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How to Create a Browse Tab in Excel
Spreadsheet tables are great for computers, but difficult for people - all that scrolling right and left to see all the data in a row. A Browse tab is a freely arranged screen of data taken from a single row with a scrollbar for navigation among rows. A high number of columns poses no constraint, since the full area of the screen is available.
Open each Excel spreadsheet in new window
I am sure you have noticed that when you already have a spreadsheet open and you open another via Windows Explorer it opens in the same instance of Excel. How great would it be to have each spreadsheet open in it’s own instance (multi monitors anyone?). Well you can and it’s easy to do. Just follow the instructions below.
You have to tell Excel not to use DDE to open the worksheet.
Open Windows Explorer, Tools, Options, File Types
Scroll down to XLS
Select Advance Button
Click on OPEN in the Actions window, Then Edit
On the 2nd line for application used add "%1".
Make sure to put the quotes around %1.
Example …\Excel.exe" /e "%1"
Write down what you see in the DDE Section.
You will need this information if you want to return to the original settings.
Now DeSelect Use DDE
When you double click on any XLS file a separate instance of excel will run. Another advantage is that you can open more than one XLS file with the same name.
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I have found and used a nice little application to edit sounds and make ringtones. It’s called WavePad Sound Editor.
A full featured professional audio editor for Windows or Mac OS X. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.
Here is a link to the site.
Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider does? Well check out this nicely made video and all will be explained.
8/1/2008: 6:14 am: PcmanComicality
"More cowbell" is an American pop culture catchphrase that started from an April 8, 2000 Saturday Night Live comedy sketch about the recording of the song "(Don’t Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. The sketch featured guest host Christopher Walken as music producer Bruce Dickinson and Will Ferrell as fictional cowbell player Gene Frenkle. In the television special Saturday Night Live: 101 Most Unforgettable Moments, this sketch is moment number five.
Watch the full sketch here.
7/27/2008: 7:32 pm: PcmanThoughts that Inspire
Randy Pausch has passed away. He was amazingly inspirational
Randy Pausch, a computer science professor whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an internet sensation and a best-selling book has passed away at 47. Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006. His popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2007 garnered international attention and was viewed by millions on the internet. Here is a link to his last lecture at CMU on Youtube.
