The History of Microsoft Access

The Story of Microsoft Access   According to Wikipedia, “Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the Professional and higher editions or sold […]

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Electrosonic

A New Microsoft Excel Client and Their Unique Need   We had a company call us with a request to document their Excel files. The person that wrote them, formulas and macros, left.   We documented two file consisting of over 20 sheets and 1,000 lines of VBA code by producing a 10 page PDF. […]

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Next to Staples PepsiCo is our most active repeat client

Next to Staples, PepsiCo is our most active repeat client   We have had the opportunity and pleasure to have worked/work with PepsiCo on multiple simultaneously projects with several divisions (R&D, Beverages), only having more work with Staples. For Staples we have completed over 650 projects and counting. Sure, many of those are smaller projects, […]

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How to Use Microsoft Access 2019 to Improve Efficiency

How to Use Microsoft Access 2019 to Improve Efficiency   Find out more about Microsoft Access and learn how the Excel Consultant team can use its functions to develop databases that enhance efficiency   Read Gregg’s complete post here: With Office 2019 Currently Pending release, is this perhaps the perfect time to update your version […]

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How Small Businesses Use Microsoft Excel

How Small Businesses Use Microsoft Excel   For those that are familiar with business, the number one desktop productivity tool of choice is Microsoft Excel, it’s hard to imagine life without it. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet tool that is used in millions of large businesses across the world and provides tremendous value to small […]

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What Makes Excel Consultant Different from Discount Contractors on Freelancer Websites

What Makes Excel Consultant’s Dedicated Staff Different from Discount Contractors on Freelancer Websites   Discount Freelancer Website contractors’ are most often simply the lowest bidders, the low end of the consulting services market, unqualified, unreliable, not guaranteed. Find out what sets Excel Consultant’s Microsoft masters apart; “The Smarter Microsoft Solutions Provider”.   Discount low quality […]

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Solutions: Custom Commercial Microsoft Solutions

We Build Custom Commercial Microsoft Solutions For Our Clients   Excel Consultant explains the growing field of custom commercial applications, their numerous advantages, and our successes with their custom Microsoft development       Excel Consultant’s team of Microsoft custom solution experts is committing to helping our clients maximize their potential with this essential suite […]

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400th Microsoft Programming Project for Staples Completed

Excel Consultant Completes 400th project with Staples!   Most business owners have heard of the business supplies store, Staples. Staples is one of a handful of very similar stores. Office this, Office that, etc. Staples is the leading company in this space, an their success can be attributed to their ability to know what the […]

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Measuring Your Success with Microsoft Power BI (Power Pivot)

Practical Problem Solving with Microsoft Power BI: Measuring Your Success   How well is your business doing? You can probably provide a general answer (“excellent,” “could be better,” “needs some help,” “growing quickly,” etc.) but how do you know? How do you measure success? Do the business tools you are using providing the answers in […]

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Should You Hire A Local or Remote Microsoft Consultant?

Should You Hire A Local or Remote Microsoft Excel, Access & Power BI Consultant?   Excel Consultant describes the differences between local and remote Microsoft Excel, Access and Power BI consulting, highlighting the many benefits our team of specialists offers.   Remote, or local: that is the question. It may not be the original Shakespearean […]

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Don’t Let This Happen To You

Don’t Let This Happen To You       Don’t Do It – Don’t Be The Upset Client On The Phone To Where? Make Sure You Know How To Hire The Right Corporation To Assist You   #1 – What you read below comes from an ongoing conversation with a new client. It is one […]

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Optimizing Your Business Performance with Our Microsoft MVPs

Optimizing Your Business Performance with Our Team of Microsoft MVPs   Microsoft is just one of our clients to benefit from the Microsoft Most Valued Professional program and the Excel and Access MVPs on our staff over the past few decades.   What exactly is a Microsoft MVP and how can the accomplished Microsoft solution […]

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Practical Problem Solving with Microsoft Power BI: Presentation Preparation

Practical Problem Solving with Microsoft Power BI: Presentation Preparation   Excel Consultant’s expert team explains how Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence) software can help you give more accurate, attractive presentations.   Imagine you’ve been selected to give a pivotal presentation to your shareholders, prospective partners, the press, or another important audience. Under all this pressure, […]

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Excel Consultant’s Microsoft Experts Manhattan Office

  Excel Consultant’s Microsoft Experts Manhattan Office   Socially, culturally, and economically, Manhattan is one of the major metropolitan areas on planet Earth. Famous author, E.B. White, even called it the “Capital of the World.” According to United States History, the region “is now worth more than $60 billion.” It should come as no surprise […]

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Practical Problem-Solving with Microsoft Power BI: Making Data Accessible

Practical Problem-Solving with Microsoft Power BI: Making Data Accessible   As most executives and managers know, information fuels an enterprise. Without client data, product specifications, inventory sheets, account ledgers, sales projections, and other crucial data sets, your business simply couldn’t function. These are, in many respects, your most valuable assets, since they allow you to […]

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What We Do For the Local Southern California Community

What We Do For the Local Southern California Community   For the past 25 years Excel and Access, LLC has been committed to assisting local non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and governments in our SoCal community   We Are Committed To Serving Our Local Community At Excel and Access, LLC our team of Microsoft masters is […]

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Introduction to Practical Problem-Solving with Microsoft Power BI

Introduction to Practical Problem-Solving with Microsoft Power BI   In this twenty-first century of business, we’ve come to expect that computerized technology will be the panacea for our problems. Well, the good news is that, in virtually every case, it is! Disorganized? There’s an Excel spreadsheet for that! Need information at your fingertips? There’s a […]

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Microsoft Excel 2016 for Mac Versus Excel 2011 for Mac

Excel 2016 for Mac Versus Excel 2011 for Mac: The Inside Scoop from Excel Experts   It’s a common computerized conundrum: the latest software is out, but is it what you want? Is it something IT will approve and support? Should you switch from your reliable, existing program to the flashy, new, exciting, and supposedly […]

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How Businesses Become More Productive Using Microsoft Excel

How Businesses Become More Productive Using Microsoft Excel   Said another way, How Do Businesses “Excel Efficiently“   Fact: Did you know that 60% of the Excel 2013 templates that come within Microsoft Excel were done by our company. Yes, several of our Microsoft Excel MVP’s worked on our organization’s project for Microsoft. Some project! […]

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Constructing Custom CRMs with Microsoft VBA

Constructing Custom CRMs with Microsoft VBA   ♦ We recently published a handful of blog posts centered around Microsoft VBA (Visual Basic for Applications, aka macros) and how the various Microsoft desktop productivity applications that make up Microsoft Office can use this code to get the maximum power and ease of use out of the […]

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Integration and Automation with Microsoft’s VBA

Integration and Automation with Microsoft’s VBA   If you want to get the most out of your Microsoft desktop productivity tools, such as Excel, Access, and Microsoft’s Power BI you will need to maximize both integration and automation with Microsoft’s VBA. VBA is the glue that binds the various Microsoft Office applications, in addition to […]

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Making Microsoft’s Vision a Reality

Making Microsoft’s Vision a Reality We’ve revealed Microsoft’s vision of integration and automation for its suite of software in our earlier post (Making Microsoft’s Vision a Reality). Find out how Excel Consultant fulfills this imagined future.   In our previous post, we revealed Microsoft’s true vision for its products: a seamless, unified system of software […]

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What You Might Not Know About Microsoft’s Vision

What You Might Not Know About Microsoft’s Vision It’s absolutely undeniable: Microsoft is a company of mammoth proportions. What You Might Not Know About Microsoft’s Vision is what Microsoft the powerhouse it is today. It’s a household name throughout the United States and even in the global marketplace. It is also how we at Excel […]

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Excel University Graduate Certification

Excel University Graduate Certification       Do you work in Microsoft Excel? Do you want to be better at it? CPA or not, learning Excel allows you to do more, in less time and effort, with Microsoft Excel. And good for you, our business associate knows Excel like a seasoned Excel programmer, he is […]

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Why Our Two Decades Of Microsoft Certification Matter

Why Having Over Two Decades Of Microsoft Certification Matter So Much In This Industry   In an industry where we making our living assisting clients with their Microsoft applications, such as Excel, Access, Office, SQL Server and Power BI, having that Microsoft Certification for an amazing 23 consecutive years is that much more meaningful than […]

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Yes, We Work With Educational Institutions (Colleges)

Yes, we work with dozens of Educational Institutions (Colleges) across the country   Last week we received a phone call from a university that was looking for a professional Microsoft Excel consulting services firm to help them with their Microsoft Excel applications. They were specifically looking to hire an Excel consultancy that had experience working […]

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Our Microsoft MVPs

A Look Back at Our Microsoft MVP’s Work Over the years our clients have had the opportunity to work with the numerous Microsoft MVPs that have been a major component of our team of Microsoft Excel and Access experts. Their contributions have lead to our raising the bar in our niche and have been nothing […]

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The Story of Microsoft Excel

The Story of Excel Today, only talk of an electronic spreadsheet and Microsoft Excel quickly comes to mind. You wonder whatever happened to Lotus 123 and other products that once seemed to rival Microsoft Excel. In its current format, Microsoft Excel 2016 (Both Windows & the Mac), delivers a game changing relational database via Microsoft’s […]

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Microsoft Excel 2016 Pivot Tables

What is a Microsoft Excel Pivot Table? According to the Microsoft website: “A PivotTable report is useful to summarize, analyze, explore, and present summary data. Pivot Tables enable you to make informed decisions about critical data in your enterprise.”   Who uses Pivot Tables? Literally anyone who has been exposed to them, because once you have […]

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Meet Our Team: Jacob

Name: Jacob Hildebrand. Position: Premier Developer – Senior Excel, Access, SQL Server, Word, Outlook, VB.Net Developer     Bio: Jacob is one of our most prolific, powerful programmers at Excel Consultant. He is one of the core members of our outstanding team, and for good reason. After attending Mesa Verde High School in Citrus Heights, […]

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Microsoft Office 2019 Training

Microsoft Office 2019 is out, learn how to use it like a pro. Microsoft Office 2019 Training   ♦  Let the Microsoft Certified Excel and Access experts at the Excel & Access, LLC group of companies be be your single go-to resource for all of your Microsoft Office Training needs as well as your Microsoft database […]

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Expand Your Excel Knowledge with VBA Express

Microsoft Experts At Excel Consultant, our team of expert instructors, programmers, and advisers is passionate about helping individuals and businesses harness the power of Microsoft technology. Many people merely skim the surface of what programs like Excel can accomplish, never realizing how useful they could truly be. Our cutting-edge consultants have devoted themselves to learning everything […]

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What is a Microsoft Certified Partner?

At Excel Consultant, we are committed to helping your business, organization, or institution leverage the power of Microsoft products to your advantage. Our experts maintain an in-depth knowledge of these tools and use their expertise to design customized solutions to suit your needs. To keep up with the latest software developments and establish our credentials […]

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What is a Microsoft MVP?

When you bring specialists onto your project or into your office, you want to know you’re working with the best. In a technical field like Microsoft programming, it can be difficult for executives and project managers to tell which consultants really know their stuff. When you work with a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), you […]

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