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How to Add Calculated Fields to a PivotTable in Excel

PivotTables are great tools for grouping, summarizing and totaling information from raw data. Once you have created a table, then you are ready to get even more out of your information by using the summarized data in additional formulas or calculations. The way Excel does this is through Calculated Fields.…
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Strategic Thinking Training, Generate Highly Effective Managers

Companies that have traditionally rewarded employees for productivity understand that there might be another factor that makes management more effective: Strategic thinking. In fact, the Management Research Group (MRG), an assessment design consulting company, found that a strategic approach to leadership is 10 times more important to the perception of…
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Become A Strategic Thinker with Creative Thinking Games

You probably wear many hats as a leader in your organization. In fact, we’re sure it’s easy to get bogged down by all the different roles you play. Additionally, you may feel overwhelmed by the minutiae and repetitive tasks associated with your job. If this describes your situation, we encourage…
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Strategic Thinking in the Workplace

What is Strategic Thinking? You answer hundreds of emails a week, attend hours of meetings and, like most people, you expend your effort on being as productive as possible. In short, you’re busy dealing with the day to day effort – or tactics – of work. Being a strategic manager…
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Dressing Up Your PivotTable Design

Once you have a PivotTable created, you may find that Excel's default formatting is bland at best, unreadable at worst. Here are five formatting options you can adjust when you need to get a PivotTable ready for a presentation or report, but don't need to create something as visually elaborate…
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Searching for Data in Excel

Are you looking for the "peanut butter and chocolate" of workplace efficiency: how to combine the power of Macros with the convenience of search? As of Office 2013, Excel does not provide an easy way to include a variable search term in the execution of a series of tasks recorded…
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