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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
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…
Rainbow 26.02 reveals what’s buried in your workbook
Did you know that there’s a completely different way of looking at an Excel spreadsheet? And that it can show you information that you didn’t know was there, helping you avoid disastrous errors like the leak of data about Afghan personnel in 2022 that was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Coming next in Rainbow 6.3
We’ve built on some modifications we introduced for a recent corporate client (which we called version 6.2), and in the next couple of months we will be releasing version 6.3. There’s a new File Control group at the beginning of the Rainbow 6.3 tab, which…
More new features in Rainbow 6.1
A couple more new features that we’ve added to the latest (6.1.2) release of Rainbow Analyst Professional, to make your spreadsheet audit process as intuitive as possible: A new function (in the Format Editor) that will clear existing colours from your…
New Rainbow Analyst Professional release 6.1
We have just released version 6.1 of Rainbow Analyst Professional, with many new features to improve your spreadsheet auditing experience! The most important addition is the new Manage Names function, which supplements Excel’s Name Manager by giving you: An…