So check with your users do a random sample of their spreadsheets, inspect them thoroughly, and determine what training is needed based on what you find. Training Systems Modelling Ltd . provides training and consultancy in spreadsheet modelling. Contact us to request a private in-company course. Download this free white paper, a shorter version of an article in Sep. 2000 Euro-Impact magazine. Millions of spreadsheets will have to be converted from national currency units to the euro by the end of 2001.
Few companies are likely to have the IT resources to devote expertise to every single one.
Most employees will be left to tackle this themselves, possibly with the help of a converter. Patrick O Beirne highlights the traps and suggests some best practice. For a list of free and commercial calculators and converters, see our euro conversion software tools page. Formlist is a free simple auditing tool that adds procedures for displaying the formulas of any selected range. Spreadsheet Selector Object Library provides the ability to extract data and formulae from Excel spreadsheets without the need to open the spreadsheets using Excel.