Author Archives: dougaj4

Back to Bassics

Posted on 18/08/2008 by dougaj4

Browsing John Walkenbach’s non-Excel blog : The J-Walk Blog  reminded me that Bach hasn’t had a look in here recently, so here is a clip of one of my all time favourite musicians, Danny Thompson (playing here with John Martyn).  Plug … Continue reading →

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Intersections, interpolations, and rotations

Posted on 10/08/2008 by dougaj4

Amongst the many and varied functions provided by Excel (or as far as I know any other spreadsheet) there are none that provide a one step process for linear interpolation, finding the intersection points of lines, or conversion between polar … Continue reading →

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Ideas for suspension bridges

Posted on 01/08/2008 by dougaj4

here: – mollwollfumble’s science Some old, some new, some might work, some just plain weird.

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Drawing in Excel 5 – Shape List

Posted on 26/07/2008 by dougaj4

Previous Post For some reason best known to Microsoft, the Excel documentation does not include a graphic list of shapes with an example of each shape, and the text list they do provide is incomplete.  The file shapelist.zip rectifies that … Continue reading →

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Problem with file downloads

Posted on 26/07/2008 by dougaj4

There has been a problem with the web site where I host my files for downloading, with the result that any links for file download will not have been working. I have copied all the linked files to: New file … Continue reading →

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