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How Long Have You Been Using Excel?
On the weekend I received a very nice email from someone who has been using the Excel tutorials on my Contextures website. She’s been working for a long time, and only recently started learning how to use Excel and Word.
I don’t remember exactly when I started using Excel, but it was definitely on a Mac, [...]
Posted in Excel Consulting 19 Comments
Stop Looking in the Outbox
Does this ever happen to you? In Outlook, you create an email, hit Send, then wander off to do a few other things. Hours later, you get a phone call from the client who’s waiting for your message, and you realize that the email is still in the Outbox.
The only solution to the stuck [...]
Posted in Excel Consulting, Microsoft Office Tips 4 Comments
My Blog is Gender Confused
On Twitter today, someone mentioned www.genderanalyzer.com, and reported that it guessed her blog was likely written by a man (59%).
So, I decided to test my website and blogs, to see how they’d be assessed. Here’s the description of how the analyzer works:
It uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man [...]
Posted in Excel blog 6 Comments
Please Don’t Send Your Giant Files
Just like you, I get a fair amount of spam and other junk in my email inbox every day. There are regular requests for Excel help too, that I’ve written about before.
Some of those Excel help requests come with a file attachment, but most files are fairly small – in the 50-200 Kb size. I’ll [...]
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Analyze Your Website Trends
Occasionally I check the Google Trends page, to see what’s the hot news of the day (or hour). If you’re stuck for a blog idea, or dinner conversation topic, you might get some inspiration there.
It’s not too surprising, but today’s hot topic is the iPad, in a variety of spellings.
You can also see the [...]
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Size Matters
For my desktop computer, I have two monitors – a 22” widescreen (that seems to be dying), and a 20” square. It’s easy to forget that other people don’t have as much screen real estate, and they’re reading my site or blog through a smaller window.
Today I found Google Browser Size, which shows the percentage [...]
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Creative Spam Comments
Akismet blocks most of the spam comments on my blogs, which is great. I check the list of blocked comments, and have only found a handful that were incorrectly marked as spam.
Most of the flagged comments are obvious spam, with long lists of links to dubious sites, or completely off topic remarks with links, or [...]
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Singing the Microphone Blues
Yes, I have a new microphone but don’t worry, I’m not using it for singing. The injuction that the neighbours filed is probably still in effect.
I’ve been making Excel tutorial videos for a while, and posting them on my Contextures site and YouTube. The most popular video, Drop Down List in Excel, was created [...]
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Website Wiki
I’ve added pages for my sites at the AboutUs.org website wiki.
Contextures
Excel Pivot Tables
Excel Theatre
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Because the site is a wiki, you can create an account and edit your own pages, or other pages.
It seems to be well-managed, and I decided it was better to create and edit my own pages, than to leave the default [...]
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