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 […]

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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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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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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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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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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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Our Team: Meet Stan B.

Name: Stan B. Position: Senior Access Consultant, Project Manager, Senior Access Trainer Bio: Excel Consultant is delighted to have Stan B. as a member of our team. While he is a multitalented Microsoft master, his prowess lies particularly in Access, the relational database management system. Those with the proper skills can use this powerful tool to […]

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Our Team: Meet Paul Delke

Name: Paul Delke Position: Senior Project Manager and Programmer (Irvine Office) Bio: Paul Delke has been a spreadsheet specialist for the past three decades. Since 1989, he has served as President of Automated PC Systems, Incorporated. As an independent consultant, he provides software solutions to major corporate clients using spreadsheets from Lotus and Excel. He joined […]

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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 Dennis Taylor

Name: Dennis Taylor Position: Senior Excel Trainer (PC and Mac Cross-Platform Expertise) Bio: Simply put, Dennis Taylor is an Excel expert. He has worked extensively with Microsoft products (especially spreadsheet programs) since the mid-1990s. He’s traveled the United States and Canada giving seminars to help his students unlock the full potential of Excel (so far, […]

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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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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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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 – 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 – Slicers

Dealing with massive amounts of data on your Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheets can be really messy. Particularly when you want to select some values for financial analysis and skip other entries, the job can be really frustrating. In a long spreadsheet, one with hundreds of thousands of rows, where the entries to be skipped from […]

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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 – Arrays

A variable which has is a similar type but holds a different value is what an array means. It is used in almost every programming language which can also be mixed or paired to different variables for a simple or more complicated structure of data. Due to the property of an array that it holds […]

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Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables

Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables are used in the user’s spreadsheet to present quantitative data in an easy and user-friendly manner to allow the user to quickly analyze large amounts of data. To manipulate data in an Excel PivotTable it must have data that is capable of being able to be categorized or grouped. To create […]

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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 – 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 – SumIf Function

The Microsoft Excel application is one of the greatest programs that Microsoft has ever been able to create and without a doubt a software without which you just can’t do without if you are an Excel consultant. Because of its easy to use and learn implementation, Excel has become hugely popular all over the world […]

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Free Excel Help – Date Function

In this free Excel help article we will look at some more of the Microsoft Excel date functions. To this list we will also add some of the Microsoft Excel time functions too as they both go hand-in-hand. EOMONTH  – The function stands for End Of the Month. It is a very useful Excel function […]

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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 – 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 – AVERAGE Function

Microsoft Excel is one of the leading analytical tools available in the market, and is the most used spreadsheet application in the world, being widely used by financial and analytical firms as well as students for calculating and analyzing data. Excel is known for its simple nature and high affectivity. Because of its easy to […]

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Free Excel Help – TANH Function

  Microsoft Excel is a software program used to develop, create and organize data using the spreadsheet or worksheet interface. Excel users and businesses often use it to deal with calculating, organizing, graphing and formatting data. Microsoft Excel has basic features, which are used for organizing data and for data management. Excel is also used […]

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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 – Advanced Functions

The Microsoft Excel function we’ll learn in this Excel help article is the RANDBETWEEN function. So what does the RANDBETWEEN function do? RANDBETWEEN generates random numbers between a range of numbers. This Excel function is very useful if you want to generate numeric data in a spreadsheet for testing purposes.  The syntax of the function […]

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Free Excel Help – SQRTPI Function

Microsoft Excel has lots of useful functions for Excel consultants to use, especially the mathematical functions which can be used by students and even the professional in their respective fields as well. These functions allow the Excel programmers to perform from simple to complex mathematical calculations. Also, they automate the calculation process for the users. […]

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Free Excel Help – SINH Function

In mathematics, there are the so-called hyperbolic functions which are almost similar to the trigonometric functions. One of these functions is the hyperbolic sine. Hyperbolic functions are mostly used in solving mathematical problems or equations, specifically, trigonometric problems. They are most often used by students in engineering, mathematics and science or even the experts. Not […]

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Free Excel Help – SIN Function

Using Microsoft Excel, you can easily create a new spreadsheet. However, you have to be familiar with the different functions and formulas of Excel to make it useful. One of the available functions in Microsoft Excel is the SIN function. Not often used by Excel consultants, but still of importance, so we will cover it […]

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Free Excel Help – SIGN Function

Microsoft Excel features numerous built-in functions for the average Excel consultant to use. This Excel help article will discuss just one of the functions of Microsoft Excel which is called the SIGN function. In order for you to learn the usage of this function easily, you will also be provided with a simple procedure on […]

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Free Excel Help – ROUND Function

When it comes to mathematical operations, one of the most efficient computer programs to use is Microsoft Excel. Lots of businesses, companies, professionals and students depend to this program for them to efficiently organize and compute data on a daily basis, especially professional Excel consultants. One of the vital Excel function in mathematical operation is […]

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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 – PI Function

Pi is a constant used in mathematics whose value is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. This mathematical constant is approximately equivalent to 3.14159 in the normal decimal positional notation. There are lots of formulas in engineering, science and mathematics which involve Pi. Because of this, Pi is one of […]

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Free Excel Help – POWER Function

The Basics of the POWER Function in Microsoft Excel The POWER functions in Microsoft Excel computes a given numerical value raise to a supplied exponent or power. The formula of the POWER function is: POWER (number, power) In this formula, the power and number arguments are number values. These arguments can be entered in the […]

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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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Free Excel Help – Conditional Formatting

It never amazes me at what an enthusiastic response I get when I first introduce someone to the Microsoft Excel Conditional Formatting feature.  Out of all the things Microsoft Excel can do, this one seems to get some of the most excited responses.  People just love it and want to learn how to use it.  […]

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Free Excel Help – AutoFilter

Have you ever used a Microsoft Excel AutoFilter? If not have you at least heard of it? No, well let me give you a quick overview of the Excel AutoFilter. The Excel AutoFilter allows you to filter and sort records based on one or more criteria. You do so using a simple interface, a drop-down […]

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