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		<title>How to End Jaggies in Large Excel Headlines</title>
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		<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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		<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>
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		<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>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>

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		<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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		<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>

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		<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>
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		<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>How to Chart Recessions in Excel, Part 1 of 2</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/989/how-to-chart-recessions-in-excel-part-1-of-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/989/how-to-chart-recessions-in-excel-part-1-of-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FRED]]></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[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Federation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time, at least one of the major trading countries is in recession. The bottom row of this Excel figure summarizes this sad situation. This figure has an important story to tell, whether or not your company trades internationally. Here&#8217;s why&#8230; First, recessions are fairly common in every country. The US, for example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Reference Gasoline Price History in Excel Formulas</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/957/how-to-reference-gasoline-price-history-in-excel-formulas.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gasoline price history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Energy Information Administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working today on the Quick Start manual for KydWeb, which I still hope to introduce on Monday. Originally, I explained how to write a formula that references a page at http://www.eia.gov to return historical data for the the average price of gasoline in US$. But this evening, I made a great discovery. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s One Excel Chart That Shows the Protesters Shouldn&#8217;t Blame Business</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/945/heres-one-excel-chart-that-shows-the-protesters-shouldnt-blame-business.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/945/heres-one-excel-chart-that-shows-the-protesters-shouldnt-blame-business.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Insider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Modelling in Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FRED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FRED2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I came across a political discussion in the Financial Modelling in Excel group at LinkedIn.com. The discussion was starting to generate more heat than light. The discussion started with a link to this post at Business Insider: Here Are Four Charts That Explain What The Protesters Are Angry About&#8230; One of the author&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Track Public Confidence Daily</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/938/track-public-confidence-daily.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/938/track-public-confidence-daily.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barron's Confidence Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conference Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb_Actual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb_Smooth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leading indicator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web data]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you’re planning for your company’s future, it would be great to have an accurate and current indication of how optimistic or pessimistic the public is about future economic performance. The Conference Board, the University of Michigan, Rasmussen Reports, and others publish monthly surveys of consumer sentiment. Unfortunately, these surveys have at least two limitations [...]]]></description>
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