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	<title>Notes from the Help Desk... &#187; Excel</title>
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		<title>Using Range.Offset in Excel VBA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To select a cell in Excel, you have two basic methods: RANGE and CELLS: Range ("A1").Select Range("RangeName").Select Cells(3, 4).Select 'Selects Row 3, Column 4, i.e. cell D3 Range works well for hard-coded cells. Cells works best with calculated cells, especially when you couple it  with a loop: For i = 1 to 10      Cells(i, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add Slicers to Pivot Tables in Excel 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slicers are a new feature in Excel 2010 that let you add a snapshot view of a pivot table to a worksheet.  Slicers are like visual filters.  You may want to use a slicer when you only need to display a section of a pivot table. For example, the pivot table below shows conference registrations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparklines in Excel 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sparklines are miniature graphs that fit inside single worksheet cells.  They can show you trends or changes that may not be easily noticed by viewing the values in the spreadsheet. Although Sparklines can be located in any cell, they are most effective when placed next to the data to which they refer. Note that Sparklines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel VBA – Constants and Cell References</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the techniques I have found very useful in writing Excel VBA code is to make the cell, row, and column references public constants rather than hard coding them. Take a reference to a row and column:    cells(4,27).value If row 4 is the first data row and column 27 is the last column [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiding the #DIV/0! Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are working with a formula that may refer to a blank cell or otherwise generate an error message, you can use a combination of the IF-THEN-ELSE and the ISERROR function to handle the #DIV/0! or other error messages that may appear. The IF-THEN-ELSE has 3 parts: the condition, the TRUE condition, the FALSE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supercharged Copying and Pasting – Using the Extend Box in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2006/02/supercharged-copying-and-pasting-using-the-extend-box-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2006/02/supercharged-copying-and-pasting-using-the-extend-box-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you probably know about the Extend box in Excel, even if you don&#8217;t know its name. The Extend box is the little square at the bottom right corner of the current cell or range. When you put your cursor on it, the cursor changes to a small black cross and the fun begins. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locking Part of an Excel Spreadsheet</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2005/11/locking-part-of-an-excel-spreadsheet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a situation that often comes up in our Excel classes: &#8220;I need to add data to my spreadsheet, but I want to lock the cells that contain formulas so they don&#8217;t get overwritten.&#8221; It&#8217;s easy to Protect an entire spreadsheet from the Tools &#124; Protection &#124; Protect Sheet&#8230; menu item. However, this option [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lengthen Your Recently Used Files List in Word and Excel 2003</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2005/11/lengthen-recently-used-files-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By default, Word and Excel list the last four files you opened at the bottom of the File menu. You can increase the number of files on this list to nine by changing a program setting. Here&#8217;s how: Select Tools &#124; Options. Click the General tab. Change the number in the Recently used file list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Freezing” Rows and Columns in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2005/10/freezing-rows-and-columns-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2005/10/freezing-rows-and-columns-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you are editing a large spreadsheet, you may want to lock the row or column headings into place so that they don&#8217;t scroll when you scroll the other cells in the worksheet. Excel calls this freezing panes. You can freeze any number of rows at the top of the screen or any number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel Quiz Question</title>
		<link>http://www.ptraining.com/blog/2005/10/excel-quiz-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mannie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2 + 3 * 4 = Which is the correct answer? a.) 24 b.) 20 c.) 14 If you were paying attention in junior high school math class, you know about the Order of Operations, which dictates that formulas evaluate multiplication and division before addition and subtraction. Therefore, Excel reads this formula as 2 + [...]]]></description>
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