Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 19:38:50 -0400
From: Arnold Bilansky <71533.1031@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: July and August meetings
To: msoffice@BLU.ORG



Here is a listing of the July and August meetings for the MS Office,
VB Learn, and FoxPro user groups. All meetings are at Microsoft, 6th floor,
230 Third Ave., Waltham MA.
 
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Thursday, July 16 at 7:00pm
 
The Greater Boston Microsoft Office User Group
 
Topic: Are You A Microsoft Word Expert? Part I
 
We begin a survey of some of the topics tested in the Word version of the
Microsoft Office User Specialist expert exam. First on the agenda is a
discussion of the Word long-document we were not able to get to in our May
meeting.
 
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Thursday, August 20 at 7:00pm
 
The Greater Boston Microsoft Office User Group
 
Topic: Are You A Microsoft Word Expert? Part II
 
In July we started looking at topics covered on the Word version of the
Microsoft Office User Specialist expert exam.  First on tap this month are
the Word drawing tools.
 
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Monday, July 20 at 7:00pm
 
The Greater Boston Visual Basic Learning Group
 
Topic: VB Classes And ActiveX Automation
 
We continue our preparation for the Visual Basic Certification Exam. This
month's focus is on classes and ActiveX automation. As preparation, read
either chapters 8 and 10 in Dan Mezick and Scot Hilliers "Visual Basic 5
Exam Guide" (McGraw-Hill) or chapters 9 and 13 in Howard Hawhee's "Visual
Basic 5 Exam Guide" (Que).
 
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Monday, August 17 at 7:00pm
 
The Greater Boston Visual Basic Learning Group
 
Topic: What's New In Visual Basic 6?
 
We depart from our regular format this month for a special presentation. Two
weeks before the its ship date, Microsoft Senior Systems Engineer Russ
Fustino gives us a tour of the new features in Visual Basic 6.0.
 
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Wednesday, July 22 at 7:00pm
 
The Greater Boston FoxPro User Group
 
Topic: VFP Tricks & Traps
 
Andrew Kelly, of Blackstone, Inc., enumerates: Tricks of the VFP development
trade, Optimization techniques, and Common pitfalls to avoid.
 
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Wednesday, August 26 at 7:00pm
 
The Greater Boston FoxPro User Group
 
Topic: Visual Basic And Visual FoxPro Head To Head Comparison
 
Les Pinter, editor of The Pinter Database Newsletter, is preparing a series
of articles comparing VB to VFP. He shares his research findings with us
comparing: (1) Equivalent commands/procedures/menu selections for FoxPro
people who just might need to use VB, and (2) A couple of applications
written in VB and VFP to compare exactly which one is harder to code and
which one runs faster with 200,000 records. It will be very enlightening...
 
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 -Arnold