How are you currently dealing with compatibility issues of Excel 2003 / 2007?

Fimodo speaks to five financial modelling experts to understand how they have (and continue to) deal with compatability issues.
Rickard Warnelid
Corality
www.corality.com The issue of non-compatibility of Excel 2003 / 2007 is not generally a problem internally within financial modelling teams, unless of course dif
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How has your approach to financial modelling evolved over your career?

Tuesday, November 24th   1 Comment

Fimodo speaks to four financial modelling experts to get a brief history of their professional development, and how that has changed over time.
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Using a faded colour scheme in Excel for user interface modelling

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I have recently been involved in a project where the end product spreadsheet has been designed to be used to consumers, i.e. a less technical audience than I...

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Set up a base template in Excel and re-use your precious Styles!

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When you create a new Workbook in Excel you get the standard three worksheets and the standard (useless) Excel Styles. This means that every time you want to...

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Can Fimodo change the financial modelling world?

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There are a number of financial modelling websites out there, and they all have their respective strengths and weaknesses. Over the last few years I have of...

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‘Edit directly in cell’ – Quick Excel Tip

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There is a setting in the Options -> Edit -> Setting section called ‘Edit directly in cell. The ‘Edit directly in cell’ related to the way Excel shows f...

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Do not use WordArt in your financial model!

Thursday, July 16th   4 Comments

In Excel there is a horrible functionality called WordArt. If you didn’t know this already then I apologise for having given you an idea of being able to pres...

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Improved financial modelling with conditional formatting

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Presenting data in a format that is easy to read in Excel can be a challenge, in particular when you are dealing with larger arrays of data. In this example we w...

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How many Excel Worksheets do you prefer?

Friday, July 10th   4 Comments

When building a financial model, for any discipline, you may want to think about if you want to have lots of worksheets with not much in each one or few but rich...

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Visually tracing all precedents in Excel without add-ins

Sunday, July 5th   7 Comments

There are numerous tools and add-ins in the market constructed to enhance the ability to critically review formulas in Excel. Many of these tools build on t...

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Snap to Grid – quick tips for perfect alignment in Excel

Saturday, June 27th   1 Comment

Preparing an Excel spreadsheet for distribution to other people requires an additional focus on presentation. This article outlines a very quick trick t...

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Optimise image presentation in Excel – 4 hot tips

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When working with images in Excel it is important to take control over the various settings to avoid presentation becoming sub-standard over time. A commo...

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