Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Kennyboy66

Generali wrote: »

Cheers Mr J.

I might stay in touch. We'll see.

It's funny really, when I moved to Aus posters misinterpreted my goodbye as an 'I'm not posting any more'. I didn't want to disappoint so I went along with it.

Anyhoo, what happens will happen. Good luck all and I'll see you when I see you.


Genxxx

Good luck Gen.

Life's too short to spend too much time on here.

Ken

LydiaJ

sss555s wrote: »

Add me to the Excel geek list.

I do all my company accounts in Excel. I just put my total in and it breaks it down (net, vat) then totals it and calculates vat quarters and year end.

I've not been trained in it but just learned what i needed to know and if i can tweak my accounts to make it better/easier, i do.

I do my monthly in around a quarter of the time it used to take when i did it by hand and its far neater.

I haven't done any VBA code as i haven't needed to yet but might have a go one day.

Do you know of any beginners tutorials Lydia? Most the ones i've seen tend to use a bit much " advanced geek" talk.

Sorry, I never did any beginners tutorials. I started on VBA using the printed manual that came with my copy of Excel some time in the early 1990s. I found it easy to pick up because I'd been programming in basic at school in the early 1980s - in those days programming in basic was what you did if you joined the computer club at school - the school had two computers at that point, I think.

Whenever I get stuck, I google my problem and almost invariably find someone on a forum somewhere who's asked a very similar question and got an answer.

There's probably some kind of "getting started with VBA" online - try opening excel and hitting F1. Alternatively, wait until you come across something you want to do with VBA, and then ask somebody (eg me) how to do it, and then learn by doing.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I can't believe everyone is still so noughties with IT - all my staff is now in the cloud on google docs so I can access and work on it anywhere with a web connection.

Me neither. here in 1997 its all so simple.....you just call and they do it while you bat your eyelids and tell them how clever they are.


I just don't ''speak'' computer. TBH, these days I argue with tape measures. I can't imagine what I ever used to do with a microscope...and that was historic equipment.

michaels

Does anyone else remember installing office professional from 33 floppy disks?

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'd been programming in basic at school in the early 1980s - in those days programming in basic was what you did if you joined the computer club at school - the school had two computers at that point, I think.

truely bizarre story alert.

I went to two schools concurrently at one point, because one was specialist and the other wasn't. One of the classes I missed at school-school every week was ''computers'' (I also missed typewriters and shorthand, art and music and some other stuff) but some how I was still signed up to take the exam that I'd not done a single class for. A asked my friend to look at her notes the day before and there were little lines of letters. They made no sense at all but she said it was what the exam was on. So I went into the exam and wrote little lines of letters..c. And passed and got a piublic exam bodies certificate for something and a housepoint for getting a high mark. I still have absolutely no idea what the hell that was about, but it was one weird afternoon.

edit: or was it numbers? I can't remember.

sss555s

michaels wrote: »

Just record a macro and then press Alt+F11 and you will see that you can already write vba.

I can't believe everyone is still so noughties with IT - all my staff is now in the cloud on google docs so I can access and work on it anywhere with a web connection.

I've had a look at both clouds and prefer the MS version seeing as i do all my things in office and use MSN messenger anyway.
Personally i've not much use for cloud at the moment so i doubt i'll do much more with it until i need to.

LydiaJ wrote: »

Whenever I get stuck, I google my problem and almost invariably find someone on a forum somewhere who's asked a very similar question and got an answer.

That's what i do just now

sss555s

michaels wrote: »

Does anyone else remember installing office professional from 33 floppy disks?

95 was the first i used (CD)

For what i use it for it would still have been fine.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

What a numpty. Human rights, indeed.

Indeed, the line to take when being forced in to black polyester trousers (which I wouldn't wear either) is much simpler: Thrush.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

Does anyone else remember installing office professional from 33 floppy disks?

I can remember at least where we had to type PARK at the end to park the hard drive.

I had Office for mac on a box of floppies at one point but my oldest computer had a half-density floppy containing Photoshop 1.0 at about 0.7 Mb.

The whole hard drive was a roomy 20Mb and the memory was a quarter of a single MB RAM.

It's a lot clearer to me now why sf shows like Star Trek tried to avoid describing computer speeds in actual numbers as they'd clearly date so fast!

neverdespairgirl

It's odd how being seriously overweight has become normal - that girl is HUGE for 15 years old.