Add Class to Your Reports with Excel Drawing Objects
In my (out of print) book,Dashboard Reporting With Excel, I recommended that you "steal" ideas for Excel reports from business magazines. I recently had another...
How to Add Background Images in Excel
"How can I place a background image and still use the cells that the image covers?" -- Sally M.
Sally,
You can do this, but possibly...
Ideas about Using Excel’s Linked-Picture (Camera) Tool
Of all the Excel features that users don’t use very often, Excel's Linked Picture tool probably is the most powerful. This tool, known in...
Add Some Style to Your Tables in Excel Reports
Excel tables in reports have always been difficult for me to format professionally. So every once in a while, I experiment with them.
The two...
Use Excel’s Drawing Tools to Create Your Own Cartoons
More than ten years ago, I went on a family trip. I didn't take my laptop, because my wife told me to leave the...
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
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