If you are writing from the U.S., many cities and towns have Senior Citizens
Centers, and many of those offer training in the basics of using computers;
some offer more than the basics. Try calling your local Senior Citizens
Center. There's a national program called Senior Net, too, that offers
training and assistance to seniors.
Your question does not seem specific to Microsoft Access database software,
the subject of this newsgroup. However, the only "general computing"
newsgroups are likely to be USENET newsgroups. One place you can search for
an appropriate newsgroup is
http://groups.google.com, where newsgroups are
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=9780
archived, but where you can also read and post to USENET newsgroups (and
some of the microsoft.public... newsgroups, too).
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
"Grand Pa Mike..."
wrote in
message news:3C084B88-0AD5-494F-A769-BF004BD6E6B4@microsoft.com...
> Why must an (un-trained) senior citizen give up learning PC enjoyment upon
> the reading of strange words at the outset of perusing a PC manual or an
> advertising piece of a PC literature pamphlet? High school 'drop-outs'
> from
> pre-WW II, Post-Korean War, etc., etc., has well deminished. Many, many
> seniors (today) want to learn... but the PC manufactures won't give in
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=9780
> even
> though they are making $$$$$
> on the sale and use of the item. (There is more... I hope you have gotten
> my point into the low lit tunnel of 'smartz' for the vendors.
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