tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147942892011-04-21T13:08:29.759-07:00A site dedicaed to Novice and Intermediate Excel® users, keeping you up to date on the latest news and views on Microsft Excel®. Content and links will aim to increase your understanding of this great and sometimes challenging tool.Site_Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10568421971185670514noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14794289.post-1123164502750541652005-08-04T07:08:00.000-07:002005-08-04T07:08:22.760-07:00

Stop The Cheats! M.R. wrote to Telegraph.Connected - "I'm preparing some exercises and tests in Excel for students. Can anyone suggest a way of preventing students from copying and passing the exercises and answers to each other?" The suggested answers are quite creative and useful. From hidden white code on white cell background indexed to each student to use of the RANDOM number function to

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This age old question inevitably comes up for users of Excel. Whats the answer??? Well a good link is Daily Dose of Excel: "Wrench vs Screwdriver" and follow the through link to Microsoft for what I think is a very clear and useful explination of the differances and really gives you the answer you need. In a nutshell, if your focus is calculation and detailed analysis then use Excel, if your

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Google Maps In Excel: "Google Maps In Excel Here's my first attempt at using google maps in excel (download below). Currently I can input an address and have a google map of the address displayed in Excel, with most of the cool google functionality." A very cool tool from Mark at AutomateExcel.com. How ever you do need up to date hardware and software. Ossie

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Comparing Excel Files Made Easy: "4TOPS just released the 4TOPS Compare Excel Files program. This software utility helps users find differences between worksheets or Microsoft� Excel files by creating clear reports in HTML. The broad use of Excel in virtually any business explains the need for such a specialized comparison program. As an example it is used for identifying changes in versions

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"In many households, homework is a big problem. Teachers often load up students with far more of it than I recall from my own prehistoric school career. And parents, squeezed for time by dual careers and rusty because of rapidly changing curricula, find it is hard to help.Taking note of this daily homework battle, Microsoft has decided to help - or at least to see whether it can make some money

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From Research Buzz Finding Spreadsheets With Google: "remember that XLS isn't the only kind of spreadsheet; ever thought of searching for filetype:csv? Or ( filetype:csv | filetype:xls ) ? " This article and the one at Automate Excel (click here) show some really cool search methods to dig up excel spradsheet and much more through clever use of search syntax on Google. Ossie

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Andrew's Excel Tips: "Keyboard shorcuts save a lot of time. Here are some of the more common ones (they can also be used in a lot of other software other than Excel) Push both keys at the same time - Ctrl A Select All Ctrl C Copy Ctrl X Cut Ctrl V Paste Ctrl B Toggle Bold Font Ctrl I Toggle Italic Font Ctrl U Toggle Underline" If your new to shortcuts,

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Specious Argument: Daily Dose of Excel: "If you work with Microsoft Excel and you want to improve your skills, one blog I highly recommend you read is Daily Dose of Excel. Dick Kusleika along with his terrific authors provide a wealth of information and knowledge. " A gem from Kevin at Specious Argument! Ossie

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Specious Argument: Speaking of Microsoft Excel: "If you do serious Excel Spreadsheet work, this software package is an absolute must. Fast Excel also contains a superb program called The Name Manager." These sound like excellent tools, check out the article here. Can't wait to try them out. I will psot when I have, and let you know how they went. Ossie

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Rover of Windsor - ???: Our Favorite Cheat Sheets: "You never know when a good cheat sheet will come in handy -- bookmark this page to keep our treasure trove of useful information at your fingertips! " Here is an excellent list of cheats sheets! One to bookmark. Ossie

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bodmas.org � Blog Archive � Altitude of the Sun and Moon: "full astronomical twilight is never quite reached in the Summer months in the UK." This is a really Lunatical use of Excel, and the theory explained proves that the Brits can't be utilising all the sunlight at their disposal if they are so lilly white and tanless. Maybe it always cloudy and raining? And all on an excel spreadsheet! Ossie

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Graphic Exchange News: "New version of activePDF free PDF creation software for Windows Jul 22, 05 | 10:09 am activePDF has announced the release of PrimoPDF 2.0, a free PDF creation tool for Windows only that creates PDFs from virtually any printable file type. New features in PrimoPDF 2.0 include the ability to generate secure PDFs with 40-/128-bit encryption and the option to add document

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Searching for Spreadsheets with Google: "Is there anything that Google can't do? This via ResearchBuzz.com, I found out that by using various syntaxes you can find spreadsheets, in all sorts of formats, with Google. Here's how it works: filetype:xls is the search string for finding any kind of Excel spreadsheet. For instance, you could type in planning filetype:xls and this is what you would

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Hi Fellow Excel Users,we hope to be bringing you the latest information on Microsoft's Excel® spreadhseet software from around the world. We'd love to get to know you so we would love to hear from you. Just hit the comment button below and let us know what you think.Ossie

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