Excel 2024: Excel Stories

March 20, 2025 - by Bill Jelen

Live 'On Stage' In Person: The Power Excel Seminars

That poster from Hatch Show Print on my website sort of started out as a joke. I was flying through Nashville and saw a display of old country music letterpress posters on the wall. The little sign by the posters said they were produced on a 100-year-old hand-cranked press and that the company was still operating in Nashville. I called them and hired them to produce a 'concert' poster for my live Excel seminars. They had to think I was a little nuts. The print shop manager, Jim Sherraden, often did an informative presentation about the history of Hatch, and he cited my poster as the first to list a website URL.

The author Bill Jelen laughs with his poster from Hatch Show Print: Live! On Stage, In Person MrExcel Bill Jelen will entertain and inform you with his Power Excel Seminar. Unleash the Power of Excel - Pivot Tables, Subtotals, Charting, Formulas - Tips & Tricks to save you one hundred hours per year.

I do my half-day or 1-day seminar for accounting groups across the country. Every large city has a local chapter of the Institute of Managerial Accountants or the Institute of Internal Auditors. The people who belong to these groups usually need 20-30 hours of continuing education (CPE) each year. If you join the organization and go to 12 lunch meetings, half of your CPE is done. The organizations will often sponsor a 1- or 2-day event with speakers so their members can earn the remaining CPE at one time. I often am invited to speak at these events. The poster on the door lets people know that they are not in for the usual tax update. (I don't mean to offend the wonderful people going through the new tax laws - someone's got to do that.)

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