...are a trifle premature. Admittedly, a shoulder injury is making life tougher than it might otherwise be, but I'm still alive and brain boggled with my university studies. I've spent much of the day doing computer graphs on excel, which should be really easy to a normal human, but somehow whenever I go near excel it does weird things unlike the tutorials on you tube. The most used button - the 'undo' one.
I'm aware my readers are itching for the next episode of falling off a dormouse, I will do one when I have a little time (whatever that is). I'm supposed to be celebrating my birthday today but excel isn't a respecter of such things. I also have to take Whizz to have some teeth out tomorrow and the plumber is coming on Tuesday to replace the taps on my kitchen sink - so things don't get any simpler. I did go and see my daughter yesterday, so I have had a day off, except for all the driving involved.
Anyway, apologies for being AWOL, will try and do better...
Hugs to everyone,
Angharad, Whizz and Bonzi.
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In good company
The best writers have had this happen, some guy named Samuel had this same problem over 100 years ago LOL
Suggestion
XL has a mind of it's own and I do not mean to be patronising to you but I used (and still do at times) a tome called 'XL For Dummies'
honestly this is idiot proof and really works though I don't know if you can still get it. - Oh and Happy Birthday to you and your furry friends or should that be fiends???
Chrissie
If you think that Excel is bad
Then Powerpoint as used by most people is even worse.
I have to shake my head in disbelief at how we as a society have grown to depend upon mediocre (at best) software for just about everything.
What I mean is Windows, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook/Exchange.
I am so glad that I have said goodbye to all of it now that I'm retired.
But If I ever get to meet the Word chief designer (sic) I'll probably do something I'll regret. That thing and in particular large document page and section numbering has driven me mad over the years.
Lotus 1-2-3 was and still is better than Excel can ever be.
WordPerfect beats Word into the ground.
I think I'll go and play with my PDP-11/73.
Samantha
I'm not a fan of Microsoft,
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I'll point out that Exchange and Outlook are exceptionally good when used for their designed use - that is, collaboration and contact management. What people keep refusing to understand is that neither were designed for _e-mail_. Outlook Express (Microsoft Internet Mail And News) was FAR better at Email than Outlook has ever been, even in the current Outlook 2016/365 incarnation.
For those who don't already know, Microsoft Outlook's original name was "Microsoft Client For Exchange". Exchange being the replacement *cough* for Schedule Plus. (Schedule+ was much better for small workgroups, really)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
PDP11?
I haven't seen one of those for a very long time. I just about recall designing a piece of hardware for one but I have no idea what it was or what it was supposed to do - something to do with measurement I suppose because that's what I did.
Oh, I used to use Wordstar when you had to use control characters for all the functions (mices hadn't yet been invented or at least widely used - nor had IBM PCs).
I hope you didn't hurt your shoulder in a cycle-related incident, Ang. Whatever, get well soon and enjoy your studies.
Robi
excel help online
here is an online basic help course on excel
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/excel/study/...
I have found it useful in the past... in case anyone doesnt have the "dummies" book
P
Happy Birthday and . . .
. . . the best of wishes for many more.
Love and hugs, Sarah Ann
O.U., degrees are not easy.
Helen did an O.U. degree - a BA in maths and it took a heck of a lot of time. The modules are very time consuming and I had to take on most if not quite all of the house-keeping. Finally she managed it and very proud we were. Good luck Ang though in truth, luck has bugger all to do with it. It's down to long hours and determination.
Happy birthday girl.
xx
Bev.
Happy Birthday Angie
Well wishing you a Happy Birthday - and many more more to come youngster and EXcel is not for the young-at-heart I think it was design to give problems especially when your trying to set up blocks to give answers when data is entered, have fun - Yes missing Bike but will wait get yourself healthy first!!
Much love to the three of you
Much love to the three of you.
Kris
{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}
Hope you had a great birthday despite the excel issues
Best wishes for a pleasant and productive year.
Missing you
I am so glad you are still with us , I have missed reading the bike saga. Sorry to hear about the injury,hope you get better soon. More power to your elbow , p n I.