I recently had a need to share some data with people that I had on a simple spreadsheet. I could of course shared the spreadsheet, but not everyone has Excel on their computer, a lot of people only have a mobile phone these days.
I could have approached someone else to create an app I guess, but that potentially would lead to cost and because it was part of one of my voluntary jobs I decided to keep things in-house.
I came up with a simple solution a set of tables like a ready-reckoner, easy to use, easy to share and the resulting calculations from the figures would be accurate enough for the purposes intended.
When I shared the results with the rest of the committee, they were surprised at the simplicity of the presentation and how it has solved a problem. Of course I've made the tables suitable for putting in to my organiser as well!
As we approach another weekend please feel free to discuss anything organiser related.
Talk on Tuesday's FFA (688) about duplex printing and booklets in Personal size got me thinking. I created a single 4-page Word doc in A4 and filled it with random text, different on each page so I could tell them apart.
ReplyDeleteI went to the print dialogue in MS Word (Print > Properties > Quick Setup tab), set paper size to Custom > 190mm wide (width of 2 Personal pages side by side) and 171mm tall, I also cut a sheet of paper to that size.
Setting the dialogue (Print > Properties > Page Setup tab) to booklet print, it accepted the settings, my Canon printer didn't want to do automatic duplex on a custom size piece of paper and asked me to uncheck "automatic" but then the booklet printed correctly when manually fed.
The potential deal-breaker is that there's a 3cm empty margin at the top and bottom of each printed page, which isn't inherited from the settings on the Word docs I printed, and I can't currently find a way to remove it (if I do, I'll update here).
But it looks as though a printer WILL booklet print to Personal sized pages as happily as to A5, correctly putting Word pages 1, 2, 3, and 4 in booklet format, including scaling the text automatically.
The margin nearest the crease is also a respectable, and hole-punchable, 10mm. I don't see this replacing my custom docs for inserts, but it might be useful in other areas.