Regarding the BCC when you click 'Forward' you then click on the tiny word 'To' beside where you place your address and your address book drops down listed on the left side and on the right side are spots for 'To', 'CC' and 'BCC'. If you want everyone to have a copy highlight the first address, hold down the 'Shift' button and tap 'End' - beside the Delete button - then click the BCC tab. To select a few highlight the first one, hold down the CTRL (or Control on some keyboards) and click on those you want to have the email. Release the buttons on completion and click BCC. In both cases click OK to send the addresses into the address bar.

thanks tumblenweed, it appears i can not do what i want. i saw the categories but frankly these are distribution lists ie more than 1 email address bundled into 1 generic name. so if you want to email 12 different people, grouping them into a distrib list makes it easy to send an email to them as you select just 1 recipient vs selecting all 12 individually. it would make no sense to put my commonly contacted email addresses into a distb list as then i'd be sending email to all them. it sure was nice to be able to put people into groups (folders) and then open that folder and select the address i wanted vs looking thru dozens of email addresses. i am surprised that yahoo hasn't figured this out. the only way around this is to put a prefix in front of email names that will then sort them and group them together. what a dopey way to get this but i may do it. thanks, tom

I'm sorry I think this is user set up error here. After the creation of a message rule did you select the "Apply Now" button? Did you select all the "OK" buttons when exiting? I ask as I have been remiss in clicking all the necessary buttons when building a rule, and it has failed. In your frustration to get the message rule option to work, did you create multiple entries for the same rule? If so, remove all but one. In a last ditch effort you could remove all the message rules and start from the beginning. DA

What was the suffix on the original email you could not open? Was it .pps - .ppt - or was there an additional x on the end of either suffix? You cannot simply change a suffix, all that does is ruin the file entirely. If you have MS Office you do not need Open Office. However if it is an older version (97, 2000 or 2003) and you receive a PowerPoint 2007 presentation it may not work. You can download the stand alone player from Microsoft from the link below. Take a look here and see if that cures your problem. PowerPoint presentations are among the best emails you can get in my opinion. The program was and still is basically a program for the office environment but many have found it an excellent way to show off family or scenery photos. Here is a link that might be useful: PowerPoint 2007 player