Excel Training

Technically Excel 2019 is not yet available, however, many of the new features are accessible to subscribers to the Office 365 version. Microsoft has been moving toward a subscription-based model in recent years in order to make incremental changes rather than big changes to file types that posed all sorts of difficulties for Excel users. […]

Microsoft is rolling out several new features in Excel 2019, some of which are already available to Office 365 Subscribers.  Here we will highlight a few of our favorites:  Funnel Charts and the IFS, MAXIFS, MINIFS and SWITCH functions. Funnel Charts Funnel charts are commonly used in sales organizations to show how leads are converted […]

Tables come in many styles and formats. For reporting purposes, the better a table is formatted, the easier it is to read. However, formatting is often our enemy when we attempt to use the data for analysis, database, and data integration purposes. In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to unformat a table and […]

One of the exciting new features of Excel 2016 is the capability to generate geographical maps. This feature, called Power Maps, is now also available for Excel 2013. The types of maps that can be generated with Power Maps are only limited by your imagination! After covering the basics, we will demonstrate how to create […]

If you tend to avoid venturing away from Excel’s home tab, where you feel most comfortable, you are missing out on some features that could make your life easier. The Excel 2016 Data Tab, for example, is packed with useful functionality. In this post, we will review the functionality available in the “Get & Transform,” […]

The key to maximizing the return on investment seen from transcription is the speed, accuracy, and overall efficiency with which the transcription can be completed. A large portion of the responsibility in realizing these goals lies with the person performing the task. As a general rule, the more experienced and skilled a transcriptionist is, the […]

Microsoft Office 365 provides users with a combination of widely used and familiar applications, such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, along with some new tools, cloud storage, and more. This post intends to bring some clarity to the use and sharing of files with Excel Online, and how that relates to Excel Desktop and OneDrive. […]

Excel users often need to find unique values in a data field and conduct some sort of analysis on those unique values. The larger the data set, the more efficient this process needs to be. Most certainly, using the “Find” functionality on each value is the last thing anyone wants to do. Fortunately, Excel has […]

  Excel is the Top End-User Application Excel has been a valuable tool for people in many different professions for some time now. Many careers require that applicants demonstrate their knowledge of this Microsoft program. Almost every user knows the basic features that Excel offers, which includes data gathering, storage and analysis, but even daily […]

Consistent Training Creates Long-Term Results   One of the oldest and most repeated adages in the business world is that “people are your greatest asset,” and it is certainly an attractive statement. However, as the Harvard Business Review tells us, it isn’t always that simple. This belief needs to be taken a step further, and […]