Paladone I Love Spreadsheets Mug

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The proliferation of spreadsheets across the world of finance is largely due to its flexibility and ease of use. For exactly those reasons, anyone can create a poorly executed, undocumented and visually impressive spreadsheet. Whenever finance think ‘how can I do this without IT or data engineering’, spreadsheets are the go-to tool of choice. I’m going to start with the easiest types of spreadsheet merging and then move onto the harder types of merging. After that, I’ll include some common problems I ran into and some other methods of merging spreadsheets that you could use! I know how wierd it sounds to say “I love spreadsheets!”. I mean, you don’t hear people saying things like “I love Word documents!”, or, “I love JPEGS!” do you?! Ability to limit access to data, or spreadsheets, within a workbook that contains sensitive information.

Now they pretty much do anything,” he says. “The flexibility has been growing a lot and doesn’t show signs of stopping. That’s why at Rows we built the spreadsheet that works as modern teams do — it’s data-rich, collaborative and crazy fast. You can build anything from everyday tasks and lead lists, to automated reports and internal tools”I love spreadsheets! I genuinely do. It may possibly be the nerdiest thing I’ve ever admitted to. Maybe it’s the IKEA effect, having invested 20 years honing vlookup skills, formatting pivot tables, and choosing just the right graph to make my financial data mean something to someone, or maybe I just like the feeling of sinking into that comfortable spreadsheet memory foam. Don’t get me wrong, my spreadsheets are far from perfect, but I just can’t walk away. However, when they obtained the actual spreadsheet used for the original calculations, they identified three errors. Hear me out: Spreadsheets can do powerful calculations, they’re flexible, and they’re widely available! Sure, there are plenty of new platforms and apps around wanting to disrupt my spreadsheet habit (Hello, Airtable! I see you Coda 👋)— but I would need to start learning all over again. Spreadsheets are easy. They allow me to play around with numbers, presentation, formulae, graphs. They give me the freedom to prototype a solution without committing to the final output. There are few tools around in the world of finance that can grow with the business, enable finance to adapt to changing business requirements, and empower us to rapidly model business decisions into financial outcomes.

So, spreadsheets — while I 💓 you, there are some areas we need to work on. I went ahead and made a list (I hope you’ll forgive me 🤨!) Ultimately, in my mind, they’re used to organise chaos. A tornado of information is organised into rows, columns and sheets and suddenly, the world makes sense again. CFOs must have confidence in their data. They must know the exact data sources that feed into their financial reports — and their providence. The reality is that many finance departments don’t have visibility into data flows across their spreadsheet landscape. The data links between the different spreadsheets across departments, regions, and models are routinely undocumented and so impossible to view and accurately decipher. Dear spreadsheet — if it’s not too much to ask, can you make it easy for me to see where the data is coming from?

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Just mentioning Excel, spreadsheets or workbooks is often enough to send most people to sleep. If they do manage to stay awake, they’ll want to change the topic of conversation. Although, if their only experience with spreadsheets is what we were taught at school, I’d be the same so I totally get it. The definition of merging spreadsheets is right in its name — we want to combine two or more spreadsheets into a single spreadsheet. This is a really essential skill to learn for any novice Excel users out there. Interesting… what should I already know? After a week of extensive research compiling offers from major banks and credit card companies, I sent my sister an Excel spreadsheet breaking down her options,” he says. “Soon, that spreadsheet was forwarded widely outside of my family and friends. That’s when I realised there was a real shopability problem in financial services where consumers had to sift through banks’ dense materials for information.” My love for you grows... because you save me time and money