Microsoft Excel is a Windows Spreadsheet program. The name is derived from the large sheets of paper accountants used to enter and total numbers by hand in columns and rows. Today spreadsheets do a lot more, and they do it using computers not pencils. We have also had excellent presentations of macros and the VBA language by Microsoft's Don Koscheka and Bob Flanagan of Macro Systems in Delaware. In addition to planned subjects, some of our best discussions come from Q and A. Future topics will include Excel for beginners, copying and pasting, formulas, functions, custom formats, using lookup tables, customizing toolbars and menus, more on macros and VBA, page setups and print preview, using multiple sheets, pivot tables, grouping data, charting, sorting data, subtotals, using range names and using the drawing tools and WordArt.
Genealogy can be a very interesting and rewarding hobby for everyone, young and old.
I like to think of genealogy as not only finding your ancestors, but learning about them - the kinds of lives they led, the events they experienced, the history that surrounded them, and possibly, the history they made. The sessions will cover genealogy from beginning to end, from getting started to how to display the information you discover. Subjects will include talking to relatives, methods of searching various records available and gathering information, where to find records in the USA, what kinds of records are available in the USA, foreign research, how to compile the information you gather, using the computer to obtain and store information, and how to avoid the pitfalls that I have fallen into occasionally over the last 35 years. Remember, you are never too young or too old to begin. The Graphics SIG meets the third Thursday of the month in my home.