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Our Next Meeting is
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Point Plaza Suites &
Conference Hotel at I-64 & US 17, Newport News, Va.
Social Hour - 5:30 PM
Dinner - 6:30 PM
Program - 7:30 PM
Members - $17
Spouse/Significant Other - $20
Guests - $20
Students - $14
If you will be joining
us for the speaker and not for dinner, we request a donation of
$5.
For Reservations: Call Digital Applications Inc., at 827-1250 no later
than noon on the Friday preceding the meeting.
OFFICERS
George Koscho, President
382-8909
Jim Pollan, Vice President 865-1400 ext 210
Bill Shumate, Treasurer 827-1250
Jim Moore, Secretary
Alan Sutton, Association Liaison 486-1700
DIRECTORS
Clara Fox, Awards 826-0519
Ed Miller, Newsletter / Website 553-0128
Bill Oshel, Program 249-2846
Steve Tyler, Corporate Sponsorships
Charles Anderson, Student Chapters Liaison
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Region 18 Leadership Retreat |
The planning for the Leadership
Retreat in Pipestem is underway and the details regarding this event
will be available next month. Please save the date - Nov. 10-12,
2006, and check the website for details.
| July 11 |
Dinner
Meeting, Kevin Jackson, Phishing |
| August 1 |
Dinner
Meeting, Bob Tubbs, E-Business |
| Sept 5 |
Dinner
Meeting, Bill Shumate |
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Contact Us
AITP
The Association of
Information Technology Professionals
c/o Digital Applications Inc
2714 W Mercury Blvd, Hampton, VA 23666
Phone: (757) 827-1250
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July
Meeting Preview |
Our July 11th. meeting will
feature a presentation by M. Kevin Jackson. Kevin is the founder
of Software Engineering Services, Inc.
Kevin has twenty-five years of
professional data processing experience in the system design and
integration, database administration, multi-tier, client/server
and mainframe system administration, Local Area Network
installation/administration, and information retrieval.
He founded the company in 1998
and developed it into a full-time software engineering
contracting company. As an entrepreneur, he developed the
company infrastructure and business systems, established
policies and procedures for handling every aspects of the
business. Kevin also led the company to form strategic
partnerships with fortune 500 companies, which offer the best
products and services available to our customers.
Please plan on joining us and please bring a
friend.
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June Meeting Highlights |
 Our
June 6th meeting featured a presentation by Bill
Sellers. Bill is is a senior systems analyst, working as a
contractor employee at NASA LaRC. He works for NCI Inc. on the
Consolidated IT Services contract at NASA LaRC, in which
Raytheon is the prime contractor.
Bill spoke on a couple of projects that he is involved with at
NASA LaRC. One project was the AVOSS, the Mars Reconnisance
Orbiter, and how it uses computer clusters to aid NASA's
mission. Bill also gave an overview of cluster technology in
use at LaRC, and its benefits. |
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4 Ways to Make Your Word
File "Slim"
by I. Chu
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This time we will talk about some
related to your office daily work. Did you encounter the
following situation? You want to send an email with a Word file
attachment, but the email cannot be send out cause the Word file
is too large. And you waste many efforts in making the file
slim. You can try the following methods, which can reduce the
size a lot.
1. Save as
In Menu, choose "File > Save As",
and save the file with a new name. You can compare the new file
with original one; you will find that the file size of new one
is much smaller.
You can also work in this way.
Select the whole content of the document, copy and paste it to a
new blank document and save it. Again, you will that file size
of two documents is different.
2. Delete old versions
If there are many old versions
kept in the file, the file size will be larger. In Menu, choose
"File > Version", check to see if there is any old version
saved. You can delete those versions with no value to make the
file slim.
3. Insert picture wisely
"Insert Picture" is one of the
main reasons for the word file get fat. Try to insert a smaller
picture. You can use graphic editor to reduce the size of
picture before insert into the file. The file format should use
GIF or JPG and do not use those high-resolution graphic, like
BMP.
4. Don't "Embed True Type Font"
"Embed True Type Font" will
increase the size of word file. In Menu, choose "Tools >
Options", switch to "Save" tab page. Confirm that your word file
have no true type font, and cancel the "Embed True Type Font"
option. If you embed true type font, then choose "Embed
characters in use only".
Try the above four methods, you
will see your word file getting slim.
About The Author
Isaac Chu is Project Director of
Evinco Solutions Limited. Evinco provides innovative business
softwares, include emarketing web solutions, email marketing
software, e-catalog publishing software, invoicing software, and
electronic cheque writer. Visit: www.evinco.com.hk.
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