Excel User Group, Sydney, Aus

[John Howard]

Is anyone aware of any Excel User Groups in Sydney, Australia.?
Or is anyone interested in forming such a group?

 

[Norman Jones]

Hi John,

Try looking here:

http://www.microsoft.com/mindshare/find/default.aspx

 

[John Howard]

Thanks Norman,

Interesting site. Unfortunately no Excel UG in Sydney
Still there are some other interesting groups

Cheers

John

 

[David McRitchie]

Thanks Norman, I've added your link
Computer Club or SIG near you
http://www.microsoft.com/mindshare/find/default.aspx
to my search.htm page along with these
APCUG User Group Online Locator
http://cdb.apcug.org/loclist.asp
and another one
Ash Nallawalla's List of Computer User Groups on the Web
http://easyrsvp.com/ugotw/

So John, you've got at least one computer club in Sydney (no kidding),
you would have to look at their site to actually see what SIGs
they have. If they don't have an Excel or VBA Special Interest
Group then John, you're IT <grin>

Needless to say most clubs are going to have a several SIGs and
they are only going to be seen on their own site.

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

 

[Hari]

Hi David,

What does SIG mean.

What is an user group? (I went to microsoft link of yours but it mentions
about the available user groups etc but doesnt tell what an user group is..)

Regards,
Hari
India

Thanks Norman, I've added your link
Computer Club or SIG near you
http://www.microsoft.com/mindshare/find/default.aspx
to my search.htm page along with these
APCUG User Group Online Locator
http://cdb.apcug.org/loclist.asp
and another one
Ash Nallawalla's List of Computer User Groups on the Web
http://easyrsvp.com/ugotw/

So John, you've got at least one computer club in Sydney (no kidding),
you would have to look at their site to actually see what SIGs
they have. If they don't have an Excel or VBA Special Interest
Group then John, you're IT <grin>

Needless to say most clubs are going to have a several SIGs and
they are only going to be seen on their own site.

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Thanks Norman,

Interesting site. Unfortunately no Excel UG in Sydney
Still there are some other interesting groups

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

SIG - special interest group

A user group is a group of people who use a product and form an organization
in which they share information with each other about that product. When
use of personal computers began to grow 15 to 20 years ago, many people
joined such groups to learn about the PC, share tips and so forth about
their experiences. Many of these groups became quite large and influential
and were listened to by industry.

So within a PC users group, there might be a sub organization of people
particularly interested in an application such as Excel.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

Hi David,

What does SIG mean.

What is an user group? (I went to microsoft link of yours but it mentions
about the available user groups etc but doesnt tell what an user group is..)

Regards,
Hari
India

Thanks Norman, I've added your link
Computer Club or SIG near you
http://www.microsoft.com/mindshare/find/default.aspx
to my search.htm page along with these
APCUG User Group Online Locator
http://cdb.apcug.org/loclist.asp
and another one
Ash Nallawalla's List of Computer User Groups on the Web
http://easyrsvp.com/ugotw/

So John, you've got at least one computer club in Sydney (no kidding),
you would have to look at their site to actually see what SIGs
they have. If they don't have an Excel or VBA Special Interest
Group then John, you're IT <grin>

Needless to say most clubs are going to have a several SIGs and
they are only going to be seen on their own site.

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Thanks Norman,

Interesting site. Unfortunately no Excel UG in Sydney
Still there are some other interesting groups

 

[John Howard]

Hi David,

Thanks for all the sites you listed.
I'll see how I go with SIG searching.
Then, as you imply, if that dont produce the goods, I'm IT <grin right back
at you>

Thanks again

John

Thanks Norman, I've added your link
Computer Club or SIG near you
http://www.microsoft.com/mindshare/find/default.aspx
to my search.htm page along with these
APCUG User Group Online Locator
http://cdb.apcug.org/loclist.asp
and another one
Ash Nallawalla's List of Computer User Groups on the Web
http://easyrsvp.com/ugotw/

So John, you've got at least one computer club in Sydney (no kidding),
you would have to look at their site to actually see what SIGs
they have. If they don't have an Excel or VBA Special Interest
Group then John, you're IT <grin>

Needless to say most clubs are going to have a several SIGs and
they are only going to be seen on their own site.

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Thanks Norman,

Interesting site. Unfortunately no Excel UG in Sydney
Still there are some other interesting groups

 

[David McRitchie]

Hi Hari,
I included that SIG as an acronym for Special Interest Groups
after your question and Tom's reply, but you have to look at
the tool tip for the link.

You can expand display within my search.htm webpage to
show the Tool Tips and the HREF within the links with the two
buttons near the top "Paren Tips" and "href visible", they are
bookmarklets and you can put the display back to normal with F5
to reload or to reset the page. .

FWIW: The information to my search.htm page is not indexed
by search engines not even by FreeFind which specifically
indexes my site. The search page is specifically generalized and
does not concern Excel information except for a search.

Before using the bookmarlets buttons at the top of the search.htm page,
under the topic "Computer, Club" you see
Computer Club or SIG near you, APCUG User Group Online Locator, List of
Computer User Groups on the Web,

is expanded to: (colors and underscored links not visible in plain text)
Computer Club or SIG near you
[-- http://www.microsoft.com/mindshare/find/default.aspx --] (a SIG is Special Interest Group and is part of a larger group), APCUG
User Group Online Locator
[-- http://cdb.apcug.org/loclist.asp --] (Association of Personal Computer User Groups), List of Computer User Groups on the Web
[-- http://easyrsvp.com/ugotw/ --] (Ash Nallawalla's).