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Isolist Beta Release

Phew! There’s a surprising amount of work involved in taking a product from my development PC and making it ready for general use. But finally, today, I’ve published the Beta version of Moverve’s first product, Isolist.
As explained in an earlier post, Isolist is an AddIn for Excel, providing a dedicated reconciliation function that matches […]

You are a programmer

Shortly after first learning how to use spreadsheets ( only 17 years ago ) I had a conversation with a friend along these lines:
Me - Creating spreadsheets is a little bit like programming. In fact, you could say that it is a sort of programming.
Friend - Programming? Spreadsheets? They don’t look like programming to […]

Separation of Data and View

Simon Murphy’s blog is an interesting read for those of us keen to make the best use of Excel. Identified in his post on the disadvantages of spreadsheets is that not separating “data” from “view” is a bad thing. This is the key reason why I recommend keeping data in clean lists, without contamination […]