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Discussions tagged with yahoo finance on WindowsForum.com focus on integrating Yahoo Finance data with Windows applications. One common issue involves Excel 2007 losing focus while editing cells linked to Yahoo Finance data, often when Internet Explorer is also open. Another topic is a printer display hack that periodically fetches stock prices from Yahoo Finance and sends them to HP laser printer LCDs using printer job language. These threads highlight practical challenges and creative uses of Yahoo Finance data within a Windows environment, covering troubleshooting, automation, and hardware interaction.
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    Windows 7 Excel 2007 Loosing Focus

    I hope someone can help with an annoying problem. While editing an Excel 2007 Spreadsheet with information from Yahoo Finance, the Excel window looses focus. This usually happens in the middle of editing a cell. I generally have only the IE - 10 window and the Excel window open when this...
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    • editing excel focus internet explorer spreadsheet tech support windows yahoo finance
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 The HP Printer Display Hack (with financial goodness)

    The HP Printer Display Hack is a simple background application that periodically checks the current price of a selected stock and sends it to the display of HP (and compatible) laser printers. IntroductionThis app is based on an old hack from back to at least 1997 that uses the HP Job control...
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