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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…
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…
Upgrade for Excel 2010
We’ve just released version 6.0.4 of Rainbow Analyst Professional, with fixes for a few minor issues with Excel 2010, particularly the speaker beep when running the Inter-Sheet Logic function. Visit our Download page to upgrade your copy! We’re planning…
Two new versions of Rainbow Analyst
We have just released two new versions of Rainbow Analyst for the New Year! Both the Professional and the Personal versions have been upgraded: The new Professional version 6.0 is fully integrated with Microsoft’s Ribbon interface (for Excel and Office 2007),…
New features in version 6.0
Many professional Excel users have continued to use Excel 2003 rather than migrating to the completely new Ribbon interface in Excel 2007. However, in Rainbow Analyst Professional version 6.0 we have recognised that an increasing number are making the move, and we…