From bradm at blackforestltd.com Tue Mar 1 14:21:58 2016 From: bradm at blackforestltd.com (Brad Marks) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 20:21:58 +0000 Subject: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking In-Reply-To: <024501d1705f$ae3ecb90$0abc62b0$@winhaven.net> References: <024501d1705f$ae3ecb90$0abc62b0$@winhaven.net> Message-ID: All, I found the "Microsoft Guide to Modern Note Taking" to be interesting, but the use of a Microsoft Surface and Livescribe comes with a hefty price tag. A few weeks ago, my youngest son showed me what he was doing with Google Keep. Google Keep is a free cloud-based application for note taking. You can write and store notes plus images can also be stored. The really cool thing is that Google Keep runs on Windows machines, Apple products and Android devices. I use a number of Windows desktops/laptops, an iPad, an iPhone, and an Android tablet. Google Keep works nicely on all of these platforms. I find this application to be very easy to use and quite handy. I am starting to use it for more and more notes, lists, and images that I want to store in the cloud. Again, Google Keep is free. All you need to do is set up a Google Account (also free). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Keep https://keep.google.com/ Brad -----Original Message----- From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 12:34 AM To: DBA Office Subject: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking Importance: High The Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking is packed with tips, tricks and insight into marrying the best of your old school note taking habits with the latest technologies of the digital age to help you capture thoughts and find solutions faster and more efficiently. http://tinyurl.com/z7ngalm Free download - enjoy! _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office From jbodin at sbor.com Tue Mar 1 16:20:43 2016 From: jbodin at sbor.com (John Bodin) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 22:20:43 +0000 Subject: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking In-Reply-To: References: <024501d1705f$ae3ecb90$0abc62b0$@winhaven.net>, Message-ID: Brad, how does that compare to One Note? Microsoft has that for all the same platforms and I know that handles images, text, outlines, etc. Just curious how similar/different the two are. John John Bodin sBOR Office Systems jbodin at sbor.com ________________________________________ From: Dba-office on behalf of Brad Marks Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:21 PM To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking All, I found the "Microsoft Guide to Modern Note Taking" to be interesting, but the use of a Microsoft Surface and Livescribe comes with a hefty price tag. A few weeks ago, my youngest son showed me what he was doing with Google Keep. Google Keep is a free cloud-based application for note taking. You can write and store notes plus images can also be stored. The really cool thing is that Google Keep runs on Windows machines, Apple products and Android devices. I use a number of Windows desktops/laptops, an iPad, an iPhone, and an Android tablet. Google Keep works nicely on all of these platforms. I find this application to be very easy to use and quite handy. I am starting to use it for more and more notes, lists, and images that I want to store in the cloud. Again, Google Keep is free. All you need to do is set up a Google Account (also free). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Keep https://keep.google.com/ Brad -----Original Message----- From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 12:34 AM To: DBA Office Subject: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking Importance: High The Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking is packed with tips, tricks and insight into marrying the best of your old school note taking habits with the latest technologies of the digital age to help you capture thoughts and find solutions faster and more efficiently. http://tinyurl.com/z7ngalm Free download - enjoy! _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office From bradm at blackforestltd.com Tue Mar 1 16:27:32 2016 From: bradm at blackforestltd.com (Brad Marks) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 22:27:32 +0000 Subject: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking In-Reply-To: References: <024501d1705f$ae3ecb90$0abc62b0$@winhaven.net>, Message-ID: John, Sorry, although I have heard of One Note, I have not worked with it. I might experiment a bit, just to learn about it when time permits. I am impressed with Google Keep because it is free, very easy to use, and effective for my uses. One Note may be the same, I just don't know. Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bodin Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 4:21 PM To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking Brad, how does that compare to One Note? Microsoft has that for all the same platforms and I know that handles images, text, outlines, etc. Just curious how similar/different the two are. John John Bodin sBOR Office Systems jbodin at sbor.com ________________________________________ From: Dba-office on behalf of Brad Marks Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:21 PM To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking All, I found the "Microsoft Guide to Modern Note Taking" to be interesting, but the use of a Microsoft Surface and Livescribe comes with a hefty price tag. A few weeks ago, my youngest son showed me what he was doing with Google Keep. Google Keep is a free cloud-based application for note taking. You can write and store notes plus images can also be stored. The really cool thing is that Google Keep runs on Windows machines, Apple products and Android devices. I use a number of Windows desktops/laptops, an iPad, an iPhone, and an Android tablet. Google Keep works nicely on all of these platforms. I find this application to be very easy to use and quite handy. I am starting to use it for more and more notes, lists, and images that I want to store in the cloud. Again, Google Keep is free. All you need to do is set up a Google Account (also free). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Keep https://keep.google.com/ Brad -----Original Message----- From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 12:34 AM To: DBA Office Subject: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking Importance: High The Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking is packed with tips, tricks and insight into marrying the best of your old school note taking habits with the latest technologies of the digital age to help you capture thoughts and find solutions faster and more efficiently. http://tinyurl.com/z7ngalm Free download - enjoy! _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office From jbartow at winhaven.net Tue Mar 1 23:37:42 2016 From: jbartow at winhaven.net (John R Bartow) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 23:37:42 -0600 Subject: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking In-Reply-To: References: <024501d1705f$ae3ecb90$0abc62b0$@winhaven.net>, Message-ID: <088201d17445$a4b49ac0$ee1dd040$@winhaven.net> OneNote is free also. -----Original Message----- From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 4:28 PM To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking John, Sorry, although I have heard of One Note, I have not worked with it. I might experiment a bit, just to learn about it when time permits. I am impressed with Google Keep because it is free, very easy to use, and effective for my uses. One Note may be the same, I just don't know. Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bodin Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 4:21 PM To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking Brad, how does that compare to One Note? Microsoft has that for all the same platforms and I know that handles images, text, outlines, etc. Just curious how similar/different the two are. John John Bodin sBOR Office Systems jbodin at sbor.com ________________________________________ From: Dba-office on behalf of Brad Marks Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:21 PM To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking All, I found the "Microsoft Guide to Modern Note Taking" to be interesting, but the use of a Microsoft Surface and Livescribe comes with a hefty price tag. A few weeks ago, my youngest son showed me what he was doing with Google Keep. Google Keep is a free cloud-based application for note taking. You can write and store notes plus images can also be stored. The really cool thing is that Google Keep runs on Windows machines, Apple products and Android devices. I use a number of Windows desktops/laptops, an iPad, an iPhone, and an Android tablet. Google Keep works nicely on all of these platforms. I find this application to be very easy to use and quite handy. I am starting to use it for more and more notes, lists, and images that I want to store in the cloud. Again, Google Keep is free. All you need to do is set up a Google Account (also free). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Keep https://keep.google.com/ Brad -----Original Message----- From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 12:34 AM To: DBA Office Subject: [Dba-office] MS Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking Importance: High The Innovator's Guide to Modern Note Taking is packed with tips, tricks and insight into marrying the best of your old school note taking habits with the latest technologies of the digital age to help you capture thoughts and find solutions faster and more efficiently. http://tinyurl.com/z7ngalm Free download - enjoy! _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office From carbonnb at gmail.com Tue Mar 29 13:47:54 2016 From: carbonnb at gmail.com (Bryan Carbonnell) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:47:54 -0400 Subject: [Dba-office] Help figuring out the Best Approach To Take Message-ID: I hope I can explain what I'm trying to do properly. Let me give you some background so you understand what I'm up against. As a Canadian I can only be in the US for 182 days in the past 365 days. This 365 days is a rolling 365 days and not a calendar year. So for today it is 182 days from March 30, 2015 to Mar 29, 2016. Tomorrow it would be 182 days from Mar 31, 2015 to Mar 30, 2016 etc. I was thinking of using Excel, one column for each year, each row for a different day of the year and putting either a C or U to denote which country I'm in. Then having a cell at the top that counts all the U or C in the previous 365 days. However I'm not sure how to go about this. Oh, and I have to keep 4 years of records to stay out of trouble with the IRS. I'm hoping the brain power here can help me figure this out. Thanks for any suggestions or pointers. Oh, Access is NOT an option. I'm on a Mac. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!" From davidmcafee at gmail.com Tue Mar 29 15:10:06 2016 From: davidmcafee at gmail.com (David McAfee) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:10:06 -0700 Subject: [Dba-office] Help figuring out the Best Approach To Take In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'd put them all in one column. I can send you a quick little Excel file I made, which may be easier to understand by viewing it. In Column A, starting with Cell A2, I entered 2/28/15 and auto filled dates down to A749 (which is 3/16/2017). In Column B, I randomly entered a "U" every so often, this would be your Us & Cs We'll Skip Column C for a bit. For simplicity, I made the following: Cell E2 = Now() (formatted as ShortDate) Cell D2 = E2-365 In Cell C2 I entered the following Formula: =IF(AND(A2>=$D$2,A2<=$E$2),TRUE, FALSE) I dragged/filled that formula down to C749 Cell F1 = "US Days" Cell F2 = =COUNTIFS(C2:C749,"=TRUE",B2:B749,"=U") You can do the same in G1 & 2 for Canada. It should be live, I can add or remove a U from any cell in Column B that has a True in Column C and the number updates. Hope this helps. David McAfee On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Bryan Carbonnell wrote: > I hope I can explain what I'm trying to do properly. > > Let me give you some background so you understand what I'm up against. > > As a Canadian I can only be in the US for 182 days in the past 365 > days. This 365 days is a rolling 365 days and not a calendar year. So > for today it is 182 days from March 30, 2015 to Mar 29, 2016. Tomorrow > it would be 182 days from Mar 31, 2015 to Mar 30, 2016 etc. > > I was thinking of using Excel, one column for each year, each row for > a different day of the year and putting either a C or U to denote > which country I'm in. > > Then having a cell at the top that counts all the U or C in the > previous 365 days. > > However I'm not sure how to go about this. > > Oh, and I have to keep 4 years of records to stay out of trouble with the > IRS. > > I'm hoping the brain power here can help me figure this out. > > Thanks for any suggestions or pointers. Oh, Access is NOT an option. > I'm on a Mac. > > -- > Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com > Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a > well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, > shouting "What a great ride!" > _______________________________________________ > Dba-office mailing list > Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office > From carbonnb at gmail.com Tue Mar 29 15:17:41 2016 From: carbonnb at gmail.com (Bryan Carbonnell) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:17:41 -0400 Subject: [Dba-office] Help figuring out the Best Approach To Take In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: Thanks David. If you could send it to me, I'd appreciate it! carbonnb at gmail.com On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:10 PM, David McAfee wrote: > I'd put them all in one column. > > I can send you a quick little Excel file I made, which may be easier to > understand by viewing it. > > In Column A, starting with Cell A2, I entered 2/28/15 and auto filled dates > down to A749 (which is 3/16/2017). > In Column B, I randomly entered a "U" every so often, this would be your Us > & Cs > We'll Skip Column C for a bit. > > For simplicity, I made the following: > Cell E2 = Now() (formatted as ShortDate) > Cell D2 = E2-365 > In Cell C2 I entered the following Formula: > =IF(AND(A2>=$D$2,A2<=$E$2),TRUE, FALSE) > I dragged/filled that formula down to C749 > > Cell F1 = "US Days" > Cell F2 = =COUNTIFS(C2:C749,"=TRUE",B2:B749,"=U") > > You can do the same in G1 & 2 for Canada. > > It should be live, I can add or remove a U from any cell in Column B that > has a True in Column C and the number updates. > > Hope this helps. > David McAfee > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Bryan Carbonnell > wrote: > >> I hope I can explain what I'm trying to do properly. >> >> Let me give you some background so you understand what I'm up against. >> >> As a Canadian I can only be in the US for 182 days in the past 365 >> days. This 365 days is a rolling 365 days and not a calendar year. So >> for today it is 182 days from March 30, 2015 to Mar 29, 2016. Tomorrow >> it would be 182 days from Mar 31, 2015 to Mar 30, 2016 etc. >> >> I was thinking of using Excel, one column for each year, each row for >> a different day of the year and putting either a C or U to denote >> which country I'm in. >> >> Then having a cell at the top that counts all the U or C in the >> previous 365 days. >> >> However I'm not sure how to go about this. >> >> Oh, and I have to keep 4 years of records to stay out of trouble with the >> IRS. >> >> I'm hoping the brain power here can help me figure this out. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions or pointers. Oh, Access is NOT an option. >> I'm on a Mac. >> >> -- >> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com >> Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a >> well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, >> shouting "What a great ride!" >> _______________________________________________ >> Dba-office mailing list >> Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office >> > _______________________________________________ > Dba-office mailing list > Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!" From tinanfields at torchlake.com Tue Mar 29 16:05:22 2016 From: tinanfields at torchlake.com (Tina Norris Fields) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:05:22 -0400 Subject: [Dba-office] Help figuring out the Best Approach To Take In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <56FAEE12.1030904@torchlake.com> Bryan I think a moving running countif() formula should do it. So, in one column you have the dates, day by day. In the next column you enter a C or a U for which country you were in on that day. Since this is a limit of 182 days in the past 365, you need to track how many days have gone by as well as how many of them you were where. For the first 365 days you will count from the beginning cell. After that, your days range will always report 365 days, and your C and U columns will count the days they are checked in the moving 365 day range. I'm sending you a workbook off-list. I've put in dummy data so you can see that it works. This is just one way to do it, but It will work. Regards, TNF Tina Norris Fields tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com 231-322-2787 On 03/29/16 2:47 PM, Bryan Carbonnell wrote: > I hope I can explain what I'm trying to do properly. > > Let me give you some background so you understand what I'm up against. > > As a Canadian I can only be in the US for 182 days in the past 365 > days. This 365 days is a rolling 365 days and not a calendar year. So > for today it is 182 days from March 30, 2015 to Mar 29, 2016. Tomorrow > it would be 182 days from Mar 31, 2015 to Mar 30, 2016 etc. > > I was thinking of using Excel, one column for each year, each row for > a different day of the year and putting either a C or U to denote > which country I'm in. > > Then having a cell at the top that counts all the U or C in the > previous 365 days. > > However I'm not sure how to go about this. > > Oh, and I have to keep 4 years of records to stay out of trouble with the IRS. > > I'm hoping the brain power here can help me figure this out. > > Thanks for any suggestions or pointers. Oh, Access is NOT an option. > I'm on a Mac. > From carbonnb at gmail.com Wed Mar 30 06:51:57 2016 From: carbonnb at gmail.com (Bryan Carbonnell) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 07:51:57 -0400 Subject: [Dba-office] Help figuring out the Best Approach To Take In-Reply-To: <56FAEE12.1030904@torchlake.com> References: <56FAEE12.1030904@torchlake.com> Message-ID: Thank you David & Tina for your help. I've now got a spreadsheet that we can easily keep track of our days in the US, and after filling it in, yikes we are close. B On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Tina Norris Fields wrote: > Bryan > > I think a moving running countif() formula should do it. So, in one column > you have the dates, day by day. In the next column you enter a C or a U for > which country you were in on that day. Since this is a limit of 182 days in > the past 365, you need to track how many days have gone by as well as how > many of them you were where. For the first 365 days you will count from the > beginning cell. After that, your days range will always report 365 days, > and your C and U columns will count the days they are checked in the moving > 365 day range. > > I'm sending you a workbook off-list. I've put in dummy data so you can see > that it works. > > This is just one way to do it, but It will work. > > Regards, > TNF > > Tina Norris Fields > tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com > 231-322-2787 > > On 03/29/16 2:47 PM, Bryan Carbonnell wrote: >> >> I hope I can explain what I'm trying to do properly. >> >> Let me give you some background so you understand what I'm up against. >> >> As a Canadian I can only be in the US for 182 days in the past 365 >> days. This 365 days is a rolling 365 days and not a calendar year. So >> for today it is 182 days from March 30, 2015 to Mar 29, 2016. Tomorrow >> it would be 182 days from Mar 31, 2015 to Mar 30, 2016 etc. >> >> I was thinking of using Excel, one column for each year, each row for >> a different day of the year and putting either a C or U to denote >> which country I'm in. >> >> Then having a cell at the top that counts all the U or C in the >> previous 365 days. >> >> However I'm not sure how to go about this. >> >> Oh, and I have to keep 4 years of records to stay out of trouble with the >> IRS. >> >> I'm hoping the brain power here can help me figure this out. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions or pointers. Oh, Access is NOT an option. >> I'm on a Mac. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dba-office mailing list > Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!"