Links

This page contains a couple of links to sites I find useful.

If you have suggestions for additions or find defective links, please let me know.

Newsgroups and fora

Let me start with the most important ones, Newsgroups and fora.

Compuserve's Office Forum: Ask your questions about any Microsoft Office product here. Moderated newsgroup.

Microsoft MSDN Forums: The MSDN forums (aimed at developers and VBA programming) operated by Microsoft.

Microsoft's Excel user forums: The user forums operated by Microsoft.

Eileen's Lounge: Very lively forum on lots of Microsoft software, including Office.

Excel related links

English sites

The Excel Blog By Microsoft: news and tips on the latest and greatest from Microsoft.

Office Automation (Stephen Bullen): An excellent site that hosts many good examples of how to do the impossible with Excel.

Decision Models - Advanced Microsoft Excel Consultancy and Solution Development: A wealth of information on Excel's calculation engine. Also the co-author of the Name Manager.

Peltier Tech (Jon Peltier): Excellent pages on how to create charts you thought were impossible with Excel.

Peltier Tech Blog: Jon's blog on Charting in Excel.

Nick Hodge's site: Various informative pages, especially on VBA.

Pearson Software Consulting Services (Chip Pearson): An excellent site with a wealth of information about Excel, including many advanced topics.

Ron de Bruin's Excel Page: If you want to send mail using lists in Excel, this is your starting point. Also the home of the Google search utility for Excel.

Daily Dose of Excel (By Dick Kusleika): One of the web's best Excel Blogs with daily tips.

Jwalk (John Walkenbach): Excellent site with a lot of information on Excel. Also hosts one of the most complete Excel blog lists I know of.

Application Professionals (Rob Bovey): Host of one of the utilities I use most frequently, the Code cleaner.

AJP Excel Information (by Andy Pope): Some very nice charting examples, VBA examples and utilities.

xlDynamic.com (By Bob Philips): Very interesting Excel VBA and formula examples.

Excel user (By Charley Kyd): Has interesting articles, about OLAP and Excel, about dashboard reporting and runs a monthly newsletter.

Excel Add-Ins: A blog with a nice list of Excel utilities.

XL-Dennis: Many, many articles related to Excel. Also available in Swedish.

The road of the cell masters: Nice interviews with Excel specialists, including me.

Excel Database Query Add-In: "SQL Excel can connect to all standard databases so you can easily consolidate data from different data sources (MS SQL Server, MS Acces, Sybase, Oracle, MYSQL, Firebird etc.). Use the add-in to quickly import data and then use Excel's power to analyse it in more detail if needed."

Excel hero (Daniel Ferry): Great Excel blog; intriguing downloads.

Dutch sites

Luc Heyndrickx's site: Interesting downloads and valuable lessons on Excel, all in Dutch.

Commercial Excel links

Add-ins.com: has over 50 Excel add-ins that make Excel easier to use and save you time, plus downloadable books (full of examples) on how to write Excel macros. The add-ins range from the Spreadsheet Assistant, which adds many time saving features to Excel, to specialized add-ins like the Risk Analyzer and Duplicate Finder.

Synkronizer: Commercial Add-in to track differences between Excel files.

DuplicatesRemover: The DuplicatesRemover finds and removes duplicates from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

Computergaga Excel Training: Excel guides and quizzes aimed at the Excel beginner through to an advanced level.

Quick-XL simplifies data entry in Excel: Quick-XL is an Excel add-in for entering data into Excel spreadsheets. It is designed to provide a highly ergonomic way to get data entered as quickly as possible. Quick-XL works in businesses of all sizes. Best news, the cost is under $10/yr.

MVP related links

The MVPs.org home page: A site hosted and maintained by MVP's, containing many links to MVP's and a wealth of information, including the Word FAQ.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional: The official Microsoft site about the MVP program.

Website design links

Pat Geary
Genealogy Web Creations and Web Design: Website Design, Tips, Tutorials, and Templates by Genealogy Web Creations.
Expression Web Tips, Tutorials, and Templates

Tina Clarke
Expression Blog
Expression Web Help
Expression Web Ezine
Migrating from FrontPage to Expression
Web

I followed Tina and Pat's course on migrating Frontpage sites to Expression web and I must say the course was worth every penny. Excellent material, very helpful and knowledgable instructors.

Access links

OpenGate Software - Microsoft Access Tools: Great tools for Access Developers