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“Excel hates me! When 2 + 2 isn’t always 4″
You know, one of the most frustrating (and often the most fascinating) part of using Microsoft Excel has to be just how helpful it tries to be.
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This week’s episode: “Tag ‘em and Flag ‘em – Following Up, Outlook Style!”
As a cyber pack rat, I have a lot of things that I probably should have deleted or thrown away a long time ago, but I just can’t seem to do it. My collection includes computer cables, old gadgets, files on floppy and zip disks, hundreds of unlabeled CDs, and most of all, e-mail.
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This week’s episode: “What’s in a name?” OR “Not Breaking Up is Hard To Do.”
You know, using hyphens can be a real pain, but more so if you’re dealing with names in Microsoft Word. (more…)
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This week’s episode: How to quickly produce DVDs in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
For the past few episodes, we have walked you through creating photo albums and presentations with music using Microsoft PowerPoint. Now it’s time to take that final leap of evolution: creating a DVD! (more…)
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This week: Adding Sound to Your PowerPoint Presentations.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why would anyone want to add spoken words to a presentation of images? Seems like overkill, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. (more…)
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This week’s edition: Photo Album Slide Shows in PowerPoint
The problem: Too many pictures to insert into a presentation one at a time.
The Solution (for PowerPoint 2002 – 2007):
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This week’s edition…
“What do Psychics, Family, and Microsoft have in common?”
Well…
They all seem to know me pretty well, or at least they think they know me well enough to correct me as I speak or write, or try to finish my sentences.
Let’s use my son as an example. He has discovered that when he asks a question like, “Daddy, can I stay up and [insert fun activity here]?”, my typical response tends to be: “Well, once you have finished [chore assigned by me], we can talk about it, but it might be too far past your bed time.” He knows that this response can be substituted with: “Probably not, it is way past your bed time and you haven’t even showered yet.”
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It’s like a shammy, it’s like a towel, it’s DiskWOW!
eSupport here for DiskWOW!
Did you know that over 80% of all computer users suffer from drive space issues? Not to worry, we have a great tip for you!
How would you like it if you could see how full your hard drive is getting? Would you be confused on what you should pitch to free up space? This crisis befuddles most of us; but be befuddled no more! Try our patented DiskWOW!
How much would you pay to clean up that old drive and breathe new life back into your computer? Would you pay $5, $10, $19.95 plus shipping and handling? Why pay at all?
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Probably one of the most baffling things I see today has to be messages sent via Twitter, SMS, or IM. Thanks to people even lazier than myself, there is now an entire generation of people who can confuse even the most skilled Native American code talkers of World War II.
It’s absolutely amazing how being limited to 140 or 160 characters can really change our spelling and sentence structure. For instance, if I wanted to invite my friend out for drinks at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio, I might send a text message like, “U Wan2 meet up @ HOB L8R?” WOW! This reminds me of a game I used to play as a kid on road trips where I would try to figure out what someone’s license plate might mean if it were a sentence or phrase. (more…)
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Charts are everywhere in daily life; from news commentary, to stocks, to web polls, right down to entertaining sites like www.graphjam.com.
Who really knows which one to use? We all understand the old phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” but which picture (or, in this case, which chart) gets me closer to that thousand instead of 3?
Today we are going to cover some basic chart types and what picture they draw. So, like Prometheus giving fire back to man, I now give the knowledge of Redmond back to the masses.
The four most commonly used chart types are Column, Bar, Line, and Pie. These are not the only chart types, but they cover what most mere mortals like you and I can probably get the most out of. (more…)