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Greetings!
Next PC3 General Meeting
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Piedmont Natural Gas Building
6:45PM to 9:00PM
May Program
The program will be presented by Bill Barnes who will
give us a firsthand look at "New features of Office
2003".
Views From the Top 
Richard Kinkel, President
I have the pleasure to welcome Patrick Rogers
to the PCCC club's Board. Pat is an executive committee
member and is our clubs new secretary. He told us the
reason he was interested in becoming a board member was
to give something back to the club, since he has been
enjoying our club SIGS over the years. By the way if you
haven't attended any of our fine SIGs I encourage you to
do so now. You will be pleasantly impressed. The SIGs
start the week after the general meeting. On Monday Bill
Barnes does his MS Office SIG. I have attended several
of his SIGs and it's like taking an expensive course,
except you don't have to pay anything, except the cost
of membership which is only $15. Bill is an MS Office
professional and charges for his MS Office services. By
attending his SIG you really get your money's worth.
Tuesday I do the Digital Photography SIG. I've been a
commercial photographer since 1976 and charge big bucks
for my services. Ask my clients and they will agree. But
you get to share my photography secrets just for the
cost of membership.
Thursday, Dr. Paul Reiss does the internet SIG. Paul
is witty and always has something really cool to share
with you. Check out his SIG, you'll find it
entertaining. Plus Paul is friendly, and has a great
sense of humor. He also has an endless supply of jokes.
Go to one of his SIGs, you'll learn something I promise.
Well that about raps it up. I do want to say one
thing though. At the last board meeting, we had record
attendance and literally filled the room with club and
board members. What energy and what talent our club has.
And I want to let everyone know how thankful to be part
of this organization. See you at the next meeting.
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Keith
Wales, Sr.
I am going to keep this short this month as
Pam & I are heading out on Thursday Night
for Florida for a long week. I did want to say a
few words about last months and this month's
General Meeting.
Last month Galen Bolen presented a great
program on, "Putting Music on CD from Your
Computer". I have been there for several of
Galen's presentations over my time in the Club
and this one was excellent as always. Thanx
Galen. The link in Web Potpourri is to a
page that has the software Galen talked about
and demonstrated. If you want it just click on
the link.
This month, and I am sorry Pam and I will
miss it, is why upgrade to Office 2003 presented
by our own Bill Barnes, VP PCCC. Bill, like
Galen, is always entertaining and informative.
If you have any friends at work who work in MS
Office please invite them along next Thursday. I
am sure they will glad they came.
This months eBytes and Bits is going
to be a little slim partially because of my time
but also because of a lack of articles from the
members. I have been saying this for Three Years
now I would love to have articles from the
members. I have a faithful few but anyone could
write an article on something you have done with
your computer or to your computer or an
interesting site you found. Think about it and
send me one next month.
Well it's time to get packing, literally. See
you next month.
Editor
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Upcoming
Meeting Topics |
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May
What is New in Office 2003
By Bill Barnes, Office SIG Director
- June
Trends in Graphic Design
We will have an outside speaker
- July
Swap Meet
Always fun bring your Stuff
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| Bill
Barnes, PCCC
We just bought a new projector for our new
conference room. The company has a national
contract with Dell, all the computers are Dells,
and I generally like Dell. So, I ordered a Dell
XGA projector.
This new projector has many more bells and
whistles than are necessary for simple fixed
conference room use including light weight with
a nice carrying case; inputs for VGA, RGB, and
composite video among others. We probably
wouldn't use those features, but that's what you
get for the base price.
I was testing it out and plugged my Dell
laptop into the projector. It took some
fiddling, but soon enough I had a picture and
focused it on the wall where we had a screen on
order. The first actual use of the projector
would be on my day off, so I tested it again the
day before. Although the lamp was on, I couldn't
seem to be able to transfer the image from my
laptop to the projector. I carried the laptop
back to my desk and plugged it into a monitor,
hit Fn-F8 so I knew I was getting signal out the
video port, and then plugged it into the
projector. No problems.
Next day, I get a call at home from the
office manager who's setting up for the honchos
that he can't get anything through to the
projector. I relate the procedure I used to
verify output from the laptop, tell him where
the spare monitor is in my office and the
presentation goes on.
When I get back, I start experimenting.
Apparently the Dell laptop is so smart that it
looks at the VGA port and if there's no monitor
attached says, "Uh-un, even though he's
asking me to send a signal out, I'm not going to
waste the power for the port if there's nothing
there." Meanwhile, the projector is cycling
through a half dozen possible inputs, looking at
the VGA for only a couple seconds at a time
before moving on. If you don't transfer the
laptop to the external monitor at the right
moment, the two (Dell) devices won't see each
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Interest Group
Next week will be our SIG week and we will
have several during that week. The schedule is
as follows:
Office SIG
Monday, May 17, 2004, 7:00pm
CompUSA, South Boulevard and I-485
Digital Camera SIG
Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 7:00pm
CompUSA, South Boulevard and I-485
Internet SIG
Thursday, May 20, 2004, 7:00pm
CompUSA, South Boulevard and I-485
Keep watching the SIG Listings for the
announcement of the beginning of the NEW:
WEB DESIGN SIG
Coming soon to a location near you.
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April
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Rogers, Secretary
IN ATTENDANCE
Richard Kinkel, President, Pat Rogers, Paul
Riess, Ted Hessberg, Pam Wales, Keith Wales,
Bill Barnes, Bob Carroway, Jack LaPointe, Dewey
Williams, Loren Dobosy,
REPORTS, PROPOSAL, SUGGESTION & INPUT FOR
UPCOMING MEETING
Minutes of meeting
President Richard Kinkel, start the meeting at
5:40PM
1) Pam Wales, treasury report : treasury is
healthy with a balance of $2800.00
2) Jake LaPointe & Loren Dobosy , Publicity
Report: nothing to report at this time.
3) Bill Barnes, Program Report: Topic for the
Month of May, 04 , Office 2003 or Q&A , for
the Month of June Graphic and Swap-meat for the
Month of July.
4) Bob Carroway, Membership Report: Due to lack
of time report will be E-Mail.
5) Dewey Williams, Webmaster Report: Website is
fine
SPECIAL INTERST GROUP REPORT
1) Microsoft Office: Sig Director Bill
Barnes, stated topic for May, OLE (object
linking & embedding) and for the Month of
June, topic will be Forms.
2) Digital Photography: Sag Director Richard
Kinkel, Topic for May, to be announce later.
3) Internet: Sig Director Paul Riess, announce
that topic for next meeting will include chat
speak .
4) Bill Barnes, mention that He is trying to
secure a new place (Centacs) to start Web Sig.,
more on that to come.
OTHER BUSINESS
1) Membership Report will follow the Treasury
Report.
2) Next Board Meeting will be on May 24, 2004
3) Ted Hessberg, mention about receiving and
donating PC, He also elaborated on the pros and
con.
4) The Xmas party was mention, and wheels must
start rolling because its getting late.
February Treasurers Report
Beginning
Balance............................$2552.51
Income (From Memberships) ..................
Expenses (Newsletter)...........................
Current
Balance...............................$2552.51
Submitted By Pam Wales
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| Bill
Barnes, PCCC
You all check the forum on the club website
every week, don't you. You've never been to the
forum? Shame. You didn't know the club had a
website? Just click the "Go To
Forum" link at the bottom of the page.
I won't quote the messages here, but will
tell you some topics you're missing out on. We
have conferences on "Help
Desk", "Service Project",
"Board Discussions", the "Web
Design/HTML" SIG, and "General
Discussion".
At the Help Desk you can ask technical
questions and get answers from others in the
club or cyberspace who may have some knowledge
on your topic. Recent questions range from not
seeing emailed pictures and how to empty the
Temp folder to a problem with a .DLL for a
specific professional program. Not all of these
got a resolution, but they opened discussion.
The Service Project is a place to see
immediate updates on our project to recondition
computers.
Board Discussions allows you to watch
over and join in the Board's deliberations
between the monthly Board dinner. Recently
there's been an opportunity to put your two
cents' into a lively debate over the adjustment
of our dues.
If there's demand, each SIG can have a place
to cover topics of specific interest. Right now,
Dewey is soliciting ideas for what we want to
cover in his Web Design/HTML SIG.
General Discussion lets you talk about
anything computer. Suggest a program topic (if
you want to present one, please contact
board@pc3.org directly). Unload, or look for
some old equipment. Confess the location of the
WMDs. Just about any topic is welcome here.
If you can't find the forum from PC3.org,
just click the link below. We're waiting to
respond (we don't promise an answer) to your
questions, hear (we don't promise to listen)
your gripes or plaudits, or consider your for
sale. If you come back frequently, and we hope
you all do, please register (click
"User") so we can honor your
insightful writing.
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Download Sites
Here are some links from the April meeting on
Rip & Burn and May meeting on Office
2003.
Send me your favorite sites and you to could be
in the spotlight next month.
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