Intro to ‘terminology’ We’ve had spreadsheets since 1978. And mostly, we have thought of spreadsheets in much the same way over this time. In order to...
Author - Hiran de Silva
Who hasn’t heard of Lego? Lego is a set of plastic pieces that cleverly fit together to make models of things. The pieces themselves are simple, but when put...
In this video I get a lot of messages asking how I update a table from the spreadsheet. You can see this @5:02 of the video. (Note: the video is about Spreadsheet Risk...
Non-Spreadsheet. Found on LinkedIn 19/12/2109.
Thanks to Claire Reid who I met some years ago while volunteering for Crisis at Christmas.
Any business spreadsheet user will confirm that the idea of successfully replacing spreadsheets with something else is a myth. This is evidenced in the huge reaction to...
Where do you dig? Imagine you’re in the American Wild West in the 1800s. You’re prospecting for gold. The basic tools that you’d use are a shovel, a pick axe and a...
Rummaging through some old hard drives, I found this I had written on 25/02/2013. I don’t know if was meant as a script for a video, or what. But it can now be...
It’s not meant to scare you, but it may. While 90% of the buzz is cool new topics we mustn’t ignore the fact that we’re struggling with the basics of...
I’m constantly fascinated by forum questions that seek a ‘non-VBA’ solution to an Excel problem. I’m equally fascinated by people describing...
If the problem seems too easy then it could be that I haven’t understood it. But then again, maybe it’s not a problem at all. Either way, thank Heavens for...