Foundation Excel

These are activity-based workshops designed to cut through the chase and sieves the excess.
It covers the essential Excel command and techniques to jump start productivity for Excel users.
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Up to Speed with Excel 2007-Basic & Intermediate
Expect to pick up practical tips and tricks to use Excel at a new level that will make you better organized and more successful in creating and using Excel spreadsheets. Duration: 2 days.
Up to Speed with Excel 2007-Advanced
We’ll deal with advanced topics of Excel 2007 such as basic business reporting, data analysis & programming with VBA.
Duration: 2 days.
Automation with Excel 2007 VBA Programming
With Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, you can create automated & mission-critical programs in Excel to boast productivity.
Duration: 3 days.
Data Management with Excel 2003/2007
Useful for Excel users who store large amounts of data records in Excel. Make good use of external data, run queries using specific functions, or extract useful data through Access Query.
Duration: 1 day.


Up to Speed with Excel 2007-Basic & Intermediate

Brief Outline
Introduction to Excel 2007 features & improvements.
Working with Workbooks and Worksheets.
Advanced Cell Formatting.
Must know Excel Functions.
Advanced Formulas & Techniques.
Introduction to Array Formulas.
Tools & Methods for Debugging Formulas.

Get to know your way around Excel and before long you’ll start creating workbooks and worksheets like an expert.
Sign Up: Excel 2007 (Basic/Intermediate)
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Up to Speed with Excel 2007-Basic & Intermediate
Expect to pick up practical tips and tricks to use Excel at a new level that will make you better organized and more successful in creating and using Excel spreadsheets. Duration: 2 days.
Things to note:
Designed for participants with no prior experience with Excel.


Up to Speed with Excel 2007-Advanced

Brief Outline
Introduction to Databases.
What-If Analysis in Excel 2007.
Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts.
Charts & Graphics in Excel 2007.
Introduction to Excel Macros.
Introduction to VBA Programming.

80% of Excel users use it as an application to store data. We’ll teach you to use Excel as a management decision tool instead of just storing plain data.
Sign Up: Excel 2007 (Advanced)
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Up to Speed with Excel 2007-Advanced
We’ll deal with advanced topics of Excel 2007 such as basic business reporting, data analysis & programming with VBA.
Duration: 2 days.
Things to note:
Designed for participants with basic knowledge of Excel 2007.


Automation with Excel 2007 VBA Programming

Brief Outline
An introduction to the VBA language.
Programming with Workbooks & Worksheets.
Programming with Graphical objects.
Programming with Range objects.
More VBA language constructs.
Programming with Custom Forms.
Create a complete Enterprise Information System.

If you’re an intermediate or advanced Excel user, this workshop helps you take your skills (and your spreadsheets) to the next level.
Sign Up: Excel 2007 VBA Programming
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Automation with Excel 2007 VBA Programming
With Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, you can create automated & mission-critical programs in Excel to boast productivity.
Duration: 3 days.
Things to note:
Participants should have working knowledge of basic Excel functions, formulas and number formatting.


Data Management with Excel 2007

Brief Outline
Importing Data: An Overview.
Excel’s Data Management Features
* Using the Worksheet Functions: An Overview
* Locating Data with OFFSET
* Finding Data with INDEX
* Finding Data with MATCH
* Using MATCH with Other Functions
* Using VLOOKUP
* Rearranging Data with TRANSPOSE
* Getting Data from a Pivot Table: GETPIVOTDATA
Using Microsoft Query.
Importing Data: Further Considerations.

Learn how to extract data from different sources and import into Excel for your business intelligence & reporting needs.
Sign Up: Data Management in Excel 2007
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Data Management with Excel 2007
Useful for Excel users who store large amounts of data records in Excel. Make good use of external data, run queries using specific functions, or extract useful data through Access Query.
Duration: 1 day.
Things to note:
Participants should have working knowledge of basic Excel functions, formulas and number formatting.


Data Management with Excel 2003

Brief Outline
Importing Data: An Overview.
Excel’s Data Management Features
* Using the Worksheet Functions: An Overview
* Locating Data with OFFSET
* Finding Data with INDEX
* Finding Data with MATCH
* Using MATCH with Other Functions
* Using VLOOKUP
* Rearranging Data with TRANSPOSE
* Getting Data from a Pivot Table: GETPIVOTDATA
Using Microsoft Query.
Importing Data: Further Considerations.

Learn how to extract data from different sources and import into Excel for your business intelligence & reporting needs.
Sign Up: Data Management in Excel 2003
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  2. (valid email required)
  3. (required)
 

Data Management with Excel 2003
Useful for Excel users who store large amounts of data records in Excel. Make good use of external data, run queries using specific functions, or extract useful data through Access Query.
Duration: 1 day.
Things to note:
Participants should have working knowledge of basic Excel functions, formulas and number formatting.

Ugly Real Economic Growth Chart from Singapore Statistics.

Singapore Statistics have the most amazing numbers on Singapore. Anything on our country’s GDP to how many handphones we have on average can be found. But the folks from SingStats seriously need to improve their charts.
Take a look here (http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/charts/econ.html#econA)

I could hardly make any sense out of these charts. They seems to be just thrown [...]

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A 10 year Balance Sheet Dashboard

Imagine you are the new CFO. You took over the position in the new firm and you want to look at the firm’s latest balance sheet.

You’ll probably want to see the firm’s 10 year balance sheet history.  It will be tough to make sense of things. What if you have a balance sheet dashboard instead? It [...]

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Klipfolio, a beautiful dashboard software. Free!

I have always been a fan of Klipfolio (http://www.klipfolio.com). This tiny software features beautifully made dashboards that run on your desktop. It’s useful and very clever. Download it, try it. It’s a low risk way to see how dashboards can work and it’s FREE!

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2015 Prediction: Google Docs is the new MicroSoft Office!

I just tried out Google Docs over the weekend and I like what I see. Google Docs is Google’s online version of wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and presentation software similar to Microsoft’s Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs.
Let me explain why you should pay attention to Google Docs. It might change your life by the year 2015!
Firstly these [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 4

I saw these couple of charts from the Standard Chartered Bank website.
Things I like about it:

Fresh colour scheme. Blues and greens work well together.
Bold titles that explain the intentions of each chart.
Each chart has an Increase/Decrease call out to emphasize the conclusion from the data trend.
Overall it’s a format that is pleasing to the [...]

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A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 3

The New York Times has the best illustrated charts I have ever seen. They are visually clear, easy to understand with good copy writing to explain the message behind a story. Note the use of blues and orange shades to give visual contrasts.

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3 simple red bands gave this mess of numbers and charts structure.!

A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 2

I have scoured the web and magazines for beautiful charts designs that we can use in our Excel reports. This will be part of a gallery I am creating. Do visit this blog for regular updates.

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Black, white, red and blue. What drama!

A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 1

I have scoured the web and magazines for beautiful charts designs that we can use in our Excel reports. This will be part of a gallery I am creating. Do visit this blog for regular updates.

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