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How to debug Excel spreadsheets

Small errors in a complex spreadsheet can cause huge problems. Learn how to find and fix those mistakes.

Expanding your app-titude

This month: Charlie aims to help you connect with people at conferences and meetings … When it comes to note-taking, it’s hard to beat Notability

Microsoft Excel: Put this chart on your radar

Excel can produce a filled radar chart, which can be useful for comparing a multitude of attributes across multiple items, and the visual results may be the solution you seek.

Hardware & software: Gadget central

To stay abreast of the newest technologies, I maintain links to more than a dozen gadget websites for my own use, each of which typically posts about 10 to 15 brief articles daily about new and emerging gadgets.

Microsoft Word: Character reference

Is there an easy way to automate an operation to display word counts on the Word document—perhaps with a macro or VBA code?

Search engines: Smooth operators

Here are five operators (or search filters) that can help you better search the web when using the major search engines.

Expanding your app-titude

ITunes U offers huge catalog of free college-level courses … AGOGO allows you to listen to music, news, and podcasts you care about … Access audiobooks via Amazon’s Audible

Microsoft Outlook: Two Outlook quick tips

Paste to forward. To forward information slightly more quickly (e.g., when sending hotel or airline reservations to a colleague), copy the hotel or airline reservation from the reservation confirmation webpage, toggle to Outlook, and then press Ctrl+V to automatically create a new email containing that copied information, as suggested in

2015 tax software survey

Thousands of CPAs assess the features and performance of their income tax preparation software as well as, for the first time, their software for estate and gift taxes.

Presentation hardware: The old switcheroo

I recently attended your Tech-Savvy CPA presentation, and I was intrigued by how you were able to instantly switch between multiple computers, including your smartphone and desktop computer back in your Atlanta office.

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