long time lurker, very rarely a poster. please don't hold that against me. I am adding an address that is only used for 1 other person, so if I get spammed I will know where it came from iamprecious2000@yahoo.com I will miss you. I understand poor Spike's predicament and if I can come up with $15, will join. Money is extremely tight now, though, so it may not happen. I feel like I know you all personally and, in case I don't hear from you again, may you be blessed. Bye to all. Julie

If you cancel a Yahoo broadband contract here in the U.K. you can keep your email account providing you access it at least once every 90 days using dialup. I don't know about other countries. If you forget they send email reminders before closing the account. If you log off again quickly it is a minimal cost - just a nuisance. Colin

Making a phone list was the first thing I ever used Excel for, about ten years ago or more. I quickly discovered instead of listing name first to list the ten digit phone number since that column will always be the same size. And it is easy to keep alphabetized since a new entry can be inserted anywhere. I've never re-typed the list once. Just add or delete to the original. I print copies and three hole punch to put into a folder by our phone. Shrunk another copy to half size for the glove compartment of my car. At some point I started using the tabs at the bottom of the page to make new pages for: medical, school #'s, stores & restaurants, car info (insurance & parts & mechanics) and at least 5 or 6 more catagories. It is probably the most useful thing (even though it is fairly simple) I've ever done on the computer. The other very successful Excel file I started ten years ago was for medical appointments. I made a few columns that I fill in each time I schedule and complete an appointment. When I get the Explanation of Benefits in the mail weeks later and wonder what THAT was for I can check my own notes, in laymans terms. I also cross reference if I had a copay or needed some kind of follow up. It has helped me at the end of the year when I've had to claim Flexible Spending Account money. I have a medical condition so it has also been helpful to track my meds. The most helpful book I ever read on organization discouraged the use of PDA's. One of the common negatives that people fed back to her was the inevitable loss of data through a dead battery or "accident". I would never trust my dayplanner, medical history or address book to a PDA. At least on Excel you can have a hard copy printed out. I also have a copy on a flash drive. And I'm not that computer saavy!

At the ATT account website, my husband logged into our account and did a search and at their website, it says that you can keep it if the account is in good standing which there's no reason it wouldn't be. But my fear crept up when I google searched it and at their Community Forums, there are stories of people losing everything. I suppose they could have owed money or owed equipment but just didn't say that? I've started to go ahead and change email address at some of my accounts just to be safe since I have a couple other email addresses that I really don't use. This is proving to be a lot harder than I had expected with running into walls at some accounts. Now, Amazon is causing issues with the change email address in their settings, I'm finding it getting to a point in the process and then telling me my password is incorrect...UGH! So, I'm going to have to figure out how to get into contact with their customer service. It should be a simple process but I'm hitting that wall with it. UGH!