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		<title>Oh, No! Chart Junk from The Wall Street Journal!</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1152/oh-no-chart-junk-from-the-wall-street-journal.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chart Junk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, The Wall Street Journal has been the most reliable source I know of high-quality charts and tables. Most of their work has been excellent. Sure, they occasionally use fat-food chart types&#8230;doughnut and pie charts. But even those tend to be free of gratuitous junk. But on April 17, 2012, the WSJ fell off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create Dynamic Chart Legends in Excel</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1124/how-to-create-dynamic-chart-legends-in-excel.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dynamic Excel Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chart legends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[color themes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conditional formats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw a chart with a legend like this in the Wall Street Journal, I knew I had to add a similar chart to my Swipe Files&#8230;but in Excel, we need dynamic legends! Using dynamic legends is such a great idea, I also need to blog about it. What&#8217;s A Dynamic Chart Legend? Dynamic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why INDEX-MATCH Is Far Better Than VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP in Excel</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1107/why-index-match-is-far-better-than-vlookup-or-hlookup-in-excel.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spreadsheet Functions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Worksheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HLOOKUP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INDEX function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INDEX-MATCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MATCH function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VLOOKUP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=1107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Google search results are any indication, Excel&#8217;s VLOOKUP function is about 30 times more popular than the INDEX-MATCH function. This is too bad, because &#8230; 1. INDEX-MATCH is much more flexible than VLOOKUP. 2. At its worst, INDEX-MATCH is slightly faster than VLOOKUP; at its best, INDEX-MATCH is many-times faster. I can think of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to End Jaggies in Large Excel Headlines</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1078/how-to-end-jaggies-in-large-excel-headlines-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1078/how-to-end-jaggies-in-large-excel-headlines-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working with Text]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-aliasing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel text boxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jaggies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Large fonts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=1078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever griped about an Excel limitation and then suddenly realized there&#8217;s a simple solution? That just happened to me. For a long time, I&#8217;ve wished that Excel would anti-alias large font sizes. Without anti-aliasing, Excel&#8217;s large fonts have jaggies, as this section of a large letter &#8220;B illustrates. Fonts don&#8217;t need to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create Two-Dimensional Lookups in Excel Formulas</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1043/how-to-create-two-dimensional-lookups-in-excel-formulas.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1043/how-to-create-two-dimensional-lookups-in-excel-formulas.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Dates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Range Names]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spreadsheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worksheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[array formulas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DATEVALUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INDEX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lookup functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMPRODUCT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This figure illustrates a great Excel question that a friend asked today. His original question was, &#8220;In this table, how can I return the date where the lowest value occurs?&#8221; More generally, however, he was asking how to look up a value in two dimensions. This is a different challenge than most Excel lookups, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Another Excel 2010 Camera-Tool Bug, and How to Fix It</title>
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		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1030/still-another-excel-2010-camera-tool-bug-and-how-to-fix-it.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Camera Tool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Bugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel bug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Camera bug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linked Picture bug]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to show tabular data in Excel dashboards, Excel&#8217;s Camera tool is the most useful tool you can have. However, Excel 2010 has a bug that appears to limit the usefulness of Camera tools. (If you don&#8217;t know what the Camera tool is all about, I devote a chapter to it in Dashboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compare Performance to Yes-No Conditions in Excel Charts</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/992/compare-performance-to-yes-no-conditions-in-excel-charts.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/992/compare-performance-to-yes-no-conditions-in-excel-charts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel and the Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to the last two posts, I just thought of a way to compare performance to multiple Boolean (yes-no) conditions. In an international company, for example, how can we visually interpret a chart of sales that could be affected by recessions in several major market areas? Similarly, how could we visually evaluate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Chart Recessions in Excel, Part 2 of 2</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1009/how-to-chart-recessions-in-excel-part-2-of-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1009/how-to-chart-recessions-in-excel-part-2-of-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caterpillar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recessions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you look at a chart of long-term business performance, showing where recessions occurred often can help to explain the results&#8230;as this chart illustrates: Here, Dell&#8217;s revenue fell considerably during the last two recessions. But Dell&#8217;s revenue problems pale in comparison to Caterpillar&#8217;s, as this chart shows: As you can see, Caterpillar&#8217;s revenues dropped nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel&#8217;s CLEAN Function is More Powerful Than You Think</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/797/excels-clean-function-is-more-powerful-than-you-think.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/797/excels-clean-function-is-more-powerful-than-you-think.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spreadsheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working With Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worksheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHAR function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHAR(160)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CLEAN function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Series command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LEN function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-breaking space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUBSTITUTE function]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Excel 2010 help file provides more information about the CLEAN function than earlier versions: &#8220;Removes all nonprintable characters from text. Use CLEAN on text imported from other applications that contains characters that may not print with your operating system. For example, you can use CLEAN to remove some low-level computer code that is frequently at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Chart Trend Lines</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/785/how-to-chart-trend-lines.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend lines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s mail included this note: Dear Sir, My boss recently purchased an electronic copy of your &#8220;Dashboard Reporting With Excel&#8221; book. He asked me to do some reporting that involve times series plots with multiple trend lines on the same data series. I have searched on the internet to learn how to do it [...]]]></description>
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