Alison Pollecutt

About Alison

Alison has 30 years of experience working with spreadsheets.

She honed her Excel skills during her corporate days of project management and operational performance reporting for a global insurance company.  Now she loves using her knowledge and experience to help other spreadsheet users get insights and information from data.

Alison is a big fan of showing people how spreadsheets can make mundane and repetitive tasks faster and less error prone.  After all, less time wrangling data means more time being able to understand what it’s telling us.

For small business owners, spreadsheets can be a cost effective way to create simple yet flexible  systems that work the way you want.  Why learn to use (and pay for) multiple different online tools when some core spreadsheet skills mean you can get what you need in one place?

What makes her happy?  When someone who thought they hated Excel suddenly realises how much easier their life could be with the RIGHT spreadsheet.

Her best quick-fire tip?  Type today’s date into your spreadsheet using just Ctrl and semi colon.

Top 3 things Alison can help with

What formula(s) do I need?

You know or suspect that a spreadsheet will make your life easier but you don't quite know how to get there on your own.

Google and ChatGPT haven't really come up with the goods and now you're fed up, frustrated and want to throw your laptop out the window.

Don't do that - let's restore peace and calm to your world instead.

Why doesn't my spreadsheet work?

Have you got a spreadsheet that you built but you can't remember what you did and now it's broken?  Or maybe you inherited one from someone else and you're scratching your head trying to figure it out.

Sounds like the kind of challenge I love.  Seriously!  Let me take a look, I can't wait.

I do the same thing every week with a report and it takes ages.  Is there a quicker way?

Often we need to wrangle the same data, over and over, into the same final shape.

How about if you could do it quicker and spend the time you've saved working out what the numbers are telling you?

I'm a huge fan of building something so it's quick and easy every time you need to do a repetitive job.

This is a question that's not likely to be solved with a few minutes of advice but I can talk to you about what's possible