Why does Excel change what people type or import, sometimes in ways they don’t want? It’s the General cell format that messes with what you type or import. It’s the default cell format ‘General’. It’s top of the Formats list and most of us haven’t given it a second thought. Microsoft short explanation is ‘No […]
Microsoft Office 2010 ends support later this year but there’s no need to panic. Here’s what to do, when to change from Office 2010 and what to replace it. Office 2010 countdown [ycd_countdown id=”31774″][/ycd_countdown] Office 2010 ends support on Tuesday, 13 October 2020 All the Office 2010 programs will keep working. No change there. Tuesday, […]
Excel can speak the numbers, dates and text in cells. It’s a feature that’s been hiding in Excel since Office 2007 through to the latest Excel 365 for Windows. Speak in Excel is like Word’s Speak but with a few useful spreadsheet options. The audio options are mostly intended for proofing or ‘read back’ of […]
The Excel team has joined the current ‘Cake’ meme with a new Cake() function in Excel. Hilarity ensues … Source: Twitter Ho ho, very funny, it is to laugh. Most people took the message in good spirit with one person implementing it in VBA That code really works. ChrW() returns the character with that Unicode […]
2020 will be remembered for many things (big sigh) but from a design viewpoint, it could be the Year of the Icon. Many of those graphics are available either in Office directly or imported from elsewhere – we’ll show you both. Everywhere you go there are signs reminding us of the new life we have […]
