For members of SAS-L in the Tri-State area who are also members of the New York Area SAS Users Group (NYASUG):

If anyone coming to the next meeting has a laptop with Office '97 (and PowerPoint) that Ray Pass may borrow for his presentation, he'd appreciate hearing from you. He can be contacted via e-mail at "Raypass@Worldnet.Att.Net".

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And All With The Push of a Button ! By Ray Pass, ASG Inc.

This presentation describes an application that uses SAS cooperatively on different platforms (via SAS/CONNECT). The application also uses other non-SAS PC software tools. The final product is a formatted MS Word document which is derived from data maintained in several MS Excel worksheet files (directly accessed via SAS/ACCESS) combined with production data which is independently maintained in SAS data sets on a UNIX box. The end user initiates the process from a Windows 95 desktop icon, and never interacts with SAS other than to fill in desired values for selection variables on a SAS window display screen. The final documents are automatically named and archived, and may be printed at time of development. The interaction between PC SAS, UNIX SAS, MS Excel and MS Word is automated and transparent to the end user. It all happens with the proverbial "push of a button".

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For further information about this meeting, or the New York Area SAS Users Group, please contact the group's liaison:

Jean LaFrance FISA 450 / 460 West 33rd Street New York, NY 10001 Phone: (212) 857-1435 E-Mail: JcLaFrance@Aol.Com