Blog Articles: Excel and Google Sheets

While some people get paid automatically, others need to request payment by sending out a bill. Whether your business is in consulting, sales, construction, or freelancing, invoices are an essential tool for accurate record keeping, meeting your bottom line, and communicating with clients.  Using Excel Invoice Templates While you could...

Not only is effective inventory management vital for a business, but it can also be useful at home. Businesses need to keep their operations running efficiently by managing stock to avoid shortages or surpluses as well as figure out which projects are performing the best. A homeowner might want to...

Information is power, but gathering the data to produce the right information can be a challenge. If you use Excel, your spreadsheets might be packed with valuable data, but few people have time to dissect it and make sense of the numbers. This is why Excel Dashboards can be so...

The expression, "work smarter, not harder," is something that applies to Microsoft Excel in spades. Excel is known as one of the most widely used and robust business productivity tools, and there is a lot to learn about this program. It's no wonder that users sometimes need a helping hand. ...

Think of the last project you had to manage. Did you have any tools to help you plan the project or stay on track? If not, there's a good chance that a few things fell through the cracks.  Successful project managers have realized that having a standardized process in place...

If you run or work for a sales-driven company and don't use a CRM, you could be missing some opportunities. Short for Customer Relationship Management, these tools do what you might expect — help you manage your relationships and contacts with current and potential clients.  While there are some costly...

If you want to take control of your finances, it might require more than a calculator and a notebook to manage your money. Whether you live alone, have a large family with a lot of expenses, or even run your own business, having a personal budget in place is an...

By day, Ryan Wells is a senior nuclear engineer for Duke Energy. He’s also an entrepreneur whose website, wellsr.com, offers VBA and Python tutorials. Wells teaches students to write macros, manage workbooks and worksheets and learn how to take advantage of all that Excel offers.  He spoke with us recently...

Have you ever tracked how much time you spend working in Excel? It might be substantial. But, when you break down the tasks that you do and realize that some of those are repetitive, there are some opportunities.  Maybe you've noticed that you routinely format everything the same or insert...

Excel can be an incredibly useful program with the potential to shortcut your productivity. With the right formulas, dashboards, charts, and templates, you can automate just about anything that would otherwise take much longer to do manually. While Excel is generally prized for its simplicity, this can be a misnomer...