Converting Text Dates to Proper Dates in Excel the Easy Way
From time to time you might receive an Excel spreadsheet that has been created by an application but it has output the dates in its own text format instead of being stored as an actual date value. I’ve...
View ArticleAutoRecover – Not a Substitute for Saving
The nose is well and truly back to the grindstone as university kicks off again with what is likely to be my final semester of study for my Masters of Science in Information Technology. Whilst the...
View ArticleOffice 2013 – First Impressions
Last night I decided to try out Office 2013 – perhaps not the smartest thing to do just as the university semester is getting underway but I couldn’t help myself. Anyway, I just wanted to share my...
View ArticleIt’s Easier to Save Than to Script Again
While this probably applies more to a significant part of my line of work and others that do coding and/or scripting this can be applied generally to any other sort of data, content or programmatic...
View ArticleKB2768349 Breaks Connectivity Between Office 2013 and SharePoint Hosted on...
Update 19/03/2013: Microsoft are currently working to resolve this issue. Just sharing this as an observation noted on the Office 365 forums. I installed a raft of updates on my Surface RT recently...
View ArticleAn OST file is in use and could not be accessed…
If you’re a user of Outlook you may encounter the following error message on the rarest of occasions when attempting to open the application: The file <OST file location> is in use and could not...
View ArticleMicrosoft Outlook Stuck in Offline Mode
Here’s a quick tip for users of Microsoft Outlook – perhaps the e-mail client of choice in most corporations these days. On rare occasions you might find Outlook stuck in offline mode and you may find...
View ArticleA Smarter Way to Change Ribbon Tabs in Microsoft office
Very quick tip for today. If you’re using a more recent version of Microsoft Office from 2007 and onwards you would have realised that the menus of old have been replaced by the ribbon. Granted, it...
View ArticleExcel Spreadsheet Dates Out by Four Years
This might be a bit of an obscure issue but one worth keeping in mind. If you work with Microsoft Excel under both Mac OS X and Windows then you may find an issue with date values changing by...
View ArticleMeeting Request Error 0x80070057-00000000-00000000 In Microsoft Outlook
An obscure tip but one that I found worked this week. A colleague at work was attempting to send a meeting request but repeatedly received errors from our Microsoft Exchange server for one of the...
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