It has been a while since my last post because I’ve been pretty busy with LBC, but I thought I’d throw together a quick note on some helpful shortcuts in Excel. Excel is a great tool for working with spreadsheets. If you work with it every day, you know that it’s not perfect (ahem, date handling) but it has a lot of very powerful features for working with data. There’s even an online version if you have a Microsoft account.
Read the rest of this entry »How to fix: File in Use – Personal.xlsb is locked for editing August 2, 2013 – 9:27
I recently added some macros into my PERSONAL.XLSB file for Excel and started getting these annoying pop-ups saying that it’s locked for editing. This file loads in the background every time you open a copy of Excel. The point of it is to give you a place to save commonly used macros that will then be loaded and available to you in whatever workbooks you open. The problem with this is that if you open multiple copies of Excel, they all ask the operating system for write permissions in case you want to update the file.
This article explains how to fix this issue depending on whether you want to keep the file or get rid of it.
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Hey there! My name is Richard Marskell and I'm the co-founder of LBC IT Solutions, Inc.. I've been developing websites, apps and even games for over 22 years.
I previously worked at a leading Canadian market research company for 8.5 years, managing their tech team and projects—everything from project & resource management to designing client websites.
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