Posts Tagged ‘range’

Print your Recurring MS Outlook Appointments

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a handy list of appointments that you have scheduled for recurring events? One might think that would be available in MS Outlook but alas, it is not. There is, however,  a way to get around MS Outlook’s limitation and print out a list of those recurring appointments.

You can export your calendar to MS Excel!   Once you have done that, you can then sort and filter the list and then print it.

Follow the steps below to learn how:

To export your calendar to Excel:

  1. In Outlook, click on File | Import And Export.
  2. Select Export To A File from the Choose An Action To Perform list.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Select Microsoft Excel 97 – 2003 from the Create A File Of Type list.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Click Calendar in the Select Folder To Export From list.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Click Browse and navigate to the folder where you would like to save the workbook.
  9. Name your workbook.
  10. Click OK.
  11. Click Finish.

Specify the appropriate date range for your export.

Once MS Outlook completes the export, ope the workbook and click the Calendar tab.

If there is no tab visible named Calendar, you may have to click around some to find your Calendar items.

You can use a filter to exclude all but the recurring items and then sort the filtered results to arrange them as necessary.

You can now print your filtered list!

USING THE STATUS BAR IN MS EXCEL

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

The lowly status bar just sits at the bottom of your MS Excel screen and most folks don’t pay it much mind, but it can come in quite handy sometimes.

For instance, I am sure that you all know how to sum a range of cells in MS Excel, but did you know that you can get the sum of that range of cells without clicking on AutoSum? Yep, you sure can! Suppose you are in the middle of keying in the collected fees for the week and the attorney stops by and says “how much have we netted thus far?”  Well, there is a very easy way to tell him within a second, using the lowly Status Bar!

Follow the steps below to learn how:

Select the range of cells.

Look down at the right-hand side of your Status Bar (at the bottom of the MS Excel screen).

You will now see the word Sum and the total of the selected cell range.

Now that you have gained a bit more respect for that lowly Status bar, I will let you in on some other smooth actions that it is capable of that can save you time and keystrokes.

If you right-click on your Status Bar in MS Excel, it will give you the option of:

  • None
  • Average
  • Count
  • Count Nums
  • Max
  • Min
  • Sum

Pretty cool huh?