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Excel (version 2016 onwards) includes a Forecast Sheet tool that lets you predict future trends based on existing data. To use it, first select your data – in this example, we’ve selected data showing club merchandise sales over a period of a couple

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The way Numbers thinks about a spreadsheet is a bit different from the likes of Excel, and makes structuring it more like looking at page of paper. A blank document in Excel is an endless grid of cells into which you can type numbers, formulae and te

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Most people view Microsoft’s Excel as a simple “spreadsheet program” that’s rapidly being eclipsed by free web-based apps that can run on any cheap laptop. Well, think again. Modern-day Excel is an advanced analytics tool that can push today’s fastes

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As well as being jolly, Christmas ’tis the season of tight print deadlines. They’re especially brutal this year, so this is a three-week issue, giving you a bit more time to digest our tips and advice, along with the usual piles of mince pies and tin

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Charts can help you visualise data, but they also take up room on your spreadsheet. Both Excel and Calc let you use ‘data bars’ to visualise data within the relevant cell, taking up less space. In our example, we want to see how fundraising for our l

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WHEN IT COMES to spreadsheets and data–crunching applications, the Mac is still relatively poorly served. If you don’t want to use Microsoft’s behemoth Excel (an application that began life on the Mac a full two years before the first Windows version

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When it comes to spreadsheets and data-crunching applications, the Mac is still relatively poorly served. If you don’t want to use Microsoft’s behemoth Excel (an application that began life on the Mac a full two years before the first Windows version

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While most freeware is satisfyingly small compared to often hard drive-busting commercial software (particularly sample libraries), your precious space can soon start to shrink when you start downloading in bulk. So, it’s always best to keep your fil

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IT WILL TAKE 40 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to use VLOOKUP and tick boxes to auto-generate a summary sheet YOU’LL NEED iOS 12 or higher and Numbers installed and updated Summary sheets are commonly used to pull together information. In this example, w

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MICROSOFT WORD & EXCEL Regular Wikipedia users should consider installing an Office add-in that adds content to your your documents and spreadsheets. First, open Word or Excel, then click the Insert menu, followed by ‘Get Add-ins’. In the screen that

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There may be times when you need to count the number of empty cells in a spreadsheet. You can do this in LibreOffice Calc and Microsoft Excel using the ‘COUNTBLANK(range)’ function. First, click the cell in which you want the answer to appear (we’ve

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What you need: Windows 7, 8.1 or 10; Excel 2010 onwards Time required: 20 minutes A dashboard is a great way to visualise the data in your Excel spreadsheets, so you can track and analyse the information they contain. Dashboards can include charts, g

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LIBREOFFICE WRITER & CALC LibreOffice automatically applies properties to each document you save, such as your name and how long you’ve spent editing it. To review, edit or add to these properties before saving, open LibreOffice Writer or Calc, selec

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LIBREOFFICE WRITER If you find the bright white background of documents in Writer a little too dazzling, you can change them to light grey (or any colour of your choice). Within Writer, open the Tools menu, then select Options. Open the LibreOffice s

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Back in 2012 a LibreOffice developer suggested making the default options for border widths the same across all the suite’s programs. It was a good idea that won support from other developers (see www.snipca.com/41084), so it’s surprising that it too

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Choose File > New from Photos. Give permission for Pixelmator to access your Photos library. Browse to an image in Photos. In the Tools sidebar, click on the Color Adjustments icon. Scroll down and turn on Custom LUT. LUTs are gathered in five catego

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When Cockpit was first developed, it had plug-in support for administering your Docker containers remotely via its user-friendly web interface. But then Red Hat OS became a major backer of Cockpit, and when Red Hat developed its own alternative to Do

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Trying to keep track of who’s paid what in a club can be tricky, so it’s a good idea to use an Excel template for managing the process. One of the best is ‘Club dues tracker’, which you can download for free by visiting www.snipca.com/41019 and click

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Loupedeck has announced a software update enabling users to create custom profiles (version 3.2 or higher) for third-party applications. The new Loupedeck Profile Creator allows the Loupedeck CT owners to create custom profiles for applications like

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Microsoft has improved the web version of Excel to make it faster to scroll rows in your spreadsheets. It also claims to have “significantly reduced” the time it takes to load a workbook, and to make it quicker to select the cells you need, so you’ll

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Used by Jenny Van De Wiele (Homestitchness): I use PCStitch Pro Version 9 and have never needed to look any further, as the programme has all the main features I need and regularly checks for updates. The programme is easy to navigate and can be used

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LIBREOFFICE CALC & MICROSOFT EXCEL In LibreOffice Calc, you can zoom in or out of a spreadsheet by holding down the Ctrl key and using your mouse’s scroll wheel or using the zoom controls in the bottom-right corner of the window. However, doing this

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LIBREOFFICE CALC & MICROSOFT EXCEL Calc and Excel both let you generate random numbers. The RAND() formula returns a random number between 0 and 1, while RANDBETWEEN(x, y) lets you specify a range for the random numbers (replace the ‘x’ with the lowe

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Roku has updated its operating system to make dialogue in programmes stand out more against background noise such as music. Version 11 of Roku OS will also let you create screensavers of your photos (pictured). It’s launching in the next few weeks, b

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I remember my uncle once telling me that when my grandfather was in his 80s and visiting him in Cornwall, he took ill when out for a walk and ended up taking refuge on a bench in a park. It took ages for my worried uncle to find him, but thankfully h