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New Message Template - Lets you create a new message template within CustomMailer (you will get a warning if you are about to overwrite any unsaved changes to your current message template). You will also be asked if you wish to create plain text email message or an HTML email message.

Open Message Template - Leads to a submenu where you can select an Open Message Template command to specify a message template file name using a standard file open dialog or one of a set of previously opened message template files in a "history" list. CustomMailer will read the specified file in as your new message template (you will get a warning if you are about to overwrite any unsaved changes to your current message template). This becomes the default message template when you run CustomMailer next time and gets placed at the top of your Open Message Template file "history" list. Opening the first file in your file "history" list, which is your current (= most recently opened) message template, will cause the current contents of that file to be reread, overwriting any changes to your current message template in CustomMailer that have not be saved and picking up any changes made to your message template file by an external program. A message template file ending in .txt will be interpreted as a plain text email message, whereas a message template file ending in .htm or .html will be interpreted as an HTML mail message.

Save Message Template (Ctrl-S) - Writes out the current message template into the current (= most recently opened) message template file name. There is no overwrite confirmation. Your actual message template (in blue) is saved even if you are really viewing a customized message (in black) expanded from the message template for a given recipient.

Save Message Template As - Lets you specify a file name and writes out the current message template to the specified file. This becomes the default message template when you run CustomMailer next time and also for subsequent "Save Message Template" commands, and gets placed at the top of your Open Message Template file "history" list. Your actual message template (in blue) is saved even if you are really viewing a customized message (in black) expanded from the message template for a given recipient.

Page Setup - Brings up a dialog box where you can change printing parameters such as font, headers, footers, margins, etc.

Print (Ctrl-P) - Brings up the standard Windows print dialog and lets you print out your current message template.

New Mailing List - Lets you create a new mailing list within CustomMailer (you will get a warning if you are about to overwrite any unsaved changes to your current mailing list). A dialog will appear that lets you define (and reorder or delete) the new mailing list column names. You can later add, delete, edit, or reorder your column names using the appropriate commands under the "Edit" menu.

Open Mailing List - Leads to a submenu where you can select an Open Mailing List command to specify a mailing list file name using a standard file open dialog or one of a set of previously opened mailing list files in a "history" list, or your most recently opened database (if you have the CustomMailer Enterprise Edition). CustomMailer will read the specified file in as your new mailing list (you will get a warning if you are about to overwrite any unsaved changes to your current mailing list). This becomes the default mailing list when you run CustomMailer next time and, if a file, gets placed at the top of your Open Mailing List file "history" list. Opening the first file in your file "history" list, which is generally your current (= most recently opened) mailing list, will cause the current contents of that file to be reread, overwriting any changes to your current mailing list in CustomMailer that have not be saved and picking up any changes made to your mailing list file by an external program.

Reload Mailing List - Causes CustomMailer to re-execute your mailing list file reading or database query according to your current Preferences settings. This is useful in case you (or others) have independently changed your mailing list file or database from a different application while CustomMailer is running. Note that reloading the mailing list from the file or database will cause you to discard any changes you may have made to your mailing list inside CustomMailer using Add, Edit, Delete, or Append commands if these changes have not been saved. Also note that reloading your mailing list causes the "SendStatus" values to be reset to their original values and clears your "duplicate" information used to detect whether you've already sent to a given address.

Append Mailing List from File - Lets you add the contents of a mailing list file to the end of your current mailing list. It is not necessary that the appended file match your current mailing list in either number or order of columns. CustomMailer will attempt to match (case-insensitive) the column headings in your mailing list to column headings given in the first row of your appended file. A dialog will display each mailing list column with a popup menu showing the appended file column to be used (or "leave blank" when no matching name is found). You can use the popup menus to change the selection for any mailing list column to any column in the file (or "leave blank"). You can use using some columns more than once and others not at all.

If the first line of your appended file matches no column headings in your mailing list, it is presumed that you didn't use column headings in your appended mailing list. In that case the column headings "Column1", "Column2", etc. will be shown followed by the actual first row data value in each column so you can discern the matches for yourself. If you have additional columns in your appended file that you want added to your list, you first need to add some new columns to your mailing list using "Add Mailing List Column..." before appending the file.

After appending, the mailing list is scrolled so that the first visible line is the first line of the appended list.

Save Mailing List (Ctrl-Shift-L) - Writes out the current mailing list into the current (= most recently opened) mailing list file name. There is no overwrite confirmation.

Save Mailing List As - Lets you specify a file name and writes out the current mailing list to the specified file. This becomes the default mailing list file name when you restart CustomMailer and gets placed at the top of your Open Mailing List file "history" list. The "SendStatus" column will be included or not depending on the "Include 'SendStatus' in Save Mailing List" value in Preferences.

Save Selected Rows As - Lets you specify a file name and writes out the currently selected rows of your mailing list to the specified file. This lets you partition your mailing list into separate files based on selections you make either manually or using "Select using Filters" to test values in your mailing list or after using various commands under the "Tools" menu. The "SendStatus" column will be included or not depending on the "Include 'SendStatus' in Save Mailing List" value in Preferences.

Exit (Ctrl-Shift-Q) - Exits CustomMailer, asking you first whether you want to save any changes you made to your current message template and/or mailing list.

Edit

Undo (Ctrl-Z) - Invoking this menu command lets you undo the most recent change you've made either by edits in the message template or by selections (but not edits) in the mailing list, depending upon which portion of the CustomMailer window you have most recently clicked on. Only one level of undo is currently supported, so if you make a second edit or selection change, you can't back up more than one step. Rather, undo followed by another undo is a redo.

Cut (Ctrl-X) - Saves the currently selected text in any field of your message template to the system clipboard and deletes it from that field of your message template. It may later be pasted in CustomMailer or any other Windows application. Equivalently, you can perform a right mouse button click anywhere in your message to bring up a popup menu and select the Cut command for cutting the selected text to the clipboard.

Copy (Ctrl-C) - Saves the currently selected text in any field of your message template to the system clipboard but does not delete it from that field of your message template. It may later be pasted in CustomMailer or any other Windows application. Equivalently, you can perform a right mouse button click anywhere in your message to bring up a popup menu and select the Copy command for copying the selected text to the clipboard.

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