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By Richard Borreca
Star-Bulletin

Friday, November 22, 1996


Download free holiday planner

Thanksgiving is coming and Christmas is coming and Hanukkah is coming, and all you can say is: "AURGH."

Microsoft rides to the rescue with a series of special, free programs to download from http://www.microsoft.com/athome/entertai/onlmeal/onlmeal.htm. They fit into Excel for Windows 95, a good spreadsheet program that Microsoft would like to sell you.

Once installed, a step-by-step holiday planner guides you though the festivities. Sort of a holiday season for nerds.

There are recipes for turkey, gravy, squash, cranberries, garlic mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. Sorry, no Thanksgiving namasu or adobo; this is a mainland program.

You do get a day-by-day planner and an hour-by-hour Thanksgiving Day schedule and a special spreadsheet to calculate how much the meal will cost per guest, so if Uncle Charlie insists on singing, you can send him a bill.

On another note, if you get on the Internet through Pacific Information eXchange Network http://www.pixi.com, you missed the online edition of the Star-Bulletin for several days. Company officials have managed to restore service.



"Home on the Web" is a weekly Friday feature of the Star-Bulletin.
Richard Borreca can be reached by e-mail at rborreca@pixi.com



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