Excel is the main reason Microsoft Office sells as many copies as it does, and Windows as well. This is because they can do so many different things. From organizing, to presentation, to automating business logic. Best of all most people can use them.
Deciding When to Bring in an Excel Consultant
Over time spreadsheets can grow to be massive complex structures. Thousands of documents with hundreds of dependencies. An good Excel consultant can not only help deal with this mess, They can also help to prevent it. Excel has many features built into it that will aid in managing complex projects. This includes a basic scripting language. A consultant would be able to suggest best practices with using spreadsheets, as well as ways to simplify the spreadsheets themselves.
A good example would be having to enter values into several spreadsheets. Maybe wanting all presentation spreadsheets to have a different appearance depending on the values. These things can all be automated reducing labor and costs long term. A consultant would be useful for lowering both management and labor costs associated with Excel.
What an Excel Programmer Does
An Excel programmer does two things. Firstly they can use the built in scripting language to automate and control many spreadsheet tasks. They can also use the .net Framework to control Excel with an external programming language. The consultant can suggest the best Excel programming choice, based on the situation and specialties of the programmers. In the most extreme cases Excel can be completely abstracted away behind an external program. Although, at that point it may be time to invest in transferring over to a database. A consultant should be able to help with that to.
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