PCUG Main Monthly Meetings

MAIN MONTHLY MEETINGS FOR 2008

The next MMM will be held in February 2008.
Meetings through 2008 will be held on the first Wednesday each month commencing at 7 pm for a 7:30 presentation start.
Download a 2008 MMM Dates Information Sheet
Regular MMM information may be viewed at http://www.pcug.org.au/activities/mmm.htm

MMM NOVEMBER 2007

Finn Blucher from Novell presented OpenOffice.org at this meeting.
In particular Finn touched on each of the modules which made up OpenOffice.org and took us through the look and feel of each.
OpenOffice.org is the main contender in office productivity tools coming from the open source stable of products.
Under the open source scheme it is available to users free of charge and yet it asserts itself as a serious competitor to MS Office in the essential productivity stakes.
It’s easy to change to OpenOffice.org as it has a familiar feel if you have used competitive software and it reads all major competitors’ files.
Finn was available to discuss any significant differences between OpenOffice.org and its competitors and also any differences between the Windows and Linux versions of the product. He was aware that a large number of OpenOffice.org users at PCUG use the Linux operating system.
If you missed the presentation, or wish to recap any information, more information is available from presentation links at http://www.pcug.org.au/activities/mmm/2007-11-07/mmm.htm

MMM OCTOBER 2007

The October meeting was PCUG's Annual General Meeting.
Ann Byrne accepted nomination for President, and welcomed in the 2008 committee.
As reported in the February Issue of 16 Bits, Ann Byrne was awarded Life Membership to the PCUG .
We look forward to the committee year ahead with Ann's contagious inspiration.

MMM SEPTEMBER 2007
Office 2007 product range

This month we will be looked at Microsoft Office 2007. Denise Holehouse, a Solution Specialist with Microsoft Australia at their Canberra office, demonstrated the features introduced or improved with this version of Office including the new ‘ribbon’.
Office 2007 includes several modules - Access, Communicator, Excel, Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, SharePoint Designer, Visio and Word – in different combinations, depending on which suite you prefer.
The suites start at the Basic (Excel, Outlook & Word) ranging through eight variations up to the Enterprise suite. Users can get the suite that best meets their needs.
System requirements differ from suite to suite and the grammar and contextual spelling in Word is not turned on unless the machine has 1GB of memory.
For further product information, please visit the Microsoft website