OfficePalooza
OfficePalooza is an online competition that tests your skills in Visual Basic for Applications, teaches you new skills, and above all, ensures that you have some fun with it.
All the prize winners have been notified and the prizes have been mailed out. If you were notified...
Date: 06/24/2009
OfficePalooza is over, but you can still find all the challenges and solutions from the Home page,...
Date: 05/03/2009
Well, this is it. Day 10. The final day of our two-week super-event, OfficePalooza. We’ll continue...
Date: 05/01/2009
Did you like the first slide in this challenge? We hope so. The first slide turned out to where...
Date: 05/01/2009
It’s true: we all need a break once in a while. A break from work, a break from the kids, a break...
Date: 05/01/2009
You know, if we were a little smarter we would have made Challenge 10 an easy one; after 2 solid...
Date: 05/01/2009
This was one challenge that we actually had to think about. (Does that mean we didn’t think about...
Date: 05/01/2009
Day 9 of OfficePalooza. Yes, that’s right, Day 9. Only one more day left. But don’t be sad, just...
Date: 04/30/2009
It’s Day 8, and Challenges 7 and 8 were due this morning. Scores are still being updates as more...
Date: 04/29/2009
So were we able to come up with a solution to challenge 8? Good question. As it turns out, we wrote...
Date: 04/29/2009
This was an interesting challenge for us. We knew that there was no simple, straightforward way to...
Date: 04/29/2009
We all make mistakes, right? Like maybe we say something we really shouldn’t have said, or even...
Date: 04/29/2009
It’s Day 7, and guess what we have in store for today? Today is Office Communicator/Office...
Date: 04/28/2009
We’re back for Week 2 of OfficePalooza! Challenges 5 and 6 were due this morning. Check our...
Date: 04/27/2009
For the first five challenges we sort of eased you into all the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)...
Date: 04/27/2009
We’ll start out by admitting something to you: we messed up. That probably isn’t a big surprise to...
Date: 04/27/2009
This was a challenge a good 15 or 20 years in the making. That’s not because it took us that long to...
Date: 04/27/2009
We have to admit that Challenge 5 took us a little by surprise: it turned out to be easier than we...
Date: 04/27/2009
OfficePalooza Day 5 is here! Challenges 3 and 4 were due today. Take a look at the solutions to...
Date: 04/24/2009
Our initial idea for this challenge was to have you set the font in the entire document to the first...
Date: 04/23/2009
Challenge 3 was an interesting one. Not so much the challenge itself, but people seemed surprised at...
Date: 04/23/2009
This is the story of The Challenge That Almost Wasn’t. When we first thought of adding a missile...
Date: 04/23/2009
What could be more fun than taking a test? OK, good point: pretty much everything is more fun than...
Date: 04/23/2009
It’s Day 4 of OfficePalooza! Two more challenges in each division are due tomorrow, Friday, April...
Date: 04/23/2009
This challenge required that you use search and replace and that you know how to call up an input...
Date: 04/21/2009
We gave you a good start in this challenge by having you put the code in the...
Date: 04/21/2009
So is this what real spies do all day: write Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros that decode...
Date: 04/21/2009
Today is Day 3 of OfficePalooza! The deadline is up for the first two challenges in both the Novice...
Date: 04/21/2009
Welcome to Day 2 of OfficePalooza! Just one more day to get those first couple of challenges done....
Date: 04/20/2009
Here are the final scores (OK, the current number of virtual goldfish awarded) for the OfficePalooza...
Date: 04/20/2009
Here are the final scores (OK, the final number of virtual goldfish awarded) for the OfficePalooza...
Date: 04/20/2009
Welcome to Day 1 of OfficePalooza! Take a look around then get started on your challenges. The first...
Date: 04/19/2009
OfficePalooza: Learn on Your Own Thank you to everyone who joined us for this online competition! We...
Date: 04/19/2009
The best way to solve the challenges in OfficePalooza, and to continue learning long after...
Date: 04/19/2009
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Date: 04/19/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft Excel 2007 Goldfish Awarded 20 Deadline for Submission Friday,...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Goldfish Awarded 10 Deadline for Submission...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft Access 2007 Goldfish Awarded 20 Deadline for Submission...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Microsoft Excel 2007 Goldfish Awarded 10 Deadline...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft Word 2007 Goldfish Awarded 5 Deadline for Submission Monday,...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft Access 2007 Goldfish Awarded 10 Deadline for Submission Monday,...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft Excel 2007 Goldfish Awarded 5 Deadline for Submission Friday,...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Goldfish Awarded 5 Deadline for Submission...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft Word 2007 Goldfish Awarded 10 Deadline for Submission Wednesday,...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Goldfish Awarded 5 Deadline for Submission...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Goldfish Awarded 20 Deadline for Submission...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft Word 2007 Goldfish Awarded 15 Deadline for Submission Friday, May...
Date: 04/18/2009
Office Programs Required Microsoft Word 2007 Goldfish Awarded 5 Deadline for Submission Wednesday,...
Date: 04/18/2009