Too old for this ...

My brain does not absorb info like it used to, a condition you all have to look forward to.

Been running through the tutorial for BulkMailer 5 today. It's very different from the old version I have. I think, for our small purposes, it's comparable to using a Sherman tank to squash a bug. Hard to believe they make a version more advanced than this one.

IF I can get my own criteria set up, and IF I can get it to import my files from the old program, I may be able to try this out for next week's mailing. I ran an extra set from last week to use for this week, with minor changes, and may have to do that again for next time if my brain explodes or something. Surely I'll get it figured out sooner or later (and won't have to reenter 1500 names and addresses!).

Can't get this new PC to recognize the HP Laserjet printer .. not sure if it's the driver or something wrong in my network cord. Leaning to the latter, because I couldn't get the ancient old Mac to print anything last week, and for some time had been unable to get online. Need it to print on the laser to print out the mail reports because the label printer doesn't read the PostScript form, or at least the old one wouldn't. May take some detective work.

I do, however, have the new dot matrix printer hooked up but have not tried to run anything on it yet. Will have to format it for the 1x3.5 labels and all the other millions of little things that have to be set up. (Well, it feels like millions.)

Wish me luck . . .