Why A Microsoft Excel Certification Is Worth It For Your Career Technology evolves quickly. It seems at the speed of light, and we assume that everybody keeps up to date. While some have had years of experience with applications the Microsoft Office suite of PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, and others, many have only basic skills. […]
Microsoft Excel is the best tool in the Microsoft Office Suite for analyzing data. Yet Excel also has the charting and graphing features that help display your data in an easy to understand format. Not every presentation has to be in PowerPoint. In fact, Microsoft Excel can be a better medium for presenting data in […]
VLOOKUP stands for “vertical lookup” and its primary function is to find values in a column (vertical) and then return a corresponding value of another cell in that value’s row (horizontal). One example is if you are standing at the counter of a restaurant and you’re looking down the list of items and then looking […]
Administrative assistants keep any office they work in humming. They forecast scenarios, diagnose problems, and organize information quickly and concisely, making their superiors and colleagues look good by virtue. And there might not be a tool that’s more indispensable to them than Microsoft Excel. For experienced assistants, there are many uses of Excel in the […]
With as fluid and unpredictable as the job market is at this time, any skill that can give you an edge over the competition should be pursued. With a Microsoft Excel Certification, you have the foundational skills to take that extra step that some of your counterparts might be unable to take. Excel Certification combines […]
Business owners, no matter what industry they are in, are all investing in the same thing: their employees. Companies that sponsor employee training and encourage employees to expand their skill sets historically have seen higher productivity and better team retention. In the past, we have discussed the benefits of paid employee IT training and even […]
There have been plenty of changes recently to the Microsoft certification structure. Primarily, these changes have been driven by the increasing emphasis on cloud technology. Azure is Microsoft’s flagship cloud computing service. Almost all of Microsoft’s certification tracts have been modified to include information about Azure integration in its products and how they will function […]
Update: On January 31, 2021 Microsoft retired Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Solutions Expert (MCSE) and Solutions Developer (MCSD) certifications. In their place are Microsoft’s Role-based certifications. There is hardly a more prestigious certification in the computer networking world than the Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert Certification. The MCSE conveys to employers that an IT […]
At some point, you may have found yourself asking, “What is conditional formatting?” Conditional formatting means that you can change or add visual cues based on a specified set of rules. It provides a way to improve the appearance and increase the functionality of your spreadsheets as you’re working based on the conditions you have […]
Microsoft Excel has been around a long time. When you think about spreadsheets, you think Excel. However, over time Excel has grown into so much more than a simple spreadsheet program. It is one of the most robust, useful and powerful tools for analyzing data that has ever been created. Excel is used by accountants, […]