Impress your boss. Impress your colleagues. Turn drab into fab. Tell your story with awesome charts in Excel.
By the end of this course, you'll have the knowledge you need to turn your numerical data into a set of engaging, attention-grabbing, and easy-to-understand visuals!
"Every Picture Tells a Story" is a popular saying which is true not only in everyday life but in Excel too. Behind every set of numerical data is a story waiting to be told. The telling of this story needs to be succinct, easy to understand, and engaging. For most people, it's much easier to understand data, uncover important insights and make better decisions if that data is displayed in a visual way.
Drab-to-Fab. Engaging. Attention-grabbing...you can create a basic chart in Excel with a couple of mouse clicks or even a single keypress but the result is very plain and not at all engaging. This training will teach you how to make your charts more visually appealing so that they grab people's attention.
Infographics are a popular way of presenting data. After participating in this course, you'll be able to convert a bland chart into an awesome infographic with just a few mouse clicks!
In many cases, charts created in Excel need to be copied to other applications such as PowerPoint, to be used in a presentation, or Word or a design application such as Publisher to be included as part of a report. On the surface, it's a straightforward process but there's a few gotchas to watch out for which you'll learn about in the course.
Aimed at users who have little or no experience in creating charts in Excel, this training covers how to visually represent your data using two traditional chart types in Excel - bar charts and column charts.
Here's what you'll get: Bite-sized, easy to understand, and to-the-point training delivered by an instructor with over 30 years experience of working with and teaching Excel
A copy of all the Excel workbooks used in the videos so that you can follow along with the demonstrations
Productivity-Boosting Excel and PowerBI Training
Mike Thomas has worked in the IT training business since 1989. He is a subject matter expert in a range of technologies, his primary focus and passion being Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and Power BI. In 2012 Mike founded The Excel Trainer where he has produced nearly 200 written and video-based Excel tutorials. He has recorded several Excel training courses which are available via a number of platforms and in his career delivered thousands of courses and webinars on a wide variety of technology-related topics. Mike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organisations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he also designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.
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