Blogmaster writes …  Recent developments including the rise of postage have seen the Province requesting summonses sent to them in PDF format (portable document format) this necessitates the use of software to produce the PDFs from Word or whatever your favourite word processor is, below I have attached two free pieces of software which will [...]

W.Bro Sylvester Crowley writes … Following on from the useful posting about reading docx files I offer another solution also free of charge. Ref 7th December 2010 One can download OPEN OFFICE from http://www.openoffice.org/  This is a very similar suite of programs to Microsoft Office.  The useful tip is that the Open Office Writer will [...]

You may have noticed that more and more documents are sent to you with docx and xlsx file extensions, this is because the 2007 onwards versions of Word and Excel now store their files in an XML format, this is fine if you have compatible software but what if you have Office 2003 or earlier [...]

by Martyn Daley I am repeatedly asked to change members addresses on the Provincial Mailing List. The only person who can do this is the member themselves, through Yahoo. In my experience, the easiest method is for the member to send a blank email from the new address to province-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and, if you still have [...]

This article is meant to help those of us secretaries who need to send out lots of letters and summonses over the course of the Masonic year, but don’t know how to save time by using Mircosoft word to address the letters or to produce labels. Of course, if you are not a Secretary you [...]