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In Depth: 10 ways to add creative graphics to Excel
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Spreadsheets needn't be drab, dull affairs. Excel has a slew of impressive graphics features that can help you brighten up otherwise dry information and present data in an attractive manner. Here are our top 10 tips for using a variety of graphics to make your spreadsheets more interesting and easier to understand. 1. Charts The easiest graphic to use is a chart, and their presentational impact shouldn't be underestimated. To add a chart, select the values that you want to use and then pick the style you want from the Insert tab of the ribbon. In earlier versions, launch the Chart Wizard from the toolbar. 2. Vectors ...
Readiris 12 Pro
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The latest version of Readiris is available in Home, Pro and Corporate editions, ranging in price from £45 to £360. The Pro edition offers an excellent range of features, with 'SmartTasks' for quick and easy OCR processing and automatic saving to various file formats, including Word, Excel, OpenOffice and RTF. You can also save files in Microsoft's XPS format, which can result in file sizes that are as little as 1/200th of the normal size. In our tests, Readiris 12 Pro proved impressively accurate when converting scanned documents into editable text, and maintained complex layouts very well. The only real problem was that spaces were sometimes removed from between words ...
Actinic Express 2.0
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Coming three years after the launch of Actinic Express, version 2.0 of the 'shop in a box' software promises several key improvements. A major part of the appeal is the Startup Wizard that holds your hand through the construction of the store's key pages – your company information, terms and conditions, tax and shipping info, payment and credit card settings. If the original package was criticised for anything, it was for its limited scope. Version 2.0 tackles this head-on, providing 12 predefined themes, 60 colour schemes and customisable fonts. It also features enhanced order processing, payment integration with Google Checkout and Google Analytics support. Actinic ...
Carbonite
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Carbonite is an online back-up service rather than a storage device attached to your PC locally. As such, you get both the online storage and some rather nifty software. If you accept the default of backing up the Documents and Settings folder, then you need do nothing other than install the software. If you want to have more control over what's backed up, then you do this through Windows Explorer. Once Carbonite is installed, right-click on any file or folder and you'll discover there's now an option that enables you to specify whether or not you want it to be backed up. Backups take place automatically and the status is indicated by coloured icons next to the files and folders ...
Vipre Antivirus
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Vipre is a new player in the antivirus market, but it's worthy of attention for being sleek. While other scanners hog system resources, Vipre – and developers Sunbelt Software – boast an unobtrusive but comprehensive scan. This is a claim that seems to be true: we ran a full system scan to test the software and it rarely used more than 200MB of RAM, happily churning away with under 20 per cent of the CPU's resources most of the time. If it weren't for the chattering of the hard drive, we'd have forgotten it was running at all. It also picked up some trojans that our test machine's free scanner, Avast, had missed – proof that sometimes you get what you pay for. At a mid-range ...
