Lifehacker Post - Make Microsoft Word less annoying

There are quite a few very good tips in the posting, linked to in the above title, regarding customizing Microsoft Word (2003 specifically) to make it easier to use only the features that are important to the way you work.

Those of you who have attended any of the BPCA Word Processing SIG meetings, know that I have been advocating similar measures for all the various word processors and even most other applications.

Check this out and let me know what you think.

FACUG Conference and MySpace

At the FACUG Spring 2007 Conference, the new President James Thompson requested that everyone create a MySpace account and include himself and others on the friends list, to make it easy for everyone to communicate regarding issues pertaining to the operation of computer user groups.

To that end I have created http://www.myspace.com/bpca_steve, as my account and added him and several others to my friends list.

James has numerous blog entries regarding FACUG and its operation on his site http://www.myspace.com/cocoabeachsunset.

The only problem I have with using MySpace is that access is blocked through the proxy at work, so I can only really use it from home. I do like the ability to IM (Instant Message) right from within my account and have communicated with James a few times already with some ideas and comments.

I do recommend that others set up their own MySpace accounts and use them to make FACUG better, as well as enhancing the operation of their own group.

C:\BPCA News for March 2007

I finished up the March 2007 edition of the Broward Personal Computer Association, Inc. (BPCA) newsletter and emailed the subscribers and posted to ftp://ftp.bpca.com/newsletter/2007.

Now that I have a little time before the next issue is due I should be able to finish up the report on the FACUG (Florida Association of Computer User Groups) 2007 Spring Conference Gerry Gerstenberg and I are working on and get it published in the April issue.

As portions of the report are finished, I will post some of them in this blog, at least those that warrant posting.

Anything regarding FACUG will be tagged as such to make it easier to find.

FACUG 2007 Spring Conference Posting Problems

Well everything did not work out with access to the web this weekend, see my notes from Friday below for an explanation:

Friday March 2, 2007

Gerry Gerstenberg and I arrived in Kissimmee for the 2007 FACUG (Florida Association of Computer User Groups) Spring Conference, checked in to the hotel; registered for the conference and went to the Vendor Faire, later in the evening.

The Quality Inn Heritage Park hotel provides free wireless internet access, unfortunately though I was able to log in and check my email upon arrival upon my return from registration and the Vendor Faire, I was no longer able to access the internet so could not post updates, nor respond to any of those emails.

I did contact the provider DeepBlue Wireless but, after several attempts by their tech support personnel, who were very patient, was unable to resolve the problem.

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I am posting this just to advise why, I did not post each day of the conference.

I am disappointed that I could not update as to what was going on, as it was going on.

The conference was very informative, in regards to user group operations.

There will be a write up providing a summary of various sessions attended, by either myself or Gerry, in the April 2007 edition of C:\BPCA News and I will provide a link to that when it is posted at the beginning of April.

This write up should give some idea of the type of useful information that is available for user group officers by their attending such a conference.

As I go through the various handouts and packets of information, I will post regarding some of them here, while in the process of composing the complete write up for C:\BPCA News.