Excel: Productivity Tips and Tricks
Learn Excel features self-taught users often miss, from customizing the Quick Access Toolbar and using common formulas to quick charts and page layout control.
Speaker
Andy Lanning
Microsoft Office trainer · Computer Software Training, LLC · 25+ years teaching software
Overview
If you taught yourself Excel, there are probably many useful features you have never come across. This 60-minute Excel productivity tips and tricks webinar is for self-taught users at any level who want to get more done in less time.
Excel comes with "some assembly required," and the session shows you how to set it up to work properly. You'll customize your Quick Access Toolbar, learn the 5 super secrets to software, and get to know the most common Excel formulas.
You'll also create a chart in two steps and take control of page layouts, columns, rows and margins, small tricks that busy users rarely have time to discover on their own.
Why attend: When you are busy, there is little time to explore Excel for better ways of working. This session brings those useful features to your attention so you can improve your productivity straight away. It suits self-taught Excel users in any role or industry, from accounting, finance and audit to HR, sales, marketing, IT and operations.
What’s covered
- Setting up a custom Quick Access Toolbar
- Applying the 5 super secrets to software
- Understanding the most common Excel formulas
- Creating a two-step chart
- Controlling page layouts, columns, rows and margins
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Andy Lanning, owner, trainer, and Chief Nerd of Computer Software Training, LLC. Andy has 25+ years of experience teaching computer software in the corporate and university environments. She teaches basic to advanced levels in most Microsoft Office programs. She is adjunct faculty at Boise State University, since 1994 to present, where she specializes in computer training for the Center for Professional Development. She also travels to teach at company conferences across the U.S. Andy’s background includes corporate training, private training, and freelance data analysis. She has recorded several online training courses for Udemy.com, GoSkills.com, and in her career has delivered hundreds of courses and webinars on a variety of Microsoft topics.

