Category Archives: Computing – general

Getting Excel Solver working

Posted on 21/05/2022 by dougaj4

Recently I found that for unknown reasons the Excel Solver add-in was not working. Opening the add-ins list from the Devloper tab showed that it had become deactivated (also accessible from File-Options-Add-ins): Clicking the Solver check box returned a message … Continue reading →

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Free and Simple Tools for Editing Videos

Posted on 08/04/2022 by dougaj4

I recently needed to extract 15 minutes from a 45 minute long video, in 5 separate clips. I discovered that there are free tools to do this simply and efficiently, although they are not widely advertised. Here’s how: By default, … Continue reading →

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Clearing OneDrive download files in Android

Posted on 13/02/2022 by dougaj4

I recently found that downloaded files on OneDrive on my Android pad had almost filled my storage space to capacity, and that the procedure to delete them was not at all obvious. I eventually found a link with detailed instructions … Continue reading →

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Fast Search Reminder

Posted on 30/08/2021 by dougaj4

A recent comment at Opening and searching pdf files from Excel reminded of the linked spreadsheet, which allows pdf files to be opened at a specified page from Excel, and also fast searches of the local hard drive: PdfLink.zip (free download … Continue reading →

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Downloading with Chrome

Posted on 11/06/2021 by dougaj4

I recently discovered (via a helpful comment) that clicking on any download link on this blog, when using Chrome, raised a message saying: The site ahead contains harmful programs I have now managed to get Google to agree that there … Continue reading →

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