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As promised earlier, here is our next interview. PHD will be interviewing John Walkenbach, prolific Excel author and MVP. Please suggest your questions and help me get a killer interview from John.

Okay, time for totally shameless self promotion, call me a bragging blogger, but I don’t care, not today. Because I am very happy to receive this e-mail from one of our readers. Click to read more.

Here is a list of 5 best posts from Jan 2009. Automatically Insert Time Stamps in Excel [12 comments], Excel Formula Wish list [25 comments], 6 ways to stack your column charts [17 comments], Hide worksheet tabs in excel [14 comments], 100 Excel Tips & Resources [10 comments]

Remember the PHD Excel Formula Helper Tool? Good, now it is available as an e-book, so that you can take a print out of all the formulas or save it on your disk and learn formulas at leisure.

For 5 $ you can buy this e-book and read it at your leisure.

There are some minor changes to PHD sidebar layout and feed address. Also, in this week’s featured links learn how to Understand Stock Charts in Excel, Choose the Right Chart Using this Flow Chart, Quickly Create Named Ranges using F4 Key, Print Multiple Areas by Creating a Consolidation Sheet and Get a List of Filenames in a Directory to Excel using Browser

Over the weekend I tried to move this site (chandoo.org) from one hosting provider to another. Whenever I do this, I dont feel so good and yesterday was no exception.

The move failed resulting in HTTP errors for most of you.

I have received 2009 Microsoft MVP Award.

The award is presented for Excel community contributions made in the past and includes a complimentary subscription to MSDN (and or Technet). It is a great feeling to know about this.

I am very thankful to this site and all the things I could learn and share through it. Special thanks to the anonymous MVP for nominating my name.

Happy New Year to all my readers. I am sure 2008 has been many things to many people, but I am hoping it has been an year of productivity and happiness for you. Here is to wishing a great, no, fantastic 2009 for you and your family.

November 2008 has been the best month since I started this blog and thanks to all the readers and commenters for your tremendous support.

We had 33 posts and 331 comments (highest ever). We also had 150,000 page views, 50% more than last month and highest ever. Our RSS subscriber base is now at 1750 and growing everyday. This is a great feeling and I couldn’t have done any of this without your constant support and motivation. I am thankful to each and everyone of you for helping me learn and share whatever I can.

Tomorrow is thanksgiving day here. It is a harvest festival on which people express thanks for what they have. Much like Sankranthi (pongal) in India. At this moment I am very angry and frustrated about the terror strikes in Mumbai. I am not sure how a person can do something like this to others. I […]

This is probably the 100th time I have changed this site’s tag line. So, it may not be a great news to you. But again, I need to say out this loud so that you, my dear reader, will know what this blog is going to stand for: Excel Tips, Charting Ideas and Visualization Oomph. […]

One of the most common comments we get here is “how does xxx formula works?” Even though there is vast documentation on excel formulas including the built-in help in MS Office, often it is difficult for us to learn a formula quickly and use it in a snap. So to help new users of excel […]

Hello there … Welcome to Pointy Haired Dilbert or PHD as we call it. Here is a quick intro to the site. What the heck is PHD? PHD is a blog about excel tips, tech tidbits and business insights. Well, mostly excel tips. I write most of the content while a vibrant and passionate community […]

25+ Excel Templates – Download and Use [plug] Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get all the excel downloadables in Pointy Haired Dilbert in one simple page? Well, I did and created this simple excel templates – download page. It has 27 templates currently and I will add more as and […]

Over the weekend I had sometime to cleanup the CSS and improve page layouts of PHD. The changes are: Post bottoms are hot now! Beneath each post you can now see 2 sets of links. One set with the usual sharing links for you to save the article to delicious or stumble or email it […]