Microsoft Training in Reading

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level business professionals, educators, and marketers who wish to integrate DeepSeek with PowerPoint to automate and optimize their presentations. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Automate the creation of text-based content in PowerPoint slides using DeepSeek.
• Generate data-driven visuals and infographics powered by DeepSeek models.
• Use AI to summarize long reports and turn them into presentation-ready slides.
• Integrate DeepSeek with PowerPoint for streamlined, dynamic presentations.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level professionals who wish to fully leverage Copilot 365 in Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and beyond, including SharePoint, Microsoft Fabric, and AI agent integrations in enterprise environments. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Copilot 365's role in automating tasks and improving workflows.
• Formulate effective prompts for AI-driven assistance in Microsoft 365 applications.
• Utilize Copilot in Excel for data analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
• Enhance presentations with AI-generated content and design in PowerPoint.
• Streamline communication and email management with Copilot in Outlook.
• Optimize collaboration and task management in SharePoint and Microsoft Fabric with Copilot integration.
• Leverage AI agents for enhancing enterprise workflows and business processes.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level professionals who wish to fully leverage Copilot 365 in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Copilot 365's role in automating tasks and improving workflows.
• Formulate effective prompts for AI-driven assistance.
• Utilize Copilot in Excel for data analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
• Enhance presentations with AI-generated content and design in PowerPoint.
• Streamline communication and email management with Copilot in Outlook.
• Develop AI-driven initiatives for productivity, data prediction, and HR applications.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level leadership teams who wish to effectively manage and coordinate tasks using Microsoft Planner and its related tools, leading to enhanced productivity and collaboration across the organization. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Effectively create, manage, and track tasks and projects using Microsoft Planner, enhancing team coordination and project visibility.
• Organize and prioritize individual tasks, share task lists, and collaborate on tasks using Microsoft To Do.
• Utilize Microsoft Loop components for real-time collaboration, integrating them seamlessly into projects and meetings, and enhancing communication and information sharing among team members.
• Design and manage custom lists tailored to specific project needs, automate workflows, and integrate Lists with other Microsoft 365 tools for more efficient task tracking.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level business professionals who wish to gain the skills necessary to utilize Teams, Word, and Excel effectively in a management context. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft 365
• Navigate and utilize Microsoft Teams for communication, collaboration, and project management.
• Develop proficiency in creating, formatting, and managing Word documents.
• Use Excel for data entry, manipulation, and analysis.
• Explore how to integrate Microsoft 365 applications for seamless workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data professionals who wish to implement a lakehouse solution using Microsoft Fabric. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and components of Microsoft Fabric.
• Configure and manage a Lakehouse using Microsoft Fabric.
• Ingest and transform data using Apache Spark.
• Utilize Delta Lake tables for versioning and managing data.
• Implement data ingestion pipelines with Dataflows Gen2.
• Orchestrate data pipelines using Data Factory.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to manage and secure an organization's IT environment using Microsoft 365.By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Deploy and manage Microsoft 365 services such as Intune, MDM, and Autopilot.
• Configure and enforce security policies using Windows Defender and other Microsoft 365 security tools.
• Monitor and troubleshoot devices and applications within a Microsoft 365 environment.
• Understand and implement compliance and data protection measures in Microsoft 365.
• Manage Microsoft 365 security services such as Microsoft Secure Score, Exchange Online Protection, Safe Attachments, and Safe Links.
• Implement compliance solutions using Microsoft Purview, data loss prevention, and sensitivity labels.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to advanced-level data analysts who wish to use Excel to perform a variety of tasks such as data entry, formula creation, data analysis, and advanced automation. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate Excel’s interface and perform basic data entry, formatting, and calculations.
• Apply advanced formulas, functions, and conditional formatting for data analysis.
• Create and manage pivot tables and charts for data visualization.
• Use tools like Power Query, Power Pivot, and perform data analysis.
• Automate tasks using macros and VBA to streamline workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to enhance their productivity and efficiency by leveraging the advanced features of Excel and Google Sheets for data organization, analysis, and collaboration. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate and utilize the core features of Excel and Google Sheets.
• Perform data analysis and create actionable insights using advanced spreadsheet techniques.
• Collaborate in real-time using Google Sheets for seamless teamwork.
• Create reusable templates for reporting, tracking, and project management.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to manage and secure an organization's IT environment using Microsoft 365. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Deploy and manage Microsoft 365 services such as Intune, MDM, and Autopilot.
• Configure and enforce security policies using Windows Defender and other Microsoft 365 security tools.
• Monitor and troubleshoot devices and applications within a Microsoft 365 environment.
• Understand and implement compliance and data protection measures in Microsoft 365.
• Apply best practices for Microsoft 365 administration and security.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts or anyone who wishes to learn how to use Excel for creating data models for data analysis. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn to analyze and solve any business problems using structured problem-solving tools.
• Navigate Excel tools with ease.
• Set up, format, and present data effectively.
• Understand the logical structure and apply correct functions to Excel models.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators who wish to effectively deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Hyper-V environments. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand virtualization concepts and configure Hyper-V.
• Create and manage virtual machines, VM storage, and networking.
• Utilize advanced Hyper-V features and secure Hyper-V environments.
• Monitor and optimize Hyper-V performance.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers and programmers who wish to learn about Microsoft Copilot and use its features to complete codes. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how Microsoft Copilot works.
• Familiarize the features and benefits of using Microsoft Copilot.
• Utilize the advanced features of Microsoft Copilot for coding.

The course participants will be able to efficiently use primarily data analysis tools such as scenarios and pivot tables, use the features to perform calculations on dates and text-processing functions, and create and adapt to the needs of macros to automate work with spreadsheets.

Excel is a popular spreadsheet program created by Microsoft. Jest used to store, organize and analyze data in tabular form. Here are some key features and functions of Excel: 1. Spreadsheets: It consists of sheets, where each sheet is an array consisting of cells arranged in rows and columns. It allows you to create multiple sheets in one file, which allows you to organize different data sets. 2. Calculations and Formulas: Allows you to perform a variety of mathematical, statistical and logical calculations using formulas. It has a wide set of built-in functions such as SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, IF, VLOOKUP, etc. 3. Data Formatting and Appearance: Provides tools for formatting data, including changing font, color, style, and creating charts, pivot tables and diagrams. 4. Sorting, Filtering and Grouping: Allows you to sort data according to specific criteria. Allows you to filter data to display only selected information. Possibility to group data depending on needs. 5. Data analysis: Tools for performing advanced analyzes such as scenario analysis, trends, forecasting, and creating macros. 6. Data Sharing: Enables real-time data sharing and collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same data simultaneously. 7. Task automation: Ability to create macros and automate tasks using the programming language VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Excel is widely used in various fields, from business to science and education. Its comprehensive features enable data analysis, creation of reports, budgets, schedules, data management and many other applications.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to use advanced VBA in Excel for automating tasks. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Write an advanced object-oriented application
• Convert text files
• Use of external data sources
• Use external libraries

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to use VBA in Excel for automating tasks. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Record and edit macros as required.
• Write procedures using data from the sheet.
• Create your own functions.
• Handle an event (opening worksheet cell update etc.) by means of the handler.
• Create a form.

Audience Analysts, researchers, scientists, graduates and students and anyone who is interested in learning how to facilitate statistical analysis in Microsoft Excel. Course Objectives This course will help improve your familiarity with Excel and statistics and as a result increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your work or research. This course describes how to use the Analysis ToolPack in Microsoft Excel, statistical functions and how to perform basic statistical procedures. It will explain what Excel limitation are and how to overcome them.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to learn techniques for preparing data in Excel, then visualizing it in Power BI. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of data analysis, objectives of data analysis, and approaches for data analysis.
• Use DAX formulas in Power BI for complex calculations.
• Create and use visualizations and charts for particular analysis cases.
• Import with Power View to move from Excel based Power BI to independent Power BI.

Data analytics is a crucial tool in business today. We will focus throughout on developing skills for practical hands on data analysis. The aim is to help delegates to give evidence-based answers to questions:  What has happened?

• processing and analyzing data
• producing informative data visualizations

What will happen?

• forecasting future performance
• evaluating forecasts

What should happen?

• turning data into evidence-based business decisions
• optimizing processes

The course itself can be delivered either as a 6 day classroom course or remotely over a period of weeks if preferred. We can work with you to deliver the course to best suit your needs.

The objective of the course is to enable participants to gain a mastery of the fundamentals and usages of VBA for Access & Excel.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to use Excel for data analysis. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create spreadsheets in Excel.
• Visualize data with charts, graphs, etc.
• Generate reports to share amongst team members.

During the training, will present the issues of financial analysis using the advanced features of Excel. This course is intended for financial analysts, accountants and all those who want to expand their skills spreadsheet with issues of financial analysis.

Audience Financial or market analysts, managers, accountants Course Objectives Facilitate and automate all kinds of financial analysis with Microsoft Excel

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to program in R for Excel. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Toggle and move data between Excel and R.
• Use R Tidyverse and R features for data analytic solutions in Excel.
• Extend their data analytical skills by learning R.

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists who wish to use Excel for data mining.

• By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
• Explore data with Excel to perform data mining and analysis.
• Use Microsoft algorithms for data mining.
• Understand concepts in Excel data mining.

In this instructor-led, live training in Reading (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to combine the capabilities of Python and Excel. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure packages for integrating Python and Excel.
• Read, write, and manipulate Excel files using Python.
• Call Python functions from Excel.

The course participants will be able to efficiently perform a variety of calculations in a transparent way to arrange and present their results, use multiple mechanisms to facilitate and accelerate the creation of spreadsheets, as well as protect the calculations and their results against unauthorized persons

Participants will be able to excel themselves, in the most optimal way to create, consolidate and manage data. A number of tools designed to streamline the work often significantly reduces the time to activities carried out so far and can help you design an application that could perform new tasks.

Course participants will learn how to create a clean, professional-looking documents (including official correspondence of all kinds - official and official), as well as make full use of the basic mechanisms enabling the transparent flow of information in both the shorter and longer documents.

Course participants will learn how to automate the work to create complex documents, retrieve data from the database and prepare forms.

Course is intended for those familiar the basics of VBA who want to develop their knowledge and greater use of language capabilities.

Training for those working with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that would like to improve their work.

The course is designed for users of Excel for creating analyzes and reports.

Please answer the following questions:

• Is your daily work in Excel is a never-ending string of commands copy-paste?
• Are you wasting time on repetition of similar operations to prepare the data for analysis?
• Do you know all the keyboard shortcuts in Excel, but you are not satisfied with the results?
• Rather than deal with data analysis and preparation of wasting time?
• Do you have to manually verify the correctness of such data obtained from different systems?
• Do you have to stay at work after hours or Excel to take books home because not doing during the day?
• Is Your job is to prepare reports based on a large data set?
• Do you feel that working in Excel, you come to a roundabout way of results?

If you can answer YES to one of the questions then it's time stop this nightmare. This training is for you. Find out how you can speed up your daily operations and get most out of MS Excel. WARNING After the training, your life will change dramatically. Activities, which occupied the whole day will take just a few moments. Are you ready for this?

This course aims to improve PowerPoint skills of the trainees by practical exercises supported by relevant theory. It’s designed for everyone, mostly presentation designers, but also conference speakers and team-meeting presenters.

This course is aimed at anyone wanting to work more efficiently in PowerPoint when creating slides and to learn the basics of presenting them.

The course is dedicated to sales teams. It focuses on leveraging PowerPoint's functions that aid in the sales process, ie. how to show data effectively, how not to over-clutter slides, and what to focus on in a sales deck.

Objective: Improving the ability to prepare an attractive presentation using Powerpoint and other tools Addressees: Sales representatives, consultants, research and teaching staff, managers, teachers, corporate employees, SMEs and public institutions, for which the challenge is to stand in front of a group of people, say to them, arousing interest

Course Summary Module 1: Understanding AI and Its Impact

• High-Level Overview of AI 
• AI Ethics 

Module 2: Overview of Popular AI Tools

• Overview of Popular LLMs 
• Considerations when Choosing an LLM 

Module 3: Exploring Popular AI Tools

• Introduction to Copilot: 
• Introduction to Google AI Studio: 
• Introduction to ChatGPT 
• Getting Better Results from AI tools 

Module 4: Expanding Your AI Toolkit

• Exploring AI Tools on Mobile Devices 
• Exploring other free generative AI tools (time permitting)  

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level business analysts and data analysts who wish to use Excel to perform data analysis and reporting for their projects and tasks. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use Excel formulas and functions to perform calculations and data manipulation.
• Use Excel data analysis tools such as PivotTables, What-If Analysis, and Forecasting to summarize and visualize data.
• Use Excel charts and graphs to create and customize data visualizations.
• Use Excel data validation and conditional formatting to ensure data quality and highlight data insights.
• Use Excel data import and export features to connect to external data sources and share data with others.

Description: This one-day course is composed of two parts - Getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Empower your workforce with Microsoft 365 Copilot Use Cases.  Getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot  The first part of the course, introduces you to Copilot for Microsoft 365, examines how you can use Copilot throughout the various Microsoft 365 apps, explores best practices for using Copilot and building effective prompts, and examines how you can extend Copilot.  Empower your workforce with Microsoft 365 Copilot Use Cases  The second part of this training content is really the heart of this course. Students perform a series of hands-on exercises involving seven Use Cases - Executives, Sales, Marketing, Finance, IT, HR, and Operations. These exercises focus on using Copilot in various Microsoft 365 apps (such as Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and so on) to complete a series of common business-related tasks pertaining to each Use Case.

Course Summary Module 1: Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Introduction to Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Explore the possibilities with Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Optimize and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot

Module 2: Module 2: Craft effective prompts for Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Summarize and simplify information with Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Create and draft with Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Edit and transform content with Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Ask questions and analyse content with Microsoft 365 Copilot

This 1 day training session is designed for people who use SharePoint as power users who perform as SharePoint site owner and/or Site Collection administrators Course objectives:

• Configure site navigation
• View site activity reports
• Customize lists and libraries
• Work with Site Columns and Site Content Types
• Configure Check out/in, Content Approval and Versioning
• Create and modify pages and web part pages

This 1 day training session is designed for people who use SharePoint as users and want to understand some of the advanced features of the tool. Delegates should attend this course if they need to understand functions such as; team collaboration, document management and social features of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 This course is designed for

• SharePoint Site Owners and users

Course objectives:

• Manage Sites and Site Collections
• Add users and groups and manage site, list, folder and item security
• Add and configure web parts
• Configure site options including theme, title, description and icon

This instructor-led, live training in Reading (online or onsite) is aimed at marketeers who wish to create video content and presentations with Camtasia and PowerPoint. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create video content and share it on a video hosting platform.
• Employ assets within Camtasia such as music and icons for interactive content.
• Save on costs by producing HQ videos with Camtasia and PowerPoint.

This course will give you the knowledge about how to present finance information (numbers) in PowerPoint and not just the presentations skills itself. You will be able to present finance information in more professional way.

During the course, you will learn about creating, editing and using content. 

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators who wish to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint Server 2016. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure SharePoint components and options.
• Plan the hardware and software architecture for a SharePoint deployment.
• Build a taxonomy structure.
• Troubleshoot a SharePoint environment.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Course Customization Options

• This training is based on the on-premise version of SharePoint 2016 (a.k.a SharePoint Server 2016).
• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators who wish to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint Server 2019. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure SharePoint components and options.
• Plan the hardware and software architecture for a SharePoint deployment.
• Build a taxonomy structure.
• Troubleshoot a SharePoint environment. 

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• This training is based on the on-premise version of SharePoint 2019 (a.k.a SharePoint Server 2019).
• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to configure SharePoint Online as they step through the setup and deployment of SharePoint Online. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand SharePoint Online's architecture
• Configure SharePoint Online components and options
• Work with Site Collections and storage options
• Manage user profiles and social profiling
• Configure data connectivity
• Build a taxonomy structure
• Understand and configure Search
• Configure and deploy a Sharepoint app

Audience

• SharePoint administrators

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice