Day 2

Today feels like my Monday, I was out of the office yesterday at the whole company orientation. It was very odd, filled with lots of boring required activities (since we're hospitals and all, there's lots of laws to abide by). The last presentation was priceless - it was by the Director of Safety and he spent about an hour scaring us with what to do in the case of Anthrax, co-workers that want to go crazy and shoot up in the office and attempted kidnappings. I found out that on the reverse side of my ID badge I'll a have a listing of what all of the hospital codes mean (i.e. code red, code blue) so that I'll know what to do if and when they are announced. Weird.

I'm hoping my boss is feeling well, is in today and I can finally work with her in person. She's been going through chemo treatments and the first few didn't sit well with her. I'm having problems keeping busy not knowing what exactly to do.

One thing which I've forgotten to mention here, getting up early has allowed me some very peaceful and lovely views that you all miss out on sleeping later before work. As I drove past the farms in Sherborn over to get to the Mass Pike I saw the pink and purple sky remaining from the sunrise over a field full of horses. The snow was untouched in most areas and the quiet of the office is lovely to accompany me getting ready for the day, getting water for my oatmeal and catching up on back e-mails and voicemails.

Yes, I've been very happy with things in my life lately. I'm waiting for something bad to happen since things have been so swoony.

Tonight my plan after work is to change into comfy clothes, light a log in the fireplace and settle down for homework (I have a presentation to prepare for on Wednesday). I'll make B dinner and after spending some time together I'll continue with the homeworking.

I feel so decadent. Now if only I had remembered to bring in my CDs from the car my work environment would be complete . . .

MS Excel or Office Help

Hello All,

Sorry to bug you with a question on such stupid software(s). I've just changed from a job where I had some really neat tools to one relying soley on MS Excel and Access and I'm trying to make them jump through hoops that I'm not sure they are meant to jump through (keep in mind too, I don't know Visual Basic but have been able to get them to do some things with SQL).

I'm trying to take a file listing

Name $amount_1 $amount_2
Bob Smith $30 $40
Mary Jones $25 $33
Etc

And I need to take each individual record per person and insert it into a new document, listing only the data for that person. This ideally would happen somewhat automatically and would allow me to re-run the process as needed (though, I don't have to actually save each individual 'entry' or 'file' per person - most likely I'll be printing it).

Any ideas how to automate this? I was asked to do it and was told that the old analyst had a neat way to do it (her neat way was creating a template and then manually linking in each individual row of data, ick).

Any tips would be really helpful (And yes, I have been poking around in the help files and online)