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Excel Learning Resources
- Wikipedia - Microsoft Excel as explained by Wikipedia.
- Excelisfun - Huge resource of free Excel how to videos; more than 1,700 videos to choose from. The creator of this channel is Mike Girvin, author of the book "Slaying Excel Dragons" and teacher of statistic, finance, math, accounting, and computer applications.
- Mr. Excel Videos - Youtube channel of Bill Jelen, creator of MrExcel.com; he has over 18 years of experience and works with clients all over the world designing Excel applications and solving problems. On his channel you'll find more than 1,200 educational videos.
- The Company Rocks - Free Excel training through multiple videos offered online. The founder of this site is Danny Rocks, who currently works as a catalyst to help individuals, corporations and educational associations to understand the need for change.
Blogs
- Microsoft Blog - Blog supported by Microsoft.
- Chandoo - Become awesome in excel with this blog. This blog started in 2007, and today has more than 350 articles and tutorials. This is one of the most popular Excel blogs available.
- Excel Pivot Tables - Unleash the power of pivot tables with this blog.
- Sparklines - A set of free User Defined Functions for Microsoft Excel to create Sparklines: the simple, intense, word-sized graphics invented by Edward Tufte & implemented by Fabrice Rimlinger. Several examples are included in his blog.
Excel Templates
- Microsoft Office - Collection of "Templates for Excel", Video training, information on Office Mobile and Office Web Apps, as well as an Answers Forum.
- Business Spreadsheets - Excel templates for a range of financial analysis and business decision making scenarios.
- SCORE - SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small businesses start, grow, and succeed nationwide. Business plans and financial statement templates
- OZGrid - Excel help, training, formulas, macros - includes both free content and paid content.
Add-ins
- MAPCITE - A collection of location intelligence applications that are feature rich, accessible to all and user friendly.
- Contextures - Excel tips and sample Excel files. Site is run by Debra Delgeish, author of 3 books on Excel pivot tables.
- XLSTAT - Provides a software suite that is integrated in with Excel; the leading product is a data analysis and statistical add-in.
- ASAP Utilities - The essential add-in for Excel users. ASAP has been around since 1999 and is likely the most popular add-in for Excel. Both paid and free versions are available; in addition, their website includes numerous videos demonstrating the functionality of their product.
- DigDB - Multiple add-ins categorized by task. Includes a 15-day trial period.
- AbleBits - Add-ins for Microsoft Excel; works with Excel 2010 32-bit and 64-bit, Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP), 2000.
- Office-Addins - A wide range of add-ins, plug-ins, and add-ons - categorized by task.
- Add-ins.com - Save time in Excel and make it easier to use. Established since 1994.
- Sparklines - A set of free User Defined Functions for Microsoft Excel to create Sparklines: the simple, intense, word-sized graphics invented by Edward Tufte & implemented by Fabrice Rimlinger. Several examples are included in his blog.
- FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data contains over 30,000 economic time series. The FRED Add-in provides data users with an additional means of accessing this database. This Add-in is free, and easy to use - very powerful for those of you who utilize economic data.
- ExcelFix - Excel recovery software utility designed to restore corrupt or damaged files that cannot be opened. Works with Excel 95 through 2007
- Excellent Analytics - An open source initiative you can download that allows you to pull google analytics information into Excel.
- Andy Pope - Pattern fill-in for charts. This tool is free & we've used it in some of our templates.
Other
- Dropbox - A free service that lets you add files (Excel files, documents, photos, and videos) and share them easily.
- Beside - Import wizard enables you to easily import text based report files into Excel (and many other applications).
- Able2Extract - Transfer native PDFs into formatted MS Excel spreadsheets (or Word) for editing, analysis and other reversioning.
- Cometdocs - Free online service to convert PDF's into MS Excel spreadsheets - no download required.
- Numbers - App designed for both the iPad and iPhone; lets you make spreadsheets in minutes — with tables, charts, photos, and graphics — using just your fingers.
- Documents to Go - App designed for both the iPad and iPhone; view/Edit/Create Word and Excel files; plus much more.
- Quickoffice Pro - App designed for both the iPad and iPhone; create, edit, access & share Microsoft Office files.
- Decision Making Using Excel - A whitepaper
