Category: "Information Technology"

Excelling With Access

January 16th, 2015
Introduction If all of your financial records are maintained in Excel spreadsheets then you may be missing out on many of the advantages of using Access databases. Microsoft Access may already be available in your version of Microsoft Office. It is a… more »

External Table Data in Access

October 3rd, 2014
I'm constantly coming up with new ideas for projects, articles, and ways to do things. One way I tried to keep up with that was create text files with those notes. Many years ago I used Microsoft's cardfile.exe, but it no longer exists in current versions of Windows. Then, a few years ago I tried out the AZZ Cardfile program. Shortly after that I created my own card file database similar to AZZ Cardfile, named simple Simple Cards. more »

Using the Windows Taskbar

September 29th, 2014
Some time ago I wrote about how to organize your desktop to speed switching between opened files in Excel. Of course, you can easily switch between programs in Windows 7 and above by clicking the taskbar icon at the bottom of the screen. Here's another… more »

Microsoft Word Outlining Primer

June 22nd, 2013
Introduction If you believe the endorsements of others I'm an expert in Access and Excel. I certainly don't know everything about either program, but compared to others, I’ve probably better harnessed the power of those programs than most.  I suspect I… more »

Seven Languages of the Web

January 30th, 2013
  From: 12/30/2007 I was at a Mensa gathering a couple months ago and a couple of people there were talking about their web pages. These were smart people, but they didn't know much about the way today's web works. This is a simple guide to understan… more »

A Microsoft Access Front-End Updater

January 22nd, 2013
A question came up on one of the discussion forums is how to automatically update the front end (FE) of a split database. Instead of taking up space on the board, I'm posting it here. This is the method I used on the only situation where I provided that… more »

Menu Manager as the New Switchboard Manager

December 1st, 2012
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