Cross-referencing is an imposing name for something we’re all familiar with in books, especially reference books. Microsoft Word makes it much easier to do. A cross-reference is simply a mention or link in the text to another part of the same document. In olden days (thirty years ago ) you could put references like these […]
How to print a document when the paper sizes are different. On our new Twitter account we saw this question: “When I send an Excel file to someone, should I have to set it up so they can print? I don’t know the printer/size they use.” Part of that answer is preparing the document but that’s […]
Pricing hint, versions of Windows, Office on the web and other Office 14 news. From no less a mouth than Steve Ballmer comes word that the next version of Office won’t grace our desktops until 2010. That’s no real surprise, Microsoft seems to be focusing on the next Windows – Windows 7 in the hope […]
Using Vlookup in Excel to work out tax, fees or commission from a table by David Goodmanson In part 1 we covered the basics of VLookup, let’s use it to calculate tax for a list of employees and their salaries. We’ve chosen this practical example because it contains a fixed amount plus a marginal percentage […]
Gmail stopped working, but Outlook users didn’t have to worry. Saul Hansell at the New York Times is reporting on an outage on the popular Gmail service. The Gmail breakdown happened at the start of the working day in Europe and lasted until about lunchtime. Early risers in the USA might have noticed the problem […]