Glenn Ray
US Data Team Lead
  • Houston,
  • Texas,
  • United States of America
Member Since: 2011/09/13
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**2014 EE Annual Expert Awards**
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software:  Most Points, Most Assist Points, Most Answered
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BASIC was my first computer language.  And even though I would pick up COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, and even some assemblers, I always returned to BASIC.  My first professional job involved writing code using InfoBasic on a Pr1me computer (I may be dating myself, there).

I got my start writing macros for Lotus 1-2-3 and was hooked immediately by the possibilities of automating spreadsheet work.  It would be a few years, however, before I got my hands on Excel 97 and began coding VBA.

Ever since, I've made a profession out of automating and integrating the Microsoft Office Suite of products.   I've tackled some interesting technical requests:
*  a custom Outlook email form and automated Excel report that retrieves the form data weekly
*  a time reporting system for over 900 employees using Excel and SQLServer
*  a standardized Word template for engineering documents with automated layout solutions
*  an award-winning, multi-variable pricing system for resellers of over 3,000 products

But, I get my biggest reward out of saving people time.  I routinely am asked to automate manual tasks and very often, can cut the processing time by more than 75%.  It's great when a user - who may spend a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon manually creating an Excel workbook due Monday morning - only has to call up a single macro and create the same report in seconds.  Which, of course, means that they can do it on Monday while they're settling in at the office.

And while I enjoy helping other people here at EE, I have to say that I've learned more from the participation here than in any other environment.  The questions have pushed my skills further also, and I get a kick out of discovering a solution to a problem I didn't know I had! :-)

-Glenn


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