30 Excel Functions
Author Archives: Debra Dalgleish
Testing the WordPress 3.0 Upgrade
An advantage to having multiple blogs is that you can test things on a smaller blog, before installing them on your main blog. For example, WordPress 3.0 was released today, so I decided to test it on this blog first. … Continue reading
Problems Deleting an Outlook Folder
I’ve had some strange problems with Outlook for the past couple of weeks complains about things not being closed properly usually crashes the first time I try to print a message crashed when I tried to select a couple of … Continue reading
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Taking an Online JavaScript Course
Learn JavaScript for $9.95! That sounded like a pretty good deal to me, since most online courses an much more expensive than that. When I got the JavaScript Live Course email from SitePoint.com, I followed the link to see what … Continue reading
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Printing a Web Page
You might find something online that you want to print, such as instructions for doing something in Excel, or a tasty looking recipe. Usually that page has a bunch of stuff that you don’t want to print, like ads and … Continue reading
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The Spreadsheet Day Poll
When should we celebrate Spreadsheet Day? A few dates have been nominated, so it’s time to pick a day, and Jimmy Peña suggested a poll. The nominated dates are: Jan 26 – Ed, based on Lotus 1-2-3 release date Feb … Continue reading
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Excel Readers Around the World
On the Google Analytics dashboard there’s a world map, that shows where my Excel blog readers are located. Not surprisingly, most are in the USA, and the rest are concentrated in a swath of English-speaking countries, from Canada to New … Continue reading
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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. … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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