The other day a friend of mine had a Microsoft Excel question for me. They had a large Excel spreadsheet with the names of a few hundred people in it along with their email address. The email addresses weren’t clickable to pop-open their email client and they wanted them to be.

If you’ve ever played with Excel, you probably have already experienced this before. The challenge is that usually, if you click on one of the email cells to edit them and hit enter, it automatically reformats the cell into a clickable hyperlink.
What happens is that Excel inserts a hyperlink …read more

Sometimes getting started with a new application can be a little bit daunting. I may be surprised, but I’d think just about everybody over the age of 16 these days has probably spent some time in Microsoft Word, maybe Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

I find that when I’m staring at a blank canvas or a nice and blank “new document” I don’t have a good idea of what direction I could be heading with my thoughts or needs. If you start with a template and see what other people have done with the tool you’re using, it can help get your …read more

Last night I had the privilege of being a guest speaker at a local university. I spoke about blogging and using Word 2007 to publish your posts. Not my preference as a blog tool, but if you’re just getting started, have Word already, it’s available to you.

Since I couldn’t make it to the early class where they were covering Word 2007, I spoke on the night they covered Access 2007. I ended up hanging around through the entire class to get a little introduction and overview of the power of Microsoft Access 2007.
I’ve been working with SQL databases and a …read more

Congratulate Milo on the occasion of Windows Vista Weblog finishing 6th in the Best Windows Vista Site competition.
The office has been a bit desolate for a while. So Colleen is taking over Office Tweaks. Join me in welcoming him.
Jason introduces us to the Super Bowl Single Girl. Pardon the dumb question, but why would anyone want to raise $3M and pay it to some television network? Aren’t Mr. Right’s for sale anymore? The big cynical question is: what if she realizes that she isn’t interested in Mr. Right? This comedienne is funny. So I wish her the best.
Claire wants you …read more