What does it cost you not to learn something? In my case I can recall lots and lots of time I’ve wasted putting together Excel spreadsheets for budgets, invoices and project plans using only the most rudimentary skills. All the time I spent retyping values, formulas and numbers – knowing for an absolute fact there was a better way if I would just take the time to learn.

Yesterday our new NTAP training coordinator (Jeff Narabrook) did a practice session in preparation for Friday’s online Excel training. In one hour I learned: how to connect cells between worksheets, the difference between absolute and relative functions, and how to populate a list of consecutive items such as dates. These are functions that I use all the time – literally several times a week – but never properly learned the short cuts and how-tos.

Well my lax and lazy comrades out there – here is your chance. Invest 90 minutes in Excel training – save yourself hours of frustrating retyping and errors!

Sign up here: http://www.lsntap.org/event?q=node/2475

Or if you miss the training come back to view the recording and the PowerPoint later.