It had occured to me that design patterns for using Excel effectively would be very useful. Simon Murphy last week pointed out to me that I’m far from the first person to think of this and gave me a link to Dermot Bolson’s Excel design patterns. These are excellent, although I’m sure that more could be added. In particular, the Merge pattern is both new to me and highly valuable. It’s a gem. 
Looking around the rest of Dermot’s site I discovered that it’s possible to change colours in Excel. I can barely believe I haven’t seen this before. I feel pretty dumb when I think back to all of those times I’ve struggled and failed to find sufficient useful colours in the standard palette.
There’s always something new to learn.
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