Enhancing Your Excel Skills

This page provides links to resources that might help you develop new skills with Excel (and other applications in MS Office):

In addition, the Journal of Accountancy has a technology skills column that provides tutorials on a wide variety of computing skills:

Month

Title

Application and Tool

2008

June Web Syndication Using RSS

Accounting for Second Life
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Second Life (virtual reality)

February

Six Steps to XBRL

Discover the Power of Excel 2007

XBRL Tagging Lesson

Introduction to the changes

2007

November The Human Element: The Weakest Link in Information Security

Tools for Financial Analysis

Defending against social engineering
 

Financial analysis software packages

August Add Muscle to Excel User-defined functions in Excel
July Keeping Secrets Protecting MS Excel and Word documents
June Stay Connected on the Road

Collaborate on the Web

IT resources

Web-based services (office suites)

April

Surf Safely
Spyware Protection
Internet Explorer
Various Anti-spyware
March The Power of Arrays Excel array functions

February

What is Hot, Cool, and Very Useful! General Hardware, Software, and Suggestions

January

Navigate Speedily in Excel Data Excel Macros and Buttons

2006

December Dial a Forecast Excel Business Scenarios
November Links in a Blink Excel Links
September Click….and the Database Loads Into Excel Excel and Access
August Telecommute Safely VPNs
July Get the Word Out Excel with Internet Portals
June Skip This Article
(If You Don't Backup Your Computer)
Various
May Small Firm Technology Tips Various

April

Charts in Real Time Excel: Automated Chart Updates

February

Phight Phraud General Internet: Security

January

Can Spam General Internet: Security

2005

December High Tech for the Small Office General Hardware
November Double-Teaming in Excel Excel: Vlookup & Match functions
September Tax Software Makes the Grade Tax Software Survey
August Emergency Rx for Windows XP Windows XP: Recovery
July Email Express Word: Email Merge
June Time to Go Paperless General Paperless
May Prepare Data for Excel Excel: Data formatting & reformatting

April

Mass Mailings Made Simple

Word: Mail Merge

March

Add Even More Muscle to "What-If" Analyses

Excel: Scenarios Manager & Pivot Tables

February

Host A Virtual Meeting

NetMeeting

January

How to Automate Excel Functions

Excel: Recording Macro Commands

2004

September

Add Muscle to "What-If" Analyses

Excel: Scenario Manager

July

Make Your Own Push Button Database

Access: Switchboard

May

Tap Into XBRL's Power the Easy Way

MS Office: XML Enhancement

April

A Do-It-Yourself Automated Invoicing System

Excel: Vlookup

March

Make Excel An Instant Know-It-All

Excel: Pivot Tables

February

Ferret Out Spreadsheet Errors

Excel: Worksheet Audit Tools

January

Collaborate on Spreadsheets

Excel: Sharing

2003

December

Boost Profits With Excel

Excel: Solver

November

In Excel, Cell Names Spell Speed, Safety

Excel: Range Names

August

Turn Excel Into a Financial Slueth

Excel: Numerical Analysis (Benford’s Law)

July

Make Excel a Little Smarter

Excel: Cell Manipulation

June

Data Menus at Your Finger Tips

Access: Push Button Menus

March

Collaboration Without Headaches

Word: Sharing

February

Spreadsheets With Something Extra

Excel: Input Boxes & Messages

January

A Napster for Financial Data

Excel: XBRL Analysis

2002

September

Push-button spreadsheets

Excel: Worksheet Automation

August

Block that spreadsheet error

Excel: Validation

June

Targeting spreadsheet data

Excel: Auto Filter

February

Show-and-tell in real time

Excel & PowerPoint: Linking and Embedding

2001

November

Vigilant Spreadsheets

Excel: Conditional Formatting

September

Putting the Squeeze on Spreadsheets

Excel: Data Grouping

June

Tweaking the Numbers

Excel: Graphing & Control Buttons

April

The Automated Spreadsheet

Excel: Web Queries & Automated Notifications

January

Make Your Mark in Spreadsheets

Excel: Comments & Tick Marks

2000

November

Yes, You Can Program in VBA

Excel: VBA

October

Flowcharting Made Simple

Excel: Flowcharting

August

Drilling for Information

Excel (Access): Pivot Tables & Importing Data

July

Getting Numbers to Tell the Story

Excel: Charts & Graphs

June

Hey, What If…?

Excel: Single, Double, and Multi Variable Solutions

January

Spreadsheet Smarts

Excel: Conditional Formatting, Subtotals, & AutoFilter

1999

December

Spreadsheet, Meet Database Database, Meet Spreadsheet

Excel (Access): Pivot Tables & Importing Data

November

Building a Database From Scratch

Access: Basic

October

Getting the OOPS! Out of Spreadsheets

Excel: Worksheet Audit Tools

March

How To Link To Web Data

Excel: Web Query

1998

December

Add Perspective to Spreadsheets

Excel: Pivot Tables

November

Spreadsheet Safety

Excel: Worksheet Design

October

Sharpen Your Spreadsheet Skills

Excel: Basic Skills

 

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