Not my normal box

Using VBA with Dropbox API

I finally figured out how to use VBA with Dropbox’s APIs. This was probably at least 3 days’ worth of trying to figure it out, with about 3 weeks interspersed between the first 2 days of failure and the last day of eventual success. It all began when I needed a list of users in…

More Microsoft Updates - very buggy and messing up my machine.

More Microsoft Updates

Okay, Microsoft had done some more updates and now my computers are getting wonky. My work machine works slightly slower now and was initially giving me a black screen. My home machine now gives me a black screen for some minutes. I haven’t timed it yet, but it’s more than one minute, more like 10…

GRRR : Microsoft protection and the zone identifier - problems with downloaded files from the internet

Microsoft’s Zone Identifier

Grrrrrrrr. There has been so many obstacles lately where things just don’t work. It’s been discouraging. This time it is a Windows machine that won’t allow my macro to recognize files downloaded from the internet which is where our vendor site lies. Let’s call the person with a machine that won’t see the downloaded files…

Microsoft Updates

Microsoft Updates

Suddenly, a macro that had previously been working stopped working. It was a special macro program that I had created for someone and I was going to re-use it for another person’s request. It was the same exact set of macro codes and yet it would not work. The program would freeze. I couldn’t see…