Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:24:04 -0500 From: Arnold Bilansky <71533.1031@CompuServe.COM> Subject: MS Office Group Announcements **** Table of Contents *** 1) Introduction 2) Thursday, November 18 Evening User Group Meeting 3) MS Office Day - Wednesday, November 17 4) Meeting Location 5) Special Event - Datacenter Tour 6) Our Web Page ************************************ 1) Introduction What has for several years been an all-day Access event on the third Wednesday of the month is now being transfromed into an all-day Microsoft Office event. The various Microsoft Office related user groups are participating, including the Access Group (who are the still the facilitators), the FrontPage Group, and our own Microsoft Office Group. I am contributing a pair of novice level presentations in the morning. See below for details. If you are interested in participating as a presenter please contact me. ************************************ 2) Thursday, November 18 Evening User Group Meeting This month's topic is "Word Styles And Templates". At the Wednesday morning session discuss manual formatting issues in Word. This presentation takes you to the next level. ************************************ 3) MS Office Day - Wednesday, November 17 Our agenda for the first "MS OFFICE DAY" is as follows: ************************************ MICROSOFT WORD User Group 9:30 am to 11:00 am ************************************ "Using Microsoft Word Properly" Session Presented by: Arnold Bilansky: 71533.1031@compuserve.com If you are a computer novice or even a technical wizard you are probably among the vast majority of people who do not use Word as it was designed to be used. This session introduces the fundamental techniques you should be using in every Word session. ************************************ MICROSOFT EXCEL User Group 11:00 am to12:30 pm ************************************ "An Introduction to List Management in Excel" Presented by: Arnold Bilansky: 71533.1031@compuserve.com Learn how easy it is to use Excel to manage lists. Find out in this session about: data entry, validation, sorting, subtotaling, extracting, consolidations, outlining, filtering, and more. . . ************************************ MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE User Group 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm ************************************ "FrontPage Intro and Server Extensions" User Group President: Rick Zach: rzach@usdatacenters.com Session Presented by: Harold Chataway, Senior Software Engineer: hchattaway@usdatacenters.com, Tel: (508) 481-0050 x 4106 This session will discuss some of the new features of FrontPage 2000. How to install and use the FrontPage extensions. Harold will cover why and when you need the extensions and how to administer them. ************************************ MICROSOFT ACCESS User Group 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm ************************************ "Beginner's Introduction to Access" Presented by: Rick Lunetta, President of Luna Systems Corporation: RickL@lunasystems.com ************************************ 4) Meeting Location Both meetings are at Microsoft, 6th floor, 230 Third Ave., Waltham MA. ************************************ 5) Special Event - Datacenter Tour I have been asked by the FrontPage User Group to pass the following announcement along. TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY Book Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 6:30-9pm We will not meet at Microsoft for this month only. The Boston Area FrontPage Users Group is meeting at USDataCenters.com for the open house of its new internet datacenter facility in Marlboro. This is a VERY rare glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes at your ISP or web hosting company. As a webmaster, you should have some idea of what goes into hosting your web site so now is your chance. USDataCenters was formerly known as WebSuperServer.com. Refreshments will be served. A DEFINITE raffle too! (Make that multiple raffles.) ___________________________________________ 6:30-9PM Monthly meeting of the Boston Area FrontPage Users Group Open to all. http://www.webss.com/frontpageboston User group background: This PC user group is a web authoring peer-peer self-help group co-sponsored by Microsoft and USDataCenters.com. The group normally meets at the Waltham offices of Microsoft but for this month only, we are switching the meeting for an on-site tour of this new internet datacenter. All are welcome. Just show up but read the instructions below. ____________________________________________ Instructions: Once in the building, go to Suite-260 to exchange positive photo ID for a security pass. You will then be directed to the datacenter area where a security guard will grant you access. Map: http://www.usdatacenters.com/contact_map.htm Tuesday, November 16th 3-9PM USDataCenters.com, Inc. 313 Boston Post Road West Suite-260 Marlboro, MA 01752 508-481-0050 x4300 ______________________________________ Rick Zach, President http://www.USDataCenters.com 508-481-0050 x4301 formerly WebSuperServer.com ************************************ 6) Our Web Page The Microsoft Office User Group Web page (along with several other user groups) is under www.webss.com. To unsubscribe from the Microsoft Office User Group list, send e-mail to majordomo@blu.org. In the first line of the message put: unsubscribe msoffice In the next line put: end The subject is ignored.