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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.

Deep Structure report and installation clean-up

Deep Structure report and installation clean-up

In our last post we introduced the new Deep Structure function in Rainbow, which you’ll find on the menu under Summary Report. This lets you see at a glance which are the largest worksheets (tabs) in your workbook, and what sort of content each worksheet holds. And…

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Track down those #REF! errors

Track down those #REF! errors

You know how annoying it can be when one of Excel’s cell errors (#REF!, #DIV/0!, #N/A and so on) creeps into your spreadsheet, and as soon as it recalculates, the whole spreadsheet seems to be filled with error values. With a large or complex spreadsheet, it can…

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Rainbow Analyst 7.2 now released

Rainbow Analyst 7.2 now released

We are delighted to announce the release of the latest version 7.2 of Rainbow Analyst Professional! As trailed in previous posts, this features a major upgrade of the Map Risks function, of which the new dialog box is shown above. This now offers an array of 28…

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Use this report to find hidden inconsistencies

Use this report to find hidden inconsistencies

We’ve now completed the initial coding for the powerful new analysis options in Map Risks (in Rainbow 7.2) that can help you find inconsistent references in your spreadsheets. The screenshot above shows the “Inconsistent precedent copies” report,…

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Improved risk detection coming in Rainbow 7.2

Improved risk detection coming in Rainbow 7.2

As you can see from the screen image above, the next version of Rainbow (version 7.2, scheduled for release in December) will give you a much greater range of risk detection capabilities using the Map Risks function. The new Map Risks function will be able to analyse…

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New Rainbow Analyst 7.0 released

New Rainbow Analyst 7.0 released

We are proud to release the latest version 7.0 of Rainbow Analyst Professional, with many new features including: Multiple colours per cell; Colour identification and tracking; Quick file clean-up; Integrated “file save as”; Random and periodic data…

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Rainbow 7.0 on the way

Rainbow 7.0 on the way

That’s right, we have now added so many new features to the forthcoming release of Rainbow that we will be badging it as Rainbow 7.0 instead of 6.3. We have overhauled not only the colour management system (as detailed in our last post), but also the sub-systems…

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