This site under reconstruction.
After spending 4 or 5 weeks on developing ideas for a dashboard for an upcoming huge project, I finally have a rudimentary dashboard. With that experience behind me, here are some ideas of what to do when you are given a project to pull together something. 1. If you can, find out what the goal is. In my…
While I continue the roll out and training on the report automation project, I’m starting a new project. But before I start describing, in vague terms, my new project, I want to talk about something I learned about training on the report automation. A lot of the folks that I train are not familiar with computers…
I’m working on a bunch of new projects, one of which led to an installation of 2016 Office. Oops, that wasn’t the intent but it became necessary to do so after an inadvertent purchase of a 2016 application. So now I’m getting an advance preview of 2016 products, one of which is Excel. Already, I…
Before I left on a retreat, I was playing around with Access and data model. Pivot tables have something called data model and I was playing around with it to see how it works. What I found was that it allows you to combine two tables, kind of like Access’ joining of tables and/or queries….
This gets old – the company that is in or was just in bankruptcy keeps changing its books. Every month my boss does variance analysis against the budget that was created earlier in the year (and not forwarded to the sites that have to manage their money, go figure). I gather the data for her since…
This is a continuation of a prior post but this time, I will talk about a really interesting kind of macro that I have recently been learning. I knew that you could record macros, you could have a button for starting macros, you could use ctrl+key to start a macro, you could have a macro…
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