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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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    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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    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
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    Sounds Great! (But What Is It?)

    CFOs have high hopes for cloud computing, even though they don’t appear to know much about it.Such are the findings from two recent surveys conducted by CFO. Asked about their current use of cloud-computing services, a majority of senior finance executives either have no plans to pursue it in the...

    By Kim Girard • March 1, 2011
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    Outsourcing Matures, Slowly

    In 2007, when European investment firm Skandia began a multiyear push to move away from its paper-based processes and tap the full powers of the Internet, it encountered a problem: the massive project had huge implications for the company’s overall IT infrastructure, including the need to develop...

    By Janet Kersnar • March 1, 2011
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    Sounds Great! (But What Is It?)

    CFOs have high hopes for cloud computing, even though they don’t appear to know much about it.Such are the findings from two recent surveys conducted by CFO. Asked about their current use of cloud-computing services, a majority of senior finance executives either have no plans to pursue it in the...

    By Kim Girard • March 1, 2011
  • Robotic process automation as an innovation improving productivity, reliability and repeatability in systems
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    Outsourcing Matures, Slowly

    In 2007, when European investment firm Skandia began a multiyear push to move away from its paper-based processes and tap the full powers of the Internet, it encountered a problem: the massive project had huge implications for the company’s overall IT infrastructure, including the need to develop...

    By Janet Kersnar • March 1, 2011
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    What KPMG’s Latest Purchase Means

    KPMG’s purchase of EquaTerra, an outsourcing advisory firm, will shrink a cottage industry created over the past decade and expand its ability to help corporate customers close outsourcing deals, according to an analyst who covers the sector.The Big Four accounting firm announced its intention to...

    By Sarah Johnson • Feb. 25, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Color By Numbers

    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.Edward K. wins an autographed copy of Learn Excel 97-2007 From MrExcel for his question: “I am tryi...

    By Bill Jelen • Feb. 24, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Import External Data in 10 Clicks

    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.Brad K. wins an autographed copy of Guerilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel from CFO and MrExc...

    By Bill Jelen • Feb. 16, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Arranging Pivot Charts

    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.Joe Z. wins an autographed copy of Pivot Table Data Crunching for his question: “I have source data...

    By Bill Jelen • Feb. 9, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Cleaning Out Old Records

    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.Jeff M. wins an autographed copy of Guerilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel from CFO and MrExc...

    By Bill Jelen • Feb. 3, 2011
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    Social-Media Frenzy

    The collection of Web capabilities and practices grouped under the rubric of “Social Media” has quickly morphed from a cutting-edge way to foster brand awareness to a mainstream business practice. In fact, given its growing popularity, companies that don’t get their arms around social media may r...

    By • Feb. 1, 2011
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    Social-Media Frenzy

    The collection of Web capabilities and practices grouped under the rubric of “Social Media” has quickly morphed from a cutting-edge way to foster brand awareness to a mainstream business practice. In fact, given its growing popularity, companies that don’t get their arms around social media may r...

    By • Feb. 1, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: The Vertical-Horizontal Flip

    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.Dana A. wins an autographed copy of Learn Excel 97-2007 for this question posed during the recent P...

    By Bill Jelen • Jan. 26, 2011
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    Spreadsheets: Highlighting Formula Cells

    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 Nancy P. wins an autographed copy of Learn Excel From MrExcel from CFO and MrExcel.com for h...

    By Bill Jelen • Jan. 12, 2011
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    Best of 2010: Technology

    Histories of information technology will recall 2010 as the year when cloud computing spilled into the consciousness of nongeeks. CFOs, for their part, got engaged in analyses of which computing workloads could be managed more cost-effectively by converting the capital expense of on-premises hard...

    By CFO Editorial Staff • Jan. 5, 2011