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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Calculate the Quarter for any given Date

July 11, 2008 – 12:37 am

How to calculate a quarter from a date in excel

By Sandi Mays | Posted in Excel | Comments (0)

Valuable Business Lesson from Ron Beaumont

July 10, 2008 – 11:00 am

How Rob Beaumont’s question, “What makes you smarter today than you were yesterday?” changed the way I forecast

By Sandi Mays | Posted in Forecasting | Comments (1)

Hide the field buttons in a Pivot Chart

July 10, 2008 – 12:40 am

Hide Field Buttons in Pivot Charts

By Sandi Mays | Posted in Excel | Comments (4)

Undo, the unsung hero!

July 9, 2008 – 11:00 am

I was working on a pretty large spreadsheet and made a huge copy paste mistake, virtually  wiping out 4 hours of work.  Then I clicked UNDO and then everything was OK again.
I use that undo button a dozen or more times a day.  This may be the biggest productivity saver of all time.  So I was […]

By Sandi Mays | Posted in Just for Fun | Comments (6)

Microsoft’s Ballmer on the future of media

July 9, 2008 – 11:00 am

Bandwidth demand is growing.

By Sandi Mays | Posted in Zayo | Comments (0)

del.icio.us - social bookmarking, what is it?

July 9, 2008 – 12:41 am

Social bookmarking with del.icio.us

By Sandi Mays | Posted in Freebies | Comments (0)

Google launched Lively today

July 8, 2008 – 7:02 pm

Google Launches Lively

By Sandi Mays | Posted in Other Google | Comments (0)

Don’t forget to say thank you

July 8, 2008 – 9:17 am

Don’t forget to say thank you

By Sandi Mays | Posted in The Samsels | Comments (3)

Remarkable … what we aren’t telling you

July 8, 2008 – 12:19 am

being remarkable

By Sandi Mays | Posted in PR | Comments (0)

Am I clueless? Just ask Albert Einstein …

July 7, 2008 – 12:48 am

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well

By Sandi Mays | Posted in Management, Quotes | Comments (2)