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	<title>Notes from the Help Desk... &#187; Don</title>
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		<title>Using Range.Offset in Excel VBA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To select a cell in Excel, you have two basic methods: RANGE and CELLS: Range ("A1").Select Range("RangeName").Select Cells(3, 4).Select 'Selects Row 3, Column 4, i.e. cell D3 Range works well for hard-coded cells. Cells works best with calculated cells, especially when you couple it  with a loop: For i = 1 to 10      Cells(i, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel VBA – Constants and Cell References</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the techniques I have found very useful in writing Excel VBA code is to make the cell, row, and column references public constants rather than hard coding them. Take a reference to a row and column:    cells(4,27).value If row 4 is the first data row and column 27 is the last column [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supercharged Copying and Pasting – Using the Extend Box in Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you probably know about the Extend box in Excel, even if you don&#8217;t know its name. The Extend box is the little square at the bottom right corner of the current cell or range. When you put your cursor on it, the cursor changes to a small black cross and the fun begins. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find and Replace Tips &#8211; Special Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Word]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finding special characters is a useful way to clean up a document. The special characters can be added from the Special button list or directly as codes. See the Find and Replace Tips &#8211; Formatting for the general process. The only difference is that you enter the codes instead of text. For example, suppose you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find and Replace Tips – Formatting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Word]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the 80&#8242;s, search and replace (as it was known then) seemed the second coolest thing about word processing. The first, of course, was never having to re-type a document. These days, with the use of templates, styles, and Word&#8217;s New From Existing Document, it seems less necessary. However, for cleaning up documents and combining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Packaging Your Presentation to CD</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2005/08/packaging-your-presentation-to-cd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PowerPoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerPoint 2003]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you have to create a PowerPoint presentation on one computer and show it on another, you face a number of potential problems. Are the fonts you used installed? Did you copy all the graphics and charts you needed? Does the new computer have PowerPoint and is it the right version? Microsoft has addressed these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving and Selecting Cells in Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Moving to different cells using the mouse is all well and good, but what happens when you have a list with 5,000 odd rows? Moving to the end of the list or, worse, highlighting to the end of the list is cumbersome with the mouse. (See the end of this tip for an exception.) The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Displaying Zipcodes in a Word Mailmerge</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2005/08/displaying-zipcodes-in-a-word-mailmerge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2005/08/displaying-zipcodes-in-a-word-mailmerge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Word 2003]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Word 2007]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excel provides a Special number format for zipcodes which allows those of us in New England to display our zipcodes properly. However, when you do a mail merge in Word 2002 and 2003, this formatting will not come through. A zipcode of 01040 will display as 1040. You can fix this in Excel by converting [...]]]></description>
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