Tag Archives: Office

Add Reminders To Outlook Appointments

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Ross (Admin)

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 →

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Multiple Excel Text Boxes With Common Content

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Ross (Admin)

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 →

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Microsoft Office–VBA Editor Keeps Opening

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Ross (Admin)

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 →

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Changing Excel Cell Values To Uppercase

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Ross (Admin)

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 →

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Update All Fields In MS Word

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Ross (Admin)

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 →

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Favourite Shortcut Keys – Outlook

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Ross (Admin)

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 →

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Microsoft Word 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

I use Microsoft Office 2008 on my work laptop. Whilst I am no touch typist; I wish I could take the productivity hit whilst I learn, I do prefer to use the keyboard for most functions, growling when I have … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Excel 2007 Annoyances

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

I have had office 2007 on my laptop for ages now. Like everyone I am still using the “old” file formats until the rest of the world catches up. On the whole I have been impressed by the ribbon interface. … Continue reading →

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