Author: Ken Puls

Write-back Using PowerPivot

In a discussion about PowerPivot yesterday, one of my friends stated that it wasn’t really useful since you couldn’t perform write-back using PowerPivot. To him this is a very important piece in the Excel budgeting process. Now, I agree that

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Data Validation in Excel Services

I’m a huge consumer of Data Validation in Excel. At this point, however, Excel services (the Excel webApp) is still so new that there are very few of the techniques that we normally use in Excel which are web compliant.

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Another Excel Services (Skydrive) Example

This particular file will show an interactive break-even analysis for an event entailing food and beverage. You can interact with the file and have the chart redraw. Probably the best route is to adjust by very large amounts to see

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Question on your modeling practices…

So I've been working on a massive model over the past year, and recently recorded a webcast on modeling practices. In the course I cover some of my philosophies for making sure that the model lends itself to attracting valid

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Recording Excel Videos

So this past Friday, I had the opportunity to go and shoot a couple of Excel webcasts that I'm doing for the Certified General Accountants. This was a pretty interesting experience, as I'm very used to doing live presentations, but

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Running Office 32bit with 64bit

I recently migrated to the 64bit edition of Microsoft Office 2010. My main reason for doing this was that I wanted to make use of the RAM in my machine with PowerPivot, but it certainly didn't come without a bit

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