About

The Surten Excel website and blog focuses on helping leverage the power of Microsoft Excel to transform data into information useful for making effective decisions.  My name is Martin Nolan, a retired Chemical Engineer, MBA graduate, and long time user of Excel (after starting my spreadsheet journey with Lotus123 and Quattro Pro).

During my career, I used Excel spreadsheets extensively in my work. Yet I always believed that we were missing a lot of opportunities to use Excel to efficiently gather, analyze, and report information for decision makers.  Last year, I began an Excel course at Daniel Ferry’s Excel Hero Academy and quickly came to realize that Excel was even more flexible and powerful at data collection, analysis, and reporting than I had believed possible.

So please join me at the blog as I share some of my experiments with spreadsheets.  Hopefully, we can learn together as we continue to explore the powerful tool that is Excel.