Welcome From Mike
Are you looking to learn more about Excel or Power BI? Are you trying to solve a specific problem? Google “Excel Help” and you’ll get back almost 4 billion results! Hopefully you’ll find what you are looking for here. If not, please feel free to browse the tutorials anyway. You never know what you might find!
I’m Mike Thomas. I’m an IT Trainer with over 30 years experience and my passion is for all-things-Excel-related although I must admit that Power BI is coming a close second!
Through my training courses, Youtube videos, written tutorials and application development skills, I hope that I can help to make a difference to you and your business.
Below you’ll find my latest tutorials. For older ones, please click the Tutorials link on the menu
Latest Videos and Tutorials
GETPIVOTDATA: All You Need to Know
What is GETPIVOTDATA? When should you use and avoid it? What are the gotchas?
Power BI For Beginners
LIVE training session on YouTube: Monday 16th May 7PM UK time
Use OFFSET to Retrieve Rows from an Excel List
Excel’s OFFSET function is used to retrieve values from a cell or range
Replace Part of a String in Excel
Three methods to replace part of a text string including SUBSTITUTE and REPLACE
The ULTIMATE Guide to Lookups in Excel: Live
On-demand recording of a live 60 minute training session covering Excel’s Lookup functions
The Drop Function in Excel
The DROP function displays the contents of a specified range but excludes the first or last X number of rows or columns.
The Take Function in Excel
The TAKE function displays the contents of the first or last X rows or columns of a range
Hide a Series in an Excel Chart Data Table
How to hide one or more rows in the Data Table that appears below a Chart
Power Query on Excel for Mac: Live Training
On-demand recording of a live 90 minute training session covering Power Query on a Mac