Simon Hurst
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Simon Hurst is the founder of technology training consultancy The Knowledge Base and is a past chairman of the ICAEW's IT Faculty.
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11th Jan 2018
The EZ guide to Excel views
Objective: To improve productivity by ensuring that you can see what you want to see when working with Excel. Introduction In an upcoming...
Excel
19th Dec 2017
Use Power BI to create an interactive Christmas card
Over the course of the year we have looked at a variety of uses for the Power BI tools and the separate Power BI application. But this time...
Excel
4th Dec 2017
Excel tips as wallpaper: The Power BI alternative
Simon Hurst reviews the ‘Definitive 100 most useful Excel tips’ and turns the list into an interactive presentation. Because of my former...
Excel
21st Nov 2017
Using Power BI to save the world
As accountants, our training in the use of business graphics to communicate the message behind the figures is unparalleled. In the past,...
Excel
8th Nov 2017
The EZ guide to conditional formatting: Part 2
Objective: to make it easier to understand the significance of values in Excel worksheets and to help users focus on key information. The...
Excel
13th Oct 2017
Cutting Big Data down to size – part five: Animated map
Simon Hurst continues his Cutting Big Data down to size content series with a step-by-step guide on how to amalgamate and use data from...
Excel
10th Oct 2017
The EZ guide to conditional formatting – part one
Objective: To make it easier to understand the significance of values in Excel worksheets and to help users focus on key information...
Excel
6th Sep 2017
Cutting Big Data down to size – part 4: Geographical data
In part four of his Big Data series, Simon Hurst moves away from Power BI and back to Excel, where he looks at other ways to represent data...
Excel
11th Aug 2017
The EZ guide to the EZ guide
The first EZ guide article on number formatting was published just over a year ago. Since then there have been 11 further guides including...
Excel
8th Aug 2017
Cutting Big Data down to size: Power BI visualisations
In the first part of this series we discussed possible definitions of Big Data and considered whether some of the technology and techniques...
Excel