http://ExcelWithMonarch.com Stop working for your data. Make your data work for you. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:11:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I always found Batman to be the cleverest of the famous super heroes. He always had the coolest gadgets, had designed them himself, and always had them at the ready. Batman doesn't have to be the only one building cool and useful tools. One of the best ways for you to ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/functions/batman-would-love-monarch Levi’s is getting hit hard financially as they struggle to implement a large new ERP system. It sounds like the system that they’re trying implement will likely have its own challenges once installed, as it offers literally thousands of canned reports. Make the most of what you have. Stop working for your ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/blue-jean-blues I need your help. 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 ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/audience-participation-day 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 ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/three-ways-to-improve-your-visual-analysis-toolkit 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 ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/functions/monarchs-conversion-functions Over the last couple of posts, we've examined some of Monarch functions. Since we're on a bit of a roll, let's carry on with the topic. Today we'll look at a special category of functions, known as, well, special functions. There aren't too many, so this might be pretty quick. If() Just about ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/functions/monarchs-special-functions Last week we touched on a couple of useful conversion functions that are available to us in Monarch. Today we'll continue looking at functions; this time focusing on one of the smaller function categories, that of the "report" functions. Report functions are those which give us data related to the ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/functions/exploring-monarchs-report-functions Yesterday I received a message from a reader asking about how she could resolve a challenge with extracting dates from her report. The problem was that the date in the report appeared in the form of 01-Oct-07, and she wanted 10-01-2007. She'd been trying to use, correctly, the CtoD function, but ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/functions/conquering-date-problems-in-monarch A while ago you discovered Monarch, and you worked hard to learn how to model your data sources to easily extract the data you need and add value to that data. Your models seem to be working very well. You use your models regularly, maybe weekly or even daily, so ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/monarch-batch-file-generator I have a whole new appreciation for those who develop software professionally. My little utility program began its life as such a simple idea. Then I started working on it (even before I launched this blog), and a little later shared it with a few fellow users who provided some good ... http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/simplify-the-complex