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Some positive feedbacks from participants



practical
example given
The "liveliness"
in teaching! :)
The vast practical
techniques & information that are relevant in our course of work, be it
current or future.
very lively and practical Lively Trainer &
shortcut booklet
Compact
and informative.
affordable and packed with
tips on Excel with handouts for reference
Handout given is useful and
the timing for the seminar is just right.
Short and sweet. It’s clever
The
handout was well-designed. Handy size, but packed with information.
The quick tips The booklet is very useful
& colourful.The lecturer,
Jacqueline is good.
How I can use Excel short
cuts to speed up the productivity of my work.
Informative, the booklet is
useful. The trainer is great in making the course interesting.
learning shortcuts to processes I would take longer doing there were a lot of things to learn in the excel which I was not aware of. Everything! the tiny booklet that was
useful and easy to carry around.
The handy excel shortcuts
tips book and the cheesecakes! :)
practical example given techniques taught. I look forward to new creations by Aeternus. able to understand the concept of creating excel charts and some of the tricks involve. Information share is useful….booklet given to us is helpful as well :) the speaker! she was able to capture people’s attention and made a non hands-on seminar interesting
doing charts is part of the job and going for the course adds value to my work The topic covered is very
useful and the booklet is very handy, too.
1) short and concise. 2)
Trainer knowledgeable and is able to offer practical solutions to problems.
food? The trainer itself. Managed
to engage with the audience well.
on how to design good charts to make it simple and clear to the users. Additional tips were given
on applications apart from the subject matter. Very generous indeed.
I was surprise to know that
there were different ways of creating charts.
The handout was
well-designed. Handy sixe, but packed with information.
How I can input scroll bars
to keep me updated of the trendline.
able to understand the concept of creating powerpoint slides and some of the tricks involve. The slides are interesting.. …entertaining at times… … It provided many info and design ideas to me which I never think of it. the slides used were very good at illustrating the various ideas and helped to bring the point across Tips for making presentations more interesting.
my favourite of the 3 courses. i liked every thing about it colour theory, making pictures from shapes, examples and templates that we can emulate how to make the presentation into a interesting and attractive picture. The clever and interesting graphic ideas. sharing of creative slides eg slide on timeline, a progression of line arrow presenting milestone etc
Showing us that beautiful slides could be created using built-in tools in powerpoint, and that we do not need to purchase expensive software to do the same thing. Learning to match colours and using powerpoint to edit pictures learn about bad power point slides 1) How to attract the recipient thru a fantastic powerpoint presentation?
2) Learn various techniques & acquire skill in preparation of powerpoint presentation.
How I beautify my presentation.

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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