Author: Ken Puls

VBA IDE vs VS2008 IDE

On Friday night, I began reading my way through PED 2nd Edition. After something weird happened with Excel, (I think because I have Excel 2003 and 2007 installed,) I got the bright idea to create a very simple Windows Forms

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Breaking Text to Two Lines

I was working on my budget package today, and decided that I wanted to break the text so that it showed on two lines. For many novice users this means that they put one or two words in one cell,

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Turn Data on its Ear

I recently taught a course and, while this wasn't actually covered in the course content, we did discuss it. I've found that every time I demonstrate this technique, it gets some "oohs" and "aahs", so I figured that I'd share

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Actual Charts vs Images

In a blog post last week, I was looking at the image formats to use when I snapped a picture of a chart. I'm kind of glad that Jon agreed with my assessment on EMF being the best image format

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Best Picture Format for Scaled Charts?

*Note: The charts in this post are based on sample data and do not reflect any real financial performance. In setting up my first dashboard, I took a page out of Charley Kyd's book and placed a bunch of little graphs

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