I've taken a few Excel courses on Lynda and they were helpful. But my company pays for it so I don't have an opinion on its value as a whole.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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Jessica - May 09, 2013 5:02:25 am PDT #22401 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
-t - May 09, 2013 5:10:35 am PDT #22402 of 25497
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How can I make fields mandatory in Excel 2007? I knew how to do it in 2003, but now I can't find that option. I feel like it should be under Data Validation...
Jessica, can you do it using the Custom setting in Data Validation and one of the COUNT formulas?
That isn't something I've had to do, but I am at a standstill with my chart making at the moment so I can play around with excel and maybe figure something out for you if you want.
I am my own value proposition.
I don't know what that means, but I like the sound of it.
§ ita § - May 11, 2013 3:40:11 pm PDT #22403 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister might be setting up her own laptop (for the first time in ever). I go a bit OTT loading these up for her, but it's hard to think of my process when I don't even have a laptop to hand.
I'm trying to think of a low end graphics app--no need to Gimp her out or anything. And a screen cap utility that has a bit more to it than Snipping Tool might be nice.
FTR, this is what I have so far:
Browsers:
- Opera
- Firefox
- Chrome
Entertainment
- iTunes
- VLC
- Azureus
Productivity/Utility
- Evernote
- Notepad++
- WinRAR
- Dropbox
- OpenOffice
- Fences 1
- Password vault
System monitoring:
- Soluto
- AVG
- Set up Windows Firewall
Communication
- Thunderbird email client
- Skype
She should be more than good to go with that, especially after she uninstalls the crap that comes with the big box store purchases, right?
dcp - May 11, 2013 3:54:22 pm PDT #22404 of 25497
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Two applications I use pretty often which aren't on that list are IrfanView and Malwarebytes.
§ ita § - May 11, 2013 4:10:28 pm PDT #22405 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think she'd need Irfan View if I can get her something really simple on the image editing front. I doubt she'd fire up more than two apps for pics. I'm really only expecting her to rescue photographs, and although the Windows image viewer seems to go out of its way to stop you from using the pic, I think it will get her by.
What can she get from Malwarebytes that she doesn't get from AVG and the native tools? Again, she's not technical, and she's also skint. So freeware and few apps is her best bet.
dcp - May 11, 2013 4:54:57 pm PDT #22406 of 25497
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Both are freeware.
I couldn't say whether Malwarebytes is better or worse than than AVG, it's just what I have, and I've found it easy to use.
§ ita § - May 11, 2013 6:12:53 pm PDT #22407 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, I see. I didn't realise there was a lower-featured free version. Assuming that those extras aren't something to miss?
sj - May 12, 2013 7:56:48 pm PDT #22408 of 25497
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
What would be the easiest way to save certain voicemails on our house phone permanently?
le nubian - May 12, 2013 8:15:49 pm PDT #22409 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Get a recording device and tape it when it plays on speakerphone.
sj - May 13, 2013 6:09:55 am PDT #22410 of 25497
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, Le Nubian. I think we have a tape recorder somewhere, but I was hoping for better sound quality than that will produce without having to buy new equipment. Like a way to transfer it directly to my computer.