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Improving Excel with Python (May 2022)
Revisited starter script from January 2021: Split Excel file into separate files Excel is essential, and Python is the future - forcing...
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Excel Top Tip #16 - Test yourself cleaning data in Excel? (part 2)
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Excel Top Tip #15 - How would you solve these 6 challenges in Excel?
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Excel Top Tip #14 - Set up Excel just for you
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Excel Top Tip #13 - The ICAEW Spreadsheet Competency Framework (part 2)
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Excel Top Tip #12 - The ICAEW Spreadsheet Competency Framework
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Frequently Asked Questions, by phone
How do you work with your clients? Quickly get to know more about how we do business with some points we live by: Supporting new users...
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Extract transactions with wrapped balance figures on a printed bank statement
Ever come across a bank statement with transactions that flow to the next line? These are tricky to extract into Excel, as the last...
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New extraction ability: Two dates per transaction (like in ABN AMRO bank statements)
A statement format that looks nice, but makes extracting transactions difficult is showing two dates in the same column like this: See...
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Excel Top Tip #11 - Do you use Excel's new functions?
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Can't copy and paste from a Barclays bank statement PDF
If you can't select the text in your PDF bank statement, then you have a scanned image. To extract your transactions with StatementReader...
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Copying and pasting gives different text - Extracting transactions from encrypted bank statements
Select the text from your PDF bank statement, copy, then paste into notepad - if you see gibberish or different characters in notepad,...
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Excel Top Tip #10 - Hide #N/A, #VALUE and #DIV/0, and more tips
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Lloyds TSB duplicate bank template - Extracting a PDF with a scanned image and searchable text
Lloyds TSB send out bank statements like this: Some of the text here is searchable, and some is an image, so the OCR engine skips the...
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New complex international bank templates
A selection of bank templates from India and UAE have been added in the latest release of StatementReader - helping you to get more...
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Excel Top Tip #9 - Level up in four new areas
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New bank templates for extracting transactions to Excel
Here are the latest templates to be added to StatementReader for banks from UK, UAE, Switzerland, Hong Kong, India, USA, New Zealand:...
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Excel Top Tip #8 - Improve Excel with Python
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Improving Excel with Python (Day 5 of 5)
My starter scripts in January 2021: Track changes in Excel My most hated feature of Excel is tracked changes. Tracked changes in Excel...
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Improving Excel with Python (Day 4 of 5)
My starter scripts in January 2021: Set the file attributes for multiple Excel files Setting file attributes for multiple files in one...
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