A Question About Microsoft Excel...?
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I'm not 100% sure what you want, but try this.\n\nMake a bar graph, as you normally would (i.e. select your data, click 'Insert>Chart...')\n\nWhen your bar graph is on the screen right click one of the bars. Select 'Format Data Series...'\n\nSelect the 'Patterns' tab if it isn't already selected. You should see a button called 'Fill Effects...'. Click that.\n\nSelect the Tab called 'Picture', and click the 'Select Picture' Button.\n\nChoose a photo that you want to have for your bar, and click OK.\n\nThen you choose whether to stretch your picture, or stack them, etc. Play around with this part till you are happy with your result.\n\nHope this is what you need!\n\nDean
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A fantastic place to look for excel answers is Google groups.\n\nFor programming you can follow this link:\n\nhttp://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.programming\n\n\nYou can ask any question and within minutes to a couple hours your question will be answered.  If you have other questions on Excel just search for google groups excel and get tons of answers there on anything you EVER wanted to know about excel.  I had a problem I could not solve and asked my question. It was pretty complicated and withing 15 minutes I had my answer!!! I love that place for excel questions and answers!\n\nI guarantee you will be happy with the results
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Excel's Biggest attribute... is to CREATE and ORGANIZE data for reporting.\n\nMy EXCEL REPORTS are "DA-BOMB"... because you can reformat, shade, color... and take the data and make it not only efficiently arranged... but ATTRACTIVE as well.\n\nYou can change sizes, and fonts, center, merge cells and create boxes.  All the things you need to make a sharp report.   \n\nThe professionalism of your report is ONLY BOUND by your imagination... not so much EXCEL.\n\n\nGood luck
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I have used Excel since 1992 for my jobs for various reasons. Mainly financial reports but I also hate Word so much that I have written whole manuals using Excel.
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If you're talking about Excel from Microsoft, heres a couple pointers\n\n1) every formula starts with an equals sign '='\n2) there are countless formulas you can use, your best bet would be to click on the '=' in the upper left of the window and a box will pop up to help you.
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Microsoft do have a Spreadsheet wizard. I have used it to get me going and it is brilliant. For further info go to www.microsoft.com
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I got this from http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/Excel/excel.html\n\nMicrosoft Excel is a member of the spreadsheet family of software. Spreadsheet software is used to store information in columns and rows which can then be organized and/or processed. Spreadsheets are designed to work well with numbers but often include text. Sometimes text in a spreadsheet is called a label, because it is labeling columns and rows of numbers. Numbers are called values sometimes, and can include numbers for counts or measurements, dates, times, and calculations from numbers. Spreadsheets can help organize information, like alphabetizing a list of names or other text or reordering records according to a numeric field. However, spreadsheets are more often used for calculating, such as totaling a column of numbers or generating a more sophisticated formula to calculate some statistical measure on a list of numbers. \nSpreadsheets and databases are in competition and have similar features. Yet the way they work in the background is different. When you work in a spreadsheet, you view the data you are entering as a section. In a database, you only see the data you are entering--you have to request a report or different display to see more of the information. Other differences are: (1) databases are more often used for applications with long textual entries, (2) very large applications (thousands of entries) are more often handled in databases; and (3) spreadsheets are easier to learn to use and get calculations from than a database program. This latter reason is why many researchers and students prefer spreadsheets for keeping track of their data over databases.\n\nIt is impossible to give a complete listing of applications that can be done in spreadsheets, but they include budgeting displays, checkbook registers, enrollment records, inventories, coded surveys, field and laboratory research data, and financial and accounting applications.\n\nThe capacities of Excel are as follows. You can have 256 columns of information. You can have up to 16,384 rows. That comes out to over 4,194,000,000 cells of information and that's only on the first sheet!!! You can have 16 sheets of information in one workbook, and the number of sheets can be increased, if needed. Excel refers to each file as a workbook, because there can be multiple sheets (pages) in one file.
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http://www.officerecovery.com/excel/\n\nTry here if the help in Excel doesn't help.\n\nRegards\n\nRob
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How about this:\n\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;285337&spid=2512&sid=1292\nhttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051985111033.aspx\nhttp://asp2.wlv.ac.uk/its/website/selfhelp/help/excel/MainDifferencesExcel2000andExcel2003.asp
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Do you have Excel, if you do, then Excel can do that.  I think the formulas are self explanatory but if it isn't obvious to you, a Google search should turn up on how to do this in Excel.
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There is new software out called Open Office and it works a lot like excel, I think they are interchangable. It is free and it has something like word too.\nhttp://www.openoffice.org/\nGive it a try and see what you think...
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Excel... MS Office templates online
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1) Open Office v2.x\nhttp://www.openoffice.org/\n\n2) http://www.e-press.com/home.asp \nLook for the free version; The software recently changed so it might not be free anymore...doesn't hurt to check it :)\n\n3) 602 Suite i still have in my URL links too.  See if there is still a free version for that :)\nhttp://www.software602.com/products/pcs/\n\nThere are some individual programs out there that mimic or can open Word, or Excel, but I would just go for the Suite(s).\n\nHave fun!
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Actually when you're in Excel you can add a Visual Basic line that makes a SQL query that selects one random name. I don't know the particulars, but I know it's really really easy and it's literally one line of code or two.\nYou could also have two excel files, and one of them acts as a "filter" of sorts, by bringing "external data" from the second one and filtering with the SQL statement.
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In excel all the cells are numbered - A1, A2, A3 as you go down the page or A1, B1, C1 etc as you go across the page.\n\nIf you have a list of numbers in cells A1 to A10 for example then to add them together you would enter =(sum A1:A10) in a different cell (lets say A11).  The result that was displayed in A11 would be the sum of the numbers in cells A1 to A10.  Note that only numbers can be added so if one of your cells contained an unrecognized format (e.g. a date or text) then it wouldn't be included in the calculations.\n\nYou can add up blocks of cells simply by changing the range.  If you look at your Excel spreadsheet and imagine date in each of the first 4 rows of the first 4 columns then the formula to total up these 16 cells would be =(sum a1:d4).\n\nYou can also use the method described above by clicking the cells you want included in the total - particulalrly useful if the values to be added are scattered across different rows and columns.\n\n------------------------------------\n\nAs regards inserting a page number you need to click on File > Page Set Up > Header / Footer and then either Custom Header or Custom Footer depending if you want the page number at the top of bottom of the page.\n\nDecide whether you want the page number on the left, center or right of the page by positioning your mouse pointer in the corresponding box and then click on the second of the 2 icons - it has a symbol like this on it... #\n\nYou can add text before and after the page number so that your sheets could, for example, read 'Page 1 of 7' 'Page 2 of 7' etc.
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I've uploaded a simple spreadsheet to the link below.  Anything else and you should probably find someone in the office who knows Excel.
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download OpenOffice. It is free and compatible with xls files.