Are you working as a temp, hired for basic Excel tasks–cleaning up messy spreadsheets, doing tedious, repetitive work no one wants to do? Imagine...
In this article, I’ll demonstrate how a single sheet in an Excel workbook can outshine even the most sophisticated ERP systems and cloud-based FP&A tools currently...
The idea of tripling your pay with Excel is not clickbait or snake oil; it’s a proven reality that you can verify yourself. If you’re one of the billion Excel...
When discussing the value of advanced Excel skills, it’s essential to ground the conversation in evidence: not just theory or popularity, but measurable, real-world...
(And It Was Obsolete the Day It Arrived) By Hiran de Silva Let me explain what I mean by obsolete, because I know that statement raises eyebrows. At the time Power Query...
—or why Power Query dazzles enthusiasts but fails the generals By Hiran de Silva This piece is a response to a recent LinkedIn post by Richard Nero, where he observed a...
Transparency, Relevance, and the Two Worlds of Excel By Hiran de Silva After more than forty years of spreadsheets in business—and nearly as long for Excel...
What I’m doing now, with these Excel challenges, is not accidental.It’s not random.And it’s definitely not content-for-content’s-sake. It’s strategy. The Problem I’m Pre...
By Hiran de Silva Earlier today I shared a preview of the Friends Expenses Challenge with a number of people on LinkedIn. My expectation is simple — and deliberate. Some...
Multi-Spreadsheet · Multi-User · Enterprise-Scale Thought Experiment By Hiran de Silva Background This challenge is inspired by a request from Ellen, who asked whether...
One question: Who is your customer? And one conclusion: Your customer is not the Excel influencer.Your customer is your boss’s boss. Everything else flows from that. Let...
And Why One-Step Excel Challenges Miss the Point By Hiran de Silva The Global Excel Airbus Challenge is deliberately multi-level.That is not a gimmick. It is the core...
Introducing the Global Excel Airbus Multi-Level Challenge By Hiran de Silva Almost everything we see on social media about data visualisation follows the same pattern...
By Hiran de Silva Who truly benefits from Excel? Ask the Excel influencer community and they’ll tell you it’s the millions of beginners learning VLOOKUP for the first...