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Here you’ll find details of each major update to our Rainbow Analyst spreadsheet audit Excel add-in. And to keep in touch, you can also follow our Facebook page.
See a logic map of your whole workbook with Rainbow 25.01
There's been a Logic Map function in Rainbow for some time, showing you very useful information about which cells are inputs (i.e. other calculations depend on them, but they themselves are not calculated), which cells are workings (i.e. they are calculated, and other...
Monetary Unit Sampling (MUS) and new high-speed Logic Map
This is our first blog for a while, but the start of 2025 brings important new features to Rainbow! In fact one of these is so important that we'll devote a whole blog to it later, and just mention it briefly here. This is the new high-speed Logic Map function. It...
New corporate setup options in v24.02.0
Many of our customers use Rainbow to support their own personal business, and they need full access to all Rainbow's functions. And this is what they get with a standard "Personal" setup of Rainbow. But we also have a number of large corporate customers, who for...
Automated formula editing in Rainbow 12.6.1
Rainbow's Formula Scan function lets you see instantly where there are inconsistent formulas that differ from the surrounding cells. So in the composite screenshot above, you can see there is a block of inconsistent formulas highlighted in red. And if you look at the...
New search and audit sampling in Rainbow 12.6
In Rainbow 12.6 we've introduced two new features which make Rainbow a powerful audit sampling tool. These are a new Find Cells function, and a major enhancement to the Sample Data function. The new Find Cells function gives you a powerful tool to find any of 6...
Updated Structure Map for large workbooks
We're very pleased with our new Structure Map function (see previous post) and its ability to visualise how a spreadsheet operates. But we didn't discover till later that it was going to have problems with really big workbooks. So in Rainbow version 12.5.2 we've now...
Visualise workbook structure with Rainbow 12.5
When someone sends you a spreadsheet to look at, do you ever wish there was an easy way to see what's going on? Well, now there is, with the new Structure Map function in Rainbow 12.5. As you can see in the composite screenshot above, this gives you a simple and clear...
Instant menu and more in Rainbow 12.4.4
Since introducing the new Menu Guide in version 12.4.2, we have been looking at how to make it even more useful. And we think we've now found the answer: a Menu Guide that all fits on one screen, and that's instantly available when needed. As you can see from the...
Rainbow 12.4.3 brings enhanced quick update system
Rainbow version 12.4.0 introduced a new Windows installer system to make it easier to download and install Rainbow from our website. Now with version 12.4.3 we have brought Rainbow's Check For Updates function into line with the new installer system. To get this new...







