Author: Debra

Perfect Unions With Excel Wedding Plans 0

Perfect Unions With Excel Wedding Plans

When my son got married, we did some of the wedding planning in Excel, and it helped things go smoothly. We even used the seating plan workbook on my Contextures website, that helps you...

First Demo of VisiCalc 0

First Demo of VisiCalc

Thirty-two years ago today, on May 12, 1979, Dan Bricklin demonstrated the new spreadsheet program, VisiCalc, at the 4th West Coast Computer Faire, in San Francisco. On his Benlo Park website, Peter Jennings describes...

Track Goals and Activities in Excel 0

Track Goals and Activities in Excel

David Seah produces a compact calendar each year, in Excel format, that you can download from his website. It’s a vertical format, with a row for each week, and the month start dates highlighted....

Spreadsheet Analysis: Value of a Bull 2

Spreadsheet Analysis: Value of a Bull

There’s a lot of bull in business, but if you’re actually buying a bull, this Value of a Bull spreadsheet should help with your decisions. Just like any other big purchase, apparently there are...

Spreadsheet Food: Diners, Drive-ins and Drives 0

Spreadsheet Food: Diners, Drive-ins and Drives

If you’re a fan of the Diners, Drive-ins and Dives TV show, you’ll enjoy this blog: http://dinersdrive-insanddives.blogspot.com/ And to make it even better, there are spreadsheets too! Look in the right-hand sidebar, and you’ll...

Excel Lead Tracker For Photographers 0

Excel Lead Tracker For Photographers

Here’s another creative use for Excel, from Leeann Marie Golish, a wedding photographer in Pittsburgh. She tracks her sales leads in an Excel Table, and uses pivot tables to summarize the results. On her...