By Hiran de Silva What is magic? The science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously gave us a wonderfully useful definition: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is...
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 Model, before eventually...
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 not even about...
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 familiar business problem...
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 writing about this for...
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, books, conferences...
Ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting hasn’t kept up, CFOs say By Wall Street Journal November 2017 Tatyana Shumsky Updated Nov. 29, 2017 9:38...
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 It is a challenge to anyone who says, writes or promotes the idea that VBA is obsolete.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. That VBA has been...
How the democratisation of technology changed the Excel conversation — and perhaps caused us to forget what Excel could already do By Hiran de Silva I came across a post...
When a throwaway LinkedIn comment deserves to be tested By Hiran de Silva A few weeks ago, something rather extraordinary happened on LinkedIn. It began innocently...