Comments on: Most Impressive Excel App?

By: David Barbetta

David Barbetta — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:34:00 +0000

This page is a nice consolidation of Excel apps so I continue to come back to post when I come across new things.

Barra Enterprise Platform (a database application for investment returns) has a powerful Excel connection tool.

I also recently came across ExcelDNA which -- in addition to furthering the merger of VBA, .Net, C#, and, well, all code platforms -- could make it easier to interface directly to dll's without all the DBA permissioning headaches:
http://exceldna.codeplex.com/

Overall though, I'd second Simon Murphy's choice. Essbase's Excel add-in is incredible.

By: David Barbetta

David Barbetta — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:21:00 +0000

I just came across an Excel app called ActiveData.
http://www.informationactive.com/

I'm not sure if it's new or has been around for a while. Anyway, it has some impressive functionality.

By: Harish

Harish — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:12:00 +0000

I use this tool InfoCaptor which is a Dashboard software. It connects to Excel and other databases. I setup all the queries and set it to autorefresh. Its pretty handy.

By: Terry Harvey

Terry Harvey — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:38:00 +0000

Wow: Dr Brian's Bezier curve fitting program blew me away.

No VBA: Stephen Bullen's Auto-Expanding Chart had a huge impact on how I setup my spreadsheets.

Presentation: Charley Kyd's Excel Dashboards changed the way I present data to senior managers.

Utility: John Walkenbach's PUP application and source code is the most best integrated and most instructive suite I have used.

Time: Chip Pearson's Time Zone API is an extraordinary piece of work.

By: Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:47:00 +0000

Just, kidding on the last post. Ross has a workbook that demonstrates encryption at this link.
http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2007/01/19/data-encryption-workbook/

By: Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:25:00 +0000

You can change the font to Wingdings

By: Buddha

Buddha — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:40:00 +0000

Is there are function in Excel that can encrypt the Cellvalue?

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:10:00 +0000

Yes, I need VBScroll too (Excel XP), but I understand XL2007 fixes the scrolling issue.

By: Dave Barbetta

Dave Barbetta — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:45:00 +0000

I’m not sure if you’ve seen any of the Pacman simulations out there. There’s one I’ve seen that uses cell background coloring to make the whole board and a macro to run the game and update the board. Not useful in a business sense but still one of the more impressive Excel apps I’ve seen.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:32:00 +0000

John -

The first computer I bought for my programming business has never needed any help scrolling in the VBIDE. I wondered what all the fuss was about. When I bought a new mouse, the driver installed by the mouse software suddenly broke VBIDE scrolling, so I rolled back to the previous driver. The scrolling came back, and no other mouse functionality was lost (as far as I could tell).

Every computer I've bought since (three I think?) has needed VBScroll. Go figure.