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		<title>COUNTIFS, not FREQUENCY, Is a Better Choice for Calculating Frequency Distribution Tables to be Used for Charting Histograms</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1311/countifs-not-frequency-is-a-better-choice-for-calculating-frequency-distribution-tables-to-be-used-for-charting-histograms.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spreadsheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working With Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worksheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COUNTIFS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FREQUENCY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Histograms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KydWeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because the Texas and California governors have been bickering over the Texan&#8217;s attempt to poach California employers, I got curious about the distribution of the unemployment rates in the two states. So I used my KydWeb add-in to grab the data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Then I summarize the data and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use SUMPRODUCT in an Excel Table to Filter Any Number of Items</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1308/use-sumproduct-in-an-excel-table-to-filter-any-number-of-items.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spreadsheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working With Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMPRODUCT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tables]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excel 2007 introduced its powerful Tables feature, as illustrated here. Tables allow you to sort and filter your data easily. However, the filter capability has at least two problems. First, you can use a maximum of only two criteria to filter any column. Second, it takes about half a dozen steps each time you change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Useful but Little-Known Windows Shortcuts that Work from Excel</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1241/four-useful-but-little-known-windows-shortcuts-that-work-from-excel.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyboard shortcuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I blogged about my Complete Excel Shortcuts Workbook. So with shortcuts in mind, here are four useful ones that work from Excel in Windows 7&#8230; The first shortcut isn&#8217;t a keyboard shortcut; it&#8217;s a mouse shortcut. In Windows 7, in the bottom-right corner of your monitor, you&#8217;ll see an unlabeled rectangle. As this image illustrates, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Functions You MUST Know to Return Values from Excel Tables and Databases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Dates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Range Names]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spreadsheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worksheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel arrays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Collie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEARCH function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMIFS Function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMPRODUCT Function]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Export to Excel is the 3rd most common button in BI apps…after OK and Cancel.&#8221;—Rob Collie, former member of Microsoft&#8217;s Excel team, and now CTO of PivotStream.com Whether Rob&#8217;s running joke is true or not — and he says that it likely is true — it illustrates a continual challenge: What&#8217;s the best way for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Set Up a Pivot Table as a Spreadsheet Database</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1247/how-to-set-up-a-pivot-table-as-a-spreadsheet-database.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1247/how-to-set-up-a-pivot-table-as-a-spreadsheet-database.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Databases]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PivotTables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Range Names]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COUNT function]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OFFSET function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerPivot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simple tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spreadsheet databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMIFS Function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMPRODUCT Function]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can use a Pivot Table as a database in the same way that you can use Simple Tables or Excel Tables. However, I&#8217;ve never seen a description of how to do it. That’s too bad, because Excel 2010 gave Excel users the ability to use one or more Pivot Tables as a massive and powerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Excel&#8217;s Three Types of Spreadsheet Databases</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1228/introducing-excels-three-types-of-spreadsheet-databases.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1228/introducing-excels-three-types-of-spreadsheet-databases.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GETPIVOTDATA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PivotTables]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exceluser.com/blog/?p=1228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Excel offers three general ways to arrange data in your spreadsheet so you can use it as a database with your worksheet formulas: Simple Tables, which I&#8217;ve used since Excel 2.0. Excel Tables, introduced in Excel 2007. PivotTables with a Tabular Report Layout, introduced in Excel 2010. Database experts likely would be offended by my calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Really Useful Excel Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1218/five-really-useful-excel-keyboard-shortcuts.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1218/five-really-useful-excel-keyboard-shortcuts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spreadsheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worksheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INDEX function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyboard shortcuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MATCH function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFFSET function]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I created my Complete Excel Shortcuts Workbook. It contains more that 250 keyboard shortcuts we can use when the workbook is active. I created the workbook as a reference, because I didn&#8217;t know of any other source that had them all. I&#8217;m fairly certain that this workbook is complete, because thousands of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the Power of Year-Over-Year Performance Charts in Excel</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1186/introducing-the-power-of-year-over-year-performance-charts-in-excel.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1186/introducing-the-power-of-year-over-year-performance-charts-in-excel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel and the Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad-news charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good-news charts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hidden trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyd Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment claims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[year-over-year ratios]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of management reports should be to help readers find and track patterns of performance…quickly and easily. That’s the attraction of charts, of course. But should we always plot the raw data? Or should we ever transform it somehow? To see one type of transformation that&#8217;s often revealing, take a look at these two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Perform Multiple Searches Using One SEARCH Function in Excel</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1182/how-to-perform-multiple-searches-using-one-search-function-in-excel.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1182/how-to-perform-multiple-searches-using-one-search-function-in-excel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spreadsheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worksheet Functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FRB St. Louis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISERR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multi-criteria search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEARCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMPRODUCT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, How to Add Advanced Filter Capabilities to Excel Tables, I explained how to use a long formula within a Table to simplify complex filtering. The formula relies on Excel&#8217;s SEARCH worksheet function, which gives us the power to search for one string within another string. The search is not case sensitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Add Advanced Filter Capabilities to Excel Tables</title>
		<link>http://exceluser.com/blog/1188/how-to-add-advanced-filter-capabilities-to-excel-tables.html</link>
		<comments>http://exceluser.com/blog/1188/how-to-add-advanced-filter-capabilities-to-excel-tables.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AND function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FRB St. Louis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISERR function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEARCH function]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Table Filters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Excel 2007, Microsoft added the powerful Table functionality. One useful feature of Tables is the ability to filter any number of columns. The filter control for each column allows us to search for two criteria. However, when I use these filters I often have at least two problems with them. First, when I explore a [...]]]></description>
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