2010 Simply Accounting Partnership Conference

We just spend the end of last week at the 2010 Simply Accounting Partnership Conference. What a blast! I’ll pass over the cowboys and dancing on the table, and move straigh to XLGL.

For the first time, we showed XLGL 4.0 to a live audience. Feedback was really encouraging; seems we’re on the right track. (a preview of XLGL 4.0 is available on YouTube)

The most popular improvement was, by far, the list formatting. In XLGL 3.0, you have to format list using specific Excel styles or you lose all formatting the next time you refresh. Very frustrating.

Not only is this not a problem anymore in version 4.0, but XLGL also looks at those changes and apply them all over the layout for a consistent look.

Next in line was the Freezing feature, which is now applied to the entire workbook by default and does not remove your formulas, only XLGL specific formulas.

As for new features, the ability to navigate the entire company data using a simple drag and drop interface blew everyone away. For some, when I showed how to build a complete Pivot Table with a few click, starting with nothing, it was all they needed to see to believe how XLGL is innovative compared to other products.

Not far behind was the new parameter autofill feature for worksheet function. That one is still in development, but it’s sure to be a very popular feature. Or not, as most people won’t even know it’s there while fully enjoying its benefits.

No, we did not show everything. There are still some surprise. We will continue our releases of preview videos until the ship date.

Thanks to everyone who made XLGL such a success, and thank you for your patience. XLGL 4.0 will be available soon.

Pierre Alain



XLGL 4.0 Preview

We just added a video preview of XLGL 4.0 on YouTube. The new version won’t be available for a while, but you can still let us know what you think. (Watch it on YouTube)

XLGL 3.3

We just released XLGL 3.3 with new material in the Getting Started guide and 3 new templates. There are other minor addition, but today I’ll focus on the new templates.

In the past couple of months, we have been getting more and more question on Excel PivotTables and Dashboards. Here are quick answers: Yes, XLGL works with PivotTables, and Yes, XLGL can produce amazing Dashboards.

Because dashboards are usually very personnalized, we never included any model/template for them. XLGL 3.3 changes that. We’ve included 2 new templates based on PivotTables and one complete company dashboard, featuring all sort of Excel tools that XLGL can work with: Shapes, Autofilters, Tables, PivotTables, Graphs, …

These templates can be found under the XLGL Ribbon/menu, and Templates. They were built specifically for Excel 2007, but can be used with previous version of Excel if you have the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack (Available here). They just look better in Excel 2007.

Here are some snapshot:

We won’t be adding any new templates until XLGL 4.0. If you have any special request, make sure to let us know.

Pierre Alain