Hey has any one got some new ideas for visual basic projects

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Hi,
Talk to people you know.. what annoys them about their daily job with computers? Could you do it easier?

Example:
A secretary must always type letter to a load of clients but hasn't been trained in mail-merge.. can you write a button and a form in VBA to make it easier?
An accountant gets a feed of data and has to reformat it every month to import into Access.. can you make this easier?
Your local grocers has a paper-based system for keeping track of orders.. can you write something (maybe generic for the other shops in the same area) that will help? - and probably be cheap
Timetable planning software is VERY expensive and specialised. MSProject and most other planning software can only model a single task against a date/month, however, it would be useful to see a Project against a date/month, with each task in a different block (called a ganntt(how many damn n's and t's?) chart). This would be an excellent way of knowing, in a team of developers, all of the projects in production and who has a bit of time spare on monday morning - in 1 view!!
What about rewriting the old network clipboard from windows? (don't think it's there anymore).. copy to clipboard and paste it onto another computer - useful!!!!!!!!!!
If you're out of ideas, look around you. What do you use every day? Who do you speak to? Everyone whinges about computers - call any service industry and the operators will tell you "the computer is a bit slow today".. What would you do about it? Is the computer slow? Why do they need to go into a different screen to get your a/c details and then type that into the original screen? How would you get round it?
What about a windows clipboard with multiple entries? How would the user choose which one to paste? MSOffice has one, but, frankly it doesn't support keboard and is a bit poo (IMO).
My local cleaner has just employed a couple of other cleaners, and keeps track of them on paper.. sounds abit labour-intensive to me
On the other scale, I've just been playing an RTS game and I can't give orders to a general (as in "take that castle")... how would you resolve it?
I've just been playing a game with a game-save, I've also found out that bytes 1036 - 1042 control inventory item 2, by changing these values I get really cool stuff (ie... setting 1036 to 0x001 = Cash, setting 1037/9 to FFFF= $36k money). wouldn't it be nice to write an editor for this and send it around?
I like to reverse-engineer software that I see - just to try it out and "compete" against other programmers, sometimes I find a "better"/"faster" way, sometimes I can't work out how they do so well even without time/cost constraints (some people are waaaaay to clever! ;) )

Hope this helps,
Kieron


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