RingtailXL is a tool to automate the development of large Excel Workbooks. Automated spreadsheet development can speed the process, increase transparency and reduce errors. RingtailXL will automate the development of any Workbook which projects the values of variables against a timeline, though the ideas behind it are particularly appropriate in certain circumstances. It was written with project finance models in mind.
The resulting Workbooks are modular in design and fully documented. The documentation extends to showing whether each module, as well as the specification of the whole Workbook, has been changed since last checked.
RingtailXL was written by me, a single individual whose professional life relied extensively on spreadsheets. I started to create RingtailXL because of the continuing lack of tools designed to tame the process of spreadsheet development.
Beta Release 2.03 of RingtailXL is now available for downloading. This is fully functional and does, I think, function across languages and cultures, with the sole reservations that the sample data will only work on machines set to English language and that it will be incapable of translating files created on machines with different language installations of Excel. It now includes capability to trap circular references and to alter the order of rows in a Component by dragging and dropping.
RingtailXL featured at EuSPRIG’s 2009 conference, held in Paris in July, 2009 -
Contact me at angus@ringtailxl.com