May 30th, 2010

Short business trip to Hungary

This week I had to go to Debrecen for a rather short (2 days only) business trip. Fortunately we had quite some good weather down there and it was really fun seeing the people that I have worked with in past three months in real life. [Read more »]

February 24th, 2010

Flashback Kieler Woche 2009

img_0257King Louie, yeah :-). Since I am again in Heerlen this week with the NL guys and after looking for a picture of Yvette in my iPhoto library, I found these pictures from June last year when the whole team was attending Kieler Woche 2009. Besides Reimar & Don Alfonso & Gerd, also Bas, King Louie, Dennis, Barend and Yvette were there…

BTW: Make sure you plan 19.-27.06.2010 to be in Kiel! [Read more »]

February 22nd, 2010

Access to protected VBA projects in Excel 2003

Do you know these situations when you made some kind of a form in Excel, password protected the workbook, sheets and/or even VBA access…and months later people ask for password in order to modify it? This is were trouble starts – how should I know what password I used months ago and, of course, I did not share it ;-).

Since I had this situation several times at work, herewith – more as a reference for myself – a short walkthrough how to regain access to your VBA project . [Read more »]

January 22nd, 2010

Nightshift and taskforce office…

And another night in a hotel…

…well, we had our team meeting in past 3 days in Leipzig and originally I planned to drive over to Berlin tonight to have a relaxing “Küchensession”  with Arione in Berlin. This was the plan until I received a call around 16:00 in which I was ordered to stay for an overnight TaskForce in Leipzig. [Read more »]

January 18th, 2010

Customize Excel color palette

Since we had this topic for several times within our team and people kept making fun of me because I like it nice & shiny…even in my spreadsheets…herewith a short explanation on how to customize the color palette in Excel 2003 and re-use adapted palette in other workbooks. [Read more »]

June 7th, 2004

Grets to Gerd, Udo, Michael and Holger

Grets to Michael, Gerd, Udo, Dirk and Holger ;-)

Just wanted to shorten up our search every few weeks. Here is a short list of Bars around Kiel. So, we don’t have to look it up anymore…: [Read more »]