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Great – that will work fine for me especially as this tablet hardly ever leaves home

thank you for the various points made

Both those review sites receive financial compensation from the Companies whose products they review, so some caution needs to be shown.
A lot of VPN providers provide free trials, which is how I made my choice: trial and error.

Would you mind sharing the outcome of your testing, ie which provider you can recommend?

Unless you don’t trust your VPN provider. 🙂

cheers, Paul

But that was exactly the point – how do you really know which VPN provider you can trust? I have seen some offers for VPN lifetime subscriptions at 88% off – so instead of $ 597 you pay $69 ( PureVPN) or instead of $ 1434 you pay $ 39.99 (Ivacy). Seems ridiculous to have discounts like these – one or the other of the prices are unreal.

thank you Paul

Thanks Paul, just two follow up questions:
Do you do banking from public wifi (using https)? I never dared and thought in this case using a vpn would be providing additional security (assuming I can trust the vpn provider).
When I install the software of a provider like pureVpn or SlickVPn or similar, does that mean they only potentially see where I am surfing or am I perhaps opening a backdoor into my pc?

Dohmixer, just wondering if you found out which of the patches caused the issue? I just noticed 3 out of the 4 appearing in my update list for Win 7/64 – important though not critical.

Someone else raised this earlier and I have not seen any response yet – why did the problem persist after using an image to revert to a state before the problem happened?

hi, I looked at this extension and think it could be very useful. At the moment I am not using any extensions in Chrome – one of the reasons is that I am scared by the alert that any of these extensions can “access your tabs and browsing history” and more importantly “access your data on all websites”.
What exactly does that mean. I often run with 8 or more tabs open and this includes some tabs accessing a company website or other confidential stuff. I am not so much concerned that a third party developer could see which bookmarks I use or the name of the site but access to data on these sites? Am I too paranoid?

Thanks John, I now found the option but you are right, it’s much slower in searching. So I guess I stick with the original option and unclick the formatting field each time prior to searching.

Rory,

absolutely right – then again, some databases need to be worked on with respect to deduping records or merging two sets of records. One of the programs we use for this purpose requires the import of these records as xls files.

Copying a worksheet from workbook A to workbook B can have a similar effect.

The fact that your workbook had so many styles proves that it has a very long editing history.

Pieter, you are quite right – this particular worksheet has indeed a long history and I guess for some amateur like me it’s sometimes not obvious what effect highlighting one cell here or using a bold there may have for the overall sheet. I am glad that with Jim’s add-in I was able to cut through that.

Jim,
thanks again – I did not realise that the result is shown in a fresh independant spreadsheet. Now, doing it correctly, 4317 unused custom styles were deleted and only 54 styles were left.

This is much clearer for me and easier to choose when working with my spreadsheets. I am not sure why MS decided to include to so many options given that it is easy enough to create your own on demand.

Jim,

I downloaded and installed your add-in but am a bit unsure how to use it. It does indeed show me more than 4000 unused custom styles but clicking the delete function, no unused custom files can be found.
What am I doing wrong?

Jim, not sure how to check that exactly.

The issue first appeared when I did not use styles but just chose the formatting details (colour, highlighting etc) by choosing the format cell functions – most of it were just simple colour highlights.

When i lost all formatting the first time, I switched to styles thinking this would solve the issue. I have created myself perhaps 8 new styles – the rest are all the default styles. Not sure why MS actually set these up as I find it awkward to scroll through this long list of styles I am not using. It’s easy enough to create a style when I need it, so why offer 200 odd default styles?

E.g. why do I have 23 buttons for Neutral named 2 to 21, highlighted in yellow and all apparently the same?