Learning Excel isn’t an option anymore. It seems like everyone is using it these days. Finance and accounting folks have been using it for years, but now it’s simply a basic part of every day life in the office. Yet an astonishing number of people still don’t know how to perform basic functions in Excel, […]

Last week we began our new Excel series by explaining how to combine text quickly, and today we’re moving forward with a few more tips and tricks for you.  We know Excel is still a struggle for many people. While we can’t offer a full Excel for dummies type of training here in our blog, we hope […]

One of the easiest ways to save yourself time in Excel is with shortcuts. Yes, it may take a little time upfront to learn the shortcuts but once you have them down you’ll save yourself hours in the long run.  Here are 36 shortcuts you can use when working in an Excel spreadsheet. Keep in mind […]

In this final installment of our Excel series we’re going to talk about advanced Excel skills you should know. Because these are a bit more advanced we won’t go into them in detail. These are the kinds of skills that online courses were created for. Instead, we’re going to briefly discuss each one, explaining what […]

From time to time we all wish there were more days in the week. Many of us can never find the time we need to get everything marked off our to-do list. But by improving our productivity, we can cut down on wasted hours and maybe finish our to-do list – or maybe even take […]

It might be. The state of California just joined a handful of other states in making it illegal for employers to ask job applicants about their prior salaries. AB 168, also known as the Salary Privacy bill, was signed by Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday, October 12th but it doesn’t go into effect until  January 1, […]

3 Quick Best Practices for Tracking and Reporting Your CPE CPE tracking and reporting is a well known challenge to those who have to deal with it. Year after year you need to get your continuing education credit and painstakingly keep every bit of proof and report on it at the appointed time. That’s a […]