Category: Miscellaneous

I’m a guest author now too…

I blogged earlier this week about Chandoo’s new PowerPivot course, where I’m a guest lecturer.  Well guess what… I’m everywhere! This morning Rob Collie published my first guest post on his blog, on the topic of Determining the Effective Tax

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A successful weekend

This past weekend was a good one for Excelguru. On Thursday evening we travelled over to Vancouver and stayed at the Westin Grand, downtown. I have to say that I quite enjoy the Westin hotels, and this one was no

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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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My VMWare Setup Steps

I thought I'd written this down somewhere, but apparently not, so I figured I'd make a blog post out of it. Despite the fact that it's been a long time since I've blogged, I don't think it's a secret that

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The danger of being out of date…

Tonight I discovered that my site had been hacked... as it turns out I was running an old version of WordPress and there was some injection code fed into a security vulnerability. I've upgraded to the latest version, which has

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