By Hiran de Silva Certifications in Excel are everywhere. From LinkedIn Learning certificates of completion to credentials issued by organizations like the Financial...
Archive - June 2025
By Hiran de Silva Whenever Excel is criticized, the main accusation that surfaces again and again is its supposed lack of scalability. Most other criticisms cascade from...
By Hiran de Silva There’s a deeply entrenched misconception circulating among Excel educators and influencers—Mark Proctor being one of them—that applying hub-and-spoke...
By Hiran de Silva Introduction The suggestion by Mark Proctor that Excel skills are increasingly settling into the lowest common skill set is not just a cynical...
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Purple Squares, Cliff Edges, and the Excel Abyss: A Response to Paul Barnhurst’s Promotion of “Modern Excel”
Paul Barnhurst has just posted a list of Excel educators—Mark Proctor among them—urging followers to learn from these individuals to improve their Excel skills. On the...
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Why Excel’s Enterprise Power Is Still Misunderstood — A Response to Mark Proctor and the Ian Hinton Episode
Mark Proctor has long voiced skepticism toward what he perceives as “systems development” with Excel—particularly when it involves relational databases. To him, this...
BASED ON A REAL CASE STUDY The company is a UK engineering consulting group, carrying out large civil engineering projects such as the Elizabeth Line in London and...
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Why Management Isn’t Clamouring for Modern Excel Training: A View from the Top – The WSP Case Study
Mark Proctor and others in the modern Excel movement often express frustration that senior management doesn’t prioritize training their teams in the latest Excel...
By Hiran de Silva Mark Proctor, a respected Excel expert and Microsoft MVP, has remarked on a puzzling phenomenon: the surprisingly low demand for training in Excel’s...