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		<title>Oh, No! Chart Junk from The Wall Street Journal!</title>
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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>
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		<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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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
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		<title>Good Examples of Bad Charts: Chart Junk from a Surprising Source</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chart Junk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Economist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For years, I&#8217;ve written that we Excel users should create &#8220;magazine-quality&#8221; charts for our reports and analyses. However, we must be very careful of the magazines and other publications we emulate. The Wall Street Journal currently is my favorite source of great chart examples. Most of its charts and tables are very well designed. The Economist [...]]]></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>
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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>

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		<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>Will Your Company Replace Excel with a Dedicated Budgeting Program?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budgeting and Forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel budgeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerOLAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TM1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post in a public forum asked whether Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) ever will drop their spreadsheets in favor of a dedicated budgeting application. I think the answer to this question is NO. Most SMEs will continue with Excel for budgeting and forecasting, for excellent reasons. Here are a few of them: 1. Excel [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[jaggies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Large fonts]]></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>
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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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		<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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