Twenty-five years ago, on November 15, 2000, I registered and launched my Contextures.com website. It had a few Excel tutorials, and a small selection of sample Excel files to download.
Sample Excel Files
In the screen shot below, there’s a list of four Excel files that you could download.
- Employee Time Tracking – This has employee data, with a pivot table and chart to summarize the records
- Employee Scheduling – This has fancy data validation, so you can’t double book an employee!
- Date Calculations – This has date calculations, which are always useful in Excel!
- Daily Walking Record – I still keep track of my steps in Excel every day!
There are hundreds of sample files on my Contextures site now, and you can find them on the Excel Files page.
Data Validation Tutorial
One of the first tutorials on my site was in Introduction to Data Validation.
In the screen shot below, the table of contents shows the five topics that I covered.
- What is Data Validation
- Provide a Drop-down Lis of Options
- Data Validation – Create Dependent Lists
- Hide Previously Used Items in a Dropdown List
- Display Messages to the User
There are lots more data validation pages on Contextures now, and you can see them on the Data Validation Topics page.
Many More Excel Topics
I still love writing about data validation, pivot tables, and Excel functions, and there are many more Excel topics covered on my Contextures site too.
To see some of the Excel topics and tutorials, go to the Excel Tips and Tutorials page.
- Near the top, there’s an A-Z set of links, Excel Topic links, and What’s New.
- Below that, there’s an alphabetical list of Excel topics, to help you find what you need.
- In the screen shot below, the start of the Data Validation section is showing
Thank You for Supporting Contextures
Thank you for stopping by, to see what’s new on my Contextures site, or to find the solution to an Excel problem.
Excel is constantly changing and improving, so there’s always something new for me to learn, and write about.
I deeply appreciate your support over all these years! Your comments, and emails, and site visits, inspire me to keep going.
And Excel is more fun when it’s shared with other Excel lovers!
40 Years of Excel
Since today is the Contextures website’s 25th anniversary, it was a lovely coincidence to get a gift from Microsoft this morning!
This package is for Excel’s 40th anniversary celebration, and it came in this fancy fx box, carefully encased in bubble wrap.
Honestly, that would have been enough of a gift – a “good” box, and nice bubble wrap.
But there were gifts inside the box too!
- First, a green baseball cap, with fx on the front.
- Also, a matching green hoodie, which also had fx on the front.
There was also a nice note, and a fun slogan on the inside cover of the box:
- Making sheet happen since 1985
What’s on the Back?
The Excel fun continues on the back of the hat and hoodie!
- On the back of the hat, it says 40.xlsx
- And on the back of the hoodie, it has that fun slogan: Making sheet happen since 1985
I’ll wear these to Costco from now on, so people will get out of my road, when I roll down the aisle!
And here’s to many more years of exploring, and learning, and sharing, with Excel and Contextures!
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