About the Authors

This blog is administered by me, Dick Kusleika, and written by the authors. In December, 2004, I invited some respected Excel gurus to post on this blog. In a short time, they have had a tremendous impact on the blog.

About the Blog

When answering newsgroup questions, I tend to repeat the same answers over and over. As other newsgroup posters have done, I decided to start a website (www.dicks-clicks.com) to store answers to the most common Excel questions so that I could easily link to them instead of retyping them. Then I discovered blogs…

The benefit of a blog, to me, is:

• It forces me to post every day (well, almost). In a short time, I have a lot of Excel information on my site. It just wasn’t happening with the static html pages.
• A blog is a lot like a content management system. All my posts are in categories, sometimes multiple categories, whose links and pages are updated automatically when I publish. That takes a lot of the work out of maintaining a a static page, albeit at the price of disk space, bandwidth, and speed.
• I like the idea of learning in small bits. That’s how I learned Excel, one little feature at a time. Readers of my blog can learn one or two new things every day and over time develop their Excel skills with seemingly little effort.
• I think my readership has grown faster than with a static page. Once people discover the site, they’ll know they can return for new content daily.

There is one benefit to a blog format that I didn’t anticipate: comments. Allowing readers to post comments adds so much value to this site, that it just wouldn’t be the same without them. For instance, you can read a post about Conditional Formatting to see how I use it, then read the comments to get different points of view, different applications, and an occasional link to an online casino. Okay, not all the comments are good.

I try to write posts that appeal to all level of Excel users. Certainly any one post won’t appeal to everyone, but I endeavor to provide a good mix so that beginner and expert alike can get something useful every week. I also like to have fun once in a while (not Excel fun, but real fun).

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