The CEO of a small firm once told me, “With what I can afford to pay, it’s impossible to keep good help. The help I do get needs a lot of training—and even then…” So what do you do? The answer is simple: you build bulletproof spreadsheets that help the user get it right every […]
Automate Excel Tasks: To Save Hours Every Week
Automate Excel tasks If you’re still performing repetitive tasks in Excel manually, you’re likely wasting hours every week without realizing it. Tasks like formatting, data cleanup, report generation, and copying data between sheets can all be streamlined—or fully automated. If you Automate Excel Tasks (particularly tedious ones) you can improve productivity and staff morale The […]
“If Your Slow Excel File Crashes, Freezes, and Takes Forever—Read This”
Why Excel Files Become Slow and Unstable If you’re dealing with a Excel file that crashes, freezes, or takes forever to respond, you’re not alone. Many Excel users unknowingly build processes that gradually turn a workbook into a bloated, slow Excel file, leading to frustration and lost productivity. The good news is that most of […]
5 Signs Your Excel Process Is Wasting Time (And How to Fix It)
If your Excel work takes longer than it should, it probably is. An Excel spreadsheet rarely becomes complex all at once—it evolves that way over time. What starts as a simple, focused tool built to solve a specific problem gradually expands as new requirements are added. Columns get appended, formulas are copied and modified, and […]
Excel VBA UDF Optimization: Using Dictionary Caching for Speed
When a UDF looks up data from an Access table, Excel can end up calling the function hundreds or even thousands of times during recalculation. Without a cache, each call hits the database (a.k.a. server trips), opening connections, running queries, and slowing things down unnecessarily. By loading the product table into a VBA Dictionary the […]