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Create Sparklines in Excel 2010

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GUEST BLOGGER: Steve Chase, Applications Instructor. MOS, MCT

 

Sparklines are a cool, new charting feature in Excel 2010. Basically they are charts contained within a single cell range.

There are three types of sparklines (line, column, and win/loss).  Make sure that you have a contiguous series of numerical [...]

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Update Your Windows Forms Application

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GUEST BLOGGER: Mark Rosenberg, 5 time MVP. MCP, MCTS, MCPD, MCT, STEP

For my first entry I would like to talk about ClickOnce.  It is very cool technology allowing you to automatically update your Windows Forms application.  One popular feature is that you can add your own prerequisite to the application.  There is even [...]

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Get the Cloud Story Straight

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You’ve Heard About The Cloud. Now Get The Cloud Story Straight.

Managing and Securing your PCs from the Cloud with Windows Intune   Tuesday, January 17  10:00AM Pacific REGISTER NOW Learn how you can manage updates, remove viruses, deploy software, and support your Windows PCs all from a web browser with no on-premise servers using Windows Intune. [...]

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Let [Ctrl]Z become you best friend in Outlook

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Pressing [Ctrl]Z reverses many actions in Outlook. For example, if you move a message to a different folder, delete a message, or type a sentence you don’t want to include in an email, just press [Ctrl]Z to undo the action. You must press [Ctrl]Z, however, before performing any other action. This doesn’t work [...]

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Link to another presentation and then return to your main presentation

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For greater flexibility when you present, you can link to other presentations. The flexibility comes about because you can decide on the fly whether to use the links. If you have extra time or a member of the audience asks a relevant question, you click on a presentation’s link to go to the presentation [...]

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Scroll through your documents hands-free

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If you often have to use your mouse or keyboard to scroll though long documents looking for one particular section, then you know how tedious it can be to continuously move your document’s scroll bar up and down, or to page up and down using the keyboard’s arrow keys. However, if you have a [...]

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Use the Visual Studio .NET Toolbox to add

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If you need to add <div> elements to your ASP.NET Web pages, Visual Studio .NET makes it easy for you to do so on your ASPX design page. Simply open the VS .NET Toolbox and expand the HTML menu. Then, you can either select Grid Layout Panel or Flow Layout Panel from the list [...]

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Be sure all files are available during your PowerPoint presentation

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A problem many presenters bump into involves PowerPoint’s access to linked resources, and the usual culprits for this problem are audio and video files. Only WAV files are embedded in a presentation, so if you use other formats, make sure they are available to PowerPoint on the computer being used for the presentation. Other [...]

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Edit a cell’s text as soon as you switch worksheets

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I can understand this frustration. Excel remembers which cell was active when you were last working in a worksheet, and so when you return, the same cell is active. However, the cell isn’t ready for immediate editing. You need to either type all new data in the cell, or double-click on it to activate [...]

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Pinpoint your 3-D chart’s data points with drop lines

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Although Excel’s 3-D charts do a pretty good job of simulating 3-D objects on a 2-D screen, it can sometimes be difficult to visually line up a data point with its corresponding position on the chart’s category axis. This is especially true when working with area or line charts. The task can be even [...]

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