Category Archives: Excel blog

Posting From an iPad

Last week I bought an iPad 2 and have been busy experimenting with it. There are plenty of games, and social apps, which are very entertaining. Now I am trying to find some practical uses for the iPad, so it’s … Continue reading

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Format VBA Code Examples in Blog Post

On the Contextures blog, Gregory suggested using the WordPress plugin, CodeColorer, for formatting the Excel VBA code examples. In Twitter, Dick Kusleika said that he’s using CodeColorer too, and it works well. I decided to test the plug-in here, before … Continue reading

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Testing the Office Live Excel Embedding

Today I read that you can now embed Excel files into your blog, by using Office Live. After I figured out how to log in to my account (it’s been a while), I created an Excel file to test here. … Continue reading

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How NOT to Offer a Blog Guest Post

Some of the blogging expert sites suggest that you write guest posts on popular blogs, to get a bit of publicity for your own blog. Today I got an email from someone who offered to supply a guest post for … Continue reading

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Grading Your Website

It’s the end of the school year — the perfect time to grade your website. Today I tried the free analysis tool, Website Grader, to see how well Contextures would do. It’s easy to do — just fill in the … Continue reading

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A Fresh New WordPress 3.0 Look

Emboldened by yesterday’s success in installing the WordPress 3.0 upgrade, I decided to install their new default theme — Twenty Ten. It’s optimized for all the new WordPress 3.0 features, so it will give me a chance to try some … Continue reading

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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

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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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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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