by Oz du Soleil | Jan 4, 2015 | Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
My friend Mike asked, “is Excel for the common man?” The answer is yes, but I had to find a good example for someone who’s recently retired and has no workplace need for Excel. But, wherever there’s data, there’s opportunity to use Excel....
by Oz du Soleil | Sep 24, 2014 | Excel Geekdom, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
Mynda Treacy’s recent blogpost at MyOnlineTrainingHub is a hot one! Excel Custom Validation to Limit Entries poses a fun and excellent solution that Santa probably deals with every year: How does Santa set up Excel to allow a kid to request no more than 3...
by Oz du Soleil | Dec 2, 2013 | Data Integrity, Data Management, Excel Geekdom, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
October 2012, I posted a mild complaint about the ability to build a calculator in Excel and then publish online via ExcelWebApp. The Excel piece was easy. The WebApp piece was disappointing but was infinitely better than Google’s version. Yesterday a friend...
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...
by Oz du Soleil | Jan 28, 2013 | Data Integrity, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness, Tips
The image below is an Excel Dashboard section generated from 847 rows and 11 columns of data related to classroom and book sales. In the range D1:N5 we summarize Monthly Sales Totals by Sales Rep. So much easier to look at this instead of scrolling around in the...
by Oz du Soleil | Jan 25, 2013 | Data Integrity, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
In preparation for teaching a workshop on Excel Dashboards & Reports, I’m thinking about what needs to be covered. Several months ago, Mynda Treacy of My Online Training Hub provided an excellent guest post on Excel reporting. (Going forward, I use...
