It has been a busy time for us over the Christmas and New Year period with various meetings / discussions held around the globe in London, Los Angeles, Rome and Melbourne amongst others, to name drop a few places. Indeed, Liam Bastick caught up with fellow Excel...

SumProduct is pleased to announce that our MD, Liam Bastick, has been re-awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Excel for 2015. This award recognises exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their...

Further to our last post, SumProduct teams up with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to deliver a Christmas Quiz based on an Excel problem for its Insight magazine.We gave advanced notice back in late November and now we’re giving our...

Each year SumProduct teams up with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to deliver a Christmas Quiz based on an Excel problem for its Insight magazine. You don’t have to be a member of CIMA to read the magazine or enter the competition. And you...

We’ve talked about Power Map for Excel 2013 before, but now seemed like an opportune time to provide a timely reminder (see the video demonstration below). Power Map is a three-dimensional data visualisation tool that lets you look at information in new ways by plotting data on Bing renders of the globe – all embedded in Excel. Not only can you plot geographic and temporal data on a 3-D globe, you can also show it over time and create visual tours you can share with other people. We’ve actually used to embed informative videos in a PowerPoint display for example. You can use Power Map to:

Launched in the United States June, the past two months have seen the latest hybrid laptop / tablet become available in a further 25 markets. However, you might have had difficulty in procuring one with some retailers (e.g. Australian) reporting scorched surfaces...

We’ve talked about ModelOff before, happy to promote anything proving that you can have fun with that killer mix of Excel and finance (hmmm…), but still unsure whether bastardising your keyboard in order to type 37,000 formulae a minute is necessarily a good thing....

We have reported previously that Excel is now available for your iPad (see Apple of Your Eye for further details). Now, Microsoft have updated this Excel app. Reported improvements for Version 1.1 include:External Keyboard Support: Using an external keyboard to input...

One of SumProduct’s regular contributors, Zack Barresse, has combined with fellow Excel expert Kevin Jones to write a warts and all tell-all book on Excel Tables. The two Excel MVPs have combined to write a book that explains what Tables are and how to create them....

Apologies to our readers not Down Under, but SumProduct hits the road in Oz having been invited to present for the Certified Practising Accountants of Australia (CPA Australia).There will be four half-day CPA Excel Masterclasses held as follows (all from 9am –...