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There hasn’t been much posted here recently, due to Hawk Education’s expansion into marketing Continuing Legal Education Seminars across the US. Rest assured, if you have questions, email them to ask@hawkeducation.com and we’ll address the issue.

Why Legal Seminars? They are for more than lawyers, they are for serious business professionals. New York CLE and Ohio CLE, for example, have postings on construction, real estate, collections, etc. You are never done with education.

I’m pleased to announce launch the new Oregon CLE website, operated by Hawk Education.

I am please to announce the launch of http://www.idahoCLE.com, a continuing legal education resource for Idaho Attorneys.

I’ve launced a new blog just for Excel at http://www.exceltrainingboise.com.

For some free Excel VLOOKUP Tutorials click here.

The creators of Skype are at it again. This time- it’s Joost, free internet based TV. The opposite of youtube, it only airs professionally made programming. To add to the demand (Which has been considerable) they at first limited the amount of people that can download and watch Joost. You still have to be invited to get Joost, but now it’s a whole lot easier. You can get invited here for free.

Last night I was on a conference call for for almost two hours with know-it-all. Now, I have lot’s of friends who genuinely know a lot- and aren’t afraid to venture an opinion on almost anything- but they also are quick to see other viewpoints, admit mistakes and plunge right along unoffended when you disagree. I think that’s different than a true know-it-all, one that never admits a fault of their own, shows extreme defensiviness and a need to dominate.

How do you deal with the “know-it-alls” in your life? Leave a comment!

There is a great post on workplace jerks and bullies on the human resource blog - one thing it doesn’t address is that some companies foster bullying and jerk behavior. If you are in that environment, look for a company that embraces the principles in the post.

Two great sites you should check out are elance.com and scriptlance.com where you can find worldwide experts to do just about any type of contract work you need. I use both of these sites, but do your homework on the people you select to work with- I was already started on a project for a consumer before I realized the spreadsheet he sent me to modify was a commercial demo. It would have cost him less to have me crack open that file than to buy a legal copy. Yeah, I terminated that project.

Can you use Excel’s text-to-speech functionality in VBA? You bet. Simply use this line of code: application.speech.speak and then specify your text in paranthesis or you can even use a variable. If your variable was called Announcement, your code would look like this:

application.speech.speak announcement

And to read text:

application.speech.speak (”This is the text!”)

Simple!