Important PDA lesson for today

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I just now learned this one and laughed at myself for it:

When you copy an Excel spreadsheet so that you can keep a copy of it on your PDA, (It’s an employee contact information sheet) make sure that the frozen panes are unfrozen. In this case the name fields were frozen so that you could see the names as you scrolled through the other info. The problem was that the name fields were larger than the screen of my Pocket PC, so as I scrolled over, they continued to just take up the entire viewable area. *L*

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