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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel formatting]]></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>Don&#8217;t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/260/dont-let-bad-spreadsheet-design-hurt-your-career-part-3.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/260/dont-let-bad-spreadsheet-design-hurt-your-career-part-3.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workbook Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel formatting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management reporting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just received a dashboard report that I also need to discuss. So for the next few weeks I&#8217;ll turn into a spreadsheet critic.
Splattered Data
Imagine dropping a can of paint onto a parking lot from a 50-story building. Every car in the lot would be splattered. Randy&#8217;s workbook does the same thing with its data. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel Was NOT &#8216;Originally Designed as a Personal Productivity Tool&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/246/excel-was-not-originally-designed-as-a-personal-productivity-tool.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/246/excel-was-not-originally-designed-as-a-personal-productivity-tool.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel spreadsheets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lotus 1-2-3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiplan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symphony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VisiCalc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you read the business press or Business Intelligence (BI) forums, or if you listen to most IT managers, you&#8217;ll soon hear that &#8220;Excel was originally designed as a personal productivity tool.&#8221;
Well, it ain&#8217;t true!
I know this &#8220;fact&#8221; isn&#8217;t true for three reasons.
First, I was there at the beginning. In the mid 1980s I worked [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=225</guid>
		<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>Don&#8217;t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/213/dont-let-bad-spreadsheet-design-hurt-your-career-part-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/213/dont-let-bad-spreadsheet-design-hurt-your-career-part-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workbook Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cell Addresses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel errors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel range names]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professional career]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bad spreadsheet designs can hurt your career. I&#8217;ve seen it happen.
So in  Don&#8217;t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 1, I began to discuss problems in a workbook sent to me by an Excel user I call Randy. I hope this will help you to find and fix similar problems in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/198/dont-let-bad-spreadsheet-design-hurt-your-career-part-1.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/198/dont-let-bad-spreadsheet-design-hurt-your-career-part-1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workbook Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Dashboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel errors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professional career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search and Replace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Responding to A Free Offer to Help Excel Users Improve Your Job Prospects, a reader sent me a workbook this morning. I&#8217;m glad he sent it, even though it contains no dashboards. This is because it illustrates many bad practices I&#8217;ve seen in Excel reports over the years.
I&#8217;ll call my visitor Randy.
Assuming that he created [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/187/how-to-format-dates-in-x-axes-of-mini-charts-in-excel-reports.html#comments</comments>
		<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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