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I have had a bunch of pretty cool Excel things to post up – and finally got around to clearing my flagged items and browser windows.

Conditional Formatting

I have written a couple of articles on Conditional formatting in Excel 2007 with lots of readers comments and requests for help. They are the two most read articles on this site.

• Conditional formatting in Excel 2007 - entire row colours
• Excel 2007 Conditional Formatting

I was very interested then to come across this article on Joseph’s site by Amit Velingkar where he shows you how to change the automatic colour ranges that are used in Excel 2007 for conditional formatting. He even includes some VBA code for this.

I have been taking lots of photos lately. Last weekend I took 2,222 photos for Kitty’s Wedding, from which I have uploaded 474 of Kitty’s wedding to my flickr account, and a few of the very best to my RedBubble Account where they can be purchased.

Moreton Bay Regional Homeschoolers Group 1st Annual Art Show.

Yesterday Jethro Management sponsored a homeschoolers Art Show. Along with numerous place prizes we also picked the best in the competition and awarded a $50 gift voucher to one very excited and talented artist, Joel. There was some spectacular art by the children and it was very hard choosing first place. Joels 3 dimensional seascape is shown below. More art competition photos on Flickr.

Last night I went to the 5th Brisbane Girl Geek Dinner – Guitar Hero Night.

Once again I got some awesome shots of the girls playing games. All the Girl Geek Dinner photos are up on Flickr.

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Mine did. Today. Very frustrating as was trying to produce quotes.

After looking into templates, trying to replace images with another image, trying a second pc with the same problem, and then when i tried a third pc with the same document but a different user and it was fine, I started to panic my profile was screwed up in some way.
I Googled it and found this page on the first hit.

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-29382-ms-word-not-displaying-page-numbers-images

The answer was very simply:

Click the Office orb on LH side and then in the main main drop-down click Word Options at the bottom.
Click the Advanced Tab
Under the Show Document Content section untick the "Show picture placeholders (tickbox)

Fixed – whew!

The Girl Geek Dinner Brisbane - Dinner 5 is on this week – and the girls are going to be doing guitar hero and more at the Microsoft Offices here in Brisbane. As usual Bronwen Zande from soul solutions is doing a stirling job organising it if her facebook entries are anything to go by!

They will be spoken to (in between bouts of guitar hero hilarity and girly giggling) by Tracey Whitelaw.

Tracy Whitelaw is a self-confessed geek and gadget girl who creates robot brains in her position as the Chief Knowledge Engineer at artificial intelligence company 'MyCyberTwin'. Based on the Gold Coast, Tracy works in an environment that delivers fully customised personalities and characters to a number of companies and businesses including NASA, AMP, NAB, PBL Media and others.

I’ve mentioned this site before, the Missy Confidential website. It is an awesome site for our Australian Readers to find themselves great bargains shopping for shoes, fashion clothing and accessories, lingerie, designer gear and cosmetics etc. They also have a blog, competitions and forums.

The Mom Blog Network is huge. The nest mom in the world – My wife Judith – has her blog connected to this site now. Feel free to subscribe to her cooking and craft tips and see the goss from inside our family life! or get it direct from her site at www.rasita.biz