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Fall 2005

	Director's Chair: September 2005
	FOCUS 101: Using Date-Related Subroutines
	Feature: FOCUS: Then and Now
	From CSS: Setting MAXDATAEXCPT: It's Under Your Control
	Advanced Technique: Relational Efficiencies and Tuning
	Summit Olympics Challenge
	New Feature Part 2: Structured HOLD Files: Smarter Is Better and Coming Soon
	Releases Currently Shipping
	User Group Meeting Schedule

Spring 2005

	Director's Chair: May 2005
	Advanced Technique: McGyver Revisited
	FOCUS 101: -REPEAT – Looping Made Simple, Made Simple, Made Simple
	New Technique: Duplex Printing
	Feature Preview: Structured HOLD Files – Smarter Is Better and Coming Soon
	Feature: An Overview of Information Builders' Online Support Resources
	User Group Meeting Schedule

Fall 2004

	Director's Chair: Something to Talk About
	Advanced Technique: Musings on USERFCHK and User-Written Subroutines
	New Feature: The XFOCUS Database: Bigger IS Better
	FOCUS 101: Temporary Fields, DEFINE, or COMPUTE?
	Summit Challenge: FOCUS Olympics Solution
	Adapter Advice: Data Adapter Traces
	Customer Support: Techniques to Go: Multiple Verbs and WITHIN
	User Group Meeting Schedule

Summer 2004

	Director's Chair: Report From Summit
	Advanced Technique: Re-MASTERING: Using the OCCURS Phrase
	Feature: New SUBTOTAL/SUMMARIZE Options
	Programming Tips: Writing Trouble-Free Subroutines
	FOCUS 101: Left Outer JOINs and FOCUS
	FOCLOG: A New FOCUS Usage Tracking and Analysis Tool
	Summit Challenge: The FOCUS Olympics
	Releases Currently Shipping
	User Group Meeting Schedule

Spring 2004

	Director's Chair: The Heat Is On
	Advanced Techniques: Re-MASTERING to Resolve Reporting Problems, Part 1
	Feature: Customizing MSO
	Feature: Pooled Tables Challenge
	FOCUS 101: The Power of UNIQUE Segments (Segtype=U)
	Adapter Advice: Data Adapter Traces
	Customer Support: Techniques to Go: Multiple Verbs and WITHIN
	User Group Meeting Schedule

Winter 2004

	Director's Chair: New Release Is on the Way
	Advanced Techniques: Flexible Thinking in FOCUS
	New Feature: FOCUS Release 7.3 Has Something for Everyone
	Special Feature: XFOCUS Database and Multidimensional Index (MDI) Target Data Warehousing Applications
	FOCUS 101: Prompting for Variables
	Adapter Advice: Working With Date-Time Data
	Customer Support: HOLD and SAVE File Changes
	OS Feature: PDF File Transfers in Complex Distributed Environments
	User Group Meeting Schedule

Fall 2003

	Director's Chair: Release 7.3 Out in Q4
	Advanced Techniques: Troubleshooting Using TOE
	New Feature: Excel 2000 Support In FOCUS 7.3.0
	Special Feature: Using CHECK FILE HOLD to Document Files
	FOCUS 101: SUBFOOT Vs. SUBTOTAL With ACROSS
	Update: The Resource Analyzer Challenge
	Customer Support: What's Happening in the World of FOCUS
	OS Feature: Improving VM (OS-Bridge) Performance
	User Group Meeting Schedule

Summer 2003

	Director's Chair: Welcome to the FOCUS Quarterly
	Time Saver: Dynamically Allocating Ddnames on MVS
	New Feature: A New Twist on Comma-Delimited Files
	Advanced Technique: MODIFY: Old Dog, New Trick
	Resource Analyzer Challenge: Assessing Your FOCUS Usage
	FOCUS 101: Learning to Drive the CAR That Started It All
	Quick Tips: Dynamic Report Sorting