Does it take too much time to make informative charts?

Do long protocols and recipes strain your brain?

Are you working too hard to copy information bit by bit from Excel to PowerPoint?

Are your tasks and processes screaming out for automation?

Do your user interface dialogs need some help?

Peltier Tech is sponsoring a learning opportunity in three weeks which will help you with all of these tasks. These classes are not Excel 101, they are advanced, hands-on (bring your laptop!), full immersion experiences designed to raise your skills and talents to the next level.

These advanced classes will help you:

Create charts quickly and effortlessly.

Make your dialogs interactive and intuitive.

Automate your work processes to save time and effort.

Improve your reports and presentations.

Impress your colleagues, your boss, and especially your clients.

Develop skills to make you recession proof*.

*Despite the poor economy, Peltier Tech has more work than ever.

Advanced Excel Conference

It’s two weeks away, it will be here fast, but it’s never too late to sign up.

For the fourth year in a row, Atlantic City NJ will be the site of an Excel Conference. The last three have been Excel-lent.

This year it’s a little smaller. There will be just one session at a time, so you won’t feel like you’re missing something important in the other room.

And it’s being held on the Boardwalk, not in a Trump concrete behemoth.

Join Excel experts Bob Umlas and Jon Peltier for two days of charting and programming. The conference will take place Wednesday and Thursday, June 17-18, on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ.

Excel MVP Bob Umlas will lead a class in Intermediate VBA and another on Designing Effective UserForms.

Jon Peltier, another Excel MVP, will teach you about advanced charting and visualization techniques, and show you how to get all that good stuff into your reports and presentations.

Visit the Advanced Excel Conference page for information and registration.

Are long step by step protocols too complicated to remember?

Would you like to automate your tasks and processes?

Do your user interface dialogs need some help?

Peltier Tech is sponsoring a learning opportunity in three weeks which will help you with all of these tasks. These classes are not Excel 101, they are advanced, hands-on (bring your laptop!), full immersion experiences designed to raise your skills and talents to the next level. These classes will help you:

Create charts quickly and painlessly.

Make your dialogs interactive and intuitive.

Automate your work processes with a minimum of time and effort.

Impress your colleagues, your boss, and especially your clients.

Excel Dashboard and Visualization Bootcamp

The second Excel Dashboard and Visualization Bootcamp, held last week in Texas, was a big success. The next event is only three weeks away.

Advanced Excel Conference

Join Excel MVPs Bob Umlas and Jon Peltier for two days of charting and programming. The conference will take place Wednesday and Thursday, June 17-18, on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ. This is the fourth conference in Atlantic City, and the previous three have all been wildly popular.

It’s never too late to sign up.

Visit the Advanced Excel Conference page for information and registration.

Are long step by step protocols too complicated to remember?

Is it too tedious to update your reports each week or each month?

Would you like to automate your analysis and reporting processes?

Peltier Tech is co-sponsoring a couple of learning opportunities which will help you with all of these tasks. These classes are not Excel 101, they are advanced, hands-on (bring your laptop!), full immersion experiences designed to raise your skills and talents to the next level. These classes will help you:

Create charts, dashboards, and reports quickly and painlessly.

Update reports and graphics automatically with a minimum of time and effort.

Impress your colleagues, your boss, and especially your clients.

Make your reports and analyses dynamic and interactive.

Excel Dashboard and Visualization Bootcamp

The second Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp will take place next week, Wednesday through Friday, May 20-22, 2009, in Frisco, Texas. There are a few spots remaining, and it’s not too late to sign up.

Excel MVPs Mike Alexander and Jon Peltier team up for a replay of our successful boot camp last October. Join us and learn to use flexible and powerful visualization tools and techniques to make your reports really work.

Visit the Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp information and registration pages.

Advanced Excel Conference

Join Excel MVPs Bob Umlas and Jon Peltier for two days of charting and programming. The conference will take place Wednesday and Thursday, June 17-18, on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ. This is our fourth conference in Atlantic City, and the previous three have been wildly popular.

It’s still early, but you’ll want to sign up soon. The hotel has reserved a block of rooms at a special $99/night conference rate, but this rate will expire Sunday night, May 17. The “early bird” discount is available until a week from Sunday.

Visit the Advanced Excel Conference page for information and registration.

Day 1

• Bob Umlas – Intermediate VBA
• Jon Peltier – Advanced Excel Charting

Day 2

• Jon Peltier – Using Excel and PowerPoint Together
• Bob Umlas – VBA UserForms

For a more detailed outline of these classes and more information about the locale, see Advanced Excel Conference.

Bob Umlas and Jon Peltier

For the past few years, the  Excel User Conference has held an East Coast session in Atlantic City, and Bob and I have both taken part in these conferences. This year the organizer of the conference was unable to manage the conference, so I decided to step in. Bob’s and my Advanced Excel Conference conference will be changed somewhat from previous Excel User Conferences, in that we will hold a single stream of sessions, so attendees will not have to decide which topic to attend.

Microsoft MVPs Jon Peltier (Peltier Technical Services) and Mike Alexander (DataPig Technologies) are joining together to host our second Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp! Last October’s event was a huge success, and we can’t wait to do it again.

The conference will be held on Wednesday through Friday, May 20-22, 2009, in Frisco, Texas (just north of Dallas).

This 3-day boot camp is designed for Excel users who need to more effectively synthesize data into meaningful dashboards, charts, and visualizations. The topics presented during this boot camp will introduce you to advanced techniques that will help you build and manage better reporting mechanisms. Going beyond simple tables and charts, you will learn to:

• Synthesize data in meaningful views with advanced charting techniques
• Create dashboards that communicate and get noticed
• Create interactive dashboarding mechanisms
• Implement macro-charged reporting
• Automate the creation of PowerPoint slides directly from Excel
• Integrate external data into your reports

The boot camp will follow this three day agenda, with each day comprising two in-depth classes:

Day 1: Visualization Best Practices

• Tips for Building Excel Dashboards
  Mike Alexander
• Advanced Charting Techniques
  Jon Peltier

Day 2: Building Report Interactivity

• Building Interactive Reporting
  Mike Alexander
• Automating Excel Charting with VBA
  Jon Peltier

Day 3: Integration Techniques

• Integrating Excel and PowerPoint
  Jon Peltier
• Using External Data in Excel Reporting
  Mike Alexander

For information and registration, visit the link below:

Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp
Jon Peltier and Mike Alexander
Wednesday through Friday, May 20-22, 2009
Frisco, TX

If you have specific questions, contact Mike Alexander.

The classes I will be teaching are described in more detail on the PTS Advanced Excel Training page.

 
Reminder

Microsoft MVPs Mike Alexander (DataPig Technologies) and Jon Peltier (Peltier Technical Services) are presenting our first annual Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp to be held on Wednesday through Friday, October 22-24, 2008, in Frisco, Texas. The hotel is holding rooms at the conference rate until Wednesday afternoon, October 8.

This 3-day boot camp is designed for Excel users who need to more effectively synthesize data into meaningful dashboards, charts, and visualizations. The topics presented during this boot camp will introduce you to advanced techniques that will help you build and manage better reporting mechanisms. Going beyond simple tables and charts, you will learn to:

• Synthesize data in meaningful views with advanced charting techniques
• Create dashboards that communicate and get noticed
• Create interactive dashboarding mechanisms
• Implement macro-charged reporting
• Automate the creation of PowerPoint slides directly from Excel
• Integrate external data into your reports

The boot camp will follow this three day agenda, with each day comprising two in-depth classes:

Day 1: Best Practices and Techniques

• Tips for Building Excel Dashboards
  Mike Alexander
• Advanced Charting Techniques
  Jon Peltier

Day 2: Building Interactivity

• Building Interactive Reporting
  Mike Alexander
• Automating Excel Charting with VBA
  Jon Peltier

Day 3: Integration

• Integrating Excel and PowerPoint
  Jon Peltier
• Using External Data in Excel Reporting
  Mike Alexander

For information and registration, visit the link below: Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp Jon Peltier and Mike Alexander Wednesday through Friday, October 22-24, 2008 Frisco, TX

The 2008 East Coast Excel User Conference was held last Wednesday through Friday. We met at the Trump Taj Mahal casino and hotel, I mean, resort (which doesn’t mean sort again).

The conference was organized by Damon Longworth, and the presenters included Damon as well as Bob Umlas, Bernard Liengme, and myself.

The rigorous three-day schedule included six half-day classes and eight regular sessions. There were 40 or so attendees. Most attended on all three days, and a stalwart 20 lasted until the end of the day on Friday.

Damon and Bernard share their wisdom.

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Jon stars in two of his presentations.

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A rapt audience follows the speaker closely.

Fellow blogger Jimmy Peña (right) wrote about the day he spent at the conference in My Excel User Conference Experience. Jimmy’s blog Code For Excel And Outlook Blog includes many VBA macro code samples for MS Excel and Outlook.

The conference will feature working sessions and classes designed to expand a user’s working knowledge of the dominant spreadsheet software. These sessions will be led by respected leaders in the Microsoft Excel community. Some are respected authors and consultants, and all have the MVP designation – Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). The Microsoft Office gurus are Bernard Liengme, Damon Longworth, Bob Umlas, and myself. I’ll be holding my two charting classes: Advanced Charting Techniques and Excel Charting with VBA.

For information and registration, follow the link below. Today is the last day to register on line.

2008 US East Coast Excel User Conference
Atlantic City, New Jersey – Sept 24-26, 2008
Excel User Conferences Home Page

Wednesday – Friday, September 24-26, 2008, Atlantic City, New Jersey

The conference will feature working sessions and classes designed to expand a user’s working knowledge of the dominant spreadsheet software. These sessions will be led by respected leaders in the Microsoft Excel community: Bernard Liengme, Damon Longworth, Bob Umlas, and Jon Peltier.

Jon will hold his two charting classes: Advanced Charting Techniques and Excel Charting with VBA.

Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp

Wednesday – Friday, October 22-24, 2008, in Frisco, Texas (just north of Dallas)

Microsoft MVPs Jon Peltier (Peltier Technical Services) and Mike Alexander (DataPig Technologies) are joining together to bring you our first annual Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp!

This 3-day boot camp is designed for Excel users who need to more effectively synthesize data into meaningful dashboards, charts, and visualizations. The topics presented during this boot camp will introduce you to advanced techniques that will help you build and manage better reporting mechanisms.

Microsoft MVPs Jon Peltier (Peltier Technical Services) and Mike Alexander (DataPig Technologies) are joining together to host our first annual Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp!

The conference will be held on Wednesday through Friday, October 22-24, 2008, in Frisco, Texas (just north of Dallas).

This 3-day boot camp is designed for Excel users who need to more effectively synthesize data into meaningful dashboards, charts, and visualizations. The topics presented during this boot camp will introduce you to advanced techniques that will help you build and manage better reporting mechanisms. Going beyond simple tables and charts, you will learn to:

• Synthesize data in meaningful views with advanced charting techniques
• Create dashboards that communicate and get noticed
• Create interactive dashboarding mechanisms
• Implement macro-charged reporting
• Automate the creation of PowerPoint slides directly from Excel
• Integrate external data into your reports

The boot camp will follow this three day agenda, with each day comprising two in-depth classes:

Day 1: Best Practices and Techniques

• Tips for Building Excel Dashboards
  Mike Alexander
• Advanced Charting Techniques
  Jon Peltier

Day 2: Building Interactivity

• Building Interactive Reporting
  Mike Alexander
• Automating Excel Charting with VBA
  Jon Peltier

Day 3: Integration

• Integrating Excel and PowerPoint
  Jon Peltier
• Using External Data in Excel Reporting
  Mike Alexander

For information and registration, visit the link below: Excel Dashboard and Visualization Boot Camp Jon Peltier and Mike Alexander Wednesday through Friday, October 22-24, 2008 Frisco, TX