Author: Ken Puls

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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Weird Chart Sizing Observation

I'm not sure if the observation is weird, or the actual chart sizing is. I think this is a bug, but I'm curious if others see similar behavior. This is an Office 2007 thing (at least, I haven't tested it

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Resize Images in Word

I'm working on writing up a course, and it always drives me nuts when the pictures I put in the document are different shapes. Height is fine, but I always want the width to be the same as the document

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Breaking Links in Excel

So during my infatuation with converting my workbook to use IFERROR statements throughout, I suddenly realized that the reports I had to send to head office needed to work in Excel 2003. After a bit of... um... motivational speaking... I

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Why Doesn’t Outlook…?

Or maybe it does and I just don't know yet... I get emails on a regular basis that I need to turn into appointments.  Why isn't there a feature to create a new appointment or task based on an email? 

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