One of the most useful things about Excel is that you can navigate everything without having to move to a mouse. When working in the program a lot knowing a variety of hot keys greatly reduces speed and can also help maintain focus (which we all know is required for mind-numbing data sets). An amazingly
There are tons of times where inserting an image helps make a spreadsheet of data look more professional and function much better. Getting the right image can be a bit cumbersome, but knowing the tools included can go a long ways. Built into Excel is a very useful feature that lets you take a screenshot
When adding text and headers to spreadsheets things can get tricky. Often the data in the cells below the header cell are only a few digits, but they need a lot of explanation. This can create columns that are very wide for no real reason (other than that they have long titles). There are a
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A few months ago I backed the widely popular kickstarter campaign for the 3Doodler, a hand-held “3D Printer”. The team at Wobble works surely got what they asked for as the project surpassed their funding goals by more than $2.3 Million. With a total of 26,000 backers fulfilling the campaign certainly had to be a
There are plenty of kit 3D printers out there that can make things out of everything from chocolate and sugar to plastic…. and now metal. A team at Michigan Tech managed to turn a traditional delta style printer on it’s head and combine it with a MIG Welder to create a device that can be
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas A few confessions of a competitive guy that has average intelligence and mediocre athletic abilities: In my college organic chemistry lab, I would increase the quantities of the ingredients, because a component of our grade was the overall “yield” of lab work. In lacrosse, I kept a
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas First week of training is done. When I first started, I had the youthful optimism that, with a little work, I might be able to sweep the Model Mania top award easily. It doesn’t appear that will be the case. My times are all over 10
Strava is a useful GPS app that is free for the iPhone. Turn it on and it will track you as you run, bike, or walk and then compare results with other Strava users. The result of the tracking is a map that can also be embedded into a website. The default embed option uses
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This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas SolidWorks World is coming in January! I just found out that I get to go. I’m a competitive guy, and enjoy challenges like Model Mania. It’s too bad they only happen once a year and that you have to go to the conference, because it motivates me
This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas Find the rest of the exam solutions at the CSWP Drawing Overview On the test, I ended up bringing something like this into excel- mostly because I wasn’t that familiar or comfortable with tables. It’s actually not that difficult at all. First- let’s add a couple of
