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		<title>How Regimented Should Your Life Be?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people claim life should be as spontaneous as possible&#8212;that to rip the spontaneity out of life is to also rip out the very essence of life.  Other people promote the regimented life.  They argue that humans function best when they are able to stick to a set schedule. I have experience with both such lifestyles. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/02/06/how-regimented-should-your-life-be/</link>
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		<title>Simple Introduction To Using Variables In An Excel Macro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love getting questions as they often give me ideas for new excel tutorials, etc. Recently, I received a question for a seemingly simple problem. Using a variable in such a case should make it easy to understand and will also give more flexibility. Why? Let&#8217;s first take a look at the question: &#8220;You are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/02/01/simple-introduction-to-using-variables-in-an-excel-macro/</link>
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		<title>Attitude And Selling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people aren&#8217;t born to sell.  We&#8217;re not raised to sell either.  Growing up we&#8217;re taught modesty.  Moreover, most of us do not wish to sell.  We learned medicine, law, accounting, plumbing, teaching, etc.  Then we go out into the work force and realize that every job is selling.  If you&#8217;re a customer service representative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/01/30/attitude-and-selling/</link>
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		<title>Traits of Success Based on Reading dozens of Presidential Biographies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been attempting to read a biography of every United States President.  While like any country, we&#8217;ve had both good and bad leaders, it can&#8217;t be denied that each of these men have reached the pinnacle of their profession.  While being raised with &#8220;blue blood&#8221; and a lot of money helps (as does marrying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/01/25/traits-of-success-based-on-reading-dozens-of-presidential-biographies/</link>
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		<title>Using Vlookup And Nested If In Excel For Golf Scoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently received a very interesting email from a retired member of the military asking some help with a golf scoring issue. Needless to say that on so many levels I was more than happy to help out. While this blog is about &#8220;Experiments in Finance, it&#8217;s fair to say that many finance lovers like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/01/25/using-vlookup-and-nested-if-in-excel-for-golf-scoring/</link>
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		<title>Using Dates In Excel Spreadsheets &#8211; It Can Be Tricky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I got a question about using dates in excel spreadsheets. It&#8217;s very tricky to use both dates and numbers in Excel and certainly not as easy as it should be. Before getting started, I would love to invite you to ask us any questions that you might have. You can simply go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/01/18/using-dates-in-excel-spreadsheets-it-can-be-tricky/</link>
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		<title>Whether to Hire an Employee or Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now almost four months in to my new business.  As my last post indicated, sometimes business is slow.  But so far, the profits have increased steadily each month.  I am currently the only employee of my professional services business.  I don&#8217;t have enough work where I could afford someone full-time, but I might be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/01/11/whether-to-hire-an-employee-or-not/</link>
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		<title>Excel AND Function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I decided to look at the excel function AND. What does it do exactly? First, I would like to clarify that there are two main ways you would use the &#8220;AND&#8221; function. You can either use it in a nested if statement or you can use by itself. You might not understand what I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/01/11/excel-and-function/</link>
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		<title>How To Use The Find &amp; Mid Functions In Excel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manipulating data in excel is a big part of what and many others end up doing on a daily basis. How can I most easily manipulate large sets of data I will take an example of something I had to do recently for a project of mine. I had a set of 200 tennis players [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/01/04/how-to-use-the-find-mid-functions-in-excel/</link>
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		<title>What to do When Business Is Slow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a new business owner, I find my business generation thus far to be very cyclical.  Things are always boom or bust, rather than in a happy medium.  During the boom times, I get nervous that I need to hire an employee or that I won&#8217;t be able to complete the work on time.  During [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2012/01/02/what-to-do-when-business-is-slow/</link>
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		<title>Using The Rank Function In Excel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is one very simple function that can be used in order to find the top or lowest ranked line of a data set. If you rememebr the post I had written a macro to capture stock prices, you can easily imagine how you would get a data set as the one below: Basically, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2011/12/28/using-the-rank-function-in-excel/</link>
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		<title>Fear the Experts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 1980&#8242;s, a prominent U.S. magazine predicted the &#8220;Death of the Stock Market.&#8221;  It was written during a major downturn in the U.S. and global economies.  It was also written right before a major economic recovery that would last for years.  If you had heeded the warning of the &#8220;experts&#8221; and sold at that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2011/12/26/fear-the-experts/</link>
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		<title>How To Debug An Excel Macro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks, we have taken a deeper look into why and how you can build excel macros, either through recording or through writing/modifying excel VBA code. In a perfect world, the conception of the macro would be the one time that you would even think about it, let alone modify the macro. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2011/12/21/how-to-debug-an-excel-macro/</link>
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		<title>What Is the Most Productive Type of Reading?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been really into reading lately. For years (while I was in graduate school), I found it difficult to read outside the classroom.  Growing up I was an avid reader of just about anything I could get my hands on, but college&#8211;and to a much greater extent, graduate school&#8212;changed that.  I was so burnt out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2011/12/19/what-is-the-most-productive-type-of-reading/</link>
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		<title>How To Use Excel Conditional Formatting And More Advanced Formatting Methods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems simple enough, you need to format according to specific rules. Why? Generally to easily spot data that fits a specific criteria. I&#8217;ll use a very common example. Suppose that you have a list of stocks and want to compare their current price to yesterday&#8217;s close in %. Then, you would like to easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2011/12/14/how-to-use-excel-conditional-formatting-and-more-advanced-formatting-methods/</link>
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