Have you ever received a newsletter with your name and address printed on the back?  If you have ever wondered what it takes to do that for your organization or business, you are in the right place.  With a little bit of VisualBasic programming and the right equipment, you can save a ton of time and effort.

Several months ago, a co-worker was trying to print a company newsletter on a large Toshiba printer that folds, prints, staples, and possibly makes coffee (it is a very nice machine).  His problem was that every time he did a mail merge to get the names and addresses populated on the newsletter back page, the printer would print all of the several hundred newsletters and try to staple and fold the whole group.  The Toshiba is a nice machine but there was no way it could print over 1000 pages, fold and staple them.  The first 2 or 3 would print, get stapled together, and an error would occur.

Through the magic of VisualBasic programming and macros, we were able to get the desired result.  Here is the code it took to print each one separately: [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 95th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 94th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 11-17-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #2 – My Pinterest profile (up 2 spots from last week at #4)
• #15 – My Vizify profile (down 3 spots from last week at #12)
• #16 – My About page on BlueCapra (up 1 spot from last week at #17)
• #18 – My Vimeo profile (no change from last week at #18)
• #21 – My Blogspot page (up 1 spot from last week at #22)

This week I’m on the first page at #2.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 1 place with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 14 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 94th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 93rd Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 11-10-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #4 – My Pinterest profile (down 1 spot from last week at #3)
• #12 – My Vizify profile (up 2 spots from last week at #14)
• #17 – My About page on BlueCapra (up 2 spots from last week at #19)
• #18 – My Vimeo profile (up 2 spots from last week at #20)
• #22 – My Blogspot page (up 2 spots from last week at #24)

This week I’m at #4.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 7 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 15 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 93rd update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 92nd Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 11-3-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #3 – My Pinterest profile (up 10 spots from last week at #13)
• #14 – My Vizify profile (no change from last week at #14)
• #19 – My Vimeo profile (down 3 spots from last week at #16)
• #20 – My About page on BlueCapra (down 3 spots from last week at #17)
• #24 – My Blogspot page (up 1 spot from last week at #25)

This week I’m back on the first page at #3.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 5 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 13 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 92nd update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 91st Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 10-27-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #13 – My Vizify profile (no change from last week at #13)
• #14 – My About page on BlueCapra (up 1 place from last week at #15)
• #16 – My Vimeo profile (up 1 place from last week at #17)
• #17 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (up 2 places from last week at #19)
• #25 – My Pinterest profile (down 2 spots from last week at #23)

This week I’ve slid back to the second page to #13.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 2 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 15 times in the top 100 search results. [Read more…]