Excel Roundup 20140609

What’s the oldest version of Excel, or other spreadsheet program, that you have lying around your office? In my office, there’s an old Multiplan disc and manual, and before that, I probably used a rock and chisel.

Gough Lui took a trip back in time, and installed Excel for Windows Version 3.0 – nine floppies, all 5.25″ in DD 360kB format. There are lots of screen shots, which might make you nostalgic for the good old days.

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Contextures Posts

Here’s what I posted last week:

  • I presented a couple of Excel sessions at a Microsoft meeting, and you can see a couple of pictures, and of of the tips that I shared.
  • Finally, for a humorous peek at what other people are saying about spreadsheets, read this week’s collection of Excel tweets, on my Excel Theatre blog.

And be sure to come back here tomorrow – I’m announcing an Excel giveaway, which will have a very short deadline!

Other Excel Articles

Here are a few of the Excel articles that I read last week, that you might find useful:

  • On the Cogent Legal blog, Michael Kelleher shares Excel tips for litigators, who might need to present numbers and calculations at a trial.
  • Winston Snyder shares his code for normalizing data that is in crosstab format, to make it usable in pivot tables.

Excel Announcements

Here are some upcoming events, courses and recently published books, related to Excel.

  • Using Excel with Chicago City Data — Ross Loforte (Microsoft Technology Center Architect) and William Stanley (Principal Solution Specialist for Microsoft) discuss how to use Excel against City Data Sets to visualize, analyze, and share those insights. Wed. June 11, 2014, 6:00 PM

Share Your Events and Articles

If you read or wrote any other interesting Excel articles recently, or have upcoming Excel events, please share a link in the comments below, with a brief description. Thanks!

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