No one likes puffery, which is why we got a few customers to do the talking for us. Hear from current customer experiences on how they are using the product and what makes OfficeWriter stand out among the rest.
What you get in this download:
It’s the morning after the lay-off. Where do you start your job search? Most likely, you sent out status updates to your networks and now your inbox is filling up with leads, recruiters and job searching tools. A moment of reflection sets in, thinking it might be best to work on that resume first. You quickly dismiss the thought and rush a resume over to everyone.
With a sense of great accomplishment, you sit back, relax and think this isn’t so bad. Before you know it, you are daydreaming best tactics and strategies to negotiate job offers. There’s someone knocking at the door and it’s your “Reality Check” that was delivered FedEx. Here is actually how this scenario plays out after your rushed updated resume reaches its destination: 1) Resume arrives with grammar and/or spelling errors; and my personal all-time favorite is 2) You receive a call from the company that you have not researched or even read the job description.
Employers Google their candidates. Feel free to comment on this topic, it’s not the focus of this post, it’s just a fact. For quite some time, there are leading publications discussing how social media is replacing the traditional resume. Not convinced on the power of your online profile? Sorry, game over. It’s that simple. It’s proven employers are looking for that personal branding message and your passion.
You will still need a traditional resume. Less is more and the recommended format is Continue reading How to Land a Job the Startup Way
I took last Friday off to watch my son and hit the local Best Buy since we had some time to kill before picking up my daughter from school.
With the latest Windows 8 release I was hoping to check out a couple of the new touch screen devices. I don’t recall the exact models, but I looked at an Acer RT tablet, Lenovo Ultrabook/Tablet Convertible, and a Dell All-In-One desktop. I have to say after using Windows 8 on my Lenovo x220 for a month, I’m really missing not having a touch screen interface. After playing around with each of the devices, I found the Windows 8 UI to be fluid and responsive irrespective of device. Windows 8 gestures all worked as advertised. Application launched and closed in several seconds. I launched Excel on the Acer RT tablet and sure enough it dropped me to the desktop interface, where I saw the common matrix of empty cells. I even typed in a few numbers and ran the simple SUM function. The on-screen keyboard worked well enough for this task. Office on the desktop ruins the RT experience, they will probably eventually port it or a subset of it to a Windows 8 app, but the fact that it can run on an RT tablet should satisfy business users who depend on Office. Overall, I’m impressed with the few pieces of Windows 8 hardware I used.
I was also hoping to see the newer iPad Mini and thinner iMac for comparison, Continue reading Windows 8, iPad Minis, & Nintendo, Oh My: What to Buy This Holiday Season
You have opinions and we want to hear them. That’s why we’ve created OfficeWriter Asks, a new forum where you can post all of your feedback and wishlist items. Our aim: to bring you the features you desire. Each week we’ll pose a new question related to our OfficeWriter product and how we can improve upon the features you use and need.
You’ve just finished putting together the best sales report ever, but you realize that the value axis is sporting 9 digits of data instead of the cleaned up version of $1M, $2M, etc…
All I wanted to do was to show $1M instead of $1,000,000.00. Was that too much to ask for?? Is there any hope for getting the value axis formatted properly in this forsaken world of despair?!
Yes. Do not despair. It’s pretty easy, actually.
Start by right-clicking on the value axis Continue reading How to Fix Those Pesky Number Formats on Excel Charts
OfficeWriter 8.3 is filled with exciting new features. Here are some of our favorites:
Auto filters are an easy way to view and filter data in a worksheet, and now you can add them programmatically with ExcelApplication in XLSX and XLSM files!
All you need to do is create an area on the worksheet where you want the auto filter to be, then apply the auto filters to that area. This works on data sets that already have data, and data sets that just have ExcelTemplate data markers.
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wksht.AutoFilter.Area = wksht.CreateArea("A6:D14");
Remember, you only get one set of auto filters per worksheet, so if you set the auto filter to a new area, you’ll lose your original filters. Continue reading New in OfficeWriter 8.3: Auto Filters and More!
Finger foods, costumes, and sugar rushes a-plenty. Wishing you a safe and spook-tacular holiday from our crew to yours.
Remnants from Trick-or-TREAT potluck
[This is the eleventh in a series of posts exploring the personal stories of real women in technology. Every woman in tech overcame, at the very least, statistical odds to be here; this blog series aims to find out why, and what they found along the way. This week we met up with Pam Conway (ln) of CompuWorks. If reading her story inspires you to share yours, please email me.]
Pamela Conway has over 20 years of experience in the technical education field. A graduate of Purdue University, Pamela joined CompuWorks in 1991 as a technical writer and software trainer. After many years providing traditional classroom training and curriculum development, in 2000 she became part of CompuWorks’ management team concentrating on implementing new training modalities and planning training/support projects for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. In 2007, Pamela, along with Andrew and Stacy Wight, assumed ownership of CompuWorks. Pamela has lectured throughout the United States and Europe.
1. Can you take us back to your “eureka!” moment—a particular instance or event that got you interested in technology?
I can still vividly remember the moment when I fell in love with technology. I was a freshman in college and had a paper due in one of my classes. As many of us have done, I’d procrastinated too long to write out the paper, edit it and then type it up to turn in the next morning – yes, we were stilling typing on actual typewriters back then, but it was just on the cusp of the explosion of personal computers. This was 1986. A friend of mine who was majoring in information technology – the program was one of the first of its kind at the time – told me to come use her Mac and I could compose, edit and type all at the same time. I was an English major and very wary of computers, but I was desperate. All it took was that one night typing away on her Mac using the first version of Microsoft Word and I was hooked. I turned the paper in on time and chucked my typewriter out the very next day.
2. Growing up, did you have any preconceived perceptions of the tech world and the kinds of people who lived in it?
I sure did. It was mostly based on my best friend’s brother and his friends who would sit in his room all day playing with his Commodore 64. Naturally, they were all male. So for me, the world of technology was populated by geeky boys who sat in dark rooms. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, but junior high perception is pretty compelling! Luckily, I attended a university that was very tech heavy and happily had my perceptions altered. The truth is, at this stage of the game, the tech world is THE world. It’s everywhere, but these old perceptions of things die hard for some folks. Continue reading Stories from the WIT Trenches: Pam Conway
Looking for a place to flex your logical prowess? Leave Life at home. Believe me I’ve tried. That one is a no-go. (No matter how hard I advocate, for some reason that board game always goes missing…weird.) And settle in for some good old-fashioned fun with the SoftArtisans and Riparian Data crew. We’re opening our game night to the community (aka you). So come enjoy pizza and beer on us Wednesday, November 7th at 6pm. We can arrange transportation if needed – just drop me a line at the email address below.
RSVP: http://boardgamesandbeernov7.eventbrite.com/ So we know how much food/drink to supply.
What’s in it for us? Well, if you’re a quick-thinking, risk-taking team player, we probably want you on Continue reading Board Games & Beer Nov 7th