This is by far the most useful excel tip I have seen in years.

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This is home of the Metadata Repository project (MDR). MDR implements the OMG’s MOF (Meta Object Facility) standard based metadata repository and itegrates it into the NetBeans Tools Platform.

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So, you’ve been hearing about XMI and would like to base your company’s metadata practice on open standards. But the entrance price of the major MOF-compliant repositories is too steep? And you have access to a talented Java software engineer? Read on…

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SparkMaker is an add-in for Microsoft® Office that creates sparklines (mini-graphs) to visualize numerical data in dashboards, spreadsheets, reports and presentations created with Excel®, Word® and PowerPoint®. SparkMaker 4 uses a new “minimized-click

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MicroCharts, winner of the BI Network’s 2006 Data Visualization Competition, enhances Excel, OLAP and standard reporting with powerful, compact visualizations such as sparklines, bullet graphs and other in-cell charts.

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We received an enthusiastic response to our post on in-cell bar graphs in Excel. The community quickly explored every edge case. I want to highlight some of the great ideas raised.

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