Connecticut Access User Group (CTAUG)
Note concerning irregularities in upcoming meeting schedule:
Date:
Tuesday, May
20 - 5:30PM to 8:15PM
Where: Microsoft Corporation, 74 Batterson Park Road, Pondview Corporate Center,
Farmington, CT
Note: We are meeting on a different day than usual in May. Mark your calendar.
Each month we strive to present material of interest to Microsoft Access users and developers of varying experience: beginner to advanced, hobbyist to professional. Meetings consist of one or more formal presentations. Also, attendees are invited to bring a problem or question about Access, relational database design, queries, VBA programming, etc., to challenge the expertise of our members.
At our May meeting:
- Eddie O'Reilly will do a 30 minute segment on "Transparent buttons and using the IE Browser control on a form"
- Main presentation: Keith Bombard will show us the code behind some of his special modules, including his nested-query unpacker utility
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Note to bulk EMail recipients:
If you are uncomfortable about having your EMail address displayed on these mailings, please let me know and I'll be happy to BCC you on future mailings!
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MONTHLY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:
Microsoft's Farmington Connecticut office
Located at "Pond View"
74 Batterson Park Rd. (near I-84, exit 37)
Meetings are free, and open to anyone interested in Microsoft Access and related topics.
(Please forward or publicize this information to others who may be interested.)
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APPROXIMATE SCHEDULE:
5:30 - 6:00 PM:
Informal networking/socializing, laptop setup, wireless login, etc..
6:00 PM:
Begin formal meeting
- Welcome and CTAUG Announcements
- Attendee Info Sharing (industry news, jobs offered or needed, educational opportunities, etc.)
- Introductions
- Technical Questions and Problems from Attendees are Invited
- Finalize meeting agenda
6:15 PM:
Begin major presentations, Show&Tells, Attendees assist attendees with technical questions, Query Demos, etc.
8:15 PM:
Approx ending time. Raffle/Prizes (if any)
- Continue networking/socializing/working on technical problems for a few minutes
- Straighten up the meeting room, etc..
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SNACKS:
Ed O'Reilly will bring snacks this month.
BOOKS, ETC:
Unless I find more, we're finished with distributing Frank Butash's computer books. Attendees are invited to bring no longer needed items that might be of interest to other attendees..
PLEASE JOIN OUR 'CTAUG' YAHOO! TECH GROUP:
If you have not already done so, please join our 'ctaug' Yahoo! group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ctaug/
One way of joining is to send an EMail to this address:
ctaug-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Once you become a member, you will be notified of (and can yourself post), information that is of particular interest to the CTAUG membership. Examples would include job opportunity postings, answers to questions that came up at a recent meeting, handouts and sample databases from presentations at past meetings, etc.
Eventually, most of our communications will be sent out via the Yahoo group's email list..
NOTE ON GETTING TECHNICAL SUPPORT FROM THE GROUP:
If you have a question or problem in one of our areas of interest (Access, VBA, SQL, database design, etc.) that's been bedeviling you, perhaps a fellow attendee can help. You are invited to bring your problem code or database on removable media, or pre-upload it onto our Yahoo! "ctaug" group site, so we can have access to it during the meeting. If it's something that might take more than, say, 20 minutes to work through, try to let me know ahead of time and perhaps we can schedule one of our more knowledgeable members to do a somewhat formal presentation on the topic.
WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS DURING THE MEETING:
If you will be attending the upcoming meeting and wish to have wireless Internet access, please communicate that to Hillary Williams, the receptionist at the Farmington office (v-hillw@microsoft.com). (Do this at least a few days before the meeting.)
The procedure varies slightly, depending on your situation:
A) If your info has already been entered into the system, just send Hillary a quick EMail identifying yourself as a CTAUG member and requesting that your access be renewed for the upcoming meeting.
B) If your info is NOT already in the system, send Hillary your request for wireless access at the CTAUG meeting and provide the following information:
Your EMail address,
Your first name,
Your last name,
CTAUG's Microsoft sponsor's "alias", which is "CBOWEN",
The date wireless access is to start (date of the meeting),
The date wireless access is to end (access is assumed to be for one day unless otherwise requested)
Don't hesitate to contact me with suggestions, errors, omissions, changes, etc. See you at the meeting!
Best Regards, -- James
James King, CTAUG President
(860) 677 - 2269
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Other Topics:
We are always looking for CtAUG Members to talk
about some of the projects they are working on. Our members' skills run the
gamut from beginner to expert, so you will always have an audience.
Got a Problem? Bring your ACCESS and VB questions to the meeting and let our experts have a shot at them. You can use our Meeting PC or bring your application along in a Laptop PC.