Most Excel users in today’s enterprises are unaware of a client-server architecture—not just unfamiliar with the mechanics, but completely oblivious to its existence as...
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Ref: Post on LinkedIn by Giles Male on Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 There’s been some recent discussion around the quality of spreadsheet solutions in business—particularly...
A strange absurdity plays out daily on social media—especially in the Excel community. You can see it vividly in a recent thread by Paul Barnes, where the recurring...
Most Excel users today operate within a severely limited paradigm — one rooted in the outdated metaphor of a large sheet of paper. This “paper mindset” constrains how...
Another day, another confused post on LinkedIn, asking whether VBA is being replaced. It’s a superficially plausible question, one that sounds thoughtful to the...
In a recent post, Paul Barnhurst raised the question of whether modern tools like Python, Office Scripts, Power Query, and Lambdas are replacing VBA in Excel. It’s a...
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Why Digital Transformation Fails: The Dangerous Gap Between Buzzwords and Understanding
Digital transformation is a phrase that’s been repeated so often it risks becoming meaningless. Everyone claims to be doing it. Yet beneath the surface of glossy...
Every few years, the same question resurfaces: Is Microsoft going to discontinue VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in Excel? It’s a reasonable concern. Technology...
Narrated Timeline of Two Inventions, One Blind Spot Act I: The Absurd Comfort of the Familiar This is the story of an invention’s journey—from obscurity to ubiquity—and...
In an age of shrinking attention spans and algorithm-driven content, the teaching of Microsoft Excel—a bedrock tool of modern business—has not escaped the gravitational...