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Monthly Archives: December 2012

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Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2012

How to Improve an Excel Line Chart [VIDEO]

Before and after improvements

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Line charts are frequently used in Excel but their default settings leave a lot to be desired. See the transformation of a standard line chart to a simpler and easier to read line chart.

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Posted on Monday, December 17, 2012

Flexible Dashboard Technique for reports

A Camera technique in Excel

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It’s easy to move and re-size charts on a sheet. It’s a different story when you want to include small reports on a dashboard. Reports are affected by the existing row heights and column widths.

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Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Pinning your file hopes with Excel

A time saver

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There’s a little icon that was introduced in Office 2007 that is very useful but sadly, many people don’t know about it. It’s a pin icon and it allows you to “pin” files to the recently used file list in Excel 2007.

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Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012

Excel’s writing skills

Tick and create

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Excel is great with numbers but what about sentences? Check out this example of how you can create a paragraph builder. The user ticks boxes to select sentences to include in a paragraph.

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Posted on Friday, December 7, 2012

Creating Dynamic Text Box entries in Excel

Flexible text

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Text boxes are flexible because you can place them anywhere on your spreadsheet.

You can link a text box to the contents of a cell.

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Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Calculating Excel

F9 shortcuts and tips

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When you set calculation to manual in Excel you have turned off calculation. You can press F9 at any time to update the calculations. F9 doesn’t turn on calculation, it just does a recalculation.

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Posted on Saturday, December 1, 2012

DO NOT PASS GO TO in Excel

A quick way to select cells

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Excel’s Go To feature provides a quick way to select certain types of cells. For example, if you wanted to apply the same fill colour to all formula cells on a sheet, you can do that in five easy steps using Go To.

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