PowerUp Workshop: Making Beautiful Excel Charts
What if you could turn a drabby Excel chart:
into something like this?
For many Excel users, there is a need to produce clear, concise and even attractive charts in Excel without using expensive software. What is lacking are the clear techniques to do so. Compelled by this need, AEternus has designed a PowerUp Workshop to show participants how to achieve this objective.
The Workshop Outline:
- A collection of Formatting Chart Techniques.
- Demonstration of each technique to achieve beautiful results.
- How to replicate a Wall Street Journal chart.
- How to replicate a Economist Magazine chart.
- How to replicate a New York Times chart (read why this chart is beautiful?).
- Reverse-engineer other beautiful charts.
This 1 day workshop will serve as the pre-requisite for the more advanced Creating Executive Dashboards in Excel workshop.
You can sign up Making Beautiful Excel Charts.
Death by PowerPoint
Excerpts from our workshop & PowerUp Seminar: PowerPoint Design Ideas for the Non Designer.
It is a fact that most presentations suck, and they suck for many reasons.
This seminar is about how to create great looking slides. Making bad slides is easy and we have seen many. Making good slides is easy too, but you need to be willing to invest in your slides and invest in your own visual thinking skills. We’ll help you with the PowerPoint techniques along the way.
Great week of Microsoft Office Power Tips and Tricks
It has been an extremely fun week running Microsoft Office Power Tips seminars. We were invited by NTUC, Wincor-Nixdorf and Calyon between 24th and 26th June 2009.
| Registration for both NTUC @ One Marina Boulevard and Wincor-Nixdorf far exceeded than anticipated. The HRD had only expected 20 to 30 pax maximum to sign up. However, registration and attendance exceeded 100.
We had NTUC staff, from the different unions all over Singapore, taking time off to attend the seminar. We had Wincor-Nixdorf managers and heads end their meetings before 3 p.m. to make it on time for the seminar. I was well chuffed when Sharifah of Wincor-Nixdorf presented me with a token of appreciation of a certificate and a thumbdrive. |
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After the last 2 two days, it was a welcomed return to small and intimate sessions with Calyon.
![Jacqueline presenting the Microsoft Office Power Tips and Tricks Seminar at NTUC"]<img src="http://www.aeternus.sg/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/power-excel-word-powerpoint-tips-tricks-seminar-blog.jpg" alt="Jacqueline presenting the Microsoft Office Power Tips and Tricks Seminar at NTUC](http://www.aeternus.sg/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/seminarpic.jpg) Presenting the Microsoft Office Power Tips and Tricks Seminar at NTUC |
It was great to hear from the participants how much they learnt from the seminars. Short but impactful and of immediate productivity.
That has always been Aeternus’s message and purpose: It’s not about mouse clicks and features. It’s about showcasing HOW and WHAT magic Excel, Word and PowerPoint can do beyond the standard mouse clicks. |
We’ve created a series of Microsoft Office Power Seminars to harness what Microsoft Office can offer.
