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Excel Lookup Functions Versus Joins

Many Excel Experts use Joins Instead of LOOKUP Functions Top Excel experts agree the best custom Excel solutions have very few moving parts.  Nothing for the user to type, nothing for the user to copy and paste, nothing for the Excel user to do at all.  Top Excel Consultants know one way to simplify your [...]

Onsheet versus Offsheet Excel Programming

On-Sheet Versus Off-Sheet Excel Programming FLUID Excel Development "Fluid Excel Development": How you program Excel today will be different than how you will do it in say, just 6 months, as Excel 365 is in a constant state of flux, and as such, so should your Excel development methods, hence FLUID Excel Development.   What [...]

Automated Excel Solutions for Business

Automated Excel 365 Solutions for Business ~ Dynamic Excel Development; Optimized Excel Solutions for Business ~   FLUID Excel 365 Solutions with Power Query   Excel Should be Easy to Use; the update process should not require effort from the user.  This is the hallmark of a proper Excel solution.  At Excel and Access LLC, [...]

Excel Development Step by Step

Dynamic Excel 365 Development - Step by Step Index/Match or XLookup, Concatenate/Concat or TextJoin, GroupBy, Pivot Tables or PivotBy.  Hundreds of cells with formulas, or just one dynamic one that Spills.  How you program Excel has changed; Excel Development Step by Step will help you to get up to date.  Requirement, Excel 365. It is [...]

How to Program Excel Dynamic Array Functions

How to Program Excel's Dynamic Array Functions How to Program Excel Dynamic Array Functions in Microsoft Excel in 2024 is far different than it was just a few years ago.  The Microsoft Corporation has been making a lot of significant changes to Microsoft Excel.  First, and most importantly, Microsoft rebuilt Excel’s Calculation Engine in 2018.  Since [...]

Mentoring Dynamic Excel Development

Mentoring Dynamic Excel Development w/ Power Query Mentoring Dynamic Excel Development w/ Power Query is one of the specialized services our company offers. Here we take an intermediate or advanced Excel programmer, and we take them to the expert level.  What you learn here will put you above others who program Microsoft Excel. With our [...]

Excel Consultants Leverage Power Query

Our Excel Consultants Leverage Power Query One of the most used and respected tools used by leading Excel experts is Power Query. A Powerful Data Transformation Tool, integrated into Microsoft Excel.  Power Query is like a mini database inside of Excel.  Power Query is more advanced than Excel functions when it comes to transforming your [...]

Excel Modeling in 2024

Modeling Dynamic Excel 365 in 2024 for Business It is February 2024 and the solutions I am developing right now will for my business clients will most likely be outdated within the year.  Why?  Because the Microsoft Excel Team has been making so many monumental changes in Excel, that Excel 365 is now called "Dynamic [...]

Excel Tables versus Access Database

Recent Microsoft Excel Tables Project We used Excel Tables instead of an Access Database We Build Custom Database Replacement Solutions in Microsoft Excel We recently completed an Excel Development project for a custom guitar builder.  The Excel solution was mostly built with Excel Tables.  Some Power Query was used.  The Tables provided the data structure [...]

Dynamic Excel Changes in 2023

Changes Continued in Dynamic Excel # in 2023 I am sitting on a train, looking out the window at the Pacific Ocean, as I make my way to Santa Barbara to celebrate the Christmas holiday with family. Nothing to do for the next 5 hours.  Given that the year is coming to an end, this [...]