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Get rid of trailing zeroes in Excel charts

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:00:10 +0000

I was making a chart in an Excel spreadsheet the other week and it insisted on adding trailing zeroes in the charts after the decimal point, even though all of my stats were whole numbers. Here’s the solution I finally found

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What to do when the layoff comes

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:00:36 +0000

An IT pro I went to high school with–he was a year or two ahead of me, so we weren’t quite classmates–got a layoff letter this past week, along with the rest of his department. It was a large, successful

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Excel won’t scroll down or otherwise? Try this

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:00:43 +0000

I regularly work with Excel spreadsheets with tens of thousands of rows, correlated. Or hundreds of thousands of rows of raw data. Working with gigabytes of data taught me a lot. Including things it wasn’t supposed to, like what to

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One in five Macs has malware–but read the fine print

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:04:47 +0000

Sophos claimed today that 20% of the people who’ve installed their free Mac antivirus has malware. That’s not altogether surprising, but it’s also not nearly as big of a problem as it sounds. One in 36 systems has Mac malware,

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How to make persistent headers in Excel

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:33:31 +0000

My boss and I are compiling a huge Excel spreadsheet that summarizes everything our organization has ever done. It’s as big of a pain as it sounds. What makes it worse is having to scroll all the way back to

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Buying a new TV that won’t kill your electric bill

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:42:59 +0000

As television technology improves, they become more energy efficient. Generally speaking, at least. The CRT TV ranging in size from 26-32 inches that was common in living rooms for most of my lifetime used around 130 watts. But some of

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Mac “superiority” and cheap PC hardware sources

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:23:35 +0000

Dave flying solo. Sorry about not getting the post up there yesterday. So here's two days' worth, divvied up however I want.

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Binary file editing and hardware compatibility

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:29:45 +0000

Binary file editing. I've recovered many a student's term paper from munged disks over the years using Norton Disk Edit, from the Norton Utilities (making myself a hero many times). Usually I can only recover the plain text, but that's a lot better than nothing. Rebuilding an Excel spreadsheet or a QuarkXPress document is much harder--you have to know the file formats, which I don't.

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