Geek out

I love to geek out on cool apps. However, I should point out that I'm different from the typical gal who raves about apps. I don't own an iPhone. I'm not into pass-the-time handheld games and gadgets. I geek out on APPS in what I think of as the "original sense" of the name. Word processors, spreadsheets, publishing software, databases... y'know - computer applications!
Today's geek-out began with an MS Word merge from an MS Excel spreadsheet. I couldn't find the computer logic that was leaving out seemingly-random lines of data from my finished product. I'm still not following the logic, but I was completely thrilled when Di took up the challenge and found the solution*.
The day got better, too! Shortly thereafter I was faced with a task to prepare a contact sheet based on data in our massive database. I was under the impression that my login didn't allow access to query-writing; there's a hardcopy form we're expected to complete with our requests and submit 48 hours in advance of our needs. With the database administrator away for a week, I thought I'd at least poke around in the saved queries to see if anything suited my needs and... voila! I can create queries! The ability made me downright giddy and I set to work pulling and tweaking requests to get a sense of the procedures. I really look forward to getting my "formal" training in a few weeks!

Life is geekily good!

*Take note, MS Word 2003 users: the solution was to throw in a code and insert a duplicate line of merge commands.