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    Spreadsheets: Cross Referencing Between Worksheets

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Reader Walter J. wins a copy of the new third edition of Learn Excel 2007-2010 from MrExcel for his...

    By Bill Jelen • July 14, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Suppressing Cells in a Pivot Table

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Victoria C. wins a copy of Pivot Table Data Crunching for her question, “In pivot tables, how do I ...

    By Bill Jelen • July 7, 2011
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    The CFO Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial intelligence’s impact on the office of the CFO continues to evolve, and finance chiefs must be aware of the opportunities it will create for growth. 

    By CFO.com staff
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    Cybergeddon: Mark Russinovich’s “Zero Day”

    In cybersecurity circles, Mark Russinovich, the top technical gun in Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform group, is a pretty famous guy. In 2005 he discovered a program that Sony deployed secretly to prevent users from copying its CDs. Unfortunately, the program contained a vulnerability that...

    By David Rosenbaum • July 6, 2011
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    Cybergeddon: Mark Russinovich’s “Zero Day”

    In cybersecurity circles, Mark Russinovich, the top technical gun in Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform group, is a pretty famous guy. In 2005 he discovered a program that Sony deployed secretly to prevent users from copying its CDs. Unfortunately, the program contained a vulnerability that...

    By David Rosenbaum • July 6, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Forecasting Seasonal Data with Excel

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.During my Forecasting and Planning Webcast on June 24, I was demonstrating how to use straight-line...

    By Bill Jelen • June 29, 2011
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    CFO vs. CIO: Endgame in the Cloud

    A May survey of 344 senior financial executives revealed that in 45% of organizations, the CFO “makes or leads IT investment strategy.” According to the study, by Gartner and Financial Executives International, this represents a trend toward growing CFO IT leadership — driven, perhaps, by the fac...

    By David Rosenbaum • June 28, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Eliminate the Pivot Table Blank Row Snag

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Reader Joe S. wins a copy of Pivot Table Data Crunching for this week’s question: “I use pivot tabl...

    By Bill Jelen • June 22, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: All about Zoom

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Reader Tom H. wins a copy of Slaying Excel Dragons for his question, “Is there a way to change the ...

    By Bill Jelen • June 15, 2011
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    The Price Is (More) Right

    After several years of cutting costs to the bone, many companies are reacting to today’s soaring energy and commodity prices with trepidation: they would like to raise prices to maintain margins, but aren’t sure when — or if — they can successfully pass along increased costs to customers.That may...

    By Russ Banham • June 1, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Split Columns at Each Space

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Grace B. wins a copy of Learn Excel 97-2007 from CFO and MrExcel for her question: “Our accounting ...

    By Bill Jelen • June 1, 2011
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    Offshore Outsourcing: For Smaller Companies, Too

    When music-subscription service Rhapsody spun out of former joint-venture parents RealNetworks and MTV Networks early last year, vice president of finance Michael McGinn faced a major challenge: building a finance team from scratch to support a business that was well under way. “Things needed to ...

    By Alix Stuart • May 25, 2011
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    Offshore Outsourcing: For Smaller Companies, Too

    When music-subscription service Rhapsody spun out of former joint-venture parents RealNetworks and MTV Networks early last year, vice president of finance Michael McGinn faced a major challenge: building a finance team from scratch to support a business that was well under way. “Things needed to ...

    By Alix Stuart • May 25, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Set Up a Subtotal-Filter Combo in a Flash

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Reader Alan B. wins an autographed copy of Learn Excel 97-2007 from CFO.com and MrExcel for his sug...

    By Bill Jelen • May 25, 2011
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    Getting Off the Paper Trail

    Since the dawning of digitization, the paperless office has been a holy grail, glimpsed from afar. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid ourselves of all that clutter while saving money and trees? One sometimes imagines the grail is within reach. For example, according to the American Forest & Paper Ass...

    By David Rosenbaum • May 17, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: More than One Way to Skin a VLOOKUP

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.In last week’s column, Greg asked about a multiconditional wizard that would generate something sim...

    By Bill Jelen • May 11, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Where’s the Formula Writer?

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Reader Greg T. wins a copy of Guerilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel for his question: “I am ...

    By Bill Jelen • May 4, 2011
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    A Talent for Talent

    Mario Ellis is ready for a change. As director of compensation and HR systems for the University of Chicago Medical Center, which employs 6,300 people, Ellis wants more flexibility than his ERP-based goal-setting and performance-evaluation system currently provides. He envisions replacing it with...

    By Kim Girard • May 1, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Rank Items in a Pivot Table

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Gothard F. wins an autographed copy of Pivot Table Data Crunching for his question: “I would like t...

    By Bill Jelen • April 7, 2011
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    Can Cloud Computing Clear the Air?

    Science-fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” For many years that dictum had a corporate manifestation, with the IT function a seeming source of magic, officiated by a priest-class of techno-wizards who uttered ...

    By David Rosenbaum • April 1, 2011
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    A New Way to Empower Mobile Workers

    The most sophisticated piece of software at many biotech firms is an application that helps scientists create new drugs and treatments. Since this kind of “drug discovery” program models complex chemical structures with 3-D graphics, it can take more than a year to develop internally, or, if purc...

    By Evan I. Schwartz • April 1, 2011
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    Can Cloud Computing Clear the Air?

    Science-fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” For many years that dictum had a corporate manifestation, with the IT function a seeming source of magic, officiated by a priest-class of techno-wizards who uttered ...

    By David Rosenbaum • April 1, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Lining Up Column Widths

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Contributing editor Bill Jelen is still on spring break down in sunny Florida, but he once again ha...

    By Bill Jelen • March 30, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Chart Axis Macro – The Movie

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Contributing editor Bill Jelen has taken his talents to South Beach for some rest and relaxation, b...

    By Bill Jelen • March 24, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Open to Today’s Date

    Reader David H. wins a copy of Office VBA Macros You Can Use Today for submitting this question: “I have a column which has each day of the month in it (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.). This is what I’d like Excel to do: when I open the spreadsheet, I want to go to the cell that has today’s day of the mo...

    By Bill Jelen • March 16, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Copy Income from 100 Worksheets

    Editor’s Note: To read more about spreadsheets, share a tip with other readers, or suggest a topic for Bill Jelen to cover in an upcoming column, click here to visit CFO.com’s Spreadsheet Tips Page.Shrikant S. wins an e-book of Learn Excel 97-2007 From MrExcel from CFO and MrExcel for his questio...

    By Bill Jelen • March 2, 2011