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Excel Hints & Tips – Florence Nightingale & Excel
What on earth has Florence Nightingale got to do with Excel? Well believe it or not she invented the pie chart, if you don’t believe us go Google it. Pie charts are great! They can be big, bold and...
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Excel Hints & Tips – Timeline
Timeline – a very nice Excel 2013 feature We all like a good pivot table don’t we? But to get the full range of summary option we sometimes need to add more than we’d like. For instance, in my...
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Excel Hints & Tips – More Pivot Perfection
Get your pivot table to put your filtered data on different sheets I think we’ve all declared our love of pivot tables haven’t we? If you’re still undecided let us offer you another inducement. In the...
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Excel Hints & Tips – The OFFSET Function
How do I set my spread-sheet to automatically extract this month’s figure from the accounts? Let us assume the spread-sheet uses the standard accounts layout of figures for each month, so 12 columns...
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Excel Hints & Tips – Calculations on a filtered list
Auto filter is a wonderful thing isn’t it? With a few clicks of the mouse little dropdowns appear letting you filter your data in a myriad different ways. But what if you want to find out the total or...
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Assumptions, Guesses and Pivot Tables: From Data to Discovery
How well do you know your business? Do you know how well you’re doing? What your costs are? How happy your customers are? How happy your staff are? Most of us will say “YES” to most or all of those...
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Choosing the right chart in Excel
Why are the right charts in Excel so important? Unless you have a mind like Nobel laureate John Nash, being presented with tables of figures will provide little enlightenment. If you’re less familiar...
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I’m sure we all know how important it is to invest in training and developing your people. Without regular investment, you’ll not be realising maximum value from your most expensive asset. It also goes...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Humongous Excel File
My colleague Rachael sent me an interesting email today. She had tried to send one of our usually svelte Excel exercise files to a trainer, only to find that the file had grown from a perfectly...
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