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Don’t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 2

by Charley Kyd on October 5, 2009

Bad spreadsheet designs can hurt your career. I’ve seen it happen.

So in Don’t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 1, I began to discuss problems in a workbook sent to me by an Excel user I call Randy. I hope this will help you to find and fix similar problems in your own workbooks.

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Randy’s workbook has more than a dozen worksheets, [click to continue...]

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Don’t Let Bad Spreadsheet Design Hurt Your Career, Part 1

by Charley Kyd on October 3, 2009

Responding to A Free Offer to Help Excel Users Improve Your Job Prospects, a reader sent me a workbook this morning. I’m glad he sent it, even though it contains no dashboards. This is because it illustrates many bad practices I’ve seen in Excel reports over the years.

I’ll call my visitor Randy.

Assuming that he created the workbook himself, Randy certainly seems to know his profession. And he did several things in his workbook that I like. But on balance, he’s made many common design mistakes that overshadow his professional skills. [click to continue...]

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