The spreadsheet evolved but we didn’t
Prior to 3000BC, there was really no need for spreadsheets. It was a world without money where the standard practise was to barter. Humans of those days bartered anything they had at hand. Different ones produced different things and services and swapped them for other things they needed to get through. While this worked for […]
Reduce the time you spend answering emails
Watch this short video which shows a technique I use to reduce the time it takes me to write many of my emails by up to 2 thirds! Here are the links from the video: www.e-thisisit.com/learnit assessments.e-thisisit.com
11 basic Excel tricks that really will change your life
Business Insider recently published an article, which you can read here, which claims to give you 11 basic Excel tricks which will change your life – I have to disagree on some of them – here’s each of the tips they gave, and what we think they should have told you about. Excel Trick 1) […]
Excel Art – a painting using 224 thousand colour filled cells (and a moral to the story)
This picture of an awesome Falcon is made only using the cell fill colours. Read on to see how this is actually an important message for your business. But first, to prove it, look at these images here: This image shows column EK and row 73 enlarged to show the fill colour This image shows […]
Excel Helpdesk – our support statistics
Our Microsoft Office helpdesk service is a valuable tool for busy professionals who don’t have time to try and find an answer themselves – of course, people are impatient and want an answer immediately – we’ve been working on making it easy for you to ask a question, and doing our best to respond as […]
Quick look up for Google Flights – tip taken from ITConnect – computer tips for home users
Tip taken from the ITConnect newsletter – computer tips for home users. Click here to download free sample issue Click here for product information and to susbcribe
Excel Helpdesk: Case study of business automation
Neil from Labetts is a subscriber to our Excel helpdesk, or Excel consultancy service, as I like to call it, so he had the immediate attention of our helpdesk to help him with his challenge: how to streamline the order processing system in their business. The advantage of using Excel to automate your tasks is […]
Use Excel to extract webpage titles and description and create your sitemap
I’m in no way and expert on SEO (yet) but I’ve done a lot of it myself on a couple of different websites in the past. I am pretty good at Excel though, and recently I combined the two things to help make the former a little less work intensive. When I read about the […]
Its an unfair world – do the work of three people
It’s all about working smarter, not harder. But it’s not the case in every office – you’ve got the hard worker – concentrated on his screen, hardly talking, phone off the hook to avoid distractions – cell phone firmly in its pouch, in his back pocket, ringer off – and he’s churning out sales proposals. […]
Convert a number into written words in Excel (great for automating your cheques)
Recently a subscriber sent me in an email with a template they use to print cheques with a printer, rather than hand write them out. This person had a good memory and could remember most of the supplier codes from their accounting system, so he set up autocorrect on his machine so that when he […]
