On Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 4:28 pm -0400, Charles Maurer wrote:

>Karsten Liere wrote (03/06/2003):
>
>>I just observed that the Services submenu is missing in PowerMail
>>although it's showing up in any other application.
>><http://homepage.mac.com/karstenliere/2001/PhotoAlbum25.html>
>>I'm pretty sure that it used to work. However, I'm not using the feature
>>very often, so I don't know when exactly it stopped. I tried repairing
>>the disk permissions to no avail. 
>>
>>Maybe there's someone out there with a clue...
>
>There is a limit to the number of services that can be shown by Carbon
>apps.  Exceeding this limit by one drops all services off the menu. 
>Apple have known about this bug for some time but have not fixed it.  The
>workaround is to put all applications whose services you don't use in to
>another folder (I use "/Applications (No Services)") and put aliases to
>them into /Applications.  Note that to see changes in the menu, you need
>to log out.

Thanks for that aliases tip Charles; I finally have working WordServices!
And having actually rtfm'd the Readme, I see DevonTech do warn people
about the bug. By the way, they say that it usually appears at about the
60-70 item mark; I found that I had to trim the list down well below that.

TimH 


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