Author Archives: dougaj4

Beams may kiss, but do not hug …

Posted on 09/02/2015 by dougaj4

… not full length anyway. This post was inspired by a now very long discussion at Eng-Tips on the apparently simple question of what happens when you place one short beam on top of a longer one, and apply a … Continue reading →

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Links on Lists, and other things.

Posted on 31/01/2015 by dougaj4

Daily Dose of Excel recently had a post on interacting with List Objects from VBA.  Since I make very little use of Lists (or Tables as they are now known in Excel, but not VBA), I thought I’d have a search … Continue reading →

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Simpson’s Donkey

Posted on 27/01/2015 by dougaj4

Simpson and his Donkey. John Simpson Kirkpatrick

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Smart Indenter and Excel 2013

Posted on 27/01/2015 by dougaj4

I have recently installed Office 365 on a new computer running Windows 8.1 (actually the third one in just over a month, but that’s another story).  Office 2013 has several annoying features, but for me the most annoying was that … Continue reading →

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Finding Excel Version Information

Posted on 26/01/2015 by dougaj4

The information below was buried in an old post, but I had trouble finding it when I wanted it, so here it is in its own post: Finding the version information in Office used to be easy; it was always … Continue reading →

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