Oct 2004
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Our Next Excel Meeting is: Wednesday, October 13,  2004
News,Tips and Puzzlers: Revised: 12-Oct-2004  and Tips of the Month

Info on Office 2003 Service Patch 1 - Information, Links, and Opinions  (Revised 1-Sept)
            Windows XP Service Pack 2 - the major security upgrade  (Revised 1-Sept.)
            "
Blue Screen of Death" seen on many of Intel's newest systems.

6:30-7:00 pm  General Questions and Problems from the Audience
7:00 - 8:00 Comparing two Lists in Excel 
What is common?   What exists in only one list?  
Making a union of lists.

Stephen Rasey will be at the meeting.  
SIG member Lawrence Rosenberg has agreed to help lead the SIG in October.  

8:00 Break
8:10
at 9:00

Data Input Validation.
If time permits: 
Woody's Technique 35: Building Self-Verifying Spreadsheets.
Woody's Technique 37: Ripping through Lists.

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News, Tips, and Puzzlers:

26-Sept
Excel VBA: How to retrieve the Range Name of the Active Cell?
20-Sept
Patrick O'Beirne, Systems Modelling Ltd. http://www.sysmod.com/   (From Excel-L)
14-Sept
Spreadsheet Modeling Best Practices: Read, Baston, Business Dynamics: April 1999.   102 p. PDF
Access: How to put the current record at the top of a continuous form?
11-Sept
See Spotfire Hurricane Tracks for Hurricane Ivan at http://stephenrasey.com
9-Sept
Rasey's Spotfire Hurricane Tracks as it applies to Hurricane Ivan as of 20040908

Case Study the WiserWays Spotfire Hurricane Historical Tracker.   It was to predict whether 2002 Hurricane Lili was a danger to Houston.   
Total time to prepare the data, database and Spotfire Application:  4 hours.
See October 2002 meeting for other notes.

8-Sept
Sept 8 SIG Notes and Agenda
7-Sept
Bob Umlas, Excel MVP, is leading a FREE 1-hour seminar on the web on Excel tips & tricks.
Tuesday, 9/21, from 3-4PM est.   To sign up, go to http://www.iil.com, click on the orange box on the left side saying "try a free webinar", then click "Microsoft Excel 'Tips and Tricks'"   then click the link to sign up.   (From the Excel-L Developers mail list).
5-Sept
For the Sept 8 meeting: Notes on Combining the Signals recorded in web Query workbook with Historical Prices from Yahoo.
Excel Bug:   You cannot change the Pivot Chart Data series colors and have them stay.
3-Sept
MSDN: How to Install Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
BLOG: Peter Tor (MS) - Office Development, Security, and Randomness.  http://weblogs.asp.net/ptorr/   (found on ms.public.vsnet.vstools.office 3-Sep-04)
PowerPoint: epic software group, inc.  Ten Steps to Producing a Successful Multimedia CD-ROM Presentation.
1-Sept
More notes on Digital Certificates
Woody's Office Watch on Office 2003 Upgrade: upgrade Win XP SP2 first.   Wait a few weeks for Office 2003 SP1 upgra

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