From: donald nicklas Subject: [Boston-voice-users] December 12 Meeting Announcement Date: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 18:47:03 A quick reminder- our regular meeting is next week: When: Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 7:30 pm Where: MIT, Room 2-135 (directions below) Topic: MS Excel Productivity Meeting In the fourth of our series of meetings focusing on how to use speech recognition with other software applications, we will look at using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with Microsoft Excel. We will focus on re-creating a worksheet example taken from "Absolute Beginners Guide to Microsoft Office Excel 2003," by Joe Kraynak., published by Que. The meeting will be facilitated by Don Nicklas and a laptop connected to the overhead. We will hone our skills by creating and editing the Excel workbook referenced by the hyperlink below. The workbook, which does not contain macros, has been posted on our web site in advance so that attendees have a chance to practice before the meeting: http://home.comcast.net/~bostonvoiceusers/sales.xls Sample chapters from the book are available at: http://www.quepublishing.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0789729415&rl=1#info2 Participants are encouraged to share their ideas and techniques that work for them and also to go beyond what is presented in the workbook. If you have the opportunity, printout one of our flyers from http://www.Bostonvoiceusers.org and hang it up at your neighborhood library, supermarket, wherever you think appropriate! Boston Voice Users meets at MIT from 7:30 p.m. until approximately 9:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month. -------------------------------------------- Don Nicklas Boston Voice Users http://www.bostonvoiceusers.org/ -------------------------------------------- Directions to room: Go in the main door of MIT, at 77 Mass. Ave. Go three quarters of the way down the infinite corridor. Turn right at Building 4 and follow the main corridor of building 4 all the way to the end. Turn left, follow this corridor to the intersection of buildings 6, 2 and the corridor to the library (the corridor decorated with murals of jungle animals). Turn right and follow the corridor to room 2-135. You can also get in from building 14 (the library) or Building 8. For wheelchair access, there is a ramp and door to the left of the stairs at 77 Mass. Ave. (behind the bus stop) This entrance gives you basement level access to the elevator in Lobby 7 (the lobby at 77 Mass. Ave). For Directions to MIT, see http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg Please feel free to cross-post this message. ________________________________________________________________________________ ____ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Boston-voice-users maillist - Boston-voice-users@harvee.org http://harvee.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-voice-users BVU information page: http://www.bostonvoiceusers.org