Speaker Profile
DENNIS TAYLOR
Dennis Taylor is an Excel expert. He has worked extensively with Microsoft products (especially spreadsheet programs) since the mid-1990s. He’s traveled the United States and Canada giving seminars to help his students unlock the full potential of Excel (so far, he’s been to over 40 states, and Saskatchewan is the one Canadian province he’s missed, but he’ll get there soon enough!). Dennis has a unique ability to describe, decode, and demystify the myriad functions of Excel for individuals and businesses. He’s taught hundreds of workshops and authored numerous tomes on this program. Chances are if you have a question about LOOKUP, data tabulation, statistics, math functions, or financial features, Dennis has an answer for you (actually, he probably has a training video, book, and seminar chock full of relevant information). He is one of the few Microsoft masters who understand and can bridge the gap between the divergent worlds of Mac and PC. He even taught Apple’s own high-tech team on how to use Excel. He also stays at the cutting edge of Microsoft technology—he’s already released hours of training materials on Excel 2016, which launched mere days ago. Dennis’s comprehensive knowledge, decades of experience, and passion for helping others learn Excel make him a perfect fit for our company. When he’s not exploring North America on his Excel training adventures, Dennis makes his home in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Accomplishments: Dennis’s 25-year track record of Excel exploits is nearly overwhelming in scope and volume. He has penned and presented more than 400 webinars on various Excel topics in the past nine years. Dennis has also produced numerous Excel courses on video, CD, and DVD. As if this wasn’t enough contribution to Excel education, he’s taught more than 500 seminars and over 5,000 workshops on the subject. Dennis recently partnered with Lynda.com to make his training even more widely available—he’s posted nearly 100 hours (over 30 courses’ worth) of easy-to-understand Excel explanations there. Dennis also authored Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2000 and coauthored five other titles in this field. Whether you’d prefer to read, watch, or listen, he can share his expertise with you. He’s also helped develop custom Microsoft coding solutions for impressive firms such as Harvard. LinkedIn. Core Labs, Red Bull, Honda, Toshiba, Ralph Lauren, General Electric, AT&T, Merrill Lynch, Union Bank, Walgreens, Verizon, Toyota, BMW, In-N-Out Burger, Amazon, Hewlett Packard, Staples, Ford, and even Microsoft itself.
Microsoft Excel: Data Management Features (Sorting, Filtering, Tables, Subtotals…)
Microsoft says that up to 70% of users surveyed use Excel to maintain a database or large lists. To be truly proficient in Excel, you must be familiar with these tools to manage data efficiently. It’s all the more important as data collection has become more automated and you’re getting swamped with tons of data. But what can you do with all that data? You need to know how to re-arrange the data (sort), see..