It’s weird how people panic when something is slightly different to how they expect I client called me this morning as she was trying to do a mail merge but it was behaving differently to how her other mail merges work Basically when she opened the Word document with the mail merge in, Excel also
Date formats incorrect after mail merge using Word 2007
I was asked to look at something by a friend yesterday She was doing a mail merge using Word 2007 with an Excel spreadsheet as the data source One of the fields was a date and was in the British DD/MM/YY format on the spreadsheet but when she did the merge it was in the
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Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Vista x64 – Tim Long
Just wanted to share as I had this exact problem…thanks Tim! Also it’s so I don’t forget how to do it! Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Vista x64 – Tim Long It’s still installing software but that rant can wait for another time 🙂
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Poor Vista show by software vendor
Not the first time you’ve heard this story but thought I’d share One of our clients is just about to change all their PCs as part of a larger IT project They currently don’t have any Vista PCs so we had a chat about that. Obviously the client has heard all the usual press stories
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The National Computer Museum at Bletchley Park
I posted a little while back about the good news Bletchley Park received and said that I’d like to visit and take a look around the National Computer Museum Well as a bit of a weird coincidence I’d completely forgotten that we’d arranged a visit to Milton Keynes on the Saturday immediately after the post
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SBS / EBS Launch Event in the Midlands
After a ton of partner feedback the Microsoft UK team have decided to do away with the traditional all singing-all dancing launch event Emily Lambert and Gareth Hall have decided to take the event to the partners! This means they will visiting the various user blogs too Make sure you attend!!!!
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The power of the Internet hype
While not giving you the power of the stats a self hosted blog would afford, the stats that WordPress.com provide are generally good enough for me I get to know which posts are more popular than others and see how site visitors come across my page The page views numbers also help give me an
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Bletchley Park given a boost
Just saw this on this BBC news site Bletchley gets £50,000 donation The article is pretty comprehensive so I won’t reproduce too much of it here I’m planning on making a trip to check out the National Museum of Computing soon so was pleased to hear this news today The donations made by IBM and
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Stupid is as stupid does
If you’re on my Facebook friends list you’ll have got this message over the weekend Hello AllIf you’ve had a weird message from me (other than this one!) today please delete itI got the same message from a friend and while allowing my curiosity to get the better of me i managed to infect myself
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Installing Windows Live Writer on Vista 64-bit
I’m running Vista 64-bit so tried to install Live Writer a while back and got the following error From what I’ve read it’s to do with the unified Live installer and not Live Writer I’ve seen a couple of blog posts that mention if you can get the MSI file you can install it
