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		<title>Excel Dashboard Sample: Advice about Using Excel&#8217;s Camera Tool</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/341/excel-dashboard-sample-advice-about-using-excels-camera-tool.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camera tool]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[management reporting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the Excel features that users don&#8217;t use very often, the Camera tool probably is the most powerful. This tool, also known as a Picture Link, returns a real-time image of any range in Excel.
This tool is so useful that I devoted a full chapter to it in my ebook, &#8220;Dashboard Reporting With Excel.&#8221;
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel Dashboard Sample: Making Top-Item Charts Easier to Read</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/334/excel-dashboard-sample-making-top-item-charts-easier-to-read.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/334/excel-dashboard-sample-making-top-item-charts-easier-to-read.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[80-20 reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bar charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[number formats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top-item reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top-ten reports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Managers need to know where the greatest opportunities and the worst problems can be found. This is why top-item figures are so popular.
These figures typically are titled Top-Ten Reports, or 80-20 Reports. To create them, Excel users sort a category by the value of interest for each item, typically with the largest value first, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel Dashboard Sample: How to Structure Your Report Workbook</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/327/excel-dashboard-sample-how-to-structure-your-report-workbook.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/327/excel-dashboard-sample-how-to-structure-your-report-workbook.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dashboard reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Excel Dashboard Sample: Weekly &#38; Monthly Top-Ten Activity Reports I introduced two Excel dashboard reports created by Chris Helfrecht. In this post, I&#8217;ll describe a critical aspect of his report workbook: the workbook structure.
All Excel reports perform at least four tasks. Good reports assign these tasks to four sections, with specific worksheets defining each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel Dashboard Sample: Weekly &amp; Monthly Top-Ten Activity Reports</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/302/excel-dashboard-sample-weekly-monthly-top-ten-activity-reports.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/302/excel-dashboard-sample-weekly-monthly-top-ten-activity-reports.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical device company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality control]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Chris Helfrecht sent these two sample Excel dashboards, he wrote that he tried to follow my methods. He also wrote that people in his company have been very enthusiastic about his new dashboards.
I recognized a lot of my ideas in his samples. I also found some new ideas. Some of these I like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Sort Data in Reports Automatically Using Excel Formulas</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/225/how-to-sort-data-in-reports-automatically-using-excel-formulas.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/225/how-to-sort-data-in-reports-automatically-using-excel-formulas.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INDEX function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MATCH function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RANK function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sorting with formulas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many Excel reports include tables that show sorted results. Usually, these tables were sorted manually in Excel, using the Data, Sort command. However, reports would be a lot easier to maintain and update if formulas (not macros) could sort the data automatically.
There&#8217;s a simple way to do this. But to make the method work reliably, [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[mini-charts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=187</guid>
		<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 charts, seasonality, &amp; analysis: Five lessons from the WSJ</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/173/excel-charts-seasonality-analysis-five-lessons-from-the-wsj.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/173/excel-charts-seasonality-analysis-five-lessons-from-the-wsj.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seasonality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my tiny town on the Washington coast, I don&#8217;t get the Wall Street Journal until it arrives in our mail box about noon most weekdays. So at breakfast this morning I read an article in yesterday&#8217;s Journal, which offers some great advice for Excel users in business.
Don&#8217;t get me wrong. The article, New Light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Show Subtotals in a Sorted Excel Database</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/102/how-to-show-subtotals-in-a-sorted-excel-database.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/102/how-to-show-subtotals-in-a-sorted-excel-database.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel formulas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel range names]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just after I finished How to Report and Analyze Variable-Length Databases in Excel a visitor asked how to use formulas to show subtotals in a sorted list. From her description, she wants to do something like this:
In this figure, I set up the aaCustCode and aaAmount range names as I described in How to Report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Report and Analyze Variable-Length Databases in Excel</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/94/how-to-report-and-analyze-variable-length-databases-in-excel.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/94/how-to-report-and-analyze-variable-length-databases-in-excel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel range names]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Bates left a comment in Set Up Range Names to Connect Reports to Excel Databases, Part 1, asking how to report and analyze variable-length data. The problem he describes is really common. I used to have it a lot when I worked with data exported as text files and imported into Excel. But once [...]]]></description>
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