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Exclusive Excel, what’s occurrin’ 3 – incomplete ranges

07 Feb 2025
Simon Hurst

This series looks at some of the things that can go wrong in an Excel spreadsheet and at what we can do to avoid or resolve the issue. We start with the basics of making sure our numbers add up. Having looked at the use of the ROUND() function and the use of the potentially disastrous Precision as Displayed option, this time we investigate one of the most common causes for errors in Excel spreadsheets – references to ranges that omit vital cells.

Exclusive LIFO Modelling

29 Jan 2025
Liam Bastick

In previous articles, I have twice previously considered modelling inventory, using both a simple averaging method to value the stock sold and then on a First In, First Out (FIFO) basis, which was a little bit trickier. Since then, I have been inundated with people asking me to complete the set: how do you model on a Last In, First Out (LIFO) basis?

Exclusive Going Deep with REDUCE

27 Jan 2025
Mark Proctor

In this article, Mark Proctor explores the REDUCE function in Excel and dives into its power for achieving advanced calculations.

Exclusive Excel, what’s occurrin’ 2 – Precision as displayed

24 Jan 2025
Simon Hurst

This series looks at some of the things that can go wrong in an Excel spreadsheet and at what we can do to avoid or resolve the issue. We start with the basics of making sure our numbers add up. Having looked at the use of the ROUND() function in part 2, this time we move on to a far simpler and easier method with only one drawback, it could destroy the accuracy of your spreadsheet.

Exclusive Bringing financial reports alive in Excel with visualisation - visualising monthly results

22 Jan 2025
John Tennent

This article is part of a series that supports the lunch and learn webinars on how to bring financial reports alive in Excel with visualisation. This second article will explore how to visualise monthly results with a range of charts and chart features in Excel.

Exclusive Excel, what’s occurrin’ – it doesn’t add up

20 Jan 2025
Simon Hurst

This series looks at some of the things that can go wrong in an Excel spreadsheet and at what we can do to avoid or resolve the issue. We start with the basics of making sure our numbers add up.

100 new Excel features from the first half of the 2020s

13 Jan 2025
David Benaim

We’re halfway through the decade and Excel has released so many features that its hard to keep track, so here is a whistle stop tour with over 100 features. Items marked with * are released on the current channel but not all channels, so these items may not be available to all now but should be by July 2025. Click File > Account to see which channel you are on.

Excel, asking for a friend

06 Jan 2025
Simon Hurst

Stories of catastrophic spreadsheet errors often feature in the national media, but is this attitude to the use of spreadsheets risk obscuring a different, and much more significant problem: insidious spreadsheet inefficiency? We are asking for your help to find out.

EXCEL COMMUNITY ROUND UP Excel Community round up - December 2024

01 Jan 2025
Excel Community

Here are all the new Excel blogs and webinars from the Excel Community in December 2024.

Exclusive Top 12 Excel Combinations: 1. INDEX MATCH

13 Dec 2024
Liam Bastick

For 2024, I thought I would count down a very subjective “Top 12” of Excel function combinations. And this month’s offering makes it very clear that this is a highly subjective list. If you don’t like this month’s suggestion, that’s fine; life would be boring if we were all in agreement.

Exclusive From numbers to pictures – using INDEX() with MAKEARRAY()

13 Dec 2024
Simon Hurst

Having in the previous post used several of the new LAMBDA() helper functions, most notably MAKEARRAY(), to calculate the total number of gifts given across the 12 days of Christmas, this time we are going to replace our numbers with pictures that represent each of the gifts.

Exclusive Your 2025 Excel Community Guide

11 Dec 2024
Bani Lamba

As we step into a new year, we’re delighted to welcome all our members to the growing Excel Community. With over 1,000 articles, over 490 tips, 4 thought leadership guides and an extensive archive of webinar recordings, we realise that it can sometimes be tricky to find what you’re looking for. So, here is a guide that you can use as a starting point to make the best use of your community.

Exclusive YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Your Questions Answered #12 – Getting started with Office Scripts

11 Dec 2024
Mark Proctor

Following on from ‘A beginner's guide to automating in Excel using Office Scripts’ webinar, Mark Proctor, Microsoft MVP and Director at Excel Off The Grid, returns to address more of the questions that came out of the webinar on how to get started with Office scripts to automate tasks and processes in Excel.

Exclusive Spoiler alert: the answer is 364

09 Dec 2024
Simon Hurst

It’s festive-themed quiz season. We use a common Christmas quiz question as the pretext for examining a range of LAMBDA() based Excel functions.

NEW TECH FEATURES Excel, Teams, Power BI, Canva, Zoom, Google Sheets++: New tech features for Sep-Dec 2024

09 Dec 2024
David Benaim

Our digest of new features across Microsoft 365 & other business tech products in written, images & video format covering the last three months.

EXCEL COMMUNITY ROUND UP Excel Community round up - November 2024

02 Dec 2024
Excel Community

Here are all the new Excel blogs and webinars from the Excel Community in November 2024.

Exclusive Your Excel Community – Highlights from 2024

29 Nov 2024
Bani Lamba

As we approach a new year, it’s time to reflect on the best content from the Excel Community in 2024 and look ahead as the community grows and develops. Whether you’re new or an existing member, we invite you to explore the insights and learnings the community has delivered for you over this last year.

Excel’s GROUPBY & PIVOTBY functions vs PivotTables

29 Nov 2024
David Benaim

One of Excel’s most significant updates this decade is without a doubt the new GROUPBY and PIVOTBY functions, these can replicate PivotTables functionality through formulas, so here I will compare and contrast both methods whilst providing possibly the most complete guide on the internet currently of GROUPBY.

Exclusive Separating your clients

27 Nov 2024
Simon Hurst

This post was prompted by a support query about automating the extraction of client names from cells that could contain other information after the name. Based on the use of one or more delimiter characters to separate the client name from the additional information, we are going to look at using the TEXTBEFORE() function with different delimiter alternatives.

Exclusive Bringing financial reports alive in Excel with visualisation

26 Nov 2024
John Tennent

This is the first article of a series that supports the lunch and learn webinars that will show you how to bring the financial reports alive in Excel with visualization. This article will explore the journey from raw data to actionable insights.

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