Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
Hi there, my name is Dan, and welcome to this Microsoft Excel Program.
Now, together we're going to learn how super useful Excel is, for pretty much every part of our professional lives.
I made this course for beginners, there is no need for any previous Excel experience, and what we'll do is, we'll stick to a lot of the pre-made, built in amazing features of Excel to work with, rather than getting bogged down in complicated code, or very complicated formulas. We're going to stick to the easy methods.
This training course is project based. We’ll start with our simple company branded invoice that calculates both totals and the tax. We'll take our really big, ugly messy spreadsheet, and clean it up using Excel's amazing features, and with this new tidy spreadsheet, you'll learn how easy pivot tables can turn long, hard to understand information into simple tables, and beautiful graphs.
Before you're finished, you'd be making super helpful drop down menus to help you fill out, and sort your financial data, turning uninspiring profit/loss statements like this into good looking dashboards like this.
There is also a downloadable exercise file, and a printable cheat sheet we can use.
So my friend, it's time to sign up, and together, we'll get you from Excel zero, to Excel Hero at work.
Now I meant to keep looking at this screen for a while, afterwards, never sure how long though. Long enough?