My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. The effect you have on others’ lives is the highest expression of your own.
Maya Angelou
Source: Letter to My Daughter
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. The effect you have on others’ lives is the highest expression of your own.
Maya Angelou
Source: Letter to My Daughter
Reset (2025)
Great relatable and practical stories.
Good summaries at the end of each chapter.
Lots of ideas to help you get more leverage so you can move the boulder called change.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Walt Whitman
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.” But this holds true for leadership in general—give people space and they flourish.
Maria Montessori
Source: The Montessori Method (1912)
Price: $25.00 incl GST
Duration: 1 hour
Learn how to convert a budget into a multiple scenario budget.
This sessions takes the budget from the Budget Challenge session and converts it into a multiple scenario solution.
Techniques shared:
As always there will be few general tips along the way.
Date: | 18/02/2025 |
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Time: | 1.00 PM (AEDST) |
Event: | Excel Budget Scenarios |
Topic: | Budget Scenarios |
Public: | Public |
Registration: | Click here to register. |
Price: $25.00 incl GST
Duration: 1.5 hours
In this webinar I will share a budget structure I have used successfully to create a budget that allows a couple of levels. I have updated the template with new dynamic array functionality. This structure has some flexibility and incorporates a number of advanced Excel features that work well together. The budget template is scalable and can be applied to numerous structures.
If you have a Jul-Jun financial year you might want to get a head start on next year’s budget/forecast.
The Budget Template session outcomes will include
• discover a scalable, flexible Excel budget structure
• learn formulas that can easily consolidate budgets from multiple sheets, making uploads into accounting systems easier
• find out about a little-used function that can make allocations easier to create
• see how to use tables to add structure and flexibility to your Excel files
• a range name trick that involves formatted tables
• adding validations to your budgets
• using new dynamic arrays within a budget structure
As always, you will also pick up a few other tips and tricks along the way.
This is a longer than normal session (1.5 hours) and covers many advanced topics that can simplify your budget process.
Date: | 20/02/2025 |
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Time: | 1.00 PM (AEDST) |
Event: | Excel Budget Template Subscription Version (1.5 hrs) |
Topic: | Budget Template |
Public: | Public |
Registration: | Click here to register. |
Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued together into our heads with stories.
Chris Brogan
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson, Source: Poem 690
The mysterious section at the top right of the Excel screen that few people realise is a treasure trove of shortcuts and productivity improvements.
It is called the Quick Access Toolbar and many users have not yet tapped into its potential.
Did you know you can make you own ribbon tabs?
This session covers
As always, I will share other tips and tricks along the way.
Date: | 30/01/2025 |
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Time: | 1:00 PM AEDST |
Event: | FREE - Excel Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon |
Topic: | Introduction to Power Query |
Public: | Public |
Registration: | Click here to register. |
Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.
Derek Sivers – How to Live
Be sincere, be brief, be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) 32nd US President
Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.
Aleks Krotoskm, broadcaster, journalist, and social psychologist
Financial Functions Part Two
“This accounting webinar series is one of the best for practical CPD hours. It focuses on things we actually use in our day-to-day work, like Excel models and useful tips, instead of theory or topics we may never touch depending on your area of expertise.
It’s clear, easy to follow, and you come away with skills you can put into practice right away. Highly recommend it for anyone wanting CPD that’s actually helpful.”
10/10
C Walthew
November 2024
The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the plan. We come with it.
Margaret Atwood author of The HandMaid’s Tale
Excel has re-badged one of the Calculation Options in the Formulas tab – see below. This is a change relating to the new Python capabilities.
The middle option used to ignore Data Tables (a What If feature on the Data ribbon tab).
The newly named Partial option also ignores Data Tables plus any Python calculations that may take a long time to calculate.
Python calculations are done in the “cloud” and require an internet connection.
If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help.
Seymour Chwast
Source: The Left-Handed Designer
It is always nice to open my email in the morning and receive these types of emails.
I have wished Peter well in his retirement.
Even if you’re not a teacher, be a teacher. Share your ideas. Don’t take for granted your education. Rejoice in what you learn and spray it.
Source: 9 Life lessons
Tim Minchin
It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.
Julia Cameron, the Artist’s Way
Style—to renounce all but the essential, so that the essential may speak.
Freya Stark – travel writer
“Retreating with enthusiasm is a sign of wisdom and long-term thinking.”
Seth Godin
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
John Dryden
It was a nice start to the day to receive this email this morning.
“Doth thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
Charles Spurgeon
This is a FREE three-part series of live webinars run over three consecutive days.
Each session will be about 90 minutes long.
The series will take you through the basics of Excel and teach you how to.
Along the way there will be lots of shortcuts and advice on creating effective spreadsheets.
One registration signs you up for all three sessions. If you can’t make a session its OK, they are all recorded and you get the recording the next day.
Date: | 13/08/2024—15/08/2024 |
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Time: | 1:00 PM AEST |
Event: | FREE Excel Level One - Beginners - 3 webinars |
Topic: | Excel Level One Series |
Public: | Public |
Registration: | Click here to register. |
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
“We know what we are but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare
You can close Excel down (with multiple files open) by double clicking the Excel icon – top left of screen.
This works for the other Office apps too.
If you haven’t saved a file Excel will ask if you want to.
To close a single file down use the X on the top right of screen.