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...
By Hiran de Silva This morning I came across an excellent post from Michael Polan on LinkedIn. His starting point was simple: Excel gets a bad rap. And instead of...
By Hiran de Silva What is magic? The science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously gave us a wonderfully useful definition: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is...
By Hiran de Silva I saw an interesting post recently about Excel’s Data Model. The author described how he had once been “petrified” of the Data Model, before eventually...
By Hiran de Silva There is a very specific idea behind my Mission Impossible series. It is not simply about solving difficult Excel problems. It is not even about...
By Hiran de Silva Let me give you the short version of my argument. Give the Excel community an enterprise-scale business problem. It can be a familiar business problem...
The MVP Programme and the Rise of the Car-Park Driver By Hiran de Silva There is something fundamentally wrong with Excel education. I have been writing about this for...
By Hiran de Silva There is an enormous amount of Excel education in the world. YouTube is full of it. LinkedIn is full of it. There are courses, books, conferences...
Ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting hasn’t kept up, CFOs say By Wall Street Journal November 2017 Tatyana Shumsky Updated Nov. 29, 2017 9:38...
By Hiran de Silva This is a challenge. It is a challenge to anyone who says, writes or promotes the idea that VBA is obsolete. That VBA is legacy. That VBA has been...
How the democratisation of technology changed the Excel conversation — and perhaps caused us to forget what Excel could already do By Hiran de Silva I came across a post...