Here at JPL we continually strive to improve the variety of Microsoft Office courses in the Midlands and further afield.

We thought you may like to see a short video of the towns we’ve trained clients in during the last 12 months. It’s only 10 seconds and was created using a new feature in Excel called 3D maps. You may spot your town but if not let us know!

Although we train in a variety of modules in Microsoft office like Word, PowerPoint and Access we’ve found the major demand for our training courses is in Excel. Of which we have now developed 5 levels of courses.

We often publish hints and tips at least once a month and here’s our tip of the day – a really simple one to do with worksheets but then as the saying goes “the simpler the better”.

Tip of the Day in Excel

Four things you may not know about Excel worksheets:

1. To colour a worksheet simply right click and choose a Tab colour
2. To move a worksheet to a different position simply drag and drop the sheet to the left or right
3. To rename a worksheet its quicker to double click on it and then type over the worksheet name
4. When using a worksheet in a formula where a sheet has an embedded space in it use an apostrophe e.g. =sum(‘jan 18:mar 18’!b2)

Why not take a look at our previous post on new features in PowerPoint?

We’ve developed ourselves into a Microsoft Office specialist and pride ourselves on the commitment to interest trainees on courses to enjoy their experience of being trained by us.

We are grateful for your support over the years and please keep an eye on our hints and tips page. These cover all kinds of Microsoft Office modules and you can find them here.

If you have any comments on the hints and tips or any news we post, please let us know on johnlegge@jplcomputer.co.uk.

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During our training courses over the years we’ve been asked several times when to use Access instead of Excel. The “isn’t it best to just use Excel for everything?” question can often be one on a number of peoples minds. Excel is a great package for use in a number of areas of businesses and with your day to day work (and it is often the most used package in a lot of companies) however sometimes Access can be the package that will stand up to the mark when the time comes compared to Excel.

As we all know Excel is great for calculations, charting and data analysing. It’s not so good at data validation or linking together different sets of data for report purposes. Here is where Access steps in!

Using Access Databases

Access databases consist ideally of a number of tables which contain primary keys which are then linked together in the form of Relationships. Once the relationships are constructed its possible to build forms, queries and reports across the tables in the Database. Queries are the prime way of extracting data across many tables in a sorted and filtered way. Reports are really smart looking and make queries look more presentable and easier to read and present to others.

If you wish to explore the power of Access databases then perhaps consider our two day course which covers the key functions of tables, relationships, queries, forms and reports. For more information you can see on our website, or please do not hesitate to contact us on our contact page with your query. If neither of those suit you, then feel free to just send us an email with your query to johnlegge@jplcomputer.co.uk.

You’ll be a database designer in no time at all!

If you liked this post, why not take a look at our previous one on tips in Outlook?

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