[Year 12 IT Apps] Macros in Excel

[Cameron Bell]

Nonsense. Techies setting the agenda- they are there to support you, not 
deny you!
Outlook is simply a client that displays the data held on the edumail 
exchange server. In my opinion it is an insecure, over-featured piece of 
bloatware, but it works well if you want to sync with pda's and other 
devices (every device has to be able to sync with Outlook).
Are you being told to use web-access only?
If you want to use Outlook make it happen! Whose running the show?? If 
you want to use a PDA, then you really have no option but to use Outlook 
as the client. There is no reason to be denied access to using Outlook 
if it is going to make *your* job easier.
My thoughts are that for 90% of teaching staff, Thunderbird is a better 
option as most teachers have no use for the collaboration/groupware 
aspects of Outlook. Outlook is more bandwidth heavy syncing lots of 
calendars, address books, tasks, journals etc etc.
Just go a simple email client like Thunderbird if you don't need the 
groupware. I use it with the optional calendar (sunbird) and have set it 
up to access the global address list in edumail. All my backup consists 
of is copying my thunderbird folder to another location periodically and 
all the local folders are saved with all the emails. Easy-peasy.
cheers
Cameron

Robyn Dunn wrote:
> We are also a govt school and have edumail. My TSSP says we can't have Outlook because we would all have to maintain our individual profiles which we would find too complicated to manage. Is he spinning me a line? What has edumail got to do with outlook?
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> Ms Robyn Dunn
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>>>> Bane, Janet A<bane.janet.a at edumail.vic.gov.au> 27/07/2007 12:06 pm >>>
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> HI Trish,
>  
> We are a government school so we use Edumail and therefore MS Outlook.  I will try and upload it to the vitta site on Monday (I am not at school today so I can't access my school network drive).  Maybe that will help solve the problem.
>  
> regards,
>  
> Janet Bane
> Patterson River SC
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Trish Cotter
> Sent: Fri 27-Jul-07 9:35 AM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] Macros in Excel
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> Hi Janet;
> Are you using Outlook as your web client? I didn't get the attachment due to the issue I put up on
> the list earlier. That is the way Outlook packs attachments.
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> Regards,
> Trish Cotter
> Koonung Secondary College
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> tcotter at koonung.vic.edu.au
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> On Wed, July 25, 2007 4:40 pm, Bane, Janet A wrote:
>   
>> Hi Russell
>>
>> I am trying to get my head around Macros as well. I found some examples in a book called PC
>> Simplicity and adapted them for my class.  Feel free to use, modify or disregard.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Janet Bane
>> Patterson River SC
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>> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Russell Edwards
>> Sent: Wed 25-Jul-07 3:37 PM
>> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
>> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Macros in Excel
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>> Does anyone have any thoughts on common uses of macros in Excel?
>>
>> I am struggling to come up with any examples that are generally
>> applicable, and therefore worth putting in to student exercises.    I
>> use macros occasionally but they are generally quite specific to the
>> particular job that spreadsheet is designed for.
>>
>> About all I can think of would be setting the active cell to the
>> first input data cell upon opening, and inter-sheet navigation buttons.
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>> Russell
>> Whittlesea SC
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