by Chris Roast | Jul 11, 2021 | Excel, Tips, Tools
It is not uncommon to complete a spreadsheet model for expected values only to find that some user inputs are not what you expected result in errors. Depending upon the details, you simply what to stop that error behaviour cropping up in your reporting –...
by Chris Roast | Sep 2, 2020 | Data Analysis, Excel, Teaching, Tips
Strings and things Think spreadsheets and you normally think numbers. However they are good at many processing tasks including text processing. Here we use a simple example from by Sumit Bansal in trumpexcel.com, extracting the first word from a cell. The article...
by Chris Roast | Aug 14, 2020 | Data Analysis, Excel, Tips
Looking up and extracting data from tables of numbers and strings is one of those things that most serious data analysts need to do on a regular basis. If you’re familiar with Excel, you may have come across VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP and more recently XLOOKUP. Each of...
by Chris Roast | Aug 14, 2020 | Data Analysis, Excel, Mathematics, Tips
@msexcel regularly remind the Excel community of some of the useful functions and formula that help with finance, business analysis, data analysis and all the other jobs that Excel gets used for. Here we’ve a few illustrations inspired by @msexcel. One or the...
by Chris Roast | Jul 9, 2020 | Excel, Mathematics, Teaching, Tips, Training
Developing spreadsheets involves is a balancing act between how much you express in formulae within a single cell and how much you break-up formulae across a number of cells. In many cases a single formula captures much of what needs to be computed, but it is so...
by Chris Roast | Jun 3, 2020 | Excel, Tips, Tools
EQUS, the spreadsheet visualisation tool, now allows you to easily make copies. For educators and other spreadhseet users the visualisation EQUS makes is helpful because it shows the structure of any formula and also the values used. Teachers like it. Some have asked...
