The most popular AccountingWEB article... ever!

Posted by John Stokdyk on Fri, 08/01/2010 - 17:16 in Blogs 2094 | report

At some point on Monday morning, the 213,100th AccountingWEB.co.uk member clicked into Simon Hurst’s article on New Name Range Features in Excel 2007 to take it past Gary Mackley Smith’s epic Tax links guide as the all-time most popular item on our website.

For some of the more statistically minded members of the team, it has been an gripping race that burst into life a few months after Simon published his November 2007 explanation of the uses to which you can put Excel’s new range naming capabilities.

Arriving on the scene just as rank-and-file users were starting to migrate to Excel 2007, the New Name Range Features piece was picked up prominently by the Microsoft Office search engine to lead many people to the AccountingWEB tutorial.

To celebrate the article’s rise to the number one spot on our hit list, Simon has written a follow-up piece suggesting a few more tips and tricks for using Excel range names.

The venerable Tax Links has been a feature on the site in various forms for the best part of a decade. Originally created by Tax Zone’s first full-time editor, this comprehensive online reference dropped off the radar somewhat as new tax writers came and went. But it was so useful in its heyday that many tax practitioners told us they bookmarked it as their browser homepage.

The traditional Christmas lull slowed the Excel article’s hare-like pursuit of the tax tortoise. As the new decade dawned, Tax links emerged triumphant as the undisputed AccountingWEB champion of the noughties - even if it was pipped to the all-time pinnacle a few days later. In honour of this achievement, we'll put a bit of time aside in the next month or so to dust the piece off, remove some dead wood and reinstate it to its rightful role as an indispensible reference source for tax practitioners.

On behalf of their legions of readers, I'd like to congratulate and thank both authors for these monumental contributions to the AccountingWEB canon.
John Stokdyk, Editor

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