Learn how to apply best practices to reduce the error rate in workbooks you and others on your team create and edit. Equally important, you will learn how to take advantage of add-ins for Excel that can programmatically scan and audit your spreadsheets to identify potentially disastrous errors while there is still time to correct them. Discuss how PerfectXL, ClusterSeven, and ActiveData tools can help you and your team identify and correct potentially disastrous spreadsheet errors.

Excel errors continue to plague organizations of all sizes – estimates peg the error rate at approximately 90 percent. As spreadsheets become more common, testing and auditing Excel workbooks become more necessary than ever to mitigate the effects these errors could have on virtually every Excel user and those who rely on Excel-based data and analyses. Many options exist to prevent, identify, and correct spreadsheet errors before they adversely affect reports and decision-making processes.