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Key Excel MVP Web Sites

These are the top Excel web sites we know of for people who
have ever been Excel MVPs.

At last count, there were 64 Excel MVPs. Most of these people do not maintain web sites with extensive Excel help written in English. The following Excel MVPs are the exception.

Microsoft can drop MVPs for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of their web sites or their work. Therefore, this page will list top Excel web sites for anyone who has ever been an Excel MVP.

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  Charley Kyd, ExcelUser.com
I might as well begin with myself. Based in the Seattle area, I earned my MBA from the University of Washington. I worked as the CFO for a variety of small companies, then moved into consulting. I've written four books about spreadsheets and about 50 articles and columns for national magazines about finance or spreadsheets. I accept occasional consulting projects, primarily about Excel dashboard reporting.

  Jon Peltier, Peltier Technical Services
Jon earned a Ph.D. in metallurgy from MIT, and a minor in statistics. He worked for 23 years in R&D and Manufacturing. Based in Massachusetts, he provides Excel solutions that enhance information presentation, integrate with other members of Microsoft's Office suite, and save time through automation. His web site offers extensive tutorials, primarily about Excel charts.

   John Walkenbach
John, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Montana, is a well-known computer book author and software developer. Now based in Tucson, Arizona, he's written about 30 books and about 300 articles and reviews for InfoWorld, PC World, PC/Computing, Windows, and other magazines that no longer exist. His site offers extensive Excel tutorials.

   Chip Pearson, Pearson Software Consulting
A professional Excel developer,  he creates workbooks and add-ins for clients world-wide, primarily in the financial industry. His web site offers extensive information and advice about Excel.

   Dick Kusleika
Dick is the operations manager for an avionics test equipment manufacturer in Elkhorn, Nebraska. In his blog, Daily Dose Of Excel, Dick explores a wide variety of cutting-edge Excel topics.

   David McRitchie
Offers more than 200 web pages about using Excel macro solutions as building blocks. He includes usage notes to help users work with Excel spreadsheets. He also discusses worksheet formulas, VBA macros, backup & recovery, color palettes, conditional formatting, event macros, Excel newsgroups, response time considerations, generating HTML, lists of functions and subroutines, shortcuts, menus/toolbars, etc.

   Rob Bovey
Rob was one of the early Excel gurus. He's been an Excel MVP since 1995. He specializes financial, accounting, and Executive Information Systems, using Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, and SQL Server. In addition to tips, his web site offers his widely used (and free!) utilities.

   Tushar Mehta
In addition to Excel, Tushar consults in Computer Science, Economic Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Operations Research, Technology Management, and Finance. His web site offers extensive Excel samples and solutions.

   Andy Pope
Andy is a software developer for a data processing bureau based in London. He was technical reviewer on a couple of books covering Pivot Tables and What If Analysis. He has also contributed a chapter on charting to a book of Excel hacks. His web site offers many ideas for charting and VBA.

   Bill Jelen
Bill is the author of at least eight books about Excel, and he's a regular guest on TechTV's Call for Help. He is the host of MrExcel.com, with a knowledge base of over 188,000 Excel questions and answers.

   Debra Dalgleish
Debra is a computer consultant in Ontario, Canada, serving local and international clients. You can find a wide variety of Excel tips and tutorials, and sample files, on her Contextures.com web site.

   Stephen Bullen
These days, he works for Barclays Capital in London, developing pricing, risk management, settlement and reporting tools for the trading floor. He's also the owner of Office Automation Ltd, but no longer accepts consulting projects. His two sites for Office Automation and Office Automation contain many examples of his work, including tools and utilities to extend Excel's functionality, and many examples of Excel development techniques. (Why two sites? The first one was hijacked by a Russian porn site for several years, and he's just got it back.)

   Jan Karel Pieterse
From his home in the Netherlands, Jan Karel works as a fulltime Excel consultant. He develops solutions for customers all over the world, using Excel and Excel VBA. His Excel articles discuss topics about spreadsheets and VBA that other sites tend to overlook. His download page includes one of the most popular (and free) Excel downloads on the web: the Excel Name Manager, which he developed in collaboration with Charles Williams.

   Ron de Bruin
Ron works for a company that grows chrysanthemums. Excel is his hobby. His website offers a variety of useful tips, primarily about Excel VBA. He also offers add-ins including SendMail, Google Search, EasyFilter, and DataRefiner. He lives in Monster, in the Netherlands.

   Rodney Powell
Based in Houston, Texas, he has been providing independent contracting services to automate spreadsheet applications since the inception of VBA. His web site offers a variety of Excel tips and techniques, primarily using VBA.

   Zack Barresse
Zach lives in Boardman, Oregon, in the heart of Oregon's desert country along the Columbia River. His VBA Express web site has more than 65,000 posts to more than 8,000 threads. If you're looking for information about VBA, this is a place to come.

   Ayush Jain
Ayush lives in India and works as a Senior Analyst for an international consulting firm. He has worked in planning, launching new products, monitoring performance, and reporting on corporate strategy and long term change.