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Category Archives: Work
Add Reminders To Outlook Appointments
photo credit: Andrew Coulter Enright If like me your Outlook calendar can get a bit hectic and others can add meetings to your calendar sometimes you end up simply “reacting” to your schedule and jumping from one appointment to the … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Misc, Office, Productivity, Technology, Work
Tagged Appointment, Macro, Microsoft, Office, Outlook, Productivity, Reminder
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Stay Focussed – Stay OUT of Outlook!
One of my main productivity “sinks” is continually monitoring Outlook to see if any mails have arrived. I have a rule set up that notifies me if an “important” email lands but for this to run, outlook needs to be … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Office, Productivity, Technology, Windows
Tagged AutoHotkey, Focus, Outlook, Productivity, Script
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Multiple Excel Text Boxes With Common Content
I have just had to place a textbox object onto 17 worksheets within the same excel workbook, each text box containing the same commentary text. Type it once and then copy the text box and paste, job done. Of course … Continue reading
Oracle SQL Developer and Commas
Just found an interesting feature in SQL Developer 3 I created a dataset that contained two columns of numbers that I wanted to quickly get into excel. I choose, export in CSV format to clipboard so that I could quickly … Continue reading
Microsoft Office–VBA Editor Keeps Opening
For weeks now I have had the mild annoyance that the VBA code editor for various Excel spreadsheet’s appear to be opening at “random”. I finally tracked it down to me unlocking my PC. If I have excel running then … Continue reading
Changing Excel Cell Values To Uppercase
A nice quick tip, I had lots of cell values in a mixture of cases that should have been uppercase. Create a macro: sub MakeUpper() for each myCell in Selection myCell.Value = UCase(myCell.value) next myCell end sub Add a … Continue reading
Update All Fields In MS Word
Sometimes you find a feature in a product that is just blatantly missing. One of those in Microsoft Word is the ability to update all the fields in the document with the latest value in a field. I use both … Continue reading
Running – Dashboard – Marcothon
I’m building up for my running challenges of 2011 and breaking in my new treadmill so I am slowly building up my miles. On incentive is the Marcothon group on FaceBook, the basic premis is to run for either 3 … Continue reading
Posted in Fitness, Running, Xcelsius 2008
Tagged Dashboard, running, training, Xcelsius
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Favourite Shortcut Keys – Outlook
photo credit: laffy4k If you look at the left hand menu you will see the items: Mail Calendar Contacts Tasks etc These can be quickly accessed by using the following shortcut keys: (Ctrl+1) – Mail (Ctrl+2) – Calendar (Ctrl+3) – … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Office, Technology
Tagged Keys, Microsoft, MS, Office, Outlook, Shortcut
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Google Calendar Sync – Auto Run
A nice quick hint. I kept forgetting to start Google Calendar Sync when I started Outlook. I don’t always start Outlook when I start my laptop and I’m not always online when I run Outlook so puting it in my … Continue reading