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		<title>Make Holiday Shopping Simple With Our Gift-Planning Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to cut down on holiday stress is proper planning. Our gift-planning template makes it simple to plan, track and budget for your holiday purchases.
(Click the image above for a closer look.)
Why keep a meticulous holiday shopping list? Among the many reasons, I&#8217;ll share the reason I started keeping one and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan Your Retirement With Excel&#8217;s Goal Seek Function</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excel journeyman know you can plug in numbers and get formula results from a spreadsheet. Lesser known, however, is the ability to figure out what numbers are need to get a certain result, which works perfectly for retirement planning.
&#8220;Chief Excel Officer&#8221; Chandoo runs down how to use Excel&#8217;s Goal Seek feature to create a kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculating The Week Number In Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just past June 30, so it must be Week 26 of the year, right? The answer turns out to be &#8220;maybe&#8221;, especially if you&#8217;re running Excel.
Excel has a WEEKNUM function for calculating the week number for a given date, but the results it gives depend on whether you consider that the week starts on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Time With Excel&#8217;s Double-Click Tricks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The How-To Geek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have to deal with boring spreadsheets on a daily basis, every tiny little trick that saves you time is worth it&#8212;and the Pointy Haired Dilbert blog runs down a whole list of useful tricks.
The list includes a bunch of very useful tips&#8212;for instance: if you want to resize a number of columns at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Office 2007 Mapping Workbooks Show Where Everything Went</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/04/office-2007-mapping-workbooks-show-where-everything-went/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confused by Office 2007&#8217;s Ribbon? Some free spreadsheet guides might help you untangle the mess.
The Ribbon interface introduced in Office 2007 &#8212; and now sprinkled somewhat randomly through Windows 7 as well &#8212;  is often a love-it-or-hate-it affair. It might well be a more logical arrangement for newbies, but for experienced users of earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibit Transforms Your Spreadsheet Into An Interactive Web Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Trapani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turn a boring old spreadsheet into an interactive web-based map, timeline, or table with some simple HTML using the free, open source Exhibit project.
Exhibit takes data sets up to about 500 rows, plots locations on a Google Map, dates on an interactive timeline, and displays images and links in a tabular or thumbnail view. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing Between Functions And Pivot Tables In Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/03/choosing_between_functions_and_pivot_tables_in_excel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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Excel can perform very complicated analyses on data, but often the trickiest part of the exercise is deciding what approach will get you the results most efficiently. Microsoft&#8217;s Excel blog offers a useful summary of the pros and cons of two common data analysis approaches: building formulas or using the pivot table function. The author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Produce Better-Looking Charts In Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/03/produce_better-looking_charts_in_excel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/03/produce_better-looking_charts_in_excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Producing a chart in Excel in Office 2007 doesn&#8217;t require much more than selecting a suitable set of numbers and clicking on the appropriate chart icon (on the Insert tab if you&#8217;re ribbon-phobic). However, making that chart look presentable can be a bit more work. On the official Excel blog, developer Robin Wakefield discusses some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Spreadsheets Can Validate Data</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/02/google_spreadsheets_can_validate_data-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/02/google_spreadsheets_can_validate_data-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re sharing or collaborating on a Google Spreadshet, you can now set columns to validate data types. Cells can enforce certain data types, require valid URLs or mandatory text, for example. [via Google Blogoscoped]


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		<title>Speed Up Excel Files By Removing Hidden Objects</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/02/speed_up_excel_files_by_removing_hidden_objects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even on modern PCs, large spreadsheets can sometimes seem to run at the speed of sludge. The Microsoft Excel blog runs through how to deal with one common reason for this problem: hidden objects in the spreadsheet introduced via indiscriminate cutting and pasting. Check the post for details on how to hunt down and remove [...]]]></description>
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