M I C R O S O F T E X C E L C L A S S
F O R E M I S / D A T A M A N A G E M E N T
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Bob Howard, Excel Consultant
EMIS Excel
A two-day class that will
focus on Microsoft Excel
skill development for EMIS
Personnel
Two-Day
Class is hands-on.
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
All Participants receive
• Class booklet
• CD with examples
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This class provides skill understanding
and mastery with explanations, exercises
for practice, and full written
documentation of the class content.
These sessions will use Microsoft Office 2007 and/or
Microsoft Office version 2010
Content Overview
Selected Microsoft Excel skill development for EMIS and data management personnel
The class will use the version Microsoft Excel 2007/2010.
TWO DAY SESSION ( 8:30 am to 3:30 pm with a one hour lunch break )
Bob Howard, Professional Development
“You never need to re-type data, you can always change it to the format you want.”
This two day class is hands-on training using the 2007/2010 Office version of Microsoft Excel.
This includes entering data, entering basic formulas such as SUM, AVERAGE functions and
working knowledge of sorting data. Attendees will receive a booklet and CD with spreadsheet
examples.
This workshop provides skill understanding and mastery with explanations, exercises for
practice, and full written documentation of the class content.
The hands-on class will cover as time permits the following: IF function, Absolute and relative
Fill-Down, Combining column data into one column and separating column data into separate
columns, LINKING worksheets, and a brief introduction to the VLOOKUP function. Examples
of using VLOOKUP will include both entry automation and matching non-identical lists of
data. With many examples and exercises, participant will master the vlookup function which is
so useful for data management. MATCH, COUNT, COUNTA, SUMIF, COUNTIF, SUMIFS,
COUNTIFS functions will be covered with application of examples.
From the data collector files, participants will attain experience on how to bring in data from
other tables into the Student Demographics Table. This will include reading scores, most
current grade level from a multi-record file, race codes from a multi-record file. Class will
cover how to find counts on grades, student absences for each day of the week, Mon-Fri, as well
how to count many other things. The session will include when comparing two lists, finding
students who are missing in the second list.
What about Bob?
About your instructor:
Bob Howard has been using personal computers for over 26 years. He started using the
first version of Microsoft Excel 1.0 in 1986.
Bob has been teaching computer classes with wordprocessing, database, and
spreadsheet applications since 1984.
He is currently working as a consultant for TRECA as well as providing professional
development for Microsoft Excel throughout the state through his company, BobExcel,
LLC. In the previous 12 years at TRECA (Tri-Rivers Educational Computer
Association), Bob has created Excel solutions for the State of Ohio Department of
Education, Washington D.C. Federal Department of Education, as well as several of
TRECA’s consortium school districts. For the last 10 years, school Treasurers,
OASBO, EMIS coordinators, payroll and data personnel from several counties in Ohio
have attended his Excel and data management workshops. Bob has presented Excel
sessions for the last 5 years at the annual spring OAEP Conference.
Before coming to TRECA just over 12 years ago, he was a math and computer science
teacher for 27 years in the Columbus Public Schools. Bob has a BS and an MA degree
from The Ohio State University in Mathematics Education.
He has served as a featured speaker, done presentations in several states as well as
international conferences, demonstrating some of spreadsheet skills and solutions
achieved by his students while teaching in Columbus.
In Bob’s private business, he has served as a consultant and created office solutions
(Lotus 123, Excel) for several projects. Some of these include Spreadsheet solution
designs and training for Dugan & Myers Construction (One Columbus Building downtown Columbus), Ameritech, and E-Z-GO Textron, Golf Car Division.