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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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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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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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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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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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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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Office 2016 is Here! How Excel Consultant Can Help

Today is an exciting day for the Microsoft community! Office 2016 is making its big debut. This release is the first major update Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other applications since Microsoft launched Office 2013 over two years ago. At Excel Consultant, we understand that figuring out how to implement new programs can be both exciting […]

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Joseph Carrier, CTO and Project Manager, Promotion

Excel Consultant’s business is booming. Our team currently helps companies, organizations, and institutions throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia leverage Microsoft tools to their advantage. Our experienced programmers, instructors, and consultants use their expertise to design customized, sophisticated solutions that help businesses succeed in the digital age. As our company expands, we rely […]

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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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Free Excel Help – Named Ranges Vlookups

For those new to Microsoft Excel the Excel VLOOKUP can initially be difficult to understand, yet it is so useful that it is a requirement for anyone that wants to be an Excel consultant or financial analyst must master it. As you probably already know, Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application that contains numerous […]

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Free Excel Help – Power Pivot Tables

Through Microsoft Excel’s 2010 PowerPivot (Power Pivot) service application you give meaning to your data recorded in your Microsoft Excel worksheets. With Excel’s PowerPivot you can stay connected as a group and get help in running your business smoothly and keep an eye on the progress throughout, no matter how much data you have.  Creating […]

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Free Excel Help – Macros

Tired of repeating the same manual operations while managing data? It is very understandable. Repeating the very same action again and again, day in and day out, can be very frustrating not to mention expensive.  Excel spreadsheets can be managed effectively, repeating tasks and getting frustrated can be successfully prevented in Microsoft Excel using Macros. […]

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Free Excel Help – Keyboard Shortcuts For Business

For most people, when it is your first time to work with Microsoft Excel, you will concentrate on just completing your task rather than learning how to work efficiently for a faster completion of your task. That can usually be said for any software application. However, when you are ready to learn about the keyboard […]

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Free Excel Help – XNPV Function

Microsoft Excel is one of the leading analytical software tools available in the international market and is widely used by Excel consultants, financial and analytical firms as well as small business for calculating and analyzing data. Microsoft Excel is known for its ease of use and sheer power. Most importantly, it possesses a wide array […]

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Free Excel Help – SumProduct Function

The Microsoft Excel application is one of the global leaders when it comes to financial computing and analyzing data, from an Excel consultant and financial analyst point of view at least. This iconic piece of software, ever since it was released by Microsoft, has been a the first choice among all the major business organizations […]

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Free Excel Help – RoundDown Function

For all the analysis that is being done by the Excel consultants at the major as well as small-scale business firms all around, Microsoft Excel is the primary tool used by almost all of them. It is known for its very easy to use features. Without a doubt, the best feature in Microsoft Excel is […]

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Free Excel Help – PPMT Function

The Microsoft Excel PPMT function is a tool that calculates the payment on a basic amount during a defined period of time. The amount may be upon a loan or just an investment in some business that is supposed to return a value at a pre-settled interest rate. The payment that is to be made […]

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Free Excel Help – Dates Functions

In this free Excel help article we’ll look at some of the Microsoft Excel’s Date functions. The format of the date used in our article is mm/dd/yyy but this of course can be changed in Microsoft Excel. TODAY – This is a function that does not take in any arguments.  Used in a cell as […]

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Free Excel Help – DVAR Function

The DVAR function is one of several database functions available in MS Excel. If you are not an Excel consultant, but rather a business users, you might be wondering how a Microsoft function in Excel is being called a database function when Microsoft Excel is only a worksheet and not an actual database, such as […]

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Free Excel Help – DSTDEV Function

The DSTDEV function is one of the database functions in Microsoft Excel. You might be asking yourself how a function in Excel is being called a database function when Excel is only a spreadsheet and not a database, such as Microsoft Access. We’ll see that in a moment. As the name suggests DSTDEV or Database […]

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Free Excel Help – DPRODUCT Function

The DPRODUCT function is one of several database functions in Microsoft Excel. You might be wondering how a function in Excel is being called a database function when Excel is only a spreadsheet. We’ll see that in a moment. As the name suggests DPRODUCT or Database Product multiplies numeric field values in a column. This […]

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Free Excel Help – Median Function

Microsoft Excel has been one of Microsoft’s iconic releases and even many years have passed since it first came into being but its popularity has only increased. Excel provides us with the power of tabulating and evaluating data of all sorts and types with main focus given to the operation asked for by the business […]

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Free Excel Help – Max Function

Microsoft Excel is the most preferred data analysis tool in the market today. All the major analytical firms and business organizations have long back started using Excel as their major financial tool and it is no surprise that such a thing has happened. If you are an Excel consultant you live in Excel. If you […]

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Free Excel Help – IRR Function

The Microsoft Office Suite has a wide range of software that is essential for any business to run properly and one such application in the suite is Microsoft Excel. Excel is the dominant spreadsheet application and business tool that almost every firm uses nowadays. Because of its easy to use features and host of functions […]

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Free Excel Help – NPV Function

Microsoft Excel has been one of the most used applications in the Microsoft Office Suite and over the years has developed not just as a vital tool for Excel consultants and office workers but also for all data-related activity that is possible both at home, and business. So, with Excel there lies the power of […]

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Free Excel Help – COUNTIF Function

The Microsoft Office Suite has a wide range of efficient and relevant software that is essential for any business to run properly and one such application in the Suite is Microsoft Excel. Excel is the widely preferred data business analysis and reporting tool that almost every firm uses nowadays. Because of its easy to use […]

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Free Excel Help – CountBlank Function

Microsoft Excel is one of the global leaders when it comes to financial computing and analyzing data. This iconic piece of software, ever since it got released from Microsoft, has been a firm favorite among all the major business organizations in the world for their day to day computing purposes. Excel has got a massive […]

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Free Excel Help ISERROR Function

  If you are an experienced Excel consultant you know what this free Excel help article covers. If you are a small business owner looking for help on this topic, it means that you might have not come across this before. So exactly what is the problem and what does this article cover? A cell […]

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Free Excel Help – TAN Function

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet that is used by business to manage data. By default, when you create a new Excel workbook the workbook will contain three worksheets. Sheet is a shortened name for a worksheet or spreadsheet in Excel. A worksheet is comprised of a grid or table composed of columns and rows making […]

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Free Excel Help – TRUNC Function

If you work in business you should know what Microsoft Excel is. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application produced by the Microsoft Corporation. It allows businesses and its users to calculate, format and organize data using formulas and functions. Excel is part of the Office Suite, thus, it is compatible with other software applications in […]

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Free Excel Help – ROMAN Function

Microsoft Excel is the most widely used spreadsheet application in the world, it is written by Microsoft for both the Mac OS X and for Windows. It is typically used to manipulate and display numerical data. In Microsoft Office, Excel is used to manipulate data via various tools for analysis and organization, enabling the user […]

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Free Excel Help – RANDBETWEEN Function

Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application featuring formulas used for organizing, calculating and formatting data. It’s usually bundled by Microsoft in their Office Suite, which is compatible with other Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Outlook. Excel is used in almost every business, by almost every Excel consultant, in almost every part of […]

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Free Excel Help – RAND Function

Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application featuring formulas used for organizing, calculating and formatting data. It’s usually bundled by Microsoft in the Office Suite which is compatible with other Microsoft applications. In 1982, the earliest software program released was called the Multiplan, which has the same features as with Excel. With Excel an Excel […]

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Free Excel Help – ODD Function

The Excel’s ODD function rounds an entered number value to the nearest odd number away from zero. The function rounds up a positive number and it rounds down a negative number. The syntax of the Excel’s ODD function is: =ODD(number value) In this formula, the number argument is the numeric value that needs to be […]

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