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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our Team: Meet Helen Feddema

Name: Helen Feddema Position: Senior Access, Word, Outlook, and Excel Developer Bio: Helen is a New York City native who has been dedicated to digital software for nearly as long as it’s existed. While she waited for computer technology to catch up with her coding skills, Helen passed her time as an Ivy League student. She […]

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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 – Chart Titles

There are many features available in Microsoft Excel that could help you in making your presentations come to life. One of the features is that you can make use of are Microsoft Excel charts and graphs, which help you when it comes to presenting large amounts of numerical data. There are a lot of choices […]

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Free Excel Help – Data Types

What you enter in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheets is read by the program as general data, text, or numeric data. But there are limitations to each, and you obviously have to suit your own needs and preferences while using Microsoft Excel. The cell data type can be interpreted by Microsoft in different ways: numeric, general […]

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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 – 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 – RADIANS Function

When talking about programs that can be used for calculations the number one option is Microsoft Excel. This program is used by companies engaged in huge computations such as finance companies, architectural companies, engineering companies and a lot more. The program provides different mathematical functions for it to accommodate different mathematical problems. In this free […]

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Free Excel Help – QUOTIENT Function

When it comes to organizing and calculating data, one of the widely used computer programs is Microsoft Excel. In terms of calculation, Excel has so many functions, in order to be able to perform mathematical operations efficiently. One of the functions in Excel is quotient. This is very essential particularly in dividing the values entered […]

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Free Excel Help – MULTINOMIAL Function

Many people find it difficult to solve multinomial problems or equations. It’s really hard to do manually especially when you are working with large multinomial factorial equations in mathematics. Luckily, Microsoft Excel features a useful function to address that problem. This Excel function is called the MULTINOMIAL function. To begin with, try to read this […]

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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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