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	<itunes:summary>Ross McLean from Methods In Excel, catches up with Excel Developers around the world to find out what&#039;s happen in the world of Excel!</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Spreadsheet Design?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The standard approach to professional application design in Excel is to split out the data, the logic, and the presentation (Bullen et al 2005). In practice this is often harder than it at first seems, but that&#8217;s not the point of this post, the point is that if you adopt this structure you have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Formulas IS Computer Programming.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to qualify this post. It&#8217;s 11.20 and I&#8217;ve seen away a few. Having said that this is a idea that was suggested to me by a member of www.eusprig.org Lets do a little role play easy Simon ;-). My name is Dave. I went to Manchester Uni. for 3 years, I&#8217;ve work as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HumanComputer Interfaces. Problems with messaging &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this the final of my posts around messaging I&#8217;ll suggest some ideas that work towards a better experience for users and thus better functioning software. Of course this will not be exhaustive and I encourage others to shear their thoughts, ideas and experiences. Previous Parts Part 1 Part 2 Why bother!?! It&#8217;s a fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HumanComputer Interfaces.  Problems with messaging &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly sorry if I have been messing up your RSS feed, I had a few issues with wordpress, I promise to make better use of the draft option! Previous Parts Part 1 Here are the issues I generally have with message boxes. All message boxes look the same. But there suppose too! Yeah? Cosmic! That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HumanComputer interfaces. Problems with messaging- Part 1.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be the first of three posts I&#8217;ll make on &#8220;interacting with users&#8221;, or more specifically message and error boxes! Here&#8217;s the outline: 1. The current state of play 2. There&#8217;s a problem?&#8230; If it aint broke? 3. Suggestions for Improvements So let&#8217;s get started then! Shocking really! Ok so that&#8217;s a bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Auditing&#8221; a whole range</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised to find there was no way to display dependencies arrows for a selection using the Formula Auditing tool bar. I don&#8217;t use it a lot, but I would have though that this is the sort of thing it should be able to do. Now,Â  I also know that there are quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Spreadsheets Correct</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t worry I&#8217;m still alive! Despite only making one post last month I have in fact been doing quite a lot of programming. I hope to have something reasonably interesting to post soon. In the mean time, if you care to drag yourselves away from that Beat for a few moments, this might be worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development time and value to business.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the middle of updating a set of business tools used within the company I work for. The particular code I&#8217;m working on deals with post codes, it makes an attempt to correct invalid postcodes and points out one which seem suspect. A couple of things struck me about the time I will [...]]]></description>
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