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...
Why the Excel Replacement Industry Is Fighting the Wrong Battle By Hiran de SilvaTriple Your Pay With Excel For clarity, let me begin with an important distinction. This...
By Hiran de Silva Let me ask you a simple question. Are you good with Excel? Now here is the strange thing. You are not actually the best person to answer that question...
By Hiran de Silva Alright.Let’s do this properly. You may have seen it.The Nine Circles of Excel Hell. A white paper that essentially saysExcel is chaosSpreadsheets are...
By Hiran de Silva For the past two years I’ve been running a different kind of Excel challenge. Not formula puzzles.Not Sunday brain-teasers.Not “find the clever trick”...
Social Media Fantasy vs. Real-World Substance Over the past decade, Excel has evolved at breathtaking speed. Dynamic arrays.X Lookup.Power Query.Lambda.Collaborative...
This challenge is based on the Holiday Destinations Challenge by Oz du Soleil on LinkedIn Learning. We have spiced it up somewhat! A global corporation has offices all...
Why Spreadsheet Trust Is Quietly Disappearing — And How to Restore It By Hiran de Silva No one is talking about this. And yet it may be the single most important issue...
A few weeks ago, the BBC ran an article about Excel.Recently, Richard Nero brought it back into discussion. Before even reading it closely, I found myself asking a more...
By Hiran de Silva When Wired Magazine coined the phrase six-figure spreadsheets, it created a powerful image — one that is more intriguing when explained. The phrase...
A direct response to Mark Proctor — and the Power Query consensus By Hiran de Silva Mark Proctor recently asked a fair and important question: If Excel keeps getting...