by Oz du Soleil | Aug 27, 2013 | Spreadsheet Development
BFTBY: Blogging From The Backyard This weekend a friend asked me to take a look at her spreadsheet for a bit of manicure and polish. When I received the document, it was beautiful. So, the polish that I had was easy to apply. I can’t share the data with you...
by Oz du Soleil | Aug 5, 2013 | Excel Geekdom
The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) The whole world had one language and common speech. As people migrated eastward, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make bricks and mortar to build a city with a tower that reaches into the heavens, to make a...
by Oz du Soleil | Jul 18, 2013 | Excel Geekdom
Microsoft Excel 2013 itself has such an awesome collection of built-in tools and features that it has beyond any doubt, become one of the most useful tools for so many things. Today’s blogpost by Ryan Dube, 3 Crazy Excel Formulas That Do Amazing Things Microsoft...
by Oz du Soleil | May 1, 2013 | Data Management, Excel Geekdom
2 years ago I was converting my life over to Apple. Their users boast of the Mac processing speed and resistance to malware. I’d spent enough time and money cleaning up my PCs in spite of the firewalls, ad-blockers, malware detectors, and other counter-measures....
by Oz du Soleil | Feb 6, 2013 | Excel Geekdom, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
Quick & dirty update! AWW WOW! Excel 2013 allows the addition of a timeline into Pivot Charts! (not included with Excel for Mac) Let’s say you have a lot of dates and want to see graphic summaries grouped by month or year. Before 2013, that called for a...