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This is it!  Free stuff and worth every penny!  Download and use these beauties to your heart's content. Pass 'em around... be the life of any party.

And just what is this foreboding looking skull and crossbones icon you may ask? Well, if you've played with either the TUGXL or TUGOffice Thingys you'll recognize this (in its several forms) as the dreaded Zone of Death button. Just for fun we thought you might like to sample the Zone here in your browser. Enjoy.

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PRIME Bookmark Popup


PRIME Bookmark Popup provides a single-click, elegant solution to a frequent dilemma for Word bookmark aficionados: you want to see an instant list of all the bookmarks in the current Word document and just click and go to one of them. Now you can. When you click on the PRIME Bookmark Popup button it displays an alphabetical list of all bookmarks, you select the one of interest, and the selection moves there. The popup menu also includes a single-click option to Toggle Bookmarks, saving you lots of time having to navigate Word's dialogs for this operation. Requirements: Word 97 or Word 2000.
(File BOOKPOP.EXE, - 393K)

Free Word VBA Code from Word 97 Annoyances
Get all the VBA example code found in Word 97 Annoyances by downloading EXAMPLES.ZIP. This is a 21K file that contains the My Macros.dot template. This template contains all the VBA macros and utilities from the book, ready-to-run! Find out more about Word 97 Annoyances by clicking here. Requirements: Word 97.
(File EXAMPLES.ZIP, - 21K)

Free Excel VBA Code from Excel 97 Annoyances
Get all the VBA example code found in Excel 97 Annoyances by downloading XLANNOY.ZIP. This is a 50K file that contains the Intro to VBA.xls workbook. This workbook contains all the VBA macros and utilities from the book, ready-to-run! This workbook contains an enhanced version of PrintCbarsControlList_Excel_Final not shown in the book (with improved formatting and text descriptions of control types). Intro to VBA.xls also contains several other bonus VBA examples. Find out more about Excel 97 Annoyances by clicking here. Requirements: Excel 97.
(File XLANNOY.ZIP, - 50K)

Office Computing Free TimeIt Excel VBA Utility
This is an Office Computing exclusive! TimeIt is a time tracker project we developed using Excel VBA for Office Computing's cover story in issue 4 (October 1997). TimeIt logs the hours spent on a client or a task, and then crunches the data so you can analyze and maximize your performance. Find out more about this article by clicking here. Requirements: Office 97.
(File TIMEIT01.ZIP, - 37K)

Office Computing Free ShapeNotes Excel VBA Utility
This is an Office Computing exclusive! ShapeNotes is a diagram builder we developed using Excel VBA for Office Computing's issue 4 (October 1997). It's an easy-to-build utility that lets you assign, read, and edit additional text in any Office Art shape you create in Excel. Find out more about this article by clicking here. Requirements: Office 97.
(File SHPNOTES.ZIP, - 42K)

TUGExcel Amazing Multimedia Thingy
This is the promotional piece we did for our Excel book. As we said in the press kit it is, ahem, a complete multimedia, no-hype-barred, amazing, colossal, on-screen adventure! See the authors of The Underground Guide to Excel 5.0 for Windows. Actually hear them speak. See the secret entrance to the Underground Labs. Guess how Jim and Lee are smuggling copies of TUGExcel around the country. Dare to click on the Zone of Death button! Don't overlook the witty help file, well, we thought it was witty but it had been a very long day. You know how it is.
(File TUGXL.EXE, self extracting - 473,529 bytes)

TUGOffice Amazing Multimedia Thingy
Here it is! The sequel you've been waiting for! Another complete, multi-screen, multimedia, no-hype-barred, Underground adventure! Meet the authors of The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, OLE, and VBA as they blatantly plug their latest book. Experience the wonder of the Monkey Mode. See how to deal with errant OLE objects. Includes the hit single "The PRIME Directive" (sound board recommended). See what multimedia will eventually do to all your programs <gasp>! No surf weasels were harmed in the production of this software. Dare to read the literary interlude in the help file.
(File TUGOFF1.EXE, self extracting - 379,164 bytes)

PRIME Amazing Screen Saver!
Here's the NEW official PRIME Consulting Group, Inc., Screen Saver! Brought to you by the folks that did the Underground Thingys. This amazing FREE software brings the terror of the Monkey Mode to your very desktop. Ever wish you had PCG's address and phone number handy? Well so do we! Weasels, Monkeys, bombs, the ever popular bullet holes, and more! Use this freeware utility with your own bitmaps and .WAV files to create a custom multimedia experience <gasp>! It's free! And worth every penny... self-extracting with readme.txt on how to set it up (copy one file... how hard can that be?) and customize it to use your own .WAVs and .BMPs. Fun stuff.
(File PCGSAVE.EXE, self extracting - 61,686 bytes)

Jim and Lee Underground Wallpaper
An actual Windows wallpaper featuring Jim Lee and Lee Hudspeth, authors of The Underground Guide to Excel and The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, and the founders of PRIME Consulting Group. These are the guys responsible for bringing to you the famous Promotional Thingys! WARNING: this material blatantly self-promotes the non-existent movie They Came From... the Underground! Enjoy.
(File TUGMOVIE.EXE, self extracting - 167,492 bytes)

More Jim & Lee Wallpaper
Windows wallpaper from the guys responsible for bringing you the famous Promotional Thingys! This is the trailer for Escape from the Planet of the Underground starring Lee Hudspeth, Jim Lee, and introducing Woody Leonhard as "Bob". WARNING: this bitmap graphically depicts the dangers of the Monkey Mode!
(File TUGMONK.EXE, self extracting - 166,202 bytes)

Three More Underground Wallpapers.
Several denizen's here in the Underground labs created some wacky wallpapers around the TUGExcel publicity photos so we zipped up the best (subjectively speaking) and stuck them here. Another collection of wallpapers from Jim and Lee. TUGAlbum: The Greatest Hits from the Underground. Includes the hit single Truckloads of gleaming, merciless truth. TUGUncut: Original English-Language version... Un-cut, Un-censored, No-holds-barred. Wanted: For Conspiracy to reveal truckloads of gleaming, merciless truth about Microsoft Office Applications. Suspects are considered extremely knowledgeable and should be approached with extreme caution.
(File TUGWALL3.ZIP - 272,000 bytes)

PRIME Information Newsletter Issue 1.
The first issue of the electronic PRIME Information Newsletter from PRIME Consulting Group, Inc. Articles include PRIME6 for Word's most FAQs, a hands-on discussion by Bill Edmett on using the PRIME6 custom WordBasic procedures in your own macros, information on the PRIME5 for Excel utility set that has just been released, an interview with the authors of The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, OLE, and VBA, the latest on the TUG Promotional Thingys, and much, much, more. Put all files in a single directory and run PINSHELL.EXE.
(File PRIME1.ZIP - 112,296 bytes)

PRIME Information Newsletter Issue 2.
Issue #2 of the PRIME Information electronic newsletter from PRIME Consulting Group, Inc. Features an indepth article, WordBasic and OLE Automation, which explores the passing of arguments to, and getting returned values from, custom WordBasic procedures using OLE automation. Lots of sample code to get you up to speed on these techniques. Also has errata information on The Underground Guide to Excel as well as The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, OLE, and VBA. Put all files in a single directory.
(File PRIME2.ZIP - 206,302 bytes)