3 Ways to Change Inline Pictures to Floating Ones in Your Word Document

In this article, we will present you with 3 ways to change inline pictures to floating ones in your Word document. As you may be aware, whenever we insert a picture into a Word document, it takes the “In line with text” wrapping style by default. In this way, a picture is considered as a large character, which makes us hard to move it around simply by clicking and dragging. Accordingly, we need to change these inline pictures to floating ones as to easily adjust their locations. As...

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How to Escape Quoted Strings for SQL Statement used in Database via Excel VBA

SQL Server uses pairs of single quotes to identify the start and end of a string. Inserting 'Mrs Brown's Boys' into a database table will fail since the three single quotes imply two strings, one of which is incomplete. An escape character is required for the apostrophe after Brown. This article explores the use of a customised VBA function to resolve this anomaly. This article assumes the reader has the Developer ribbon displayed and is familiar with the VBA Editor. If not, please Google...

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2 Methods to Create a Contact Group from a List of Contacts in an Excel File

If you would like to create an Outlook contact group from the list of contacts in an Excel file, you can use the 2 methods introduced in this article. Some users are seeking a way to quickly create an Outlook contact group from an Excel file which contains a list of contacts. Of course, you can create such contact group manually. However, it is a bit troublesome. Hence, apart from the manual means, here we’ll additionally introduce another quick method which uses VBA. Method 1: Create...

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