By Hiran de Silva What is magic? The science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously gave us a wonderfully useful definition: “Any sufficiently...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting hasn’t kept up, CFOs say By Wall Street Journal November 2017 Tatyana Shumsky...
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 It is a challenge to anyone who says, writes or promotes the idea that VBA is obsolete.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...
How the democratisation of technology changed the Excel conversation — and perhaps caused us to forget what Excel could already do By Hiran de Silva...
When a throwaway LinkedIn comment deserves to be tested By Hiran de Silva A few weeks ago, something rather extraordinary happened on LinkedIn. It...