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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?

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    Dave O
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    Re: Your opinion

    Full disclosure: 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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