NASA has a detailed web page with the timeline of the Apollo 11 mission from before liftoff to well after splashdown It’s an example of the two ways to put a web table into an Excel worksheet. Newer Excel (365, 2019 and 2016) has PowerQuery with ‘Get and Transform’ which is much better. The older […]
One way to get a web table into Excel is simply to copy the page from your browser into an Excel workbook. This method works for all versions of Excel back more than a decade. It’s been superseded by Get and Transform with PowerQuery which does a much better job of conversion. See Complete Apollo 11 […]
The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 is our excuse to show-off some features in Outlook for Windows/Mac. How to add past events, post events in other time zones, get reminders of upcoming anniversaries and set reminders for longer times than Outlook allows. Adding Past Events Outlook can save details of past events. That it’s in […]
Back in the 16th Century, italic fonts were invented and that trick can still be used today in Microsoft Word. Italics let you fit more text into the same space. An innovative Venetian publisher, Manutius, needed to make small and affordable books. Paper was expensive so anything that put more text on the page was […]
It’s time for the July roundup of patches for yet more security bugs in Microsoft Office including Office 365 and Office 2016 for Windows plus Office 2013 and 2010. Plus the latest example of confusing documentation errors. Office 365 and Office 2019 A bug which lets Office Javascript doesn’t check the web page requesting details […]
