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November 14th, 2008

New Help Files for Microsoft Products… Still Suck?

Image: Screen capture of Microsoft Update website
I’m working through my weekly updates and scans on my system today and I came across a list of optional software updates that were available for a few of my Microsoft Office 2007 applications.
This is normally good news, but here’s my question. The Help information available in just […]

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November 12th, 2008

How to Import Table Data Into Excel Easily

Image: Screen capture of Excel 2007 interface by Jason Bean
Have you ever looked a website and thought, man I wish I could grab all that data in that table real quick and play around with it in Excel?
What? Tables? On a website? Used in HTML? That’s just wrong!
Hold on a sec! I’m not […]

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October 29th, 2008

AC/DC Rocking Out The Office in Excel

Totally amazing music video in ASCII art in Excel. You can download and see the whole thing at www.acdcrocks.com
Tags: AC/DC, ASCII, Excel, music video, rock music

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April 9th, 2007

New Users Quicker to Adopt Office Ribbon

Are you using the new Office 2007 yet? Have you seen it? How long have you been using a computer?
According to a recent article in PC Magazine, new users are more apt to quickly adopt the changes presented in the interface provided by the Office 2007 ribbon. I think that’s probably a pretty accurate assessment, […]

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March 29th, 2007

Is Office 2007 Too Slow For You?

Reading through another old article at Forever Geek about Office 2007’s problems being sluggish, it makes me wonder if everyone is experiencing this type of bottleneck on speed when using the latest version of the Microsoft product.
Anytime there’s a question I’m curious about, one of the great things about this blog is that I can […]

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June 7th, 2006

Google Psych!

Jason at 37 Signals has a really interesting thought. Maybe all these little releases from Google that aren’t really anything earth-shattering are the equivalent of a chatter in the network:
What if Google was so brilliantly twisted that they’re using Writely and Spreadsheet and Calendar and massive numbers of new hires as flares to distract Microsoft […]

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