01 – Starting Excel from the beginning

One of my key ideas for this year is to create a section in my newsletter specifically for Excel newbies – so that people who are new to Excel can use it as a way to get stuck in and start understanding the terminology. If that is you, I would suggest starting...

My 21 for 2021

I do love a good podcast and one of my absolute favourites is Gretchen Rubin’s Happier. She does it with her sister – Liz Craft – who also has a great podcast called Happier in Hollywood with her writing partner Sarah Fain. One of their key ideas...

Cleaning up an accounts file with Power Query

One of the most common tasks faced by accountants and office workers is that of data cleansing i.e. removing the extra blank columns , sub totals, blank rows so beloved of accounts packages but which all need to be removed before any sort of Excel analysis can be done...

Faster Filtering with Filter()

Filter() is one of the new dynamic array functions in Excel. So what does that mean? If you have used Excel you will know that generally it has made like a single celled organism – create your formula in ONE cell and then copy it down or across. The new range of...