Thanks for participating! You’re an awesome bunch of Excel nerds. The entries in the “You might be an Excel nerd…” giveaway were very entertaining, and read more like my resume than a list of contest entries. Yep, I do some of those things, and I’ll bet you do too.
Thanks again to the generous [...]

Last week, John Walkenbach posted a list of basic skills for men, then basic skills for women, and finally, basic skills for dogs. That got me thinking – what’s on the list of basic skills for Excel users? If you use Excel at work, or list it on your résumé, what tasks should you be [...]

Recently, I’ve made some progress in clearing out my office, and organizing my files and bookshelves. This week, after I was stabbed by a push pin, while trying to dig out a paper clip, I realized that my desk drawer could use some improvement.

At some point, I had good intentions, because you can see the [...]

To survive business ups and downs, become a Roman — disciplined and willing to keep fighting. That’s advice from The First-Time CEO’s Recession Survival Guide, on TechCrunch, written by Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate broker.
Some of the tips in this article aren’t relevant to my small business, but many of [...]

Last weekend a friend, aka Chauncey, who has some gardening knowledge, came over to help trim the trees and shrubs in the back yard.  About an hour later, much of the lawn was covered with branches, twigs and leaves. It took another couple of hours to stuff everything into yard waste bags, and bundle the [...]

I like to use Notepad to make notes as I work. In July, I described how I type .LOG at the top of the Notepad file, so the date and time are automatically entered when the file opens.
That’s a handy feature, but I wanted to timestamp the files as I was working to, to record [...]

Yes, I definitely need more space for all this office stuff. At least that was my first thought as I looked around my office on the weekend. Even though I cleared out a few bookshelves recently, there’s just not enough room in here for all the remaining books, files, computers, printers, gadgets, project binders, and [...]

A couple of weeks ago I started reading Never Procrastinate Again, and promised to report on what I thought of the material, and how well it worked for me.
Reasons For Procrastination
This is an audio course with written transcript and worksheets, by Dave Navarro from the Rock Your Day blog. I listened to a few minutes [...]

When I open Google Reader first thing in the morning, there are a few blogs that I always read, if they’ve posted any new articles. Most of those I read within Google Reader, and occasionally click the link to go to the blog, to read the comments or find the end of a partial feed’s [...]

Yesterday I posted a tip for adding the Refresh All button to the PivotTable toolbar, so you can quickly update all the pivot tables and queries in a workbook. In the comments, Jan Karel Pieterse mentioned that he can press Ctrl+Shift, or hold the Alt key, then drag toolbar buttons to a different toolbar. I [...]