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…

Rainbow has always been about finding hidden errors, and version 10.1 introduces a new analysis option (in Risk Map and Formula Scan) that detects error values lurking hidden in your IF() statements. A simple example would be where cells B3 and B4 contain the value 0,…

For Rainbow 10, we’ve responded to requests from a number of users for Rainbow to include a perpetual licence. So all Rainbow version 10 licences will now allow you to continue using the same version of Rainbow even after the licence period has expired (but you…

With Rainbow 9.2 we’ve built on the behind-the-scenes changes in version 9.0 to deliver significant new front-end capabilities: We’ve integrated Rainbow’s in-depth testing capabilities (in Risk Map and Logic Analysis) into the Formula Scan function…

Today we’re proud to release version 9.0 of Rainbow Pro, representing perhaps the most significant upgrade for several years. The most obvious change is that the Rainbow tab on the Excel ribbon menu has a new set of icons in the “flat” style used by…

We’re always looking for ways to make Rainbow Pro easier to understand and use, and in the just-released version 8.2 we’ve built on our “interactive reports” technology to deliver a whole new level of product integration. You can see this very…

Have you encountered a “Too many different cell formats” error message? This often occurs as a result of copying or importing worksheets from one workbook into another, because by default Excel also imports all the custom styles (cell formats) from the…