Spreadsheet Answer Service On The Up!

My Solutions service is going from strength to strength. Most answers are currently sent within half an hour during work hours or within 12 hours at the weekend. Just to recap the service, email your problem to solutions@spreadsheetsdirect.com, await a reply, pay the £1.50/$3/€1.90 charge and await a file with your answer and description of what it is doing.

Spreadsheet Help & Answers To Your Inbox

If you've ever found yourself pulling your hair out trying to get a formula to work or been trying to get conditional formatting to work with no success then my new Spreadsheet Solutions Service will be just for you. Send in your queries and for a cost of £1.50 (approx $3, €1.90) the answer will be sent directly to your inbox! Check out the Spreadsheet Solutions Service page on my site for more details.

Vista Black Screen Of Nothingness

Just spent most of the morning/afternoon trying to get on to my laptop after Vista decided to show a black screen with just the mouse arrow instead of the login screen. Looking round the net it appears to be a common problem with Vista but none of the fixes worked for me.

Eventually I found that the following fixed the problem:
On bootup press F8
Select the Repair option (already highlighted. I missed it to start with thinking it was the heading).
On the program that loads choose the option to restore.
On the list of restore points choose one from a few days earlier when you computer was last working. My last restore point had been created the day before the problem and was created due to a Windows update so assume this must have caused the problem.
Once the restore has finished you should be able to login as normal.

Spreadsheet Books from Prontobooks

If any of you are after any spreadsheet books then my mate has recently gone live with his new bookshop site Pronto books. The link below should point you to the spreadsheet books..

http://www.prontobooks.co.uk/Results.aspx?Search=spreadsheets&Format=Books