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Hireing an excell programmer
Hello. I need an Excel spreadsheet for use in my Home Office business.
How in the heck do I find someone to program it??? Am in the Houston TX area. Any ideas are welcome! THANKS Ron |
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When do you need it by and what are you willing to pay? Actually, even before those, have you really thought out what it is you want, and what it needs to do for you? It's an old joke that at the end of a project, the user always says "It's exactly what I asked for, but it's not what I wanted." ;) If you are in Houston, check with the instructors of Harris County Community College (or whatever it's called now - or some other community college) and get them to recommend a student or graduate - or check and see if they would be willing to do it themselves. Your biggest challenges will be defining what you want it to do, keeping scope creep out of the project if you need it by a certain date and maintaining it after the person who sets it up for you moves on... I'm in Longview, Tx and if you want to take this discussion off-line, I'm at j2ir at hotmail dot com - substitute punctuation for words in that address... -- jamescox ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jamescox's Profile: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/member.php?userid=449 View this thread: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/sh...d.php?t=112788 |
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"audit2" wrote: Hello. I need an Excel spreadsheet for use in my Home Office business. How in the heck do I find someone to program it? If it's a one-time (i.e. temp) job, contact Manpower or any other temp agency. But keep in mind that anyone who can turn on a computer can call themselves an Excel programmer. Hopefully, good temp agencies are more discriminating; after all, they have their reputation to consider. But I have encountered my share of "incompetent" contractors through temp agencies over the years. Knowledgable people in this forum should be able to help you learn what qualifications to look for. For starters, go to http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en.../mbc.aspx#tab2 . However, you might also keep in mind the purpose of the Excel spreadsheet(s) that you expect to be developed. Perhaps you really need a specialist familiar with a particular field, e.g. bookkeeping. Excel competency might be secondary; Excel certification might not be needed. ----- original message ------ "audit2" wrote in message ... Hello. I need an Excel spreadsheet for use in my Home Office business. How in the heck do I find someone to program it??? Am in the Houston TX area. Any ideas are welcome! THANKS Ron |
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May be www.rentacoder.com "audit2" wrote in message ... Hello. I need an Excel spreadsheet for use in my Home Office business. How in the heck do I find someone to program it??? Am in the Houston TX area. Any ideas are welcome! THANKS Ron |
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Nice answer jamescox..........well done! Regards, Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "jamescox" wrote in message ... When do you need it by and what are you willing to pay? Actually, even before those, have you really thought out what it is you want, and what it needs to do for you? It's an old joke that at the end of a project, the user always says "It's exactly what I asked for, but it's not what I wanted." ;) If you are in Houston, check with the instructors of Harris County Community College (or whatever it's called now - or some other community college) and get them to recommend a student or graduate - or check and see if they would be willing to do it themselves. Your biggest challenges will be defining what you want it to do, keeping scope creep out of the project if you need it by a certain date and maintaining it after the person who sets it up for you moves on... I'm in Longview, Tx and if you want to take this discussion off-line, I'm at j2ir at hotmail dot com - substitute punctuation for words in that address... -- jamescox ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jamescox's Profile: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/member.php?userid=449 View this thread: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/sh...d.php?t=112788 |
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