By Hiran de Silva Imagine a world where most drivers don’t know their car has a reverse gear. The absence of reverse would be a nightmare. Parking becomes impossible...
By Hiran de Silva Every few months, a familiar headline resurfaces: “95% of spreadsheets contain errors.” It’s become a mantra in boardrooms, consulting pitches, and...
By Hiran de Silva Every so often I find myself drawn into those familiar conversations on LinkedIn or in professional forums where Excel is being bashed. You know the...
By Hiran de Silva As Excel approaches its 40th anniversary, the noise on social media is deafening. Posts celebrating “Excel’s growth” tend to measure progress in the...
By Hiran de Silva Paul Barnhurst recently posted about Excel’s historical expansion in terms of the number of built-in functions. A nice factoid perhaps, but as a...
Bu Hiran de Silva Ask anyone what they do in Excel regularly — daily, weekly, monthly — and you’ll hear familiar tasks: updating reports, reconciling accounts, preparing...
By Hiran de Silva When we talk about “automation” in Excel, what do we really mean? Most of the time, what’s meant is simply this: take a process that used to be...
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The Caveats They Don’t Tell You: Copilot, Excel, and the Rules That “Don’t Need Saying”
By Hiran de Silva There’s a LinkedIn post doing the rounds by Dimple Saini, a chartered accountant promoting Copilot. She’s excited about it — who wouldn’t be? It’s the...
As Excel turns 40, I find myself asking: what exactly are we celebrating? For many, the anniversary is framed around cosmetic features—new formulas, shortcuts, or tricks...
In my last article I drew a line between two worlds of Excel: The private car park — where you can drive any way you like, in circles, for fun, without consequences. The...