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Completely Uninstall Skype For Business (aka Lync) – Skype Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/05

I don’t need Skype (aka Lync) on all my VMs, for enough reasons (obnoxiously getting in the way even when not configured, downloading updates even though not used, taking up space, etc).

Removing it through appwiz.cpl is more than just a single step. The reason is that Skype can be part of Office and – despite the updates being called Skype – can be listed as the Lync component in Office.

So the removal is as follows:

  1. Run appwiz.cpl
  2. Select the Microsoft Office version you have installed
  3. Right click, then choose Change
  4. Choose “Add or Remove features” then “Continue”
  5. Choose the dropdown left of “Microsoft Lync” or “Microsoft Office”, then click “Not Available” and click “Continue”
  6. Wait for the removal to proceed, then click “Close”

–jeroen

via: Solved: Completely Uninstall Skype For Business – Skype Community

Posted in Office, Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Convert a text value into a date in Excel. Learn Microsoft Excel | Five Minute Lessons

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/09

To match dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy column values in columns C (Date1) and N (Date2), I used these formulas in row 2:

Meaning: Column: Formula: Explanation:
Date1Text I =TEXT(C2,”dd/mm/yyyy”) Interpret date text of the original text no matter the Excel settings
Date1Value J =DATE(RIGHT(I2,4),MID(I2,4,2),LEFT(I2,2)) Encode the date text to an actual date: dd#mm#yyyy format where # is any separator
DatesEqual K =J2=L2 Are the encoded dates equal?
Date2Value L =DATE(RIGHT(M2,4),LEFT(M2,2),MID(M2,4,2)) Encode the date text to an actual date: mm#dd#yyyy format where # is any separator
Date2Text M =TEXT(N2,”mm/dd/yyyy”) Interpret date text of the original text no matter the Excel settings

 

Learn how to convert text values into dates in Excel. This lesson covers a range of different scenarios to help you. The comments have even more examples.

Source: Convert a text value into a date in Excel. Learn Microsoft Excel | Five Minute Lessons

Posted in Excel, Office, Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013, Power User | 1 Comment »

Simple download script to get all FREE Microsoft eBooks again! Including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more! | Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence – Eric Ligman

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/21

I saw a lot of people mention the Eric Ligman, Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence Blog a while ago: FREE! That’s Right, I’m Giving Away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again! Including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more! | Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence – Eric Ligman

Even though I make most of my income from the Microsoft World, my main machine is a Mac and I dislike browsing

So I wanted to download them all in one easy go so SpotLight could index them.

Luckily there is a file that has all the download URLs in it: http://ligman.me/29zpthb (it expands to http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/MSFTFreeEbooks.txt and is archived at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/MSFTFreeEbooks.txt).

The file is mentioned at How to “Download All” of the FREE eBooks and Resources in My FREE eBooks Giveaway | Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence – Eric Ligman.

It’s very easy to download from there using wget (on Windows get it from https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/ – the x64 versions work fine).

Be sure to use a “recent” version as 1.12 and lower have no support for the --trust-server-names parameter which makes wget use filenames from the http 301 followed links:

--trust-server-names
     If this is set to on, on a redirect the last component of the redirection URL will be used as the local file name.  By default it is used the last component in the original URL.

This is the script:

wget -m -np --trust-server-names http://ligman.me/29zpthb
wget -m -np --trust-server-names --input-file http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/MSFTFreeEbooks.txt

You might think why not do just wget -m -np --trust-server-names --input-file http://ligman.me/29zpthb  in one go?

Simple answer: like all software, wget occasionally crashes somewhere in the middle of downloading the URLs embedded.

If you restart, then it sees the followed http://ligman.me/29zpthb file has already been downloaded and won’t re-scan its contents.

Bug? I’m not sure. But the two-liner just works.

–jeroen

PS: if you want a script with all the URLs, try these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071552

 

 

Posted in .NET, Development, Office, Power User, Software Development, Windows | 2 Comments »

datetime – Round time to nearest 15min interval in Excel – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/14

Easy, but I always forget:

= (ROUND((A1 * 1440) / 15, 0) * 15) / 1440

Thanks David for answering.

–jeroen

via datetime – Round time to nearest 15min interval in Excel – Stack Overflow.

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How to group by date in excel? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/10

Sometimes you don’t recognize how easy it is until you see it:

Add a column that is of type date with value =FLOOR(A2,1) .Then Insert -> Pivot Table. Then drag the date column on the right into the Rows box, and also drag it into values box. Done.

Thanks David d C e Freitas!

via How to group by date in excel? – Super User.

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