September 25, 2009

Kate London's first day at Fresh Consulting

Kate London (@KateLondon1) recently joined us at Fresh Consulting. She has been a wonderful addition to the team, injecting a new perspective, sense of humor and a range of skills that will continue to help Fresh grow. Welcome Kate! To catch a flavor of Kate's first day with us at Fresh, take a read of her first blog post ... many more to come.

Choices

It is the incremental, small choices we make, that shape our destiny. Every moment is a new moment and a new opportunity to choose.

"Choices are not always easy to see clearly. You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness. Some of the most important choices are about what you set your heart upon." Henry Eyring

September 20, 2009

A small quote that means a lot ... from C.S. Lewis

“The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.” C.S. Lewis

September 18, 2009

The Wall Street Journal Online Offering Free Access to Premium Content

Did someone say, FREE?!

The Wall Street Journal Online is offering free access to its premium content today (Friday, September 18, 2009).

Our friends at Cadillac are sponsoring this free-access day, so don't miss out.

Usually subscriptions to the online premium content run $1.99 per week. Now you can get the same access to breaking news and updates, online market data center and news alerts, for FREE. Dig up those archived articles you have been waiting years for ....

September 16, 2009

ReadWriteWeb's Top 5 Web Trends in 2009

RWW elaborates on their vision of 2009 trends and into what formats the web is evolving. The evolution of the web will not slow down for the foreseeable future. It really is an amazing platform upon which we can innovate in previously unimaginable ways.

September 15, 2009

Patience

"We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in all of our choices and decisions, make good use of every opportunity, and do our best in every task we undertake. We should not be unduly discouraged nor in despair at any time when we are doing the best we can. Rather, we should be satisfied with our progress even though it may come slowly at times." Joseph B. Wirthlin

September 8, 2009

Quick Excel 2007 tip for group and outline feature

For those of you who have made the move over to MS Excel 2007 and have found familiar features or tricks difficult at times to find or execute, this quick tip might be helpful.

When I use the group and outline feature, I like to (almost always) set the group brackets to have a top-down orientation versus the bottom-up default. In other words, I like to set the group and outline feature so that when I click to expand, the rows release downwards.

To do that, take the following steps:

- Click on the Data ribbon so that you see Get External Data, Connections, etc.



- Mouse over to the Outline section of the Data ribbon

- At the bottom right corner of the Outline section, you will see a mini arrow



- Click on that

- The dialogue box should pop up

- Now, uncheck the top checkbox which says, "Summary rows below detail"



- Click OK

- Enjoy easy and intuitive grouping and outlining!