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Users Love Drop-Down Lists

Excel Users Love Drop-Down Lists aka Validation Controls   Excel Users Love Using Drop-Down List because they make data entry quicker and more accurate.   When it comes to working with Microsoft Excel, users like it when Excel is easy to use.  The easier you can make it, the more they like working [...]

Using VStack to Consolidate Excel Datasets

Using Excel VStack to Consolidate Datasets Let's start with this, why would you want or need to consolidate datasets in Microsoft Excel?    Because your Excel programmer decided to place like data across multiple tabs and multiple workbooks. They could have just as easily if not more easily, put all of the data in one [...]

Interactive Reports in Excel Just Got Easier

Interactive Reports in Excel Just Got Easier Until recently, when you wanted to build an interactive and dynamic Excel report, one that allowed the user to build a quick report, on the fly, you would need to write many formulas, and often you would need to add complex VBA/macros.  But the times are changing.  Microsoft [...]

Microsoft Excel Should be Easy to Use

Microsoft Excel Should Be Easy to Use Based on my 37 years of programming in Microsoft Excel, I can personally tell you that there is absolutely no reason for Excel to frustrate you, or for Excel to be difficult to use.  Simply put, Microsoft Excel should be easy to use.   At Excel and Access, [...]

Intermediate Excel Programming Skills

10 Intermediate Excel Programming Skills to Advance Your Career   Can improving your Excel skills help to advance your career? Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet application on the market today.  If you work in business, or in an office, chances are that you work with Microsoft Excel on a daily basis.  Knowing these [...]

Microsoft Excel Lead Tracker Application

  Microsoft Excel Lead Tracker Excel has changed, see our latest post on Microsoft Excel 365 Trackers for Business, 2025.   Our best Excel 365 Trackers for Business are based on Power Query.   Our Microsoft Excel Lead Tracker allows you to Instantly see where your best leads originate.   Excel [...]

Choose the Right Microsoft Database for Your Needs

How to Choose the Right Microsoft Database Application(s) for Your Organization's Needs   There are four Microsoft databases to choose from, and then there is Excel.  Four databases to integrate and automate into one complete, seamless Microsoft Database Solution For best results, integrate your Microsoft Database Solutions with Microsoft Excel     Microsoft has four [...]

Best Excel Functions for Budgeting

The 4 Best Excel Budget Formulas Excel Functions for Budgeting & Forecasting in Microsoft Excel 365, in 2026   Since we published this post in 2021, much has changed in the world of Excel.  How we program Microsoft Excel 365 has ENTIRELY changed. Microsoft Excel 365 Programming is now Range-Based ( Dynamic Arrays ), not Cell-Based [...]

Location Talent Results

Location, Talent, Results: What Matters Most for the Success of Your Project? The quality of the work should come before everything else, for best results LOCATION - Location can be very important, and it definitely matters if you want local onsite help. Firms having the ability to travel onsite to the client is an [...]

Why Integrate & Automate Microsoft Excel with Microsoft Access

Why Integrate & Automate Microsoft Excel with Microsoft Access Because Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access were designed by Microsoft to be fully integrated and automated into one seamless solution, with a point-n-click forms driven graphical user interface to merge power with ease of use.   Leverage the power of the Access database calculation engine with [...]