January at a Glance
5 PC SIG -  7 p.m.
NetKey Computers 
6550 W. Forest Home Ave. 
"Calendar Creator Plus"
(Bring folding chairs)

6 WAUC General Meeting 
7:00 p.m.
Dr. Levine-Y2K
Jackson Park Lutheran Church
4535 W. Oklahoma Ave. 

11 Apple IIGS/AppleWorks SIG
7:00 p.m.--NEW LOCATION
Child Development Center of  St. Joseph's
1600 W. Oklahoma

12 Web Design SIG -  7 p.m.
Corp. Technologies
9733 W. Greenfield Ave. Suite 206

13 Multi-Format SIG -  7 p.m.
Corp. Technologies
9733 W. Greenfield Ave. Suite 206
Print Artist "How To" Video and Popup cards

15 Deadline for submitting articles for February WAUCtalk

20 Telecom SIG -  7 p.m. 
NaSPA 
7044 S. 13th St.

26 Exec. Bd. Meeting -  7 p.m.
Marcia Zientek's Home

January Demo
"What a Disaster - Well We Made it Through Safely, Choose One"
By Len Levine
Dr. Levine will address some anecdotes about the transition of the first digit of the year from a 1 to a 2. (since this is being written in the middle of December, it is not possible to tell just what sort of talk we will get, only time will tell.)

Time to pay your dues. 
Please mail your check for $25, payable to WAUC, to:
                              WAUC
                              P.O. Box 340241
                              Milwaukee, WI 53234-0241

Or, you can also pay your dues to WAUC's treasurer, Jackie Tamsett and the general meeting.   See page 8 for Membership Form

President's Message
A few years back PBS television aired a program called "The Machine That Changed the World".  Of course it was the computer, but technology has improved even since the program was produced. While major, major, changes have occurred since the first computers in the 1940's, just think how, within the past 25 years, computers have changed our personal lives. We've gone from typewriters to word processors, snail mail to e-mail, long distance calls to the Internet, and that just scratches the surface. Where will computers take us? Who knows?  But as we enter a new decade, I am sure we will not cease to be amazed.

Congratulations to the Board members for their reelection to their respective positions. As we enter a new millenium, I look forward to continuing to work with the Board and keep WAUC the gold medal club that it is.
Happy New Year!
Bruce Kosbab

November Board Meeting
The November, 1999, Board Meeting was held at the home of Doris Regner on November 23, 1999.  Those present included Doris, Marcia Zientek, Terry Harvey, Jackie Tamsett, Marie Bellin, and Leo Hoffer. Bruce Kosbab was absent.

Details of the holiday party were attended to. We all made our lists of our duties and what we needed to purchase.

We will be arranging two new SIGs (Special Interest Group). The Web Design SIG will be lead by John Hirsch. They will be concentrating on the program, Microsoft Front Page. Lal Avveru of Corp Technologies has graciously offered his offices to us. This SIG will start in December and will be held on the second Wednesday of each month. 

We are also in the process of setting up a Genealogy SIG. Watch for details.

We have recently been approached by two businesses asking if they could advertise in WAUCtalk. The request is for space beyond the small business card sized advertisement. We are already short of space in WAUCtalk. Doris will contact the potential advertisers to try and work out a solution advantageous to all. We may in the future have to eliminate WAUC members business cards. The purpose of this would be to gain more space for articles and SIG reports. WAUCtalk is presently five pages with printing on both sides. If we have more than five pages we will have to increase the postage on each newsletter.

WAUC members who offer their services and help by writing the minutes of SIGs, articles for WAUCtalk, etc., have been rewarded with sweatshirts in the past. We are still discussing additional incentive awards.

The last topic for discussion was about inviting other users groups to our meetings. One of our WAUC members who belongs to a number of other computer groups has asked us to invite the members of other clubs whose memberships are declining, to join us. I will be contacting the presidents of those clubs to see if this is acceptable to them. We are not looking to "steal" members from other clubs. We just want them to know we're here if they're interested and their clubs are not able to survive. 
Submitted by.Terry Harvey

AppleII/AppleIIGS SIG
Our SIG on December 7th, 1999, was held at the Child Development Center of St. Joseph on South 16th & West Oklahoma Avenue. There were only seven of us present, so we had a very informal meeting.

Richard was having a problem feeding paper into his AppleWriterII printer. Sister Samuel explained that he should be pressing the Form Feed button to bring paper up for printing, and also showed him how to set up for single sheets and for labels.

Sister attempted to install a particular program from a disk, which her IIGS would not read, so she had to abandon that idea, and will have to continue using the disk.

We then enjoyed cookies furnished by Sr. Samuel, some played a few of the games Sister has on her IIGS and we did end our meeting just a little earlier than usual, noting that our next meeting will be on January 11th, 2000.
Pat Nye

December General Meeting
President Bruce Kosbab welcomed fifty-two members and some guests to our annual Holiday Party meeting. The guests introduced themselves and told how they heard about WAUC.

Treasurer Jackie Tamsett said that her report is in the December WAUCtalk and had nothing more to add.

Bruce asked for a volunteer to take over the Apple II library. Sister Samuel agreed to take the job and arrangements will be made with "Hot Pepper" Dave Carey to transfer the software.

A new web design SIG will begin on Wednesday, December 8th, and continue every second Wednesday at Corporate Technologies.

Bruce asked if anyone would be interested in a genealogy SIG. There weren't as many interested today as there seemed to be when the question was asked previously. If there is enough interest, a SIG will be arranged.

Bruce thanked everyone who contributed either food and/or help with the holiday party.

Bruce Schneider purchased a number of Netscape 4.7 CD ROMs to make installing the program faster than downloading it. The CDs are $3.00 each.

Professor Levine from UW-M will be our guest in January 2000, talking about Y2K. Bruce also has a video available for club members to view called "Is Your Computer Ready for the Year 2000?" The video is also available at Blockbuster. You can also view it on the Microsoft web page. Go to www.microsoft.com/y2k. Leo Hoffer will have CDs to check your system.  Richard Coplan said there is also information on Office 2000.

Christine Gardner is having difficulty making wallet-sized calendars with Calendar Creator.  The boxes do not line up with the facing page. This secretary showed the two-year pocket sized calendars she learned how to make at the PC SIG. You're missing out if you don't attend SIGs. 

Ron Torro asked if anyone knew of any software to clean up scratches on CDs. Rich Coplan suggested getting on the web and searching for software that does this. Bruce Schneider suggested the MP3 site for a link. 

Someone wanted a recommendation on buying a scanner. Mustek was mentioned as the one that most WAUC members have. Check newspaper ads for specials.

Disks of the Month: For the PC Di Vukovich and Sandy Karlovich have a desktop calendar and some graphics.

Virus: This Secretary warned of the new virus called file_zipped.exe. This is not a hoax. This was in the paper and should be taken seriously. Do not open any .exe file from anyone, even people you know, without checking with the sender about what it is. Many times the sender is unaware that a virus was attached to their e-mail.

Bruce called on nominating chairman Richard Moffat to conduct the nomination and election process. The present officers, with the exception of the vice-president, are unopposed. There were no nominations from the floor for the unopposed officers. A motion was made, seconded and carried that nominations for the unopposed offices be closed. Ballots were distributed to vote for either incumbent Doris Regner or Paul Jurkowski as vice-president. Doris Regner had the majority of votes. The officers for the next year are: President, Bruce Kosbab; Vice-President, Doris Regner; Treasurer, Jackie Tamsett; Secretary 1, Terry Harvey; Secretary 2, Marcia Zientek; Member-at-large, Marie Bellin.

Our holiday party followed the election process. As in previous years, the array of food was enticing. There were circular sub sandwiches provided by WAUC, plus a wonderful assortment of contributions from members to make a heaping plateful of edibles. And WAUC held true to its reputation of being one of the most sociable clubs in the area, providing an opportunity for everyone to become better acquainted. 
Marcia Zientek

Thank You, Lal!
Comments about the "Introduction to Basic Computing" class offered by Lal Avvaru, of Corp Technologies...

It was a very enlightening class. Lal covered all the important basics about the computer.  He is so knowledgeable and such a good teacher. He taught us everything we needed to know to be an informed computer user.
Helen Fandre

Lal is a very knowledgeable man. It was a very enlightening program. I'm very glad I took the time. Thanks, Lal.
Harry Spangenberg

Recently my husband and I were fortunate to be able to attend two of Lal's classes. With much patience, he taught the class about the different operating systems, what a database is, and what application means. Also, items too numerous to mention. The exposed inside of a computer which Lal had on display was extremely interesting. Thanks Lal for your time and patience.
Marilyn & Roland Land

The class was very enjoyable; the topics covered were covered swiftly due to the length of time we had. Lal was very nice and pleasant. I enjoyed the class I took. Thank you very much, Lal.
Tom Dombrowski

I recently attended a two evening seminar at Corporate Technologies on "Computer Basics".  Mr. Lal Avvaru moderated the seminar which I found to be most interesting and informative. In general, I was very pleased with the contents of his presentation and if Mr. Avvaru should offer this seminar again in the future, I would advise computer newcomers, if given the chance, to take advantage of his generous offer and attend the seminar. It was well attended and I'm sure, enjoyed by all.
Ray Nowak

The class was great for beginners like me. It started with the basics which was what I needed. Lal was a patient teacher. He is very good with new students.
Tony Adams

Very good explanations.
John Czajka

I enjoyed the computer class. I liked the second night of the course more, because it
involved hands on use with the computer itself. I felt that the instructor was very
knowledgeable and was willing to take the time to explain all of the material that was
introduced in class. I learned some new things about the computer and its functions. I would recommend this course to anyone starting with computers,
Tom Armour

I thought the class was really informative. It was also very conviently located for me. I'd like to thank WAUC for arranging it and Corp Technologies for providing it.
Kitty Anderson

I would like to thank Mr. Lal Avvaru for his time and effort in presenting the basics of computers class. I found him to be a very patient, enthusiastic, and interesting instructor.
Nancy Koslakiewicz

I learned alot. Lal taught us how to cut and paste. That will help me out alot with my
daughter reports that I help her type out. Thanks alot for the class, Lal.
Karen Brooks

Spell Catcher Review
By Bob Grey
My name is Bob Grey and I have reviewed the following software:

Spell Catcher published by: Casady & Greene Inc., 22734 Portola Drive Salinas, CA 93908-1119

This is a Universal, interactive spell checker, Thesaurus and Shorthand Glossary, and requires Windows NT, Windows 95 or 98 to operate.

The program comes on a CD-ROM and is very simple to install and use. When you use MSworks, Notepad, Wordpad, email or any other program, it asks you if you want Spell Catcher to be activated for that particular program. From then on it is automatic.

When I was young, my fingers would know when I made a typographical error. Today, however, it is an entirely different story. I can get my fingers on the wrong keys and come up with some of the most fantastic words you ever heard of. But now, with this program I can't even do that. No matter what word I miss-spell, this program immediately informs me, both orally and visually, and offers various suggestions of the correct spelling. If you feel there is a word you want to use but are not sure if it is the right one, you can go to the Thesaurus and it will give you the definition of the word and will give you alternate words you can use. The main dictionary contains 86,000 words and the Thesaurus contains 1.4 million words.
Many programs have spell checks which will review your text for spelling errors after you have finished typing. I prefer this program because it catches errors as you go along so that the completed project is error free. You can also designate "shorthand" terms to automatically convert them to words you designate. For example I designated R G as a shorthand for my name. Of course you have to type them together with no space between. When I type those letters, the program immediately types Robert Grey. I also designed S F as my city address which is St. Francis. You can also designate any others you prefer which does save typing time. When you type "t t" this is the result, 11:26:33 AM, when you type "d d" this is what you see Wednesday, October 13, 1999.

You can also designate this program to automatically correct miss-spellings on some words such as believe, receive, that, the, when, as examples. I find once in a while, I will transpose letters and this program will automatically correct those errors immediately if I designate those words in the settings box. Another setting is the Capitalization. Should you fail to capitalize the first letter of any line, the program will automatically convert the first letter to the correct Capital letter.

The printed manual is well written and illustrated and very easy to understand. If you
should run into any problems the company does have a web site, a message board, a FAQ board and an email address.

The suggested price is $59.95 and I feel is well worth it. It is an excellent tool for
anyone, especially students in writing their assignments. The dictionary has over 20,000 words. The Thesaurus is an excellent reference for substitute words which you can use.

I did run into one oddity though, when I was logged on to any of the chat net programs and spell catcher was enabled. If I used the quote mark it gave me a vertical solid black line at the beginning of the quote, and in order to get the proper printing I had to strike the quote key two more times. At the end of the quote, I also got a solid vertical black line however striking the quote key one more time gave me the quotation marks.

Once in a while my granddaughter uses my computer for her homework. I didn't tell her about the spell catcher program so when she typed out an assignment for her Spanish class, each and every word brought out a voice telling her of a miss-spelling but no suggested words as it does not recognize any foreign languages. . After she hit the ignore key many times, I told her how to disable the program till she was finished.

Web Page Design SIG
WAUC's first FrontPage 98/2000 Special Interest Group in Wisconsin started out well on December 8th with several WAUC members at Corp. Technology, Suite 206, 9733 W. Greenfield Ave. Unfortunately, I forgot to ask someone to take notes.

As SIG Leader, I recommended people buy "FrontPage 2000 Fast & Easy", written by Coletta Witherspoon and published by Prima Publishing. I also recommended the colorful "Easy FrontPage 2000" which is written by Ned Snell and published by QUE. Each book is under $20.

I also passed out some handouts that said FrontPage 2000 runs on Windows 95, Windows 98 and NT. There is more integration between all the elements using FrontPage 2000. For example, you could write a Web on FrontPage 2000 that is linked to Excel, Access, PowerPoint, or Publisher. You could also link to places in India, Africa, Europe, South America, South Pole, North Pole, or Canada. You could even link to friends and family across the country while sending notes back and forth. I mean you can see what people look like.

There are other advantages of FrontPage 2000 over FrontPage 98:  1) It doesn't crash as often. Under NT it should crash even less. 2) It has something called detect and repair. It sounds pretty good. 3) It has a visual basic editor, a script editor, and macros. Some people who know Visual Basic may help us explain the use of visual basic in FrontPage. What does a script editor do? What does a macro do? 4) On the one hand, it's very easy. On the other hand, it includes very sophisticated tools.

You could also get help from the Newsgroups. One is microsoft.public.frontpage.client.   Another is microsoft.public.frontpage.extensions.unix. You can leave messages for Jens Peter
Karlsen [FP MVP] at jpkarlsen@mvps.org or Dave Pfeiffer at support@dpasoftware.com. Dave, who writes FrontPage software, was at the NaSPA meeting recently. Of course if you have purchased FrontPage 2000 from Microsoft, you could call them direct at 1-425-635-7222.

There is more FrontPage help in Boston and in England. For example: http://www.outfront.net   http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage http://www.webss.com/frontpageboston/groups.htm (Boston
Area FrontPage User Group) http://www.frontpage.to/support/miscellaneous/links.htm (Keith
Parnell's Internet Sig)

Ken Foshey, a member of Southeastern Wisconsin Windows User Group (SEWWUG), Technical Representative of Brookfield and a member of Milwaukee Visual Studio Developers Group at MSOE, installed FrontPage 2000. He also showed FrontPage Hyperlinks, Reports, Folders and Navigation. While installing a Corporate Web Page, Ken pointed out the ease-of-use of FrontPage 2000. (Ken says he plans to attend the General Meeting in January). You could write a FrontPage Web in minutes; in HTML or Netscape Composer it would take hours. There's the major difference, time to think and create.

Next time, the group will talk about Hosting and create a FrontPage 2000 Web Page that will be launched on the Internet. If we survive Y2K the next meeting (January 12) will be held at Corp. Technology, in a new office: Suite 203. FrontPage 98/2000 Leader John L. Hirsh
JHirsh1353@aol.com
John Hirsh

PC Disk of the Month
JANUARY 2000 DOM will create year 2000 calendar bookmarks using Print Artist. "Solo Solitaire" - 76 games! [freeware] Well what is SOLO? Yes it's another solitaire game. Just not any one specific game but a number of games. Hopefully you can play all your favorite solitaire games. Since I don't know what your favorite solitaire game is you'll have to tell SOLO how to play it. SOLO allows game creation by visual programming. Well now you can change the game and play it the way you like it. Some features: create games graphically, no programming involved, tourney play and standard mouse use. A tourney is a group of games played in succession to obtain a high score. Also on this disk are 20 Valentine graphics. 
Submittee by Di Vukovich & Sandy Karlovich

PC SIG
December 1, 1999 we met at Net Key Computers for the second demo on Calendar Creator. Since there were quite a few of us that couldn't make it to the first meeting we had a refresher course on the basics.

First we passed around some beautiful personalized date planners that Marcia had made with the program. They had family pictures on the front and back cover (which she made using information learned from our SIG on checkbook covers). She then had the planners personalized on the inside with dates and birthdays and such. Next Di passed around the 2000 bookmark calendars she made from the January DOM. They also were very impressive. 

Marie has all kinds of card stock for sale, including the plastic checkbook covers. She also picked up some vellum which has become popular in making cards. A tip from Marcia is not to print in best on vellum because it takes way to long to dry if ever. Print in transparency. 

In Calendar Creator we created a workspace to create the calendar with the event lists we wanted.to use. By going to-File, New Calendar from scratch, Event-Add Event. Double click the date you want, type in information. Click on Advanced if the date repeats every month, week, or year. To choose the rule, or to set start and ending date. Click on Properties-to set start with the day date. Bullet every 1st,--months/weeks- then 1- then highlight day.

To make text look the same as a picture, first get picture, click on words, then click
special effects fill with picture. Double click- and select movable so you can move text box to make it larger or smaller. When you get it like you want deselect movable. Select whole calendar - Change color of calendar to none. Click on calendar and right click properties. Shading says none, making calendar transparent. You then have a calendar where the picture shows through. Always remember to save a lot. Another tip is doing a ctrl. 2 takes you back to previous step.

The sig. was lead by Di using a different version of Calendar Creator. Marie helped with knowledge from her Calendar Program. Both programs were similar but a bit different. They did a very good job. I wasn't really interested in getting a new program until I saw all the great things that could be done with it. So now you know what I want for Christmas.
Submitted by Sandy Karlovich

Multi Format SIG
The Multi-Format SIG was held December 9 at Corporate Technologies. About a dozen people were present. We intended to watch a video made at a crafting convention showing different crafting products and machines and techniques. But the television wasn't working properly, and after a few attempts abandoned the idea. 

We created note cards in Print Artist showing how to print two cards per page. We also used the January DOM to create a yearly calender bookmark.

We also discussed which brand of iron on transfers worked best and produced the best color.  Hewlett Packard seemed to come out on top, with Cannon and Avery giving some members trouble.

We will try to watch the video next month, and are also planning to make pop-up cards.
Bruce Schneider

Telecom SIG
The Telecom SIG, on December 16, was attended by seven members and one guest. We did quite a bit of web surfing and visited some pretty interesting sites. 

The first thing we did was to go to the WAUC mail site and Marcia wanted to see if we could open a MIME file. We tried with Outlook Express, but were unable to do it.   Leo brought a disk of his bookmarks. As we didn't have Netscape available, Roger imported the bookmarks into Internet Explorer. The first site we visited had an animated alphabet that you could download and do neat things with. Some of the letters had hands and feet and were dancing. 

Next we went to Dialpad.com which is a site where you can make long distance phone calls through your computer using the Internet. Roger signed Bruce K up to show how easy it was to register. We went to the Milwaukee Property Assessment site where you could type in an address and get a lot of information on that piece of property including the owner, the value of the property and the amount of taxes levied. We went to Bruce S's address and examined his property. 

We then visited some Net Cam sites including Africa, Australia, Las Vegas, and even Mt.  Shasta. We also checked in with the DOT Cam here in Milwaukee to see how the traffic was flowing on the freeway. Marcia took us to a site called scoutreport.com, which updates the latest Internet sites weekly. Finally we visited a Polka Midi Player site, the Lake County Computer sale site, and the Microsoft Terra server. Along with some of Leo's jokes it was a very enjoyable evening. 

January Raffle
A program titled "GO Back V 2.1" will be offered as the January 6, 2000 raffle item. The program requires a 486 PC, 16 MB of Ram, a 256 VGA video and a CD Rom drive as the minimum requirements. It also runs on Win 95 or 98. The retail price of this program is $49.95

Revert your hard drive to the way it was. When you're in a jam and wish you could start your day over. Or for those days when nothing's gone right since you installed that new program, and you can't seem to uninstall it. GOBACK can take you back and let you begin again in three easy steps: 1) Restart your computer 2) Press the Space Bar at the GOBACK Screen. 3) Press the Revert Drive Button. This works even if Windows doesn't (and no special boot disk is required).

Many other features, such as: view your hard drive, back in time, recover deleted or
modified files, restore what has been changed. 

Raffle tickets, 50 cents each or 3 for $1.00 
Leo Hoeffer

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Joan Glyzewski
Joan Machtel

Treasurer's Report November 1999

Computer Stationery
Items for Sale    

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WAUC Officers
President: Bruce Kosbab 771-6086  - bkosbab@bigfoot.com
Vice President: Doris Regner 545-3897 - dregner@bigfoot.com 
Treasurer: Jackie Tamsett 423-0390 - tamsjac6@naspa.net 
Secretary 1: Terry Harvey (not long distance) 262-971-0999 - terry-harvey@bigfoot.com 
Secretary 2: Marcia Zientek 328-1947 - marciaz@bigfoot.com
Member-at-Large: Marie Bellin 353-9062 - marieb@eudoramail.com

WAUC Staff
Editor: Marie Bellin 353-9062
Proof reader: Terry Harvey 262-971-0999
Backup: Chris Gardner 344-9126 - dcgardner@bigfoot.com
Program Chairman: Leo Hoffer 421-5705 - hoffleo9@naspa.net 
Webmaster: Roger Brinkmeier 425-8116 - Roger.Brinkmeier@mixcom.com

Libraries
Apple II: 
"Hot Pepper" Dave Carey 920-563-2043 - hotpepperdave@globaldialog
Print: Bruce Kosbab 771-6086 - bkosbab@bigfoot.com
Apple IIGS: Jim Gustavson 475-9447 - Jimgustav@hotmail.com 
Macintosh: Paul Jurkowski 807-3385 - pauljurk@execpc.com
PC: Diane Vukovich 328-1644 - vukovich@execpc.com
Sandy Karlovich 543-4877 - karlsan4@naspa.net

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