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Shortcut Screencast Contest: Create an in-cell bar graph with Excel

Published: July 26, 2007, 8:00 am

Tags: Clips, Excel, Microsoft Excel, Screencasts, Shortcut Screencast Contest, Spreadsheets, Top, Video Demonstration

Reader Adam screencasts one of our best Microsoft Excel tips ever - how to make an instant, in-cell bar graph. Hit the play button above to see it in action. Nice job, Adam! You've won yourself an autographed copy of Lifehacker the book. Time's running out! Submit your last-minute 'cast to the Shortcut Screencast Contest.

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Microsoft Gets In The Online Apps Games

Published: July 30, 2007, 1:14 pm

Tags: News, Excel, Google, Microsoft, New York Times, Office, Online Applications

internet-based features to Excel and Office that resemble those offered by Google. Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer spoke to the New York Times about the plans and said, We're moving toward a world of software plus services. Ballmer expressed his doubts about Google's confidence that most applications will eventually be housed online. He adds

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Featured Download: Excel Gantt chart template

Published: August 15, 2007, 9:30 am

Tags: Downloads, Excel, Featured Download, Microsoft Office Tip, Project Management, Spreadsheets

Designer David Seah uses Excel to draw up project Gantt charts and offers his spreadsheet template for download. David says: I'm basically just using Excel like graph paper, and there is absolutely no automatic calculation at all. On the other hand, it's probably a lot EASIER to keep up to date, through copying/pasting and inline annotation,

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Walt Mossberg tackles Apple's iWork '08

Published: August 17, 2007, 11:14 am

Tags: Apple, Applications, Excel, Iwork, Iwork 08, Iwork 08, Microsoft Office, Microsoftoffice, Mossberg, Review, Software, Walt Mossberg, Waltmossberg, Word

triple power play of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, though Walt says that iWork '08 is an elegant and sophisticated solution for users looking for something with a little less power -- which should come as no surprise to most. Mossberg's not all doom and gloom though, happily noting that Pages has reigned in its desktop publishing aspect and

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Screenshot Tour: Apple Polishes Spreadsheets With Numbers

Published: August 22, 2007, 1:26 am

Tags: Downloads, Excel, Iwork, Mac Os X, Screenshot Tour, Spreadsheets, Top

The highly-touted Excel compatibility is the only thing that disappointed; we got a formatting incompatibility warning when importing a sheet. To be fair, it wasn't anything that broke calculations, but it might scare off those corporate Excel-loyal types. Check out these plus more features in the screenshots below.

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Excel Tip: Reference Cell Ranges by Label

Published: August 23, 2007, 9:00 am

Tags: Excel, Excel Tip, Microsoft Office, Spreadsheets

you're writing formulas in Excel, you can refer to cell ranges not only by hard-to-read row and column numbers and letters but by label. So instead of totaling a column using =SUM(B2:B5), you can write the formula =SUM('Widgets Cranked'). After I mentioned this is a nice feature in Apple's new spreadsheet application Numbers '08, reader Dustin

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Google's Doc with Google Presentation ,Power point

Published: September 18, 2007, 11:50 am

Tags: Google Power Point, Google Presentation, Google Office, Google Excel Google Word, Google Doc

Advantages & Disadvantages of Google Presentation Google's version of Microsoft's Power point is Google presentation is online now -it is free & now part of Google Doc . But Power point's animation & slide transition effects are absent in Google presentation .The main attraction of Google presentation is its collaborative features

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Excel Tip: Slice and Dice Your Data with AutoFilter

Published: September 21, 2007, 8:30 am

Tags: Excel, Excel Tip, Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheets

with helpful screenshots. Excel AutoFilter Filter Excel Spreadsheets [Productivity Portfolio]

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Don't Believe the Hype: Excel Body Gym

Published: October 5, 2007, 6:45 pm

Tags: Multi Core Flex Excel Body Gym, Stupid Exercise Equipment

Called the Multi-Core-Flex Excel Body Gym, it promises that for only $69.95 "you'll be able to get 6-pack abs while simultaneously getting a back massage." I do believe it will give my back a general, all over kind of massage, but the claim that you can get six-pack abs from using it gives me serious pause. I'm not saying this crazy machine

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Irish Java Technology Conference

Published: November 2, 2007, 11:10 am

Tags: Meetup People, Java, Conference, Events, People, Jobs, Training, Network, Office, Excel, Information Technology

IT, network, office, Excel,

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Prizes to win at the Irish Java Technology Conference

Published: November 5, 2007, 4:08 am

Tags: Java, Conference, Events, Excel, Information Technology, Meetup People, Dublin, Java, Irish Web2 0 News, Web2ireland, People, Ijtc, Jobs, Joelonsoftware, Training

Java, conference, Events, Excel, Information Technology, meetup.people, dublin, /java, Irish Web2.0 News, web2ireland, People, IJTC, jobs, joelonsoftware,

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Office-20database - Detailed spreadsheet with online Office-like apps

Published: November 5, 2007, 5:38 pm

Tags: Web 2 0, Excel, Office

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Irish Java technology Conference 2007

Published: November 6, 2007, 7:11 pm

Tags: Events, Excel, Information Technology, Meetup People, Dublin, Java, Conference, Java, People, Irish Web2 0 News, Jobs, Web2ireland, Training, Ijtc

Events, Excel, Information Technology, meetup.people, dublin, Java, conference, /java, People, Irish Web2.0 News, jobs, web2ireland, Training, IJTC,

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Joel Spolsky at IJTC - Irish Java Technologies Conference

Published: November 8, 2007, 10:13 am