Welcome to excelgraduate.com!
 

Excelgraduate is a website dedicated to helping you learn Microsoft Excel. Here, we publish super useful tips and tricks, how-to guides, and other resources to help make your life easier and save you time, when using Excel.

Excel is an awesome tool that can be used for anything under the sun, but for some… it’s a nightmare. If that is you, then you have come to the right place! Whether you’re using it for work, school, or personal projects, Excelgraduate can help you get rid of your Excel headaches. And who knows, if you stick with us for long enough, you might even start enjoying it! 

Whether you’re a student who needs help with a school project, or a professional who is struggling with an Excel issue that just doesn’t seem to go away, we’re here to help. In addition to the blog, we also have a YouTube channel, showcasing the latest Excel tips and tricks.

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About Me

Nico Mellett | Excelgraduate

G’Day! My name is Nico, I’m originally from South Africa, where I qualified as a Chartered Accountant many moons ago. I’ve lived in a few countries since then, but at the moment I am based in Canberra, Australia, with my beautiful wife and kiddos.

I got my first taste of spreadsheets when my dad introduced me to Lotus 1-2-3 back in 1989. My 7 year-old brain found it fascinating how the computer was able to remember all the information typed into the little cells, and how it was even able to add up numbers. Little did I know, adding up numbers was just the tip of the iceberg!

A few decades later I was working in the Cayman Islands as an auditor at a Big 4 firm, pouring over spreadsheet after spreadsheet, analysing vast amounts of data, always aiming to finish within budget, and meeting tight deadlines.

I enjoyed trying to find the most efficient way of getting a job done, combining formulas and other tools and techniques like PivotTables, and even good old “Find and Replace”, to analyse and clean up information.

I quickly realised that many of my colleagues really battled with Excel, which must have been extremely frustrating given the fact that they were using it every single day, under immense time pressure.

Claim Back Your Time

The defining moment came when a friend was working non-stop throughout his entire Easter weekend, to clean up a messy debtors listing, with more than fifty thousand records. He was manually working through the spreadsheet, trying to line up names with amounts outstanding, etc…🤮

I felt so sorry for the poor guy…. On Tuesday morning, when we all got back to work after a relaxing Caribbean long weekend, we found him utterly devastated, as he wasn’t even halfway through the data yet!

I sat with him to see if I could help.. After about an hour of manipulating the remaining 50,000 rows, we wrapped up the second half of the work!

That was the deciding moment, when I made it my mission to share tips and advice on saving time and reducing frustration when it comes to Excel. I wanted to help more people than just the handful that I work with on a daily basis, so from that, excelgraduate.com was born.

Stick around, and you will soon pick up tons of tricks to make life so much easier.

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Thanks, and enjoy!