On March 5, Microsoft released a Preview of Office for Mac 2016, with the full suite due to launch in the second half of the year. This preview includes an updated version of Excel.In order to install the preview, Macs purchased from 2008 onwards should work, just...

At least eight of the current Excel MVPs have now been confirmed to present at the Excel Summit in Amsterdam on April 13 and 14.SumProduct’s very own Liam Bastick will be amongst the MVPs presenting in this two-day conference covering:How to use Power Query to...

Microsoft has announced that its next operating system will be offered as a free upgrade to owners of devices running Windows 8, Windows 7 or the Windows Phone.The offer, which is limited to the operating system’s first year of release, may aid its adoption, marking...

It has been a busy time for us over the Christmas and New Year period with various meetings / discussions held around the globe in London, Los Angeles, Rome and Melbourne amongst others, to name drop a few places. Indeed, Liam Bastick caught up with fellow Excel...

SumProduct is pleased to announce that our MD, Liam Bastick, has been re-awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Excel for 2015. This award recognises exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their...

Further to our last post, SumProduct teams up with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to deliver a Christmas Quiz based on an Excel problem for its Insight magazine.We gave advanced notice back in late November and now we’re giving our...

Each year SumProduct teams up with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to deliver a Christmas Quiz based on an Excel problem for its Insight magazine. You don’t have to be a member of CIMA to read the magazine or enter the competition. And you...

We’ve talked about Power Map for Excel 2013 before, but now seemed like an opportune time to provide a timely reminder (see the video demonstration below). Power Map is a three-dimensional data visualisation tool that lets you look at information in new ways by plotting data on Bing renders of the globe – all embedded in Excel. Not only can you plot geographic and temporal data on a 3-D globe, you can also show it over time and create visual tours you can share with other people. We’ve actually used to embed informative videos in a PowerPoint display for example. You can use Power Map to:

Launched in the United States June, the past two months have seen the latest hybrid laptop / tablet become available in a further 25 markets. However, you might have had difficulty in procuring one with some retailers (e.g. Australian) reporting scorched surfaces...

We’ve talked about ModelOff before, happy to promote anything proving that you can have fun with that killer mix of Excel and finance (hmmm…), but still unsure whether bastardising your keyboard in order to type 37,000 formulae a minute is necessarily a good thing....