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With the long history of both Excel and Monarch, the challenge for me isn’t so much what to write about, as there’s so much than can be discussed, as much as it is choosing to focus on what it is that is interesting and useful to you.
To that end, I ask that […]

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On the Recommended page, you’ll find links to Stephen Few’s textbooks on visual presentation. With a little extra effort – mostly avoiding Excel’s defaults – you can accomplish many of his teachings with Excel. With a little extra software, you can even mirror his samples (more on that later).
But there are a few additional resources […]

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Over the past week, we’ve been discussing Monarch various functions that you can use in your calculated fields and filters. So far, we’ve covered date functions, the special report functions that return data related to the origin of the data (as opposed to the data within the report), and we even had a quick look […]

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