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Microsoft Excel lesson 2 – compound interest calculator (absolute referencing, fill down)

By Magic Monk on Sunday, March 1, 2020

In this lesson we build a compound interest calculator to calculate how much interest the bank will pay you if you save a certain amount of money in the bank. We talk about absolute referencing using dollar signs and what happens when you fill down by dragging the corner dot down the screen.

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Microsoft Excel lesson 1 – basic numerical operations, cell referencing

By Magic Monk on Saturday, February 29, 2020

In this first Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet lesson, we talk about how to conduct some basic numerical operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide, to the power of, brackets) and how to use cell reference in combination with the mathematical operations (e.g. E5+E6 etc).

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Excel 2016 tutorial – Using Vlookup to convert from a letter grade to a numerical grade

By Magic Monk on Friday, February 28, 2020

In this tutorial you will learn about Vlookup and how to use it to look up values in a table, so you can convert a letter to a number e.g. A+ to 15, A to 14, A- to 13.

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Microsoft Excel Lesson – Pivot Tables

By Magic Monk on Thursday, February 27, 2020

In this lesson you will learn about pivot tables and how you can use it to help you gain insight into the data in a spreadsheet. The data used for this spreadsheet can be downloaded from: https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/overs…

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“Distribute Page” missing in Microsoft OneNote 2016 fix

By Magic Monk on Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Is the “distribute page” option missing from your Class Notebook? Here is how you would fix that problem.

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Microsoft Outlook – How to get out of Offline mode (Office 365)

By Magic Monk on Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Even though it can be quite obvious how to fix this problem, whether it has worked or not can be decieving due to the appearance of the menu button.

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Insert rows in Excel button shortcut

By Magic Monk on Monday, February 24, 2020

In this video we show you how to quickly insert rows in Excel.

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Automatic configuration of the current version of Microsoft Access has failed

By Magic Monk on Sunday, February 23, 2020

So I tried to start Microsoft Access 2013 on my PC for the first time (I never used it on this computer) and it came up with this message: “Automatic configuration of the current version of Microsoft Access has failed. Your database might not function correctly. This can occur if you do not have the …

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Free program to limit download speed / terminate programs which are downloading / uploading

By Magic Monk on Saturday, February 22, 2020

So I discovered NetBalancer, version 9.1.4, by SeriousBit, which not only allows you to limit the download/upload speed of every process, but lets you terminate them if you don’t like them 🙂 And best part is – I didn’t pay a cent for it 🙂

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Quickest way to hide desktop icons in Windows

By Magic Monk on Friday, February 21, 2020

So how quickly can you hide desktop icons in Windows? I can do it in.. 0.1 seconds? Maybe a bit more, but not much. However long it takes to do a double click.

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