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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workbook Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received a dashboard report that I also need to discuss. So for the next few weeks I&#8217;ll turn into a spreadsheet critic.
Splattered Data
Imagine dropping a can of paint onto a parking lot from a 50-story building. Every car in the lot would be splattered. Randy&#8217;s workbook does the same thing with its data. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad spreadsheet designs can hurt your career. I&#8217;ve seen it happen.
So in  Don&#8217;t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 1, I began to discuss problems in a workbook sent to me by an Excel user I call Randy. I hope this will help you to find and fix similar problems in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/198/dont-let-bad-spreadsheet-design-hurt-your-career-part-1.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workbook Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[professional career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search and Replace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to A Free Offer to Help Excel Users Improve Your Job Prospects, a reader sent me a workbook this morning. I&#8217;m glad he sent it, even though it contains no dashboards. This is because it illustrates many bad practices I&#8217;ve seen in Excel reports over the years.
I&#8217;ll call my visitor Randy.
Assuming that he created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Format Dates in X Axes of Mini-Charts in Excel Reports</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/187/how-to-format-dates-in-x-axes-of-mini-charts-in-excel-reports.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[date formats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Charts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most Excel users create charts, they make them way too large. For many reasons, using mini-charts is much easier to read.
To illustrate, this Excel dashboard report contains 28 charts:
This report, which is included in the IncSight DB plug-n-play dashboard kit, contains roughly ten times the number of charts included in a typical Excel report. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel 2010 User Interface: &#8220;Is there any chance it will improve?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/178/excel-2010-user-interface-is-there-any-chance-it-will-improve.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel User Interface]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copy and paste]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Excel users have sent me messages this week to ask about the user interface for Excel 2010. They all wanted to know whether Excel will return to menus and custom toolbars, or offer a Classic Interface option.
The answer, unfortunately, is: No chance. Microsoft&#8217;s Excel team has said they never will go back to menus. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to delete blank or unneeded rows in your worksheet, Method 1</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/156/how-to-delete-blank-or-unneeded-rows-in-your-worksheet-method-1.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working With Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blank rows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data sort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[go to special]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyboard shortcuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you bring data from another source into an Excel worksheet, the data often includes rows that you&#8217;ll want to delete. Often, you&#8217;ll want to delete blank rows. At other times, you&#8217;ll want to delete rows with irrelevant data. I frequently use two quick and easy methods that solve this problem nearly every time.
For both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to delete blank or unneeded rows in your worksheet, Method 2</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/163/how-to-delete-blank-or-unneeded-rows-in-your-worksheet-method-2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Data copied from a web site or imported from a variety of sources often include irrelevant rows of data.
For example, the only way to get data from some sources is to print the data as a file &#8212; complete with report headers, footers, subtotals, and so on &#8212; then open the file in Excel. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Usually Don&#8217;t Need to Select an Object in Excel VBA</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/146/you-usually-dont-need-to-select-an-object-in-excel-vba.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/146/you-usually-dont-need-to-select-an-object-in-excel-vba.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VBA for Beginners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beginning VBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel macros]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Excel VBA user asked in a forum recently how to select a sheet in VBA when the sheet name is stored as a variable. The odds are about 95% that he didn&#8217;t need to select the worksheet in the first place.
To illustrate, I turned on my macro recorder, selected cell D9, and entered &#8220;x&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quickly Find a Worksheet in an Excel Workbook With Many Sheets</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/142/quickly-find-a-worksheet-in-an-excel-workbook-with-many-sheets.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/142/quickly-find-a-worksheet-in-an-excel-workbook-with-many-sheets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel User Interface]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VBA for Beginners]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not opposed to using VBA. I think it&#8217;s great fun and it can be very useful. But in a business setting, if VBA need not be used, it needs not to be used.
Today, for example, someone asked an Excel forum how to write a VBA macro that would list all the sheets in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Change Text to Columns When You Copy and Paste in Excel</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/122/how-to-change-text-to-columns-when-your-copy-and-paste-in-excel.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/122/how-to-change-text-to-columns-when-your-copy-and-paste-in-excel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working With Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[text to columns]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I needed to copy a bunch of numeric tables from a pdf file into Excel.
When I pasted the first table, all the data was pasted into column A, with a space between each number. That was no problem. I just selected the column of data and then used the following command&#8230;
&#8230;in New Excel: Data, [...]]]></description>
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