When evaluating Excel challenges and techniques, one critical aspect often overlooked is scalability. In many cases, we shouldn’t be teaching or applying...
Archive - October 2024
There’s an idea floating around that may seem radical or even outrageous to many Excel users: Excel is powerful enough to make much of the manual work being done with it...
When we think about creative problem-solving in Excel, we often focus on the mechanics—the formulas, the functions, and the shortcuts that help us build solutions...
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The Horse-Drawn Motor Car: A Satirical Exploration of Excel Tables and Ignorance-Based Industries
Imagine a bustling, thriving marketplace where horse-drawn motor cars are the pinnacle of motoring excellence. Every conversation, every promotion, every sales pitch...
Eric Hartwig is an Excel expert, avid enthusiast, and philosopher. Eric Hartwig raises an important point about the responsibility of those with experience to support...
Two weeks ago, I posted an article on LinkedIn with a splash screen featuring a Flash illustration, extending the conversation about the spreadsheet mindset into...
Power Query Purpose: Power Query is primarily an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool designed for data import, transformation, and cleaning. It is user-friendly...
In many aspects of work and life, we often find ourselves stuck in “firefighting” mode. Firefighting means addressing immediate problems in a short-term...
There’s a widely held belief about progress and innovation that we, as a society, often assume. The story goes that as time moves forward, we find better solutions to...
Earlier today, I posted on LinkedIn about creative thinking with Excel. As I anticipated, most of the comments have interpreted “creative thinking” to mean...