Author: Ken Puls

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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How Many Formulas In Your File?

The other day I was working on a financial model. During a break I saw on Twitter that @JesseH77 posted the following: My budget files have 180,850 and 160,191 formulas and 11 lines of code to count the formulas. This

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Data Labels on Chart Series

Since I know I have a few charting guys that follow this, I figured that I'd ask this question here. Hopefully the response will help someone! I'm creating a food & beverage function evaluation form, and threw a chart on

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Pie Chart of Daylight Hours

I came across this a while ago in a weather app on my iPhone, and thought it was interesting. Then there was a conversation on Twitter in which I brought it up as well. I'm not a huge fan of

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I stand corrected: PowerPivot WILL get VBA!

After all my evangelizing (or complaining if you like), I think it's important to acknowledge when someone does/announces something that addresses my concerns. Post titles are the first things that come up in search engines. So if someone is searching

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No VBA because PowerPivot is free!

Yesterday Rob Collie made a post on his blog about sizing considerations for PowerPivot implementations on Sharepoint. The main thrust of the post was directed at end users and making sure that their server farms have adequate resources to efficiently

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