Latest Updates

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In Rainbow 12.1 we introduced a Menu button at the left of the Rainbow menu which displayed a small grid of all Rainbow’s functions. This was to make it easier to see the subsidiary functions that are hidden in the drop-down menus under each main function….