About MatthewA
Matthew is a freelancer who has produced a variety of software articles for sites such as Bright Hub and Captured Snapshot. He has an A - Level in ICT, at grade C, and is proficient with a number of software packages. Matthew also has a golf blog http://amateurgolfer.blogspot.com/.
Check out his book at http://battlesofthepacificwar.blogspot.co.uk/. Battles of the Pacific War 1941 -1945 recalls where, when and how the Pacific War was won and lost within the battlefields of the Pacific.
If you have set up a large spreadsheet with OpenOffice calc, check out the Navigator tool. That gives you a quicker way to navigate documents. With the tool you can jump straight to specific cell references and other things in the...
Calc is the spreadsheet application included with the freeware OpenOffice. When you enter lots of text in a Calc cell, it goes beyond the cell’s borders. Sure, you can resize the cell’s column width so that it fits the...
If you set up a OpenOffice spreadsheet with a variety of sheets, the Consolidate option might come in handy. That’s an option with which you can set up functions for data across multiple sheets. With that you can copy data f...
MOD and QUOTIENT are two Excel 2010/13 functions you can add to spreadsheets to find the remainder and integer portion of a division between values. These are functions that require just two values. Enter a number and divisor to f...
RANK.AVG and RANK.EQ are new Excel 2010 functions. They aren’t included in other versions except Excel 2013. These functions show you the statistical rank of a value within a list. So the rank tells you their order in a list of va...
EXACT is a function you can add to Excel 2010/13 spreadsheets. This function compares two values (text or numerical) in two cells and tells you if they match or not. If they match it returns TRUE, and if they don’t it returns FALS...
This article told you about a Firefox add-on that shows you tab RAM consumption. Tab Data is another add-on that you can check tab RAM consumption with. However, this extension adds the RAM data to the tabs and includes graphs. Th...
Opera Mail was once a part of the Opera browser, but has been removed from it. Now Opera Mail is available as a desktop email client that you can add to Windows, Linux or Mac OS. With Opera Mail you can open your email from Gmail,...
The Windows 7 system tray clock includes customizable dates. However, Windows Vista and XP don’t include any options to add dates to the system tray clock. To add a Windows 7 system tray clock to Vista/XP with dates on it, c...
If you need to add random numbers to an Excel spreadsheet you can always enter them manually. However, it might take a while to enter lots of random numbers. Instead, add random numbers with Excel’s RAND and RANDBETWEEN func...
CEILING is an Excel 2010/13 function that you can add to spreadsheets to find ceiling values. The function shows you the ceiling value of a number based on a specific multiple. For example, the ceiling value of five based on a mul...
Windows Aero are those snazzy Windows Vista/7 themes that have glass transparency, reflection and blur effects. Windows does have a few options you can select to adjust the Windows Aero transparency, hue and saturation. However, D...
There are various ways you can add extra colors to Word 2010 documents. Perhaps the best way to add a little more eye candy to your documents is to alter the background colors. This is how you can alter the background colors in Wo...
Images in Word documents can slow down page scrolling due to rendering of each picture. However, you can speed up page scrolling in documents with placeholders. Placeholders effectively remove images from a document leaving only t...
The Opera Speed Dial page has a navigation bar that includes Bookmarks and Speed Dial options. In Opera 26 this ran along the top of the Speed Dial page. However, in Opera 27 the navigation bar is at the bottom of that page. This ...