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Experience:	I have seven years of experience in database programming, Office Automation, document management systems, Web design and VBA macro development   Some of the tools I use are: Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Office XP 2002 Professional Developer Edition, Crystal Reports 8.0, HTML, JavaScript and ASP, Visio 5.0, PC-DOCS & MacPac, API, OLE, RDO, ODBC, ActiveX, Saros EDMS, Microsoft Agent speech synthesis and recognition; and Wordbasic macro conversions
Email:	[email protected]
Resume:	Click here       Resume Letter of Introduction Arts and Joblinks Sample Application #1 Fluent Traveler 4-Language Translator Network Reports Database Reports Database #2 Bibliography   Site Map: select one to go there...
Location:	Reno, Nevada see my location near  Reno, Nevada on the map
Phone:	(775) 849-3892 home,  (775) 225-2192 cell,  (413) 828-0064 fax

You can visit some of these links
to learn more about me, recent work experience
  and to print or save a copy of my resume as a document:

My Resume is here	Letter of Introduction
Links, Arts and Search portal     aw, cool!	Some projects I've developed
Almost current bibliography	window the Programmer Jobs Forum,      or   VB Jobs Newsgroup
Try my free Fuzzy French-  or  German-English Dictionaries and also these bilingual German-English articles (I speak and read Spanish and German) French German Spanish Italian Portuguese	Search my site for:
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Scholarship's and Opportunities q A Better Chance - college scholarships q Yes, free long distance too - at last!        Bookmark this page	q Keep Schools Safe what you need to know as      a parent and student q Prevent Handgun Violence - call       (800) 222-MANY q How to make AOL safe and filter web content q Raising Better Boys, how to have a relationship with your son.  I have a copy of the tape.  Email me if you'd like to view it. Transcript is also available on Oprah's site.  You can read a chapter of this fine book online. Columbine High School Tragedy Web Ring by BSA Troop 352. [ Previous 5 Sites | Previous | Next | Next 5 Sites | Random Site | List Sites ]

  Download: my Resume and Letter of Introduction, Word 97 format, RGries97.doc
                               (Right-click and select  Save Target As...  to save it to disk)

  Download: Resume and Letter of Introduction, Word 6.0/95 format, RE_Gries.doc

(Note: double-clicking these links should start Microsoft Word in your
browser and you can save the file from there.)

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Custom file goodies for Office XP 2002-97 Applications:
(please see disclaimer)

Download my Word for Windows power keyboard containing my speed-reader
               macros and power keyboard accelerator functions (Norm_Dot.exe, 197k)

Download my Word power Keyboard template in Word document format (Word_Tpl.exe, 27k)
               that you can print out on LaserJet or color printers

Help from Bill	Microsoft has a sophisticated User Support Site with natural language query capability. Register once and you will be remembered.
ZDNet Help Zone Type whatever you want into the top input box where it currently says 'Word Tips', and a window will open with your query results when you click 'Search'	TipZone find help with… All Categories Windows Internet Microsoft Office Applications Hardware Games Macintosh

Visual Basic programmer, VB programmer, VBA, Client-Server, SQL Server, RDO, Excel, Microsoft Office Automation, macro

Microsoft Agent Voice Synthesis Integration for Word

	Download my Word for Windows integration template for MS Agent (MSagent.exe, 207k)
	Download my MS Agent Integration Installation instructions in Word document format (MSagent.doc, 27k) to print out and keep handy.  In Internet Explorer, you can right click on the above link and select Save Target As.., and change the name from MSagent.html to MSagent.doc. If you don't do this, and MS Word starts inside your browser, just select File, Save As.. and type in MSagent.doc and save it to a convenient location.
IE	MS Agent Integration for MS Internet Explorer 3.0 or later

	Throw your hat into the Microsoft Agent Webring       (click to download the core components)
Agent Infospace	is in the ring, and is an especially valuable MS Agent site, zo have a look now

Visual Basic Searchable  Source Code Library Local copy

Download this cool searchable offline library (2.2 Megs).  It will create a directory called
C:\HTML\VB, and you can click here to open your searchable library after you've installed it.  NOTE:  it must be in C:\ and you must run it with the command line VBsource.exe -d.  After that, the name of the index page is Source_Code.htm, so put a link to it on your desktop. Easier still, here is that link for your desktop and a Windows Find file to search it for the code you'll want!  Just click in the left frame to examine the many source code libraries it contains.  Don't forget to pick up my Purdy Color Code Publisher below for a way to display the many pages of new output you'll be generating :o]

Purdy Color Code-2-HTML Publisher v2.5 (with Source)*

Publish your favorite code modules and CBF (Code Behind Forms) in Living Color!--and print them too--with my Purdy Code Publisher (53K).  Everything is here for posterity, and looking just like it looks in the VB editor, only a lot better.  You will crunch to the ever-so-convenient HTML format for display on any platform--even in Microsoft Word which can read HTML files also in glorious color. You'll see the VB keywords in blue, the table backgrounds in cool pastels, and all the comments in the color of your choice.  Even delete all the extraneous comments at one stroke so you can see only the code itself.  Now also publishes Text and Formatted Text (RTF) if you have Word 97 installed!

The VB source code for this project is also included so you can modify it and study how text (strings) can be automatically massaged into HTML on the fly.  For a sample of how the published code can look take a gander at this Real Purdy Example page (31k), then start creating some of your own for school, work or play. A formatted text example (2K).  Many thanks to the VB Helper folks who "taught me to fish" on this one, and whom you can visit in their own window from this link.  (Naturally, the entire VB Helper site is cached in my searchable source code library elsewhere on this page.  Yet another reason to pick it up.)
 

German-English Dictionary with Fuzzy-Search

Check out my electronic German-English Dictionary (521K self-installing exe) with Auto-Lookup and about 150,000 words and idiomatic expressions just as blond German guys and gals say them.  It will be loaded with it's hotkey Alt-G when Word starts* and will pick up the German or English word under your cursor and automatically look it up in this extensive dictionary.  The Dictionary also has many idioms and expressions for amusement and learning of the language, so enjoy!   Lots of German and bilingual texts are available on the web and I will repost Word docs of some of the best here in the near future.  Hints for usage:  1) press Alt-G repeatedly after the first 'hit' and you may find many meanings.  2) if there is a solid selection under the cursor like "bar" for example you can use it to study word parts in German and learn how words are constructed in this very clever language. You will learn about the origins of the English language deep in the innards of German!
*Unless you happen to have created a custom menu item with 'G' as it's accelerator key

French-English Dictionary with Fuzzy-Search

Here's the French-English version (387K self-installing exe), also with Auto-Lookup and 100,000 words and definitions.  
It will be loaded with it's hotkey Alt-R when Word starts*.
*Unless you happen to have created a custom menu item with 'R' as it's accelerator key (email me for the solution if you did that.)

  The Personal Wine Cellar Database

Noted for it's intelligent interface design the Wine Cellar Database (2.3 Megs), has it's own Setup program.  I've converted this from 16-bit and fixed up the forms for Windows 9x/NT.  The self-extracting Wincell.exe automatically runs the installer for you.   (If you have Access 2000 installed on your system, just save the database off as a separate file like 'Winecell2000.mdb' after letting Access convert it.  I've fixed a problem with the download on 9/1/99.)

  Microsoft Excel Goodies

Charting the Cardioid and other Pretty Polar Equations

Back in the 70s at UCSC, we discovered that the IBM 370 mainframe could actually crunch polar equations and produce pretty graphs--assuming you had every hole correct in the punch card stack, which was doubtful!  Today you can use the charting capability of the Excel spreadsheet and a bit of VBA to produce Colorful Charts.  Download Cardioid.xls (274K), or if you prefer not to have Excel open in your browser, download the zipped version, Cardioid.zip (89K).  

Automatic Menu Maker 2.0, click here to download a zip (44K).

A very simple yet flexible almost No-code solution to using the handy new CommandBars object found in all Office 97 applications to create your own custom menus for your Excel Workbooks.  You edit your custom menu right on the "MenuSheet" worksheet which you can copy into your own workbooks.  Then import the xlMenuMakr.bas module into your workbook from the VBA Editor (Ctrl-R, and right-click on the name of your workbook) and add these three lines of code to the special ThisWorkbook class module you can see in the VBA Editor:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
           Call CreateMenu
End Sub

That's it!  That's all it takes to create your own menu system using the Automatic Menu Maker.  You can also download and open it here too (117K), within Excel directly from the web.  Then remember to select File, Save to save it on your hard drive so you will know where it is located.

Download my Personal VBA macros file for Excel 5.0 Personal.XLS file with cool code and ideas               (Pers_XLS.exe, 261k)

 Both now with swift (path-checked) Excel toolbar buttons and help. Get it again!

Download my Personal VBA macros file for Excel 7 and 32-bit Systems Personal.XLS file
              (Pers_XL7.exe, 247k)

Download my Excel Keyboard template. Word document format (XLkeys.exe, 35k)

Download my Access Keyboard template. Word document (Acc_Keys.exe, 23k)

The above archive files are all Zipped in a convenient EXE format that
you can run from Windows Explorer to extract the contents in the current directory.

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* Standard Disclaimer:  The programmer shall under no circumstances be held responsible for any financial or other inconvenience due to use of any of the above macro code samples.  These have been here provided strictly as a courtesy and for educational purposes only.  They may not be used for mission critical or professional applications.

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