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		<title>Trim Function</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 05:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Excel On Steroids</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you frustrated at the prospect of manually removing leading and trailing spaces from data? There is absolutely no need to worry, because by using the Trim function the wasteful and inefficient method of painstakingly removing leading and trailing spaces from data can be eliminated. Assuming you have imported data with leading and trailing spaces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alchemex attending Sage Summit as an official part of the Sage Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 10:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alchemex was founded in November 2001 in Durban, South Africa, with the vision to provide practical solutions for small and medium sized companies around the world to assist them with the common frustrations associated with getting good information out of their ERP/Accounting systems. Since inception it has always been our goal to partner with leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sumifs Function</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 04:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Excel On Steroids</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for an easy and yet useful function that can Sum data based on multiple conditions, then look no further than the Sumifs function. Assuming that you want to calculate the total sales figure for a given month and region the Sumifs function can be used to produce the desired results. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Sage re-brand means for Alchemex</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nhlakanipho Zondi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In the past few weeks I have been watching some of my colleagues, at all levels, in a bit of frenzy over the Sage brand changes. It has been quite eventful, and will be so seemingly until December this year. With Sage officially acquiring Alchemex in October last year, it means that Alchemex is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEFT Text Function</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Excel On Steroids</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that you have a list of names &#38; surnames in a data range and your task is to extract the first letter of the names as the initial. By using the LEFT text function this supposedly complex task can be executed in one simple step and in no time at all.  The steps below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why use Sage Business Intelligence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 07:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Mc Evilly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One often finds, when trying to convince people to use one software package over another that they want to know the software’s core strengths. I was recently asked this with regards to Sage Business Intelligence, or more specifically, Alchemex Smart Reporting. My answer, without hesitation was the fact that it has the ability to export [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Social Investment (CSI) at Alchemex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 08:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillippa Dekker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many associations to CSI even the extreme being Criminal Scene Investigation. What I am however referring to is the CSI which gives back to ones community and or those in need. The “giving” aspect which makes up a majority of CSI can be interpreted in two different ways: Giving of commodities i.e. Food, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consolidate Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 04:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Excel On Steroids</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have created budgets for various branches on different worksheets in your excel spreadsheet.  However you are wondering how you can automatically generate a consolidated budget for all the branches. Well, no need to worry because by using the consolidate option the task of summarizing data from various worksheets is simplified. Below we explain how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show Pivot Report Filter Pages</title>
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		<comments>http://www.alchemex.com/blog/excel-tips-tricks/2012/04/show-pivot-report-filter-pages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Excel On Steroids</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have taken time to create a product sales PivotTable and placed the branch field in the report filter area, product name in the row area and product sales in the values areas. However you want to analyse sales per branch by quickly generating PivotTables for each branch to be placed on separate worksheets. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Operator</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemex.com/blog/alchemex-tips-tricks/2012/04/operator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alchemex Tips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemex Tips & Tricks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Like Operator is used in Filters and Parameters for doing pattern matching. Combinations of literal characters and wildcard characters can be used to locate patterns. The two wildcard characters that are supported by most Data Access Drivers are the _ (underscore) wildcard; which means any single character, and the % (percent) wildcard; which means [...]]]></description>
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