Category: Miscellaneous

A review of Add-in Express

A while ago I started transitioning from VBA to VB.NET again, attempting to build a tool to manipulate the new Power Pivot components in Excel 2013. While I was able to get part way to a working solution using Visual

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One hell of a weekend!

This is a personal post, but it was a HUGE weekend for me where some very cool things happened.  If you’re a fan of Excelguru on Facebook, follow me on Twitter, or are connected to me on LinkedIn, you’ve already

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Nasty little F Lock key…

No really, that is it’s name! I was trying to figure out why pressing F4 wasn’t toggling from relative to absolute referencing in my Excel formulas, and was starting to think I found a bug in Excel 2013.  But then

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Who is the “Excel Guru”?

ExcelGuru.ca is run by Ken Puls, FCPA, FCMA. I'm a Certified Management Accountant, who never remembers life without spreadsheets and computers. Since mid 1999, my career has been spent in the hospitality and tourism industry, in the finance and IT

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I’m confused

Back in the days of classic Excel (versions 97 through 2003), I displayed about 10 toolbars, working out to hundreds of commands represented by tiny icons. We recognized them, and were able to have all of our most used commands

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Installing RSAT on Windows 7 SP1

Today we began the process of migrating away from VMWare to Microsoft Hyper-V for our server farms. Something I'm sure that Microsoft would be pretty happy to hear. And yet I got burned by an issue in the process that

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Recording Excel Videos

So this past Friday, I had the opportunity to go and shoot a couple of Excel webcasts that I'm doing for the Certified General Accountants. This was a pretty interesting experience, as I'm very used to doing live presentations, but

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Calendaring with the iPhone

Tonight we picked up an iPod Touch from our local Save-On Foods with some reward points that we'd been accumulating. This is pretty cool for a variety of reasons, including the fact that now my kid will try and scoop

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