Making an attractive Excel product that runs on every Windows computer is challenging * What were my main considerations, tricks and compromises? Read on…

Most of you are probably already familiar with the recent addition to my Excel mastery offerings: The Ultimate Excel Date Picker. If you’re not, now is the time to pause and have a look: https://morsagmon.com/datepicker.

Product vs Project

Unlike a customer-specific project, the Date Picker is a standard product. What’s the difference, you’re asking? A project is designed to meet specific needs of a particular...

SUM, AVERAGE, COUNTIF, VLOOKUP – these are a few of the most popular Excel functions. If you’re advanced, or in a specific profession, you may also use DSUM, NPV, REPLACE – to name a few. Even if you heard of, or used, SUMPRODUCT – be prepared for a surprise.

As I was updating myself with Excel questions in Quora this morning, considering what to post in my Quora Excel VBA Expert Space, I came across this question: What is the most useful Excel function that no one ever uses? I needed less than a second to shout out: SUMPRODUCT!

The purpose of SUMPRODUCT

The...

Would you embark an airplane without safety doors, slides and oxygen masks? I won’t * While not a matter of life and death, I won’t deliver an Excel application without proper Error Handling. Here’s why, and a hands-on video on how to do it right

What is error handling?

Ever received an error message popping up from an application you had no idea what it means, what to do and what’s going to happen to your data you just entered? Maybe something like this:

How does it make you feel? Do you know what caused this error? Do you know how to avoid it next time? Do you...

Just a small Excel fix. Just a couple of tables as a temporary solution. Just a little help with some formulas * How small Excel problems turn into a large-scale, business software. Happens to me all the time…

Just a small patch...

Couple of weeks ago, I was approached by a business owner, with this story: he’s offering an online service that matches home loaners with investors. For every mortgage need, he matches many small investors (any person, basically) to fund this loan. Loaners’ monthly receivables are distributed to the loan’s funders, short of the...

Are you an Excel user?
Ever heard of Excel Macros, or VBA?
What comes to mind when you hear that?

Here are 5 surprising facts you may not know about Excel VBA.

1. Excel VBA is a complete software programming language. You can develop professional, top-notch business applications. Many of my customers work on Excel solutions for their mission-critical business needs, every day.
   
   Personal sales dashboard for increasing deals closure and meeting targets
   
   
2. Excel VBA can work with external data sources, including all major Databases in the market, such as MySQL, MS-SQL, Oracle, and others. You no...

You know an electronic spreadsheet is the right tool for your need, but you’re not sure which of the available products to choose. Two prominent options are suggested: Google Spreadsheets and Microsoft Excel. Let’s make it easier for you

First, let’s consider your requirements. The following list will help us frame the discussion:

• Do you need multiple users to concurrently work on the solution, or can one person at a time exclusively work on it?
• Do you need pixel-perfect visual design with wide flexibility over fonts, colors, forms design etc.?
• Does the solution needs to...

Creating a live dashboard is a skill combining data sourcing and staging (arrangement of the data to serve the dashboard elements), queries (typically SQL, or smart Excel functions), visual design, user experience and layout, and business requirements to be fulfilled. My students learn how to create beautiful, business dashboards.

I recently offered an answer on Quora to the question: How can you create a live dashboard with Excel for your clients? After submitting my answer, I thought my Blog readers may benefit from this as well, so here it is :)

Consider the following dashboard:

This is...

Last Sunday was our monthly meeting at Microsoft's Offices in Raanana, Israel. We are Israel's Excel Masters - developers and trainers mostly. We meet once a month at Microsoft's office to learn new things and engage in discussions with Microsoft's managers * Below are my key takeaways and predictions from this meeting with Microsoft's Collaboration Customer Success Manager, Maor. Do we know what is the future of Excel VBA?

Cloud Cloud Cloud

Maor, who's leading the Collaboration Customer Success with the Large Enterprises in the local market, presented Microsoft's future (cloud, cloud,...

Should you consider investing in learning Microsoft’s Visual Basic for Applications? It is so ubiquitous as it is supported by all MS-Office installations. However, it was not adopted as a general, all purpose programming language by the professional developers’ community. Who would benefit and what are the pros and cons of learning and becoming a professional VBA developer?

In my last blog post I offered a brief analysis of why VBA was not adopted by the professional developers’ community as an all-purpose business applications technology. You will not find too many...

A glimpse at any major open positions board will quickly reveal VBA is not among the popular programming languages out there, when it comes to business applications. This is surprising, considering the fact it is the language used in MS-Access, a database-oriented applications development environment that is part of the MS-Office 365 Business Suite, and the underlying language of the other, most popular MS-Office Suite of applications.

Brief VBA History

Ever since it was introduced in 1993 with Excel 5.0, VBA hesitantly played in between two fields: Microsoft’s Office applications...