Author: Ken Puls

New Excel Help Forums at Excelguru.ca

Hello everyone, At the last MVP summit I had discussions with a couple of people about something that has been burning away in the back of my mind for quite some time... creating my own Excel forums. I've been absent

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Installing RSAT on Windows 7 SP1

Today we began the process of migrating away from VMWare to Microsoft Hyper-V for our server farms. Something I'm sure that Microsoft would be pretty happy to hear. And yet I got burned by an issue in the process that

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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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