I call to you, Internet, for help with two fairly droll issues.
1) Anyone here an Excel-yoda? What I need to do is use an existing contacts database (one that was organized pretty poorly, especially for this purpose) to create many, many mailing labels for a CONNECT mailing that needs to get out super-soon. I don’t know how to do this, nor do I know how I should best build a new database to make mailing other organizations easier in the future. What I do not want to wind up having to do is to type all of these contacts twice, once in a new database file and once in a Word doc or something else so I can do the labels.
2) Lobster mushrooms. I got a beautiful bag of dried ones from the forgaged edibles folks at the farmer’s market on Sunday, but I’ve never used this particular type before. I was thinking about a smoky, mushroom-garlic-coconut milk sauce, or maybe a lovely barley soup, but I’d love some other ideas, especially if you’ve cooked with these before.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
In Word, you can do what’s called a Data Merge, which imports data from another app (like Excel). If you go to the label-making wizard in the projects section, it should walk you through it.
Don’t know about the mushrooms, though. Sorry.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
psst—Jonathon is pretty handy with Excel. Drop him a line.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I just wanted to say thanks for sharing the new photos, which are always a treat.