Table Design – XLCubed Blog ../../../ XLCubed Blog Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:17:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.21 ../../../wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-logo_512_512-150x150.png Table Design – XLCubed Blog ../../../ 32 32 One slicer, two reports! ../../../2012/07/one-slicer-two-reports/ ../../../2012/07/one-slicer-two-reports/#respond Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:06:52 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=3527 So today’s blog is going to show you how easy it is in XLCubed to have a slicer driving a grid and a SQL table at the same time.  There may be occasions when some of the information you require for your report is held not in an analysis services cube but a SQL table.  […]

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]]> ../../../2012/07/one-slicer-two-reports/feed/ 0 Hermann Grids, An optical Illusion Best Avoided ../../../2008/07/hermann-grids-an-optical-illusion-best-avoided/ ../../../2008/07/hermann-grids-an-optical-illusion-best-avoided/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:06:59 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=209 An interesting optical illusion is the so-called Hermann Grid illusion: the effect of seeing gray dots at the intersections of a black grid on a white background or a white grid on a black background.         While it’s an interesting optical illusion, it’s something we should avoid in management reporting:     […]

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]]> ../../../2008/07/hermann-grids-an-optical-illusion-best-avoided/feed/ 5 Applied Gestalt Laws: Table Alignment ../../../2008/05/applied-gestalt-laws-table-alignment/ ../../../2008/05/applied-gestalt-laws-table-alignment/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 00:21:06 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/applied-gestalt-laws-table-alignment/ Most reports are based on combinations of tabular layouts, so to continue my series about visual design (see my previous post) I will focus on the most common and simple problem to fix: The fundamentals of how to align numbers and text in tables and how to treat their headings. Here are the rules Right-align […]

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