Category: Excel

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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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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