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    <title>Martin Green's Office Tips Update</title>
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    <description>Tutorials, eBooks and courseware for Microsoft Access, Excel, Word and VBA from trainer, developer and consultant Martin Green.</description>
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      <title>New Excel Tutorial: Put a Date Picker Calendar on an Excel Worksheet</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Written for Excel 2007/2010 this tutorial aims to provide an alternative to the previous calendar tools which used the now discontinued mscal.ocx ActiveX control. Using the new Date and Time Picker control it shows how to add a handy date insertion tool to a worksheet without the need for any VBA coding, and how with a little VBA code it can be transformed into a powerful and useful addition to a worksheet.]]></description>
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      <title>Updated Excel Tutorial: Working Out a Person's Age in Excel</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of my most popular tutorials, this has been revised and updated for Excel 2007/2010 with new screenshots and a note about the undocumented DATEDIF function. This tutorial provides an excellent introduction to the use of nested IF functions in Excel.]]></description>
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      <title>Updated Excel Tutorial: Put a Permanently Open Calendar on a Worksheet</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Written originally for Excel 2003 this tutorial has been updated for Excel 2007. It shows how to place an ActiveX calendar directly on a worksheet so that when the user selects a date it is written into the active cell. The tutorial uses the mscal.ocx control which Microsoft no longer included after Office 2007, replacing it with an alternative. You can, however,download and register the control if you wish to use it.]]></description>
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      <title>New Access Tutorial: Add an Audit Trail to your Access Database</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/access/acctut21.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's important to keep track of your valuable business data and especially in a multi-user environment it can be important to know who did what and when. The task might seem daunting but when I set out to build an Audit Trail tool it turned out to be much easier than I expected. This simple tool works from any data form so you only need to build it once in your database.]]></description>
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      <title>New Excel Video Tip: Excel's Business Tools - What-if Analysis</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/excel/exlvid08.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[What-if analysis is an important part of business management and planning. Excel has some excellent tools to help you forecast what might happen if circumstances change and help you predict what effect this might have on your business. My latest video tutorial Excel's Business Tools - What-if Analysis uses the simple example of a cash loan to demonstrate some of these tools. It makes use of Excel's PMT Function to calculate repayments on a loan, then shows how you can use the Goal Seek tool to manipulate variables such as the amount borrowed, repayment period and interest rate to arrive at a desired result. You will see how to use Data Tables to display a large number of calculations employing one or two variables and finally use Conditional Formatting to present the results in an easily understandable way. I've also included a new PDF handout to accompany the video, illustrated with colour screenshots, describing the tools used.]]></description>
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      <title>New VBA Video Tip: Build a Pop-up Calendar for Excel</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/vba/vbavids.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[These three videos take you through all the steps of building a VBA UserForm and writing the VBA code for my popular Pop-up Calendar for Excel. Part 1 introduces the project and shows you how the calendar works. In part 2 I build the UserForm and start writing the code that drives it. Part 3 finishes off the code creating an automatically assigned keyboard shortcut and a new menu item for opening the calendar. Finally I show you how to convert the project into an Excel Add-In for safe and easy distribution of the Pop-up Calendar to your co-workers.]]></description>
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      <title>New Excel VBA Tutorial: A Pop-up Calendar for Excel (Updated for Excel 2007/2010)</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/vba/vbatut07.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is a completely revised and updated version of my highly popular Pop-up Calendar project, re-written for Excel 2007 and Excel 2010. It takes you step-by-step through the stages of building and coding a VBA UserForm in Excel which appears as a pop-up calendar that the user can call from a new item on the right-click menu of any cell. The calendar can be programmed to write the chosen date into the active cell or into all the cells in a selection. The tutorial also includes instructions for creating an Excel 2007/2010 Add-In for distribution to other users and full instructions on installing and activating it. Completed examples of the project files are available for free download.]]></description>
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      <title>New Viewlet: Analyzing Business Data with Excel - The Subtotal Tool</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/excel/Excel_Subtotals_Viewlet/Excel_2007_Subtotals_viewlet_swf.html</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This viewlet accompanies the "Analyzing Business Data with Excel - The Subtotals Tool" video. If you don't have access to the video's sound (or can't understand my English accent!) commentary this viewlet will take you through the process step-by-step with the aid of text annotations.]]></description>
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      <title>New Video Tip: Analyzing Business Data with Excel - The Subtotal Tool</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/excel/exlvid07.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A useful way to summarize data is to sort it then add subtotals to each group. Done manually, this can be very time consuming. The data used in this example requires subtotals to be calculated for 13 offices each of which has 8 departments, a total of 112 separate subtotals (one for each department in each office and another for each office as a whole). The Subtotal tool can achieve this with just a couple of mouse clicks and allows you to display the data with its subtotals or just the subtotals themselves. And it is just as easy to remove the subtotals when you are finished. This video shows you how to do it.]]></description>
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      <title>New Viewlet: Excel Spreadsheet Techniques #1</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This viewlet is a step-by-step annotated movie to accompany the Excel Spreadsheet Techniques #1 video tip. It is an ideal tool to help you work through the tutorial at your own pace.]]></description>
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      <title>New Video Tip: Analyzing Business Data with Excel - The SUMIF Function</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/excel/exlvid03.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This video explains how to useExcel functions (SUMIF, AVERAGEIF, COUNTIF) to analyze business data and includes some useful, timesaving tricks to help you make sense of your data. It demonstrates how to use these functions creatively with the aid of some of Excel's other features such as the Autofill tool (to quickly enter multiple calculations) and the Remove Duplicates and Data Validation tools to add a useful dropdown list.]]></description>
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      <title>New Courseware Handout: Working with Macros and VBA in Excel 2007</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/free/index.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the introduction of Excel 2007 Microsoft made a number of changes to the way macros and VBA are approached. This document outlines these special features of Excel 2007 for people wanting to create macros and work with VBA and for those migrating to Excel 2007 from an earlier version of Excel.]]></description>
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      <title>New Courseware Handout: Parameter Queries</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[My latest free courseware handout shows you all you need to know about Parameter Queries. This technique requires no special skills and is a great way to add interactivity to your Access queries. A simple addition to the query prompts Access to ask the user for criteria when the query is run. This lets you specify criteria for a query each time the query is run so you don't have to anticipate the user's requirements.]]></description>
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      <title>New Mailbag Item: Can I Have Cascading Dropdown Lists on a Word Form?</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 11:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/mailbag/qword03.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article explains how to create a macro that determines the contents of a Dropdown form field list on a Microsoft Word form dependent upon the selection that was made in another Dropdown. It offers two solutions, one hard-coding the list contents and the other retrieving the list from a database.]]></description>
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      <title>New Mailbag Item: How to Fill a Form Field Dropdown List in a Word Document with Items from a Database</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/mailbag/qword02.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article answers a question from a correspondent who has built a form in a Word document and wants to fill a combo box list with information from a database. This is an ideal job for ADO which allows Word to read data from an Access database, quickly and seamlessly, so that the form's combo box list is always up-to-date.]]></description>
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      <title>New VBA Tutorial: Fill a UserForm Combo Box or List Box List from a Database</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/vba/vbatut10.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[When you put a Combo Box or a List Box on a VBA UserForm the usual procedure is to hard-code the items on the list, unless you are using Excel in which case you can get the list from a range of cells on a worksheet. But what if your list is subject to change and you would like to build it from a database? This tutorial shows you how to use ADO in your VBA coding to help your UserForm communicate with a database and retrieve the information it needs.
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      <title>New Courseware Handout: Build a UserForm for Excel</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/free/index.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is really useful to be able to add interactivity to your macros. You can do a lot with Message Boxes and Input Boxes, but for real power you need a UserForm. These custom-built dialog boxes are easy to design, build and program and can turn your macros into powerful applications. This FREE handout introduces the subject by taking you through the steps of building a simple UserForm in Excel. All the building and coding techniques are explained and illustrated with colour screeenshots. There's also a sample file to download containing a working example of the UserForm described in the handout.]]></description>
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      <title>New Courseware Handout: Using Loops to Repeat Code</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/free/index.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[For most people the macro recorder is their introduction to programming with VBA. It's a great tool but there is only so much it can do. One of the real scoops of VBA programming is the ability to have your code repeat a task as often as necessary. It's done by programming code loops - you can't record them but they are easy to write and this FREE handout shows you lots of practical examples, There is also a sample file with working examples of all the code used in the handout.]]></description>
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      <title>New Courseware Handout: Introducing VBA Message Boxes</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/free/index.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Message boxes are a useful tool for adding important user-interaction to your macros. This handout describes, with illustrated examples, how to use message boxes in your macros. This FREE document is in PDF format for you to download and print or read on-screen. There is also an accompanying Excel file containing examples of the macros described in the handout.]]></description>
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      <title>New Comment Article: Microsoft Office Version Survey 2006</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/comment/comment05.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[With a new version of Microsoft Office imminent and already four current versions of Microsoft's flagship Office suite in common use, how have things changed since my last survey in 2004? The voting for my 2006 survey is now closed. It's time to find out who's using what.
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      <title>New Courseware Handout: Crosstab Queries</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/free/index.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Crosstab queries are a powerful and easy to use tool for summarizing data. This handout tells you everything you need to know about them. This FREE document is in PDF format for you to download and print or read on-screen. There is also an accompanying Access database file containing examples of the crosstab queries illustrated.]]></description>
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      <title>New Courseware Handout: Showing Totals in Access Queries</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/free/index.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This handout demonstrates some of Access' powerful data analysis capabilities by showing what you can do with the Query Totals tool. This FREE document is in PDF format for you to download and print or read on-screen. There is also an accompanying Access database file containing examples of the queries illustrated.]]></description>
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      <title>Free Courseware: A new range of training handouts for free download.</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:36:30 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/free/index.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I have just launched a new range of training handouts in PDF format. They are ideal for students, teachers and trainers, and anyone wanting to learn more about their Microsoft Office programs. Each handout covers a single topic in detail and is illustrated with full-colour screenshots. The handouts are available for FREE download and are completely unrestricted allowing you to print unlimited copies and to copy and paste text and pictures using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Many handouts have accompanying sample files with worked examples from the text. Access titles include: Calculated Fields, Connecting to Excel with ADO, Linking Access to SQL Server, Database Structure, Table Relationships. Excel titles include: Building Custom Functions, Buiulding an Excel Add-In. More titles coming soon!]]></description>
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      <title>New eBook: The Visual Basic Editor</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/ebookvbe.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[There are a lot of web tutorials and reference books showing you how to write VBA code but most assume that you know your way around the Visual Basic Editor. This eBook is a comprehensive guide to using the Visual Basic Editor, illustrating its many helpful features and guiding you through the code writing process. It is lavishly illustrated with screenshots and includes helpful tips for code writing. Debugging techniques are illustrated with step-by-step tutorials, making this an essential guide for the novice VBA programmer as well as a handy reference for the experienced code-writer.]]></description>
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      <title>Microsoft Office Version Survey</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/#OfficeSurvey</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Microsoft will be releasing its next edition of Office at the end of this year. My last Office Version Survey in 2004 was prompted by the release of Office 2003 and returned some interesting results. Many people were still using Office 97 and the newcomer Office 2003 was slow to take off. Maybe that's why we have been waiting for so long for Office "12" to arrive. So, what is the picture today? Which version of Microsoft Office do you use now? You can participate in the survey by placing your vote at my homepage.]]></description>
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      <title>New Mailbag Item: How Do I Use a Query to Extract the Domain from an Email Address?</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/mailbag/qaccess05.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Finding and extracting a string from within another string is not an uncommon requirement. The solution to this particular question uses a selection of text functions and can be applied to an Access query or an Excel worksheet.]]></description>
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      <title>New Department: The Bookshelf</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/bookshelf/index.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a long absence the Bookshelf is back! The Bookshelf department contains my recommendations for the best books on Excel, Access and other Microsoft Office and VBA topics. In addition to my own reviews there are direct links to the relevant book pages on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.]]></description>
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      <title>New Excel tutorial: Put a Permanently Open Calendar on an Excel Worksheet</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:27:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/excel/exltut02.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Some of my most popular tutorials involve creating calendars. This one shows you how to place an ActiveX calendar control directly on to an Excel worksheet so that it is permanently visible.]]></description>
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      <title>New Mailbag item: How Can I Let My Visitors Download vCards from My Web Site?</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/mailbag/qfrontpage02.htm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[vCards work like virtual business cards. You can attach them to email messages or include them in your email signature. If you have a Bluetooth or Infrared enabled PDA you can "beam" your vCard directly to another person's PDA, the modern equivalent of handing someone your business card. When you receive a person's vCard simply open it and save it into your own contacts folder. So how do you let people download your vCard from your web page? The process is very simple and doesn't require any programming, just a couple of steps for your visitor to perform. This article shows you what you need to do.

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      <title>New Mailbag Item: How Do I Display the Number of Records in a Form's Recordset?</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/mailbag/qaccess04.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It can be useful to know how may records comprise the recordset that your Access form is currently displaying, especially if you have included tools to allow the user to filter the recordset. This article offers several different suggestions for doing this.]]></description>
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      <title>New Article: Browser Wars Revisited</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/comment/comment04.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Remember the Browser Wars? Remember Netscape? This article examines how things have changed in the four years since I last took a hard look at what hardware and software my visitors were using.]]></description>
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      <title>New Article: All About RSS</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/rss/whatisrss.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[If you are reading this the chances are you already know all about RSS. But if you are a newcomer to the RSS revolution you might find this article useful. It explains what RSS is and how you can benefit from it.]]></description>
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      <title>New eBook "VBA Message &amp; Input Boxes"</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/ebookmsg.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This new eBook is a comprehensive guide to using Message Boxes and Input Boxes in VBA programming. It contains lots of examples of their use, many illustrated with Step-by-Step exercises which are suitable for all levels of user but which are particularly helpful for the novice VBA programmer.]]></description>
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      <title>New eBook "Recording Excel Macros"</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/ebookrem.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This new eBook contains everything you need to know to start recording Excel Macros. It is full of useful and important information and illustrated throughout with helpful screenshots. Follow the link to get more information and see sample pages from this eBook. This eBook is available for online purchase and immediate download.]]></description>
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      <title>A New Series of eBooks from Martin Green</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/index.htm</link>
      <author>martin@fontstuff.com</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have just launched the first two titles in my new series of eBooks. The eBooks, each one packed with useful information and lavishly illustrated with screenshots, are presented in PDF format will be available for purchase and immediate download from my Office Tips web site. Follow the link for more information about my eBooks series and to see sample pages from the available titles.]]></description>
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