http://www.alltipsandtricks.com Tips and tricks for a better life Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:56:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/excel-left-mid-right-text/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/excel-left-mid-right-text/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:25:54 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/?p=1259 Why would anybody want to automate slicing up cell contents in a spreadsheet? If you ever tried to copy a list from a web page or from a .txt file and paste it into Excel with the purpose of creating a database, then you know how frustrating it is to go through cells and edit [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/excel-left-mid-right-text/feed/ 1 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/my-recent-documents-displayed-in-windows-xp/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/my-recent-documents-displayed-in-windows-xp/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:42:01 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2007/02/01/my-recent-documents-displayed-in-windows-xp/ Probably Windows 98 users remember that in the Start menu there was a possibility to see your recently open documents (as far as I remember, the list displayed the last 15 documents you opened). In Windows XP, this option is gone. Sometimes I found it useful, because I never remember the names I give to [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/my-recent-documents-displayed-in-windows-xp/feed/ 4 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-make-ms-excel-macros-to-run-across-all-sheets/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-make-ms-excel-macros-to-run-across-all-sheets/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:07:55 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2007/04/30/how-to-make-ms-excel-macros-to-run-across-all-sheets/ MS Excel macros can boost your productivity, saving you a lot of the time you spend on doing boring tasks, such as formatting or printing. If you didn’t know by now, find out how you can use a macro across all worksheets: After you choose Tools, Macros, Record New Macro, in the dialog box, at [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-make-ms-excel-macros-to-run-across-all-sheets/feed/ 5 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-enlarge-your-thumbnails-in-windows-explorer/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-enlarge-your-thumbnails-in-windows-explorer/#comments Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:28:47 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2007/01/10/how-to-enlarge-your-thumbnails-in-windows-explorer/ How many times does it happen to you to browse through your pictures using the thumbnails view in Windows Explorer, and wish they were a bit bigger? This is a simple way to enlarge them as you wish: 1. Go to Start, Run 2. Type in the command box: regedit 3. Double click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-enlarge-your-thumbnails-in-windows-explorer/feed/ 1 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/microsoft-launched-a-patch-by-mistake/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/microsoft-launched-a-patch-by-mistake/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:24:39 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2006/12/15/microsoft-launched-a-patch-by-mistake/ Microsoft advised its Microsoft Office Mac version users, that a security patch launched by mistake via software update service, was not ready yet to be launched. The company recommended those who installed the patch to uninstall it, without giving any information about the date when the final version would be available. “The updates posted there [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/microsoft-launched-a-patch-by-mistake/feed/ 0 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/two-quick-windows-tricks/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/two-quick-windows-tricks/#comments Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:54:46 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2006/10/16/two-quick-windows-tricks/ One of the things which are never too fast is the computer speed. Everybody complains, there are a lot of programs that promise us help, but in reality, they have a very small influence, if any. Yet, there are two things you can do in order to get rid of have the sensation of the [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/two-quick-windows-tricks/feed/ 2 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-assign-a-toolbar-button-to-a-macro-in-ms-excel/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-assign-a-toolbar-button-to-a-macro-in-ms-excel/#comments Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:03:40 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2006/09/28/how-to-assign-a-toolbar-button-to-a-macro-in-ms-excel/ Do you know what a macro is? Or how to make a MS Excel macro? Have you ever made a macro? If you had, it means you use it frequently, this is why you made it, isn’t it? It must be boring though, every time you want to run it, to go to the main [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-assign-a-toolbar-button-to-a-macro-in-ms-excel/feed/ 2 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-hide-formulas-in-ms-excel/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-hide-formulas-in-ms-excel/#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:21:52 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2006/09/27/how-to-hide-formulas-in-ms-excel/ This simple exercise supposes that you already know what a MS Excel formula is and that you currently work with formulas. If you do so, then you know that formulas in cells can be seen. A click on the respective cell makes the contained formula visible in the formula bar, just above the worksheet. It [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/how-to-hide-formulas-in-ms-excel/feed/ 7 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/ms-excel-pivot-table-field-settings/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/ms-excel-pivot-table-field-settings/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:27:12 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2006/08/25/ms-excel-pivot-table-field-settings/ Pivot table is a command in MS Excel which allows thorough analysis of a given database. It can help you group the information in a table by dynamic criteria. As an example, supposing that you have recorded all the sales you had over the past two years, you can group them to see how much [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/ms-excel-pivot-table-field-settings/feed/ 8 http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/data-validation-in-ms-excel/ http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/data-validation-in-ms-excel/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:04:23 +0000 Violeta http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2006/08/25/data-validation-in-ms-excel/ Working in a team can be irritating if some of the team members don’t play by the rules you all agreed when you started a project. Imagine this situation: for this team, you created some Excel templates which the other members need to fill in and return them to you, so you can put them [...]]]> http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/data-validation-in-ms-excel/feed/ 11