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A few months ago J. Carlton Collins, wrote an article in the Journal of Accountancy about adding check marks to a Word document. He was writing in response to a question about getting a decent looking check mark in Word and one suggestion was to use… more »

The seed About six weeks ago I was interviewed for a job with GenesisWorld for a software developer using C#/ASP.NET/T-SQL. The position I applied for was an entry-level job. As a part of the interview, I had to do some coding, in C#. I knew I had used… more »

In Word you can create a document and by using styles associated with the selected theme, you can make sure the design is consistent throughout, without having to change a lot of fonts and colors. You could also create a document and then select an alternate theme and totally change the design of the document (colors, fonts, etc). While OpenOffice Writer doesn't have themes, you can actually do much the same thing in OpenOffice.… more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »