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	<description>Insight for business users of Microsoft Excel</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>
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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>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>
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		<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 One Excel User Is Making a Great Living From Excel Reports</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/969/how-one-excel-user-is-making-a-great-living-from-excel-reports.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twenty Groups]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I talked recently with an Excel user who&#8217;s making a great living from Excel reports. Because many Excel users are looking for jobs, I thought someone else could use a similar idea. The idea is based on one that I first heard about as a teenager. My best friend&#8217;s father owned a car dealership. One [...]]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=1030</guid>
		<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>How to Add Web Data to Your Excel Dashboard Reports</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/912/how-to-add-web-data-to-your-excel-dashboard-reports.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/912/how-to-add-web-data-to-your-excel-dashboard-reports.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Competitors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dashboard templates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management reporting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Excel dashboard reports typically show internal data. But you can easily add public data that managers need. Here, for example, is a modified version of Report 5 from IncSight DB. In the original version, the entire report showed internal data. But in this version, the nine small charts show web data of interest to Acme&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use the Federal Reserve Bank&#8217;s FRED Database in Excel</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/869/how-to-use-the-federal-reserve-banks-fred-database-in-excel.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/869/how-to-use-the-federal-reserve-banks-fred-database-in-excel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Statistics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GROWTH]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LOGEST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SLOPE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STEYX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TREND]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FRED database is my favorite source of economic data. Even though FRED (sometimes called FRED2) is offered by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, most of their data has nothing to do with banks. Instead, FRED offers a wide variety of economic data. FRED has data about prices, employment and unemployment, exchange rates, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Ways to Improve Business Performance with Excel Formulas Linked to the Web</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/843/ten-ways-to-improve-business-performance-with-excel-formulas-linked-to-the-web.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/843/ten-ways-to-improve-business-performance-with-excel-formulas-linked-to-the-web.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel and the Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel early warning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spidering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web data]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If our rotting economy causes most of our business problems these days, why is it that so few Excel reports and analyses include data about the economy? These days, the road to business success seems to lead through a maze. Relevant economic data is like a photo taken from above the maze; it offers a view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Spawn Excel Models, Analyses, Forecasts, and Reports for Many Categories, Part 3 of 3</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/637/how-to-spawn-excel-models-analyses-forecasts-and-reports-for-many-categories-part-3-of-3.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/637/how-to-spawn-excel-models-analyses-forecasts-and-reports-for-many-categories-part-3-of-3.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dynamic Excel Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VBA for Beginners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analytical spawning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel automation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel modeling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 of this series about analytical spawning with Excel described how Excel users often need to spawn one model or report across many related categories of data&#8230;across many regions, products, departments, or whatever. And they need to print the results or capture them for further analysis. Part 2 of this series about Excel spawning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Spawn Excel Models, Analyses, Forecasts, and Reports for Many Categories, Part 2 of 3</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/620/how-to-spawn-excel-models-analyses-forecasts-and-reports-for-many-categories-part-2-of-3.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/620/how-to-spawn-excel-models-analyses-forecasts-and-reports-for-many-categories-part-2-of-3.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dynamic Excel Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dynamic Reporting with Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel modeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Report Spawning with Excel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I explained in Part 1, Excel users often need to apply many instances of data to one model or forecast, list the results, and then analyze or summarize them. I call this process &#8220;spawning&#8221;. In this post, I’ll show you a simple layout for each worksheet required for the spawning process. My next post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Excel 2010 Camera Tool Bug, and a Workaround</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/613/a-new-excel-2010-camera-tool-bug-and-a-workaround.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/613/a-new-excel-2010-camera-tool-bug-and-a-workaround.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:52:30 +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 2010]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[merged cells]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read my e-book, Dashboard Reporting With Excel, you know that I&#8217;m a big fan of Excel&#8217;s Camera tool. It&#8217;s probably Excel&#8217;s most-powerful little-known feature. But unfortunately, it&#8217;s also kinda buggy. The Camera object, which also is known as a Linked Picture, shows a live picture of a range in Excel. In my e-book, [...]]]></description>
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