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Has anyone attended Fred Pryor Seminars? Would they be of benefit? Some are only lectures or would I get more out of the hands on? -- CBrausa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CBrausa's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=24677 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=543386 |
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Full disclosu I've never attended a Pryor seminar.
I looked at the Pryor website at "hands off" Excel seminars. The site says "hands off" is a good idea because there is no data entry, error correction, or waiting for slow people to catch up. So it's possible this would be a good idea if they are going to say "Excel handles numbers, and text, and this and that and the other. It can be used to manipulate numbers like this and this and this, and to manipulate text like that and that and that. You can also do this...and this... and this... and that... and that... and that. It seems like this would be of benefit depending on the level of Excel knowledge you want. Back in the day, before Windows when all we had was a command prompt, I read the DOS manual from cover to cover and paid attention. Didn't try to memorize every slash and flag of every function, but understood them. When I needed to perform some operation I knew, roughly, what command would do that operation, or at least that it was covered somehow. So at an overall "Excel might be useful to me because it will do xxx" level, the seminar might be worthwhile. If your goal is to be the Excel go-to guy in your office, then go to the hands-on course that will advance you beyond your current skill level, then get out and do stuff. The best way to learn Excel- and cement that knowledge into your head to the extent that you know at a cellular level that you can nest a MATCH function inside an INDEX function and it will do a better job than VLOOKUP in a particular situation- is to solve problems, find yourself in a hole and dig yourself out. Which is not to say that you can't ask for help- you just need to know who to ask, and where- I like the Excel newsgroups for that reason. Editorializing ends. |
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