He’s done it again, David Peel has quickly made up a new version of his Excel Year Planner that starts the year from any month you choose. Great for academic years (start in August) or financial years (e.g. Aussie start in July). The year selector is top left of the main worksheet. Change the starting […]
The second Access memory leak has finally been patched by Microsoft, almost a year after a very similar problem was discovered. These bugs have been around since 2002 and the effects are still in some Access files. Both are faults in the way Access saves data to memory locations in ways that hackers could exploit. […]
It’s possible to apply individual cell formatting in Word consistently using a little VBA code. In effect it makes styles for cells in a way that Word itself won’t do. Reuse this code to apply the same formatting to many cells. Cell Format Special We’ve made two VBA functions for two different cell formatting settings; […]
Nested IF statements can be hard to understand and manage but there are alternatives which can be easier to handle, fix and change. We’ll start with the relatively simple example we used for demonstrating IF and nested IF. =IF(C2>89,”HIGH DISTINCTION”,IF(C2>79,”DISTINCTION”,IF(C2>69,”CREDIT”,IF(C2>49,”PASS”,”FAIL”)))) This example has only five levels of nesting, we’ve seen nested IF’s with many, many […]
Are there any advantages to getting an Solid State Drive (SSD) when running Microsoft Office? We have some advice from actual use. Solid State Drives are faster and power saving drives that are now less expensive and more available, but are they worth the trouble for Office users? YES — absolutely and definitely YES. We’ve […]
