By Hiran de Silva There is a question I keep asking which, in the world of Excel, seems to be regarded as almost offensively stupid. Someone presents...
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By Hiran de Silva Librarians are among the most essential and underappreciated professionals in the world. Their work ensures that knowledge stored...
By Hiran de Silva There is something I have been thinking about for a long time. It concerns the things we perceive to be difficult when they are not...
Before We Replace the Wheel, Can We Ask Why It Is Broken? By Hiran de Silva There is an interesting discussion taking place in the GenCFO community...
By Hiran de Silva There is a complaint I occasionally hear from people who create Excel content on social media. They spend an enormous amount of...
The Biggest Opportunity in Excel May Be the One Nobody Is Teaching By Hiran de Silva There is something very strange about Excel education. It...
By Hiran de Silva There is a curious narrative around Microsoft Access. Access is dead. Nobody uses it anymore. Microsoft has let it die. I came...
By Hiran de Silva For more than 30 years, Microsoft Access has been dying. Apparently. From time to time, another article, post or comment appears...
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...
By Hiran de Silva What is magic? The science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously gave us a wonderfully useful definition: “Any sufficiently...