CSS Selectors allow us to target and style specific elements of our webpage. In the last post, we applied borders and fonts to different headers in our page. The different level headers (h1, h2, h3) are different elements of the page. In the CSS file, we use CSS selectors to select and style those […]
Continue readingImprove the look of your website with borders. They are easy to create and useful for separating sections of your page and improving the look of the site. CSS borders should not be mistaken for tables. Tables contain rows, columns, cells and may or may not have borders. A CSS border on the otherhand, is […]
Continue readingTo improve the look and layout of webpages, CSS is often used alongside HTML. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) can dramatically improve the look of your page with just a few small changes. If you’re following the HTML series of posts below you will have created 3 relatively bare looking pages. HTML Basics HTML Lists HTML […]
Continue readingWithout images and other media, websites can be as boring as phone books (remember those?). In this post I will show you how to add images to your HTML pages. The code for HTML images is relatively straightforward. If you have been following this series of posts, this is the 4th post in the series. […]
Continue readingIf you’re following the series of posts, you will have created two basic html web pages so far, one called “index” and one called “music”. If you haven’t been following the posts, you can read them from here if you want… Basic HTML Page Basic Lists You do not need to follow these posts, if […]
Continue readingThis post will go through creating simple lists for your website. It covers ordered lists, unordered lists, definition lists and nested lists. In the last blog post we created a file called “index.html”. Click here to review the blog if you haven’t read through it already and want to continue following this series. If you’re […]
Continue readingAs you look at websites, do you ever wonder about how it was made? Did it cost thousands to create? Was it made by a 45 year old virgin living in his mother’s basement? These thoughts are not entirely true. You can write your own website for free. It is true that there are some […]
Continue readingComing Soon – Our First eBook Our first eBook will be available for download soon. To start us in this new area, it will be free to all subscribers. This book will be based on some of the more useful Date & Time functions in Excel. If you’re not already a subscriber, you may sign […]
Continue readingIt’s that time of year again when I start receiving requests for help with creating planners for the new year. These planners are usually for teams or groups to organise holiday schedules and rosters. This year I created a reusable planner that can be used in future years and also includes most of the features […]
Continue readingIn Excel, a 3D Reference refers to the same cell or range in multiple worksheets. The 3D Sum allows you to sum the same cells in multiple worksheets. To demonstrate this, we have 4 worksheets and in Cell B1 of each sheet, there is a sales value that we want to get the total of. […]
Continue readingIn an earlier post I discussed using len, left and right and mid. Now I will look at more functions that fall under “Text” in Excel – upper, lower and proper. These 3 functions allow you to change the case of text in your files. I usually use these functions on files that have been […]
Continue readingIf you’ve covered even the basics of Excel, there is a good chance that at some point you have sorted at least 1 column of data in ascending or descending order. Sorting up and down is well covered in classes, books, tutorials and with a big button in Excel ribbons that says “Sort”, but […]
Continue readingI’m often asked for help with, or to recommend a good (cheap) program for designing certain shapes like banners etc. There are many good ways to do this out there, feel free to look into some yourself, this is what I usually tell people, but I also give them an Office design tip. A […]
Continue readingHaving trained a variety people and helped others with macros, especially in Excel, I have noticed a common issue – assigning keyboard shortcuts to the most regularly used macros. Ctrl along with most of the letters are already assigned as shortcuts, by assigning for example Ctrl and B to your macro, this overwrites the […]
Continue readingRecently I have been asked by a few people for a quicker way to create VLookUps across multiple columns. In each case the user wanted a VLookUp to pull in several columns of data, but did not want to have to create a VLookUp for each column (one case would have been over 20 columns […]
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