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This portal offers many free help resources to
business users of Excel.

This Excel Help Portal provides links to roughly 2,000 articles that offer help about Excel. The articles contain a total of more than 1.4 million words.

If you have a question about using Excel, see Excel Questions below.

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Help with Excel Dashboards

Compare Metrics by Category Using Excel Dot Plot ChartsYou can create outstanding dashboard reports using only Excel. You'll see several samples on this page.

Our Excel Dashboards section offers help with Excel charting. For example, this Excel dot plot chart provides an excellent way to compare measures of performance by category.

More generally, this section discusses Excel dashboards. For more detailed help we recommend our Excel book, Dashboard Reporting With Excel.


Plug-N-Play Excel Dashboard Reports

About 90% of the work has been done for you with our Plug-N-Play reports. You just set them up, enter your data, and then print your dashboard reports.

You can change colors, print a variety of report designs, change the reports, add additional metrics, and so on.

This page provides plug-n-play help.


Excel Applications

Excel users in business often need help in creating Excel solutions. You know how to use the functions you need, but you're not sure how to use those functions to create your report or analysis.

The Excel Solutions area introduces articles about how to create a variety of Excel applications, including cash management, new product tracking, and variance reporting.


Hands-On Excel, and More Charts

Are you looking for help using Excel charts or other areas of Excel functionality? For example, this Excel dot plot chart provides an excellent way to compare measures of performance by category.

The Exploring Excel section explains how to summarize spreadsheet data, how to display areas under a curve, how to display any color in Excel, and a lot more.


Help with Excel With Business Ideas

For years, people have used the Z Score to calculate the likelihood that a business will go bankrupt. Our Business Tools section explains how to create an Excel Z Score analysis.

Is your company profitable enough to support your growth? Are you making or losing money on the cash you borrow. You'll learn about issues like these here.


Excel in the Enterprise

Many companies that sell business software say that business should "move beyond" Excel. The Enterprise Excel section explains how Excel can be a key resource for even the largest companies.

Excel Questions

We handle Excel questions in a different way than other Excel sites. When someone asks a question that other Excel users might also be asking, we answer the question with a complete article. Many of the articles in the following sections were written for this reason.

So if you have an Excel question that other Excel users might also have, send us your question using this link:

Send us your Excel question.

Excel Help by Category

Here, we offer links to a massive directory of Excel help topics. You can browse both short links or long ones. The short links offer only the titles. The long ones include more detailed information. You also can search this site for the Excel help you need.

We wrote a VBA program -- in Excel, of course -- to extract and categorize these links. Honestly, the subject categories need work. So when you find an article that's in the wrong category, isn't worth listing in the first place, or has a broken link, please let us know.

Category Link   Category Link
Add-Ins Short Long   Mathematics Short Long
Charts Short Long   Miscellaneous Short Long
Customize Short Long   PivotTables Short Long
Database Short Long   Printing Short Long
Date-Time Short Long   Programming VBA Short Long
Download Short Long   Setup Short Long
External Short Long   Statistical Short Long
Finance Short Long   System Short Long
Formats Short Long   Text Short Long
Formulas Short Long   Web Short Long
Lookup Short Long   Worksheets Short Long

The links in the table above are to pages on the following sites. If you can suggest additional sites with good Excel information, please let us know.

AJP Excel Information Microsoft Support
Alan’s Excel Pages Mr. Excel
Contextures Excel Tips Pearson Software Consulting
David McRitchie's Excel Pages Peltier Technical Services
John Lacher, MBA, CPA St. Francis Xavier University
J-Walk & Associates, Inc. Tushar Mehta Consulting
MeadInKent  



More Help
In ExcelUser....

Use Benford's Law to Help Planning

Auditors use this fascinating insight to look for fraud. But it might help you to make your budgets and forecasts more accurate.

 

Future Values from Scheduled Cash Flows

Calculate Future Values from a schedule of dates and cash flows, dates that aren't necessarily periodic.

 

Explore business data with small charts

When you compare measures of performance to other measures, you add context that brings insight. We use data about public companies to illustrate the process.

 

Summarize data with SUMPRODUCT

This function offers extensive power to summarize lists of data in Excel worksheets. It works somewhat like array formulas, but without the complications.

 

Raise alerts in your Excel reports

Excel can analyze and present data from any number of sources in one report. This makes it the ideal program to uncover strategic and operational problems that are invisible to other software.

 

Track product sales performance

Do you launch products, stores, or sales offices occasionally? Here's an easy way to use Excel charts to track their early sales performance.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


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