BENTSEN GROVE COMPUTER CLUB BULLETIN

Week of February 24th 2003

 

MEETINGS

MONDAY

ROOM 3R

 

BEGINNERS

MEETING

9:30 AM

 

GENERAL

MEETING

10:30 AM

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS:

If you would like to meet in a small group to discuss one of the following subjects, contact the following people.

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

WEB PAGE

GREETING CARDS

INVESTMENT CLUB

 

Bill Wiese

Harold Buechly

Donna Stanwood

Corinne Higbee

 

580-3184

519-7375

581-1671

585-5664

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EMERGENCY

RESPONSE

TEAM

John Abbott….424-0537

Val Barron……519-2319

Harold Buechly.519-7375

 

 

Dear Bentsen Grove Friends. Wanted you all to know how very much I’ve enjoyed the past seven years here at the park and especially having made the acquaintances of all of my good friends in the Computer Club. Jan and I leave with heavy hearts, but in the interest of health, it is a necessary move. We both thank you sincerely for the kind going away gift you presented to us. We’ll keep you in our thoughts as we hope you’ll do also. Wishing you all the very best in the coming years.

Again, Thank You! George and Jan Kelly

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday February 24th 2003, 9:30 AM New Users Lesson, By Corinne Higbee

Monday February 24th 2003, 10:30 AM Special guest speaker, Ron Bormann

The Pizza SIG will meet the third Monday of each month throughout the season at Mr. Gatti’s

 

A View From The Stool

By Val Barron

 

Untimely Departure

George Kelly, one of the founding fathers of our club has found it necessary to “retire” to his home in Michigan for health reasons. No one has contributed more to the success of our club than George. He was always at our meetings to help with the toughest questions. And when our worst pc nightmares happened we carried our machines over to George. He was always willing to quickly and easily handle our most difficult problems. His skill and ability were second to none. WE WILL MISS YOU GEORGE!

 

Old Business-Ctrl K

In the December 16, 2002 Bulletin I left out a critical step in the Ctrl K tip so here is the correct version with the changes shown in red.

 

Ctrl K is a shortcut that is useful for imbedding links in newsletters and e-mail that you create in Microsoft Word. The usual way to include a link is the way I often do in our bulletin like this. “For interesting news site go to http://www.cnn.com/.”

And this works perfectly well for a short URL. But sometimes URLs can be very long, like the following link to a Harvard Business site.

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/home/index.jhtml

;jsessionid=RDQTXPQGXXOQACTEQENR5VQKMSARUIPS?_requestid=13287.

URLs of this length and even longer are very awkward to include in e-mails or in on-line publications and don’t always work well. Using Ctrl K I could put it in an e-mail like this. “I find Harvard Business Online to be a useful site.” This imbeds the long URL into the words Harvard Business Online and your reader will know that is a clickable link because it is blue and underlined.

 

How is this done? First you must compose your message in Microsoft Word. Then with your browser, go to the web page to be linked and copy the URL from the address bar. Now return to MSWord and select (highlight) the word or words that you would like to be the clickable link as I did Harvard Business Online above. Next click Ctrl K and a dialog box will pop up. Paste the URL from the clipboard into the Web Page Name window and click OK. The words will now turn blue indicating that the URL has been imbedded. When complete, you put this in your e-mail as you normally would; either File-Send To, or copy and paste. Try this, it is easy and interesting.

 

More Old Business-Boot VIS for Windows XP

I received a call from Joe Strüb about the Boot Vis tip in the early October 2002 Bulletin. Joe asked how to use this feature. I could not find my original information but did have a couple of sites with the information. For these sites, go to: http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/tune-19.html or http://xptips.tripod.com/bootvis.html.

 

Happy computing, Val

valbarron@att.net   phone 956-519-2319

 

This week’s program by Ron Bormann. Ron will demonstrate several programs you can use to help keep your computer operating like it did when it was new as well will discuss setup, configuration and what is going on with hackers and have a question and answer session.

Ron is operating his own business “The Computer Doctor” (956)451-1389 and makes house calls for ailing computers. He has many years of experiences with computers and is a very interesting speaker.

 

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