Excel Books

Books that I own and use while developing in Excel

Goods and Services

Excel or charting related products and services which I use or feel are worthwhile additions

  
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Excel Web Sites

Microsoft Excel MVPs

  • http://j-walk.com
    John Walkenbach, author of myriad Excel books, has tons of tips on every Excel topic
     
  • http://cpearson.com
    Chip Pearson's PSC Excel Web Source, an online encyclopedia of Microsoft Excel
     
  • http://appspro.com
    Site of Rob Bovey, where you'll find the indispensable Chart Labeler and Code Cleaner add-ins
     
  • http://oaltd.co.uk/Excel/Default.htm
    Stephen Bullen's web site, which features a variety of tricks, with sample workbooks and add-ins
     
  • http://contextures.com
    Contextures - Debra Dalgleish's Excel Tips and Techniques. Deb has lots of information and examples for all of those things you really should know about, but always need to check, including pivot tables, filters, validation, comments, conditional formatting, and more
     
  • http://andypope.info
    Andy Pope's Excel Information, with creative charting solutions and VBA tricks
     
  • http://tushar-mehta.com
    Tushar Mehta's web site, which includes charting content, helpful add-ins, and much more
     
  • http://www.jkp-ads.com
    Jan Karel Pieterse's tutorials and very useful (and free!) utilities, including the Name Manager and AutoSafe
     
  • http://www.mcgimpsey.com/index.html
    McGimpsey & Associates - John McGimpsey's site has useful information about Excel formulas, VBA, and Security, plus resources for users of Excel for the Mac
     
  • http://puremis.net/excel/
    Home of Masaru "Colo" Kaji, Colo's Excel Junk Room, and The Road of The Cell Masters
     
  • http://www.rondebruin.nl
    Ron de Bruin has posted tutorials and add-ins for emailing and for entering and filtering data
     
  • http://www.nickhodge.co.uk
    Nick Hodge is developing a variety of tutorials explaining the Excel user interface, charting, and VBA
     
  • http://xcell05.free.fr
    Laurent Longre's site is mostly in French, but his MOREFUNC.XLL worksheet function utility and documentation are available in English
     
  • http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
    David McRitchie has amassed a huge collection of Excel stuff, hints and tricks and tutorials on many Excel topics
     
  • http://www.prodomosua.it/ppage02.html
    Fernando Cinquegrani has developed a wide array of Excel utilities, mostly involving very creative techniques for displaying data which go well beyond anything Excel's charting capabilities could produce
     
  • http://orlando.mvps.org
    Orlando Magalhães Filho offers a variety of Excel utilities
     
  • http://www.dicks-clicks.com
    Dick Kusleika is better known for the Daily Dose of Excel on Dick's Blog, but there are some gems here on automation of Outlook and working with external data
     
  • http://home.pacbell.net/beban
    Alan Beban writes about array functions
     
  • http://exceluser.com/
    ExcelUser - Charley Kyd's categorized portal of Excel links, with emphasis on business applications, and featuring a dashboard approach to display of business data
     
  • http://www.thatexcelguy.com/
    That Excel Guy - Curt Frye, author of numerous books on Excel, Microsoft Office consultant, and professional comedian.
     
  • http://www.edferrero.com/
    Ferrero Consulting Pty Ltd - Ed Ferrero offers Excel tutorials, Excel charting tools, and VBA code and utilities.
     
  • http://blog.livedoor.jp/andrewe/
    Andrew Engwirda's Excel Tips blog, showing Andrew's experiments with many Excel-related features and technologies.
     
  • http://www.excelenthusiasts.com/
    Excel Enthusiasts - Ashish Mathur answers common questions, discusses best practices, and shares published articles on Excel.
     

Other Useful Excel Sites

Excel and VBA Forums
  • Microsoft Newsgroups
    These are the extensive newsgroups hosted on Microsoft's own servers, but read and replied to by volunteers, including MVPs like myself. Click on the link provided to access the web interface, or using an NNTP newsreader (such as Outlook Express or Netscape), set up an account using the news server msnews.microsoft.com, then subscribe to any groups of interest. I monitor the microsoft.public.excel.charting group nearly every day, and when time allows I also visit microsoft.public.excel.programming and .misc. I prefer NNTP access, but there are a number of web interfaces, including Microsoft, Google, ExcelTip, to name but a few. Archives of the newsgroups can be searched at Google.
     
  • Mr. Excel
    A well run forum with a clean interface, an extensive archive, and a lively population, this is my second favorite forum, after the Microsoft Newsgroups. The focus is on all things Excel.
     
  • VBA Express
    This forum has an environment similar to Mr. Excel, though it's newer and not nearly as large. It focuses on VBA and related programming, not just in Excel, but in any VBA platform.
     
  • JMT Forum
     
  • EXCEL-L and EXCEL-G LISTSERV
     
Excel Blogs

It seems blogs are springing up like mushrooms, and some disappear as quickly. Here are some of the Excel blogs that I have been following for a while. I try to remove any that become stagnant.

  • Daily Dose of Excel - Dick Kusleika's outstanding blog, where Dick and many other Excel experts cover the difficult topics in Excel.
     
  • Andrew's Excel Tips - Andrew Engwirda is "an incurable Excel addict" who shares his exercises and experiments in Excel.
     
  • Cell Matrix - John Mansfield blogs about his Excel experiences.
     
  • Microsoft Excel 12 - A discussion of what's new in Excel 12 with 'Softie David Gainer.
     
  • Excel Blog - "This is a blog about Microsoft Excel."
     
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