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Keystroke, Lizzy, Windows 10

Share or transfer autocorrect (acl) files

Technet entry

 

“To use your AutoCorrect entries on another computer (or to share them with another user profile on your computer), locate the .acl files in the %AppData%\Microsoft\Office folder. (You can type the path in Windows Explorer exactly as shown here and the %AppData% environment variable will automatically expand to the full path. In Windows 7, that path is C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office by default, but it might be different on your computer.)

Copy the two .acl files to the comparable folder on another computer or in another user’s profile. “

Excel, Lizzy, Windows 10

Adding hours, minutes, and seconds in Excel 2016

This took some figuring out! Set the cells that you will be using for the calculation in the custom [h]:mm:ss format from the drop-down menu at the top of the window. Enter the numbers, making sure to put 0’s if the value is blank.

i.e. 12 hours, 5 seconds = 12:00:05

Complete the SUM function to calculate the total of the times, making sure that the result cell is also in the [h]:mm:ss format.

Things that don’t work:

Subtracting. Normally you just use the SUM function and include negative numbers to subtract them, but excel won’t accept the negative times.

60+ minutes or seconds. It just freaks out and won’t do it. You can have over 12 or 24 hours, though.

 

Further reference: Microsoft support

If you’re not liking this honestly pretty bad tool, this one can subtract more easily: Browser Time Calculator

Books

THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE by Jessica Shattuck

This is a moving book of three German women before, during and after World War II. They each face choices on dealing with Nazi evil, and those choices continue to resonate in the rest of their lives. Great narration by Cassandra Campbell.

THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE by Jessica Shattuck
Books

A PIECE OF THE WORLD by Christina Baker Kline

I just finished the audiobook of A PIECE OF THE WORLD by Christina Baker Kline – the book explores the story of Christina Olson, the girl pictured in Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting, Christina’s World. The novel gives voice to the story of the girl in the painting: a story of love, disappointment, loneliness, art, growing up and growing old with disability on the coast of Maine.

 

A PIECE OF THE WORLD by Christina Baker Kline
Books

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders – wow, what a book!

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

The 166-person full cast features award-winning actors and musicians, as well as a number of Saunders’ family, friends, and members of his publishing team, including, in order of their appearance:

Nick Offerman as HANS VOLLMAN
David Sedaris as ROGER BEVINS III
Carrie Brownstein as ISABELLE PERKINS
George Saunders as THE REVEREND EVERLY THOMAS
Miranda July as MRS. ELIZABETH CRAWFORD
Lena Dunham as ELISE TRAYNOR
Ben Stiller as JACK MANDERS
Julianne Moore as JANE ELLIS
Susan Sarandon as MRS. ABIGAIL BLASS
Bradley Whitford as LT. CECIL STONE
Bill Hader as EDDIE BARON
Megan Mullally as BETSY BARON
Rainn Wilson as PERCIVAL “DASH” COLLIER
Jeff Tweedy as CAPTAIN WILLIAM PRINCE
Kat Dennings as MISS TAMARA DOOLITTLE
Jeffrey Tambor as PROFESSOR EDMUND BLOOMER
Mike O’Brien as LAWRENCE T. DECROIX
Keegan-Michael Key as ELSON FARWELL
Don Cheadle as THOMAS HAVENS
and
Patrick Wilson as STANLEY “PERFESSER” LIPPERT
with
Kirby Heyborne as WILLIE LINCOLN,
Mary Karr as MRS. ROSE MILLAND,
and Cassandra Campbell as Your Narrator.