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 There is a particular claim about Excel that has been repeated for so long that it appears to have acquired the status of fact. Why are people still...
By Hiran de Silva On the 41st birthday of Microsoft Excel, I would like to remind everyone of something that apparently still needs saying. Excel is alive and well...
Are Excel students sometimes ahead of their teachers? By Hiran de Silva Yesterday marked the 41st anniversary of the launch of Excel on the Macintosh. That seems a good...
By Hiran de Silva Imagine you’re lost in a desert. You’ve been walking for hours. You’re thirsty. You’re tired. There’s nothing around you...
By Hiran de Silva I have just seen a post from Paul Barnhurst on LinkedIn suggesting that Excel is acquiring more and more database-like functionality. And therefore...
Everybody agrees that Excel Hell exists. But what caused it? By Hiran de Silva There is something fascinating about the long-running attack on Excel in corporate...
By Hiran de Silva There is something about Reg that I don’t think I fully appreciated when I first started developing the Tim and Reg story. Reg is a disruptor...
Much Ado — and Then There’s Nothing Left to Do Manually By Hiran de Silva Tim is very good at Excel. In fact, Tim takes his Excel skills seriously. He follows the latest...
By Hiran de Silva Something has changed in the Excel world over the past 30 years. I don’t mean Excel itself. Obviously, Excel has changed enormously. It has...
We Have Forgotten Something That Civilisations Knew Thousands of Years Ago By Hiran de Silva The miracle of Excel is still not fully realised. There are extraordinary...