Hello folks,

	This folder contains the Yahoo Power-Pro Mailing List archives in
Keynote's .knt format. At the time of this writing, I had completed
the archives for the year 2000, 2001, 2002 and monthly updates for the
year 2003. There is no readme file added to each archive. This is the 
only readme file.

This archive is in KeyNote's .knt format. You need to download and
install KeyNote from
Homepage: http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html
Download Page:
http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote_download.html

Since we were fast running out of space in the yahoo groups files section,
David Troesch has taken up the task of maintaining the older archives in his
website:
Link: http://www.pcrei.com/ppro/files/PPML_Archive/pproPPMLA_Archive.html

Thank you, David.

I have tried to use a table of single row and column as a box, to distinguish
the scripts. You will be needing riched20.dll (version 4 or above) to view them
properly, otherwise the table will look mangled. I have no idea from where you
could get it from. They are supposed to have been distributed along with
Office 2000, WinXP, Project and Visio 2002 and Windows Server 2003. Good luck
in getting the required dll file if you don't it.

I have modified all the older archives to use this table. So if you like this feature try
downloading all the old files again (Please look at the uploaded date. Only files posted
after October have this feature).

Once downloaded, follow the steps given below.

0. Unzip the archive file
1. Open KeyNote.
2. Click File > open
3. Open the Keynote file containing the archive for the year 2000
4. Click Tools > Merge Notes
5. A "Select file to merge notes from" Dialog Box will open.
6. Now navigate to the folder where you have unzipped the archive
files and select "PPMLA_2001.Knt" file.
7. Press the "Open" button.
8. A "Notes in PPMLA_2001.knt" Dialog Box will appear.
9. Check the only one entry that will appear there. (A tick mark
will appear by the side of the checked item).
10. Select OK
11. Now the new note with the name 2002 will appear as a new tab.
12. That's it! you are done.
13. Follow the steps 4 - 13 similarly for merging 2001, 2002-I and
2002-II archives.

Merging 2002-I and 2002-II files:
1. Goto the 2002-II note and select "08. Aug" folder
2. right click on it  > transfer subtree > Lift subtree
3. Goto the 2002-I note and select the root folder.
4. right click on it  > transfer subtree > graft subtree
5. now the whole "07. July" folder will be added to the 2002-I note.
6. carry out similar steps for copying the entire 2002-II folders
into the 2002-I note.
7. Once you have finished the entire process, delete the 2002-II note
8. Rename 2002-I note to 2002.

Note: You cannot do lift and graft subtree operations if 2002-I and
2002-II are in separate files. That's why you have to first merge
both of them into a single file and then follow the above steps. In
the end you can right click on the root folder > sort > sort entire
tree, to sort the tree in ascending order.

	Though I have given the steps to collect all the years' archive
into a single .knt file, mainly for searching purposes, my personal
advice is to keep each year's archive in a separate .knt file like,
2000.knt, 2001.knt, 2002.knt etc. This is because Keynote struggles as
the file size becomes larger taking longer time to open, save and
search. Since you can open multiple .knt files at the same time
(tools > configuration options > general settings > uncheck "allow
only one instance") it should be no problem.

	I have also planned monthly updates of the archive. As far as the
Jan2003 update is concerned, there will be no problem since the year
is starting new. But for further updates like for in Feb., you will
have to first merge the new update with 2003.knt file and then lift
and graft the new updates into it.

Phoenix: There will be a separate folder called "Phoenix" with each
monthly update of the group postings. This folder will contains threads
which were originally started in previous months, but were still continuing
in the present month. Please copy them into their original thread and
delete this folder once done.

If you have any doubt downloading/using the archive, don't hesitate
to contact me at <nathan0@gmx.net>

Hope you find these compilations useful.

regards,
Nathan
03-12-2003