I ditched multiple Excel worksheets for one dynamic report and saved myself a ton of work

It’s easy to end up with multiple versions of the same Excel report. You might need one for each region, department, or product, so you copy the report and change the data it shows. I’ve done this plenty of times, and for a while, I didn’t see much of a problem.

Then I realized I was maintaining several reports that were basically doing the same job. I came up with a way to keep those different reports while maintaining just one, and it has saved me a ridiculous amount of repetitive work.

Multiple Excel reports work fine—until you have to change one

Four reports walk into a maintenance problem

In theory, there’s nothing “wrong” with having multiple…