Excel Tricks, Transposing & Clearing
I had a huge response to my last column about Excel Tricks, so today I have a couple of additional tricks for you to try. Pretend that you create a…
Excel Tricks – Conditional Formatting
Several weeks ago I did a couple of articles about tricks using Microsoft Word and your responses truly surprised me. I thought that I may hear from a couple of Office Geeks but I heard from quite a few of you. First, thanks for the emails, I always enjoy them even when you disagree…that tells…
Spiel Karten or Google it
A couple of months ago one of my wife’s students, Kameron found out that I collect playing cards. I know that is strange but hey, they are free to cheap and well, you know me. You readers may take that as a hint…I like playing cards with different flipside pictures on them. I have them…
Live Writer
Several weeks ago I was talking to one of my old friends, Mitch. Mitch and I first met many years ago when I was teaching a computer course he took at Massanutten Technical Center. We later became friends as a result of our mutual appreciation for cigars and computers. He was saying that he has…
Office Tricks, again
Today we will continue on with our last week’s discussion about tricks and tips for Office, which generated a lot of email, thanks! Try this. Open up a blank Word document and type the following sentence on a new blank line (without quotes) exactly as it appears here, without edits for spelling or capitalization. "teh…
Office Tricks
When I originally started writing this column years ago it was going to be devoted mostly to Microsoft Office products. Since that time I have written about those products and most everything under the sun, at least computer-wise. Today, I am going back to the beginning and will answer questions I have received from several…
Good Questions, Short Answers – Part 2
Last week’s column generated more questions so today I will hit a few of those. First, “Why did you say Dell is the best computer maker? I think (fill-in-the-blank) is much better.” Well, I understand your comment; however, that is not exactly what I said. I believe when you reread the column you will see…
Good Questions, Short Answers
Every couple of years I decide to answer some questions that I often receive that do not really require a full column to answer. They are some good questions but they just have short answers. So today we will look at a couple of them. The first question, "Do you recommend a desktop or notebook…
Create Your Own Blog, with no programming
I get the, “What is the easiest way for me to create a Blog Site?” question quite often. If you are reading this column I imagine you know what a web site is. However, just in case I want to define a “blog”. A blog is a combination of the words weB and LOG. Basically,…
TAC Drives for Medical Emergencies
Anyone with a medical condition should have some form of medical ID on them. In the event you are incapacitated you want the rescue squad to know you are a Type 1 diabetic (like me), epileptic, asthmatic and or any of the other "…tics" out there. It can only help them and you! Last year…