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Wed, 21 Oct 2009
Scary Fall Giveaway For Excel Nerds
http://blog.contextures.com/archives/2009/10/21/very-scary-fall-giveaway-for-excel-nerds/
To enter, write an original (and suitable for work!) comment below, describing either:
A) an Excel related costume (real or imagined).
OR
B) your scariest Excel related experience.
The submission deadline is 12:00 noon (Eastern Daylight Time) on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Winners will be announced here on October 28th.
The Ghastly Goodies
Some scarily smart Excel authors, developers and publishers have contributed a monstrous mound of books and utilities for me to give away as treats.
Thanks to all the contributors – Patrick “Ogre” O’Beirne, Jan Karel “The Creeper” Pieterse, Charley “Crypt-Kicker” Kyd, John “Walking Dead” Walkenbach, Jon “Petrifier” Peltier, “Chiller” Chandoo and Matt “Killer” Kennedy.
From Patrick O’Beirne of Systems Modelling Ltd one copy of XLTest: Spreadsheet testing and auditing add-in — “XLTest helps you to check the integrity of your spreadsheets far more quickly than with tedious cell-by-cell inspection.”
From Jan Karel Pieterse, of JKP Application Development Services:
one copy of Professional Excel Development, 2nd Edition
one copy of Excel 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies
one USB key (1 GB) with a set of tools like Name Manager and a free RefTreeAnalyser license (1 copy of this prize is available)
From Charley Kyd of ExcelUser, Inc.
one copy of IncSight® DB: Excel Dashboard Templates Linked to Data — “Set up your first Excel dashboard report in less than an hour. "
From John Walkenbach of J-Walk & Associates, Inc.
one copy of the Power Utility Pak (PUP). — “Power Utility Pak Version 6 (PUP v6) is a useful collection of add-ins that brings significant new functionality to Excel. "
From Jon Peltier, of Peltier Technical Services:
one copy of a PTS Charting Utility – “When installed the utilities provide buttons on the Excel menu or ribbon that allow you to select a regular worksheet range and create a specialized and customized Excel chart.”
From Chandoo of Pointy Haired Dilbert
one copy of the newly released Project Management Bundle of templates for Excel — “The bundle contains 24 highly reusable excel templates for project planning, task management, timesheets, issue tracking, risk logging, status reporting and more.”
From Matt Kennedy of Apress, 2 prizes – e-books that you can download from the Apress website:
Pro Excel 2007 VBA, by Jim DeMarco (e-book)
Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups, by Tom Y. Sawyer (e-book)
From Debra Dalgleish of Contextures – 3 prizes. The 3 winners can each select one of :
Beginning Pivot Tables in Excel 2007
Excel 2007 PivotTables Recipes
Excel Pivot Tables Recipe Book