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        <title><![CDATA[Before playing, why not consult the data and see if you know what it means?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;For those of us who aren't numbers people to start with, pouring over a black-and-white grid&quot;- Those of us who are numbers people have probably also learnt how to spell poringI would find this exercise perhaps more persuasive if the actual tables were better organized:  for instance no.7 has a list of items which appear to be in  no particular order, not even alphabetical, and the figures associated with them show no great pattern. Had you thought of ordering the items by their total number or by the outstanding number to be checked (which appears to be the principal point you want to make, judging by the coloured bars) ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:41:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Putting sums (and other &quot;answers&quot;) at the top]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You are correct that you need to be careful of the order of the calculations and the results of calculations usually need to be at the bottom or right.   However, you could have a block at the top referencing the results, using something like  =G19]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:29:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re: RE: 10 ways to format Excel data so that people can actually understand]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree totally :-))It usuaully requires a little more organisation to get this right as Autosum does not work &quot;downwards&quot; or &quot;right-to-left&quot;. Freezing panes to keep totals and  headings visible at all times is essential too.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DBlayney]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:32:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Floating headers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If your spreadsheet is very large, it is helpful to its users if the headers remain at the top of the screen when scrolling down through it.I have done this with my data archive spreadsheet at work, which now contains more than 2000 rows.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:56:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: 10 ways to format Excel data so that people can actually understand it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the hints. I agree that it is indeed worthwhile to care a little extra for the readers of your worksheets - at least when there are more than a handful of intended readers.I'd like to add a personal favorite: Do keep the sums (and averages etc) to the left and the top, so that your readers don't have to scroll endlessly to find the &quot;answers&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ThomasBP]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:51:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks Katherine - Good Ideas]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'd like to think I do most of those things, like colourfull borders etc ...  But it all takes time - time that you might get criticised as 'wasting' when other look at your spreadsheet.   I do use borders but not much else - avoiding confrontation with colleagues...Thanks for the articleGreg]]></description>
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