of chocolates - I store them in my sewing box). Failing that, or in a hurry, grab a red elastic band from your stationery box.  (Link one end through the hole and out through the loop. It's then ready for the recipient to hang on a drawing pin on their office notice board. 

If you can use Word it's easier to print and rotate pictures.

To work out the layout is easy. Either take an old birthday card or leftover unused Christmas card and unfold it. You can then either write the letters A B C D on the four corners of the card.

Or take a piece of A4 and fold it horizontally and then vertically to make a card. Write A B C D on the top right of each page. 

If you want to make it easier, write the letters on all four corners of each of the four sections. and/ or huge in the middle of the page.

Unfold and you should see that A is top left section upside down. D is top right section upside down. B is lower left. C is lower right. If you cannot print upside down, try leaving blank pages and doing a pattern such as a sunburst which works any way up for the upside down pages. Hearts only work right way up, unless you want to turn them into cartoons by adding handwriting.   

Or you could go on line and download something as I have done below.

The weird thing was it had selected five pictures at random from my photo album.

Here's my first effort. I hope you find this interesting.

If you wish to email please do. To avoid scamming I'm putting spaces in the email and writing it out as I would say it.

a n n a l o n d o n 8 (figure eight) ( t h e n a t s i g n ) g m a i l d o t c o m

This code which I've copied is supposed to come out as their video.

Make a Smilebox postcard