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The future is open source

The future is open source

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Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, one of the worlds leading browsers

Close your eyes and let your imagination run wild. Imagine a world that granted you the power to extend your creativity farther than ever before. A world where opportunity was more abundant than ever, and there were a greater number of resources at your disposal. A world where everyone in it had endless potential.

Now open your eyes. Slowly but surely, that imagination is transforming itself into reality. That reality is being driven by an ever-growing movement of computer users worldwide. The move to Open Source software. More →

Inserting symbols into Excel

Inserting symbols into Excel

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Want to add some pizzaz to your spreadsheet? Some huzzah? Some kablam?
Are pizzaz, huzzah, and kablam actually words? I have no idea whatsoever, although they sound exciting enough.

Symbols and special characters can help to add a practical (or professional) touch to any Excel worksheet, yet a number of people are still unsure of how exactly to bring them into use. Let’s take a couple of minutes to give you more confidence when working with special characters in Excel. More →

The Time Value of Money

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Sadly, just about everything these days requires money. In a time where the media are using as many boot-quaking adjectives as they can to describe the state of the economy, money matters can be a real headache. Thankfully, Excel can help to ease that headache, if only slightly.

A couple of handy formulas in Excel that will be useful to just about anyone are related to the time value of money. In this blog post we will touch briefly on the formula ‘future value’ (=FV). More →

Dynamic Data Validation

Dynamic Data Validation

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Data validation in Excel is a handy tool. It allows the user to control the specifics of what information is able to be entered into a worksheet. This can help ensure that data is within expected ranges, and that the user enters data that will work in a formula.  For example, ensuring that sales are never entered as negative values, or ensuring that words aren’t used in a cell included in a simple formula (12200 + 17090 + “March” + 1820 = …. ).

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Microsoft’s Excel vs OpenOffice’s Calc – Proprietary or Open Source?

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In this day and age, when it comes to selecting software, a greater range of options are available than ever before. Take browsers for example. Think Internet Explorer (I can hear the laughter from here!), Safari, Firefox, Chrome, or Opera. But they aren’t the only options. Ever heard of SeaMonkey? Konqueror? Amaya? How about Flock?

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