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Houston Alpha Five Users group meeting

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    Houston Alpha Five Users group meeting

    9 June 2003


    Hello,


    You are invited to attend June's Alpha users' group meeting in Houston.

    We are most honored and excited to announce Dorothy (all the way from Austin, TX) will be making a special Alpha Five presentation. Please see below.

    If you have any particular topics you would like to be discussed or if you have a topic/feature you would like to share with the other users, please advise.

    Please confirm if you will or will not be able to attend.

    Also, if you do not want to receive any future notices, please advise and I will remove you from this list ASAP.

    We are all set for Meeting Room C of HAL-PC.
    Date: Monday, the 16th of June
    Time: Officially start at 7:00 PM but open to gather at 6:30 PM
    Location:
    Houston Area League of PC Users, Inc.,
    4543 Post Oak Place Drive, Suite 200
    Houston, TX 77027-3013
    (713) 993-3300. -- Fax (713) 993-3333
    A map is attached.

    If you have any questions about HAL-PC, please see the following:
    http://www.hal-pc.org/

    NEW SIG
    The Alpha Five Sig will meet at 6:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each
    month. This is a startup group which will be responsive to the needs of
    its members. Alpha Five is a relational database which is very user
    friendly to end users and developers. The newest version is packed with
    features not available in other databases. Meetings will focus on
    exploring these features and teaching novices the basics about using
    Alpha Five. Come join us and learn how to use this amazingly powerful
    and easy to use database.

    Special thanks to Wally for his help in setting up this new
    SIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    Thanks a million and have a great day,


    SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL

    ****************************************************************


    Hi John,


    Am finally focusing on the presentation for next Monday. I think from our
    conversation that the following might be of interest to the members of your
    group.

    Specifically, the goal is to take a list of people and their email addresses
    from Excel to A5V5 where I will demonstrate how to create an appropriate
    table and input form. The idea is to enter some information which will be
    unique to each record. Once that is accomplished I will demonstrate how to use the add-in Net
    Mailer to create a mass emailing which will be personalized for each
    record. Let me know if this is appropriate or not. I would encourage a Q & A period
    at the end of the presentation.


    You asked for some background material. Since 1987 I have been working with
    Alpha products as a database consultant and developer for small to medium
    sized businesses in the metropolitan NY area, San Fransisco, and Austin TX
    where I now reside. I have conducted weekend seminars in the NY metro area,
    led the NY Alpha User group for over 7 years and was instrumental in
    developing the Austin Alpha User Group. My most current project involves the
    creation of a database driven website for the Thompson Conference LAMP group
    at UT, Austin.


    Dorothy
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