Category Archives: Computing – general

Daily Download 27: Miscellaneous

Posted on 15/10/2012 by dougaj4

Just some bits and pieces that don’t really fit in anywhere else today: Get your spreadsheet to talk to you at: Newton Excel Shakespeare Download: http://www.interactiveds.com.au/software/Text2Speech.xlsb Anniversaries gives you the tools to avoid missing significant anniversaries (and also to find the value … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 12: ImageMagick and Excel

Posted on 28/09/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s download provides a simple way of adding images to Excel from a list of file names, using the freeware program ImageMagick. See ImageMagick and Excel and ImageMagick – Update and add IrfanView link Download file:  http://www.interactiveds.com.au/software/PastePic.zip

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Newton Excel Shakespeare

Posted on 27/02/2012 by dougaj4

Another excellent link from Al Vachris: Bruce McPherson’s Site This site is all about how to free your Excel data from your desktop and take advantage of web capabilities such as Docs, Maps, Earth , Gadgets, Visualizations and a whole … Continue reading →

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Embedding Skydrive worksheets in WordPress

Posted on 16/02/2012 by dougaj4

On the Download page of this blog I have a list of files available for download, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet stored on the Microsoft Skydrive site.  I recently discovered that this link had stopped working, and that the … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Excel on the Cloud With Javascript!

Posted on 16/12/2011 by dougaj4

I have previously linked to a spreadsheet stored on Skydrive, but I have been disappointed that the possibilities for using live spreadsheets are greatly limited by the lack of support for VBA.  It seems that Microsoft have now decided to provide … Continue reading →

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