Calculations on a Filtered List in Excel

Auto filter is a wonderful thing isn’t it? With a few clicks of the mouse little dropdowns appear letting you filter your data in a myriad different ways.

In this blog, learn how to create a dropdown filter in your Excel spreadsheets.

Excel Hints & Tips – Calculating Age

You’d think that there would be an AGE function that worked out how many years since the anniversary by passing in a date. However, life is not that easy.

How to Customise Your Excel Reports With Slicers

At Happy we talk a lot about how great Pivot Tables are — and Slicers make your Pivot Tables and reports even better. With Slicers, you can have one Pivot Table that switches between different categories through the click of a button.

In this blog, Ian gives step-by-step instructions with how you can create your very first Slicer.

Excel Hints & Tips – Florence Nightingale & Excel

What on earth has Florence Nightingale got to do with Excel?


Florence Nightingale famously created a polar area diagram (a type of pie chart) in 1858 to show the cause of death in British military hospitals in the Crimean War. This highlighted the extent of preventable deaths (such as from typhus and cholera). The result was that the British government took action and commissioned Isambard Kingdom Brunel to design a new civilian hospital – reducing the death rate to just 1/10th of what it was before.



This important use of data visualisation shows how powerful charts (and especially pie charts) can be.