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Using the Text Function in Excel to Extract and Concatenate Data

The Text Function in Excel 2007 can be used to extract data from Excel. Using use the Left, Mid and Right function arguments, data can be easily extracted. Taking this one step further, your extracted data can then be combined or concatenated, thus making this a very power tool. In this video, we show you [...]

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Why Should I Use Firefox?

I received an e-mail from Mary-Anne inquiring about Firefox. Her son has been trying to coax into installing it on her personal laptop. And, she wanted to know why she should install it.
If you are not familiar with Firefox, it’s a web browser similar to Windows Internet Explorer, which is the default browser on Windows [...]

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Get Your Work Done With Portable Apps

A portable application, or portable app for short, is a software program that does not require any kind of formal installation on a computer’s permanent storage device to be executed. Just store it on any removable storage media such as USB flash drive, flask card, iPod, etc., plug it onto any computer available, then run [...]

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