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  • VBA Assessment

    Patrick O’Beirne sent me a link to Alex Palfi’s VBA Assessment. I assumed I would ace it, but I got 7 wrong. That’s 80%. I knew I was in trouble when I read the first question. The following figure illustrates a help system in Excel. The user can click on a tab [...] Read More...
  • Software Pricing

    Last week I was getting some blue screen errors. A hardware diagnostics test reported that my hard drive had a couple of bad sectors. I bought a new hard drive and set about installing all of my programs. Wow, I have a lot of applications installed. One of the application is X1; a [...] Read More...
  • Everything Must Go

    It seems that J-Walk and Associates has too much inventory. And the corporate office is telling them they have to sell it today. Their mistake can be your good fortune. They’re having a Giant Once-In-A-Lifetime Software Blowout Extravaganza on 3-Nov-2009 and it only lasts for two hours. From 4:00pm to 6:00pm [...] Read More...
  • QueryCell

    QueryCell is an Excel add-in that let’s you use SQL statements against tables in a workbook. I downloaded the trial and tested it out. Here’s what I found. Email on Download QueryCell requests your email when you download the trial. Sam Howley is the owner of the company and a regular at the [...] Read More...
  • Excel and Access Integration Workshop

    A little shameful self promotion: Mike Alexander and I are putting on an Excel and Access Integration Workshop in Dallas in a couple of weeks. Here’s the details. Excel and Access Integration Workshop Monday, May 18, 2009 - Tuesday, May 19, 2009 Homewood Suites 3240 Parkwood Boulevard Frisco, Tx 75034 Map and Directions Microsoft MVPs Dick Kusleika (Daily Dose of [...] Read More...
  • Free Office

    Not that Office. SoftMaker Office 2006 for Windows What you will receive is a fully-functional, non-crippled, not time-limited version of this office suite… totally free of charge, without any obligations. Why are we doing this? We hope that you will like SoftMaker Office 2006 so much that you will consider upgrading to its successor, SoftMaker [...] Read More...
  • Check Your Stock from Excel

    Are you happy, healthy, and brimming with self-confidence? The cure for that is checking your stock portfolio. It’s a sure fire way to bring you back to Earth. Greenturtle has released Yahoo! Excel Realtime Addin. It’s an Excel add-in that retrieves stock data from Yahoo! Finance using Excel formulas. If you’re interested in investing or [...] Read More...
  • Data Visualization? Sir, Yes Sir!

    Did you ever want to join the army but don’t like all the physical activity? And instead of shooting people you’d rather create charts and dashboards in Excel? If so, you should go to the Excel Dashboard and Visualization Bootcamp. This 3-day boot camp is designed for Excel users who need to more effectively [...] Read More...
  • Free Excel Stuff

    Giveaway of the Day I like the comments from the OpenOffice users. Jeez, does everything have to be open-source? Read More...
  • G’Day Excel

    Hey, if you’re within 5,000 miles of Sydney, Australia next month, be sure to sign up for the Excel User Conference. Australian Excel User Conference I’ll be presenting some of the sessions and I’m pretty excited about that. I’m less excited about spending 18 hours in coach, but at least I’ll finish that book I started [...] Read More...
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