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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…
Sniff out spreadsheet “smells” with new Rainbow 9.0
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…
New Rainbow Pro 8.2 more intuitive than ever
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…
Stop “Too many different cell formats” errors
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…
Rainbow Pro 8.1 easier for new users
We’re very proud of Rainbow Pro’s rich set of analysis functions, but a few users have told us they have found it difficult to know which functions to use, and they would like something simpler. So we’ve responded to this by releasing Rainbow Pro…
Do it with fewer clicks in Rainbow Pro 8.0
We’re always looking for ways to make Rainbow easier and quicker to use, and the latest release of Rainbow Pro 8.0 helps you get where you’re going with considerably fewer mouse clicks. Even the Rainbow installer (the RainbowPro.exe file that you download)…
Rainbow Pro 8.0 released
As you’ll have seen from other pages of our website, we’ve now released Rainbow Analyst Professional (Rainbow Pro) version 8.0. In addition to the various new features mentioned in our previous post, we’ve used this opportunity to introduce a more…