Guideline and Quick Tips For Navigating The IPIU Forums

[Kanda Force]

For AOL users:
Using an AOL web browser will cause problems.

If you use AOL to "connect to the internet", then once you are on the internet - click on the small blue e at the bottom left side of your screen to use Internet Explorer as a web browser.

Then once you have an Explorer web browser up, go to the top where the tool bar is and click on the HELP button of the browser. Under the HELP, click on the option titled About Internet Explorer.

Then read to see what version of the browser you have. If it says VERSION: 6.0 (or higher), then you have the latest web browser. If it is VERSION 5 or less, then go to http://www.microsoft.com/homepage/ms.htm to download a free upgrade.

1. Once your browser issues are certain that they are working, then review our forum's FAQ: Click Here
   
   
2. Then click on the following Newcomer's Topic and follow the instructions:
   http://www.ipiu.org/forums/showthrea...&threadid=5008

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Remember to read the ANNOUNCEMENT at the top of each topic list that says Read This First.

Personal questions about your personal file information and progress are not discussed on these forums. Personal inquiries should be emailed here: Contact Us Link

But you are free to discuss "general questions", such as the normal time frame of processing that pertains to all of the members.

(And if you are a Newcomer to this web site, after you have read this topic - please click here for more great welcoming tips: Newcomers do this first! )

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Is located in the upper and lower left hand corners, just inside each forum where you see all the topic titles.

Click on this button when you want to author a new subject in a selected forum.
Before you author a new thread, browse through each forum to view the various Topics already there. If you can not decide which forum to post your new topic, simply put it in the After Hours Lounge, which is where all of the off-topic and other chit-chat discussions are. A moderator will help you out.
*As you roam around all the forums, you will come across some forums that will ask you for your User Name and Password again. That probably means that the forum is private and you have not been cleared (yet) to enter it. Don't worry, just use the BACK arrow and return to select another forum to visit.

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Is located in the upper and lower left hand corners of each topic.

Click on this button when you want to reply to a specific thread. A thread is a topic or subject already started. Remember, this is a reply option.

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You will find this button inside each post. Use this feature when you want to include part or all of that post in your response. You may edit out any part of the quoted material in your post.

This feature also allows you to see exactly what keystrokes were used to insert an icon, color or other enhancement used by the author.

Example: "David Copeland" posts a thread or reply, then 2 more members respond. Now you want to respond to something specific in David's post. Find David's post and click on the button inside his post. You will get a message text box with David's "quote" inside showing exactly how he got certain text to be blue or the smilie was made. You may use this message box to make your reply.

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After composing your reply or new thread, you may review your work by clicking on the preview reply button at the bottom. To make changes, scroll down to the text area. To submit, click on the submit reply button.

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Other useful buttons.

FAQ

This feature is located in the blue bar at the top of each page. Inside you will find a free tutorial on using the software.

Then jump over to the Test Your Forum Writing Skills On This Forum and begin trying what you have learned.

The Search option is now located in the upper blue bar at the top of each forum. To search the entire board, click on "Advanced Search" inside the Search function to quickly find a subject by a specific word or member.

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As you become familiar with the forum, you will find other tools for navigation a time saver.

Active Topics option is located in the very top blue bar to the left the Search button. This allows you to view all new posts since your last visit, choosing in the drop-down menu from today to several days or weeks ago.

While looking at the main forum page, you will see a date, time and the authors name for the last post in that forum. To view that post/thread, click on the after the name.

You are reading a thread/post inside a forum and now you wish to access another forum. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see Forum Jump and a drop box. Simply click on the down arrow and select the forum you wish to access next. You will automatically be taken there, as long as you have access to that forum.

Once again, after you read this topic, click here: Newcomers do this first!

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You may find the following information useful also.

New posts

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Thread is closed

Hot thread with new posts

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Topic is stuck (Indicates an important topic)

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Updated 10/3/2007

[Amy Bedell]

Thanks for the info. It will make navigating the forums much easier.

[Hugh Brown Jr]

Thanks Kanda I did not know that I could all this.

[Tony Zamberlin -]

Thanks for the help.

[Jonathan Paige -]

Kanda: Thank you for the tips they will be a big help. It's so easy to get lost in this forum.

[Terry Brage -]

this quick tip realy helped.

[Jim JR Rusk -]

Thanks for this info. I just found it to night and it will help me for sure because I do have problems with this. So thanks again.

[Bruce McManus]

Thanks for the info on the icons, this really helps.

[Cathy Harding]

Thanks Kanda, I was wondering what those little envelopes were.

[Luke A Slowik]

Thank you for the very useful information. Being new it can be very overwhelming.

[Kaitlyn Jolly -]

This is very helpful!! I am not familiar with this software and when you use a different software it makes this one seem so foreign.

Dawn

[Michael Harris]

This is very helpful!! I am not familiar with this software and when you use a different software it makes this one seem so foreign.

Dawn,

When I was a newbie, there were a quarter-million fewer posts on the IPIU forums. Even then it was daunting.

Just take it slowly and you will do well.

[Robert Fish]

Thank you for the information. Being new, I can use all the help I can get. Bob

[Nathan Whitlock -]

This is a very useful set of tips and I wish i would have found it a year ago. NATE

[Douglas A. Roehrig -]

Thanks Kanda! This post was very helpful.

[David Turner -]

Now this is a post that I will bookmark for future reference. Thank you very much!

[Richard Hart]

Thanks for the Information, this sure will
help me in navigating through the forums.

[Keith Pugh]

thanks for the info. I think it may help

[Tia LaRock]

I am new to this site and so far have found it to be very informative of what I can expect to learn from here and to know that I can receive helpful information on how to become a Private Investigator. I am excited to start a new career in the future and couldn't do it without the knowledge and expertise advice from other members who have been here for awhile and have worked their way up to the other access levels.
I am sure that as time goes on, I will learn a lot from here and can put it to great use once I start working on assignments from here.

[Danny Guda]

Hello,

Thank you for this very good information. I will used when ever im lost.

dannyguda