Earlier this summer I picked up a Mac Mini for under my TV set at home, so I’ve been downloading tons of video podcasts. In between episodes of Rocketboom, Tiki Bar TV, and Cult of UHF, I also found a videopodcast about a how to use Excel.
Wait! I know you must be thinking just how exciting that is, but really, it isn’t so bad. Each podcast is about 2 minutes long, so no matter how short your attention span may have become after summer vacation it won’t stress your brain cells. It is a videopodcast, so you can actually watch what the tutor is doing on the screen while his talking head down in the corner explains. Each podcast covers one-and-only-one skill in an easy to digest bite-sized format.
Want to know about Page Breaks? Episode 334. Need to make a report only one page wide? That’s Episode 336. Somebody hide your columns and you need to unide them? Right here. This one about finding all of the unique values in a list (like student numbers, for example) would have saved me tons of time last semester.
Anyway, you get the idea. It is a podcast, but you don’t have to subscribe. You can always just search for a tutorial on the website and watch it on your computer right next to whichever Excel file is giving you fits.
Sorry, I can’t do anything about the cheezy music on the videos.
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