Speaker Profile
MIKE THOMAS
Mike Thomas has worked in the IT training business since 1989. He is a subject matter expert in a range of technologies including Microsoft Office and Apple Mac. In 2012 Mike founded theexceltrainer.co.uk where he has produced nearly 200 written and video-based Excel tutorials. He has recorded several Excel training courses for pluralsight.com and in his career delivered hundreds 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 organizations 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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Mike Thomas
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Excel – Quick Tips to Help You be More Productive
Few people learn or use Excel for fun. In fact, many people see it as a necessary evil. So if you have to use it, why not learn to use it faster and more effectively? How often have you found yourself in Excel thinking, “There must be a better and faster way to do this?”In this session, you’ll learn a handful of powerful productivity-boosting tips and secrets that will speed up your work in Excel, save you ..
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Mike Thomas
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Excel-10 Must-Know Functions to Boost Your Productivity
Microsoft Excel contains almost 500 built-in worksheet functions. Strip away the ones nobody uses. Discount the ones that have a specialized use-case and you’re left with a small set of functions that all Excel users should know, regardless of their job function, industry or business sector. This webinar covers ten of Excel’s most popular productivity-boosting functions.Areas CoveredIF: Automate data entry,..
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Mike Thomas
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Outlook - Master Your Mailbox - Inbox Hero Inbox Zero
For most business users (and many home users too), Microsoft Outlook has become the standard application for managing emails, calendar appointments and to-dos. With an abundance of features and versions for desktop and mobile, there’s really no excuse not to be organized. Or so the theory goes. With the average office worker receiving over 100 emails per day, the reality for most people is email overload, m..
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Mike Thomas
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Power BI - Create Compelling Interactive Reports
Power BI is an application from Microsoft that turns your raw data(loaded in from a variety of sources) into stunning interactive visual reports, providing you with real-time insights into your data and enabling you to make better business decisions.Gone are the days of submitting a request to the IT Department and waiting for them to produce a less than perfect report. With Power BI you can create those re..
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Mike Thomas
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Word Tips and Tricks
In today's world, it is very important to communicate using documents like letters, emails, books, etc. Microsoft Word is the standard word processor.This course will show you how to be more efficient in Microsoft Word.Areas Covered Topic Include:Selecting textNumber lists Bullet listsSectionsHeader and FooterPage number Table of Contents Index TablesScreenshotHyperlinkCourse Level - Begin..
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Excel - Advanced Reporting - Best Practices, Tools and Techniques
No matter what business you are in, a report is a critical tool in your communication armory. As with any communication tool, presentation is everything. Get it right and it offers the reader (typically a CEO, shareholder, or Project Manager) a valuable insight into the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) upon which a business or project is measured. Get it wrong and you'll end up with something that nobody ..
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Excel Charting Techniques for Infographics and Dashboards I - Unique, Fun and Dynamic Visualizations
"Every Picture Tells a Story" is a popular saying which is true not only in everyday life but in Excel too. Behind your set of numerical data is a story waiting to be told. The telling of this story needs to be to-the-point, easy to understand, and engaging.Data visualization is the representation of numerical data in a visual format so that your audience can quickly and easily understand it and gain insigh..
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Excel: Power Query - How to Import and Clean Data Quickly
Do you import data into Excel from other sources (such as CSV files, text files, web pages, databases, or SharePoint)?Does the data that you import need to be "cleaned" before it can be used? (cleaning refers to things like removing duplicate rows, removing blank rows, removing unnecessary columns, converting cases, changing date formats, and more).Do you spend more time than necessary performing data clean..
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KPI Dashboards: How To Go From Pivot Tables to Excel Interactive, BI Dashboards
In this training session, you'll learn how to create a stunning, interactive professional-looking dashboard using Excel. This training will provide you with a solid foundation that you can use to build your own dashboards and reports.No matter what business you are in, a dashboard is a critical tool in your communication armory and as with any communication tool, a presentation is everything. Although there..
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Power Query - How to Import and Clean Data Quickly
Do you import data into Excel from other sources (such as CSV files, text files, web pages, databases, or SharePoint)? Does the data that you import need to be "cleaned" before it can be used? (cleaning refers to things like removing duplicate rows, removing blank rows, removing unnecessary columns, converting cases, changing date formats, and more).Do you spend more time than necessary performing data clea..