by Tom Chandler | Aug 28, 2026 | Programming
If you’ve ever opened a macro you wrote a year ago and stared blankly at a variable named x2, you already understand the problem this post solves. VBA doesn’t force you to name anything meaningfully — it’s perfectly happy with x, temp, and a...
by Tom Chandler | Aug 28, 2026 | Databases
Open an unfamiliar database and you can usually tell within thirty seconds whether the person who built it thought about naming. Tables called “Table1,” queries called “Query3,” and a report saved as “Copy of Copy of Report” are a...
by Tom Chandler | Jul 31, 2026 | Word Processing, Spreadsheets
In Part 1, we walked through printing name tags for a Pioneer Trek using a standard Avery label template — pick the product number, and Word handles the rest. But what happens when your name tags don't match anything in that list? That's exactly what I ran into....
by Tom Chandler | Jul 31, 2026 | Word Processing, Spreadsheets
Recently, I had the chance to help a group of high school students get ready for their Pioneer Trek — a multi-day experience where youth walk part of the same trail their pioneer ancestors once did, often pulling handcarts just as those pioneers did nearly 175...
by Tom Chandler | Jul 30, 2026 | Spreadsheets
Cutting a herd is only half the job. (As we covered in our last post, "cutting" a herd means separating out the matching cattle — not cutting and pasting them.) Once the matching cattle are cut from the larger group, a good trail boss doesn't leave them scattered — he...
