1) To date, all known difficulties in using these sites have been resolved by upgrading your browser to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6.0 (IE 6.0). It’s a free download at www.microsoft.com/ie . For Netscape users, it is possible to use two different browsers on one machine at the same time. The NA worksites have full functionally only with IE 6.0. AOL uses a modified version of Netscape. Some of or AOL users have used the worksites without difficulty. We recommend that users access the internet with whatever browser your ISP provides. Once online, open up IE 6.0 and navigate to the worksites.

2) Remember that you do not have to ‘upload’ or ‘download’ documents. All documents on the worksites are posted in html (web browser) format. To view and print a document; enter the worksite with your user name and password, click on "Documents" at the top of the page, click on the file folder which contains your document and click on the document’s name and it will appear in your IE 6.0 browser window as a readable, printable document. The ‘New Document,’ ‘Upload Document,’ and ‘Edit’ icons have functions which are not yet available to most of our users. Use of these functions requires additional ‘Permissions.’ As we all learn how to use these sites, additional permissions will be granted.

3) A full description of all the site’s features and functions is available on line at www.nachurch.org , look for the ‘Quick Launch’ column on the left hand side of your browser and click on ‘Information Site Instructions,’ then click on the document’s name, ‘Work Site Instructions’. This is a large document, as it contains numerous graphics. If your connection speed is slow, it may take a little time to appear. It is suggested that you print these instructions for future reference. At the end of this document you will find information on how to purchase Microsoft’s Office XP Standard at a not-for-profit price of fifty-six dollars per user (minimum five users) plus twenty dollars for the software media (CD). Using Word, especially Word XP opens up amazing possibilities in document collaboration and the exchange and correction of documents and information.

4) Members of each worksite are ‘subscribed’ to each document folder. This means that you will receive an email notification when a change has been made to any of the contents of each folder. Users may also subscribe to individual documents (instructions in the on-line manual) as well as unsubscribe from a document or folder. To unsubscribe, click on the word ‘unsubscribe’ contained in the email notification.