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In this week’s webinar you’ll learn how to make a massive sheet of numbers something that can tell a story with just a few clicks. We’ll also show you a better what to show data in a presentation. We start our Office 15-Minute Webinar at 9:15 am Pacific Time, with a Q&A to follow...
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Guest blogger Emily Warn is a writer and confirmed Excel geek. In this post, she demonstrates how to use the new Quick Analysis feature in Excel 2013 to create a spreadsheet with book sales numbers that can be sorted by name and number in order to make data tell a story by presenting it visually. .....
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That got us thinking - what would it have been like if Excel had been around back then? How might things have been different? Then we thought - what better moment in time to illustrate the point than the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I mean, it literally is Rocket Science. So, we decided to create a...
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In early May, we told you about the new video series Excel Skills Builder in our post " Take the first step in growing your Excel skills ." In that post, we announced the launch of lesson 1. Well, we've finally finished the rest of the lessons, and wanted to share this great resource with...
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In post #8 in the Ten Days of Office series, we're celebrating the one-year anniversary of the release of Office 2010 by providing you with tips and tricks to get the most from your Office experience. In today's economy, smart money management is a necessary skill. Whether managing the family...
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Sparkline charts are great, but there may be times they need a little visual massaging to maximize their usefulness. Consider this scenario: You have a system for which you want to track downtime over the course of a year and (fortunately) it had downtime events in only four of twelve months. Here's...
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Today’s blog post is brought to you by Judi Hurlock, who writes Excel online training for Office.com. I write free training courses for Office.com. My job is to learn new features, and the tried and true, and to pass that learning on to you. Recently I heard about a new feature in Excel...
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This blog post is brought to you by Karen Cheng a Program Manager on the Excel team. In today's post, we'll show you how the arcade game Tower Defense was created in an Excel spreadsheet (see a video of the game being played here ). In this game, creeps move toward...
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In this blog post I’ll walk through one more interesting way you can use sparklines in Excel 2010. In the above example we have the sales for each book category and for each store. While you can’t see the exact numbers in this view, you can get the feel for which sections sell well at the different stores...
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In this blog post I’ll walk through some of the ways you can use sparklines in Excel 2010 using sample sparklines from the book store demo file: In the above example we have the data for the employee sign-up contest, this is a contest where employees try to get customers to sign-up for a bookstore club...