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Tips & Tricks

Free, Virtual Microsoft & Data Management Training

August 28th, 2025

with Rich Brooks

Join us for Tips and Tricks, a free virtual webinar series designed for the needs of financial management and government accounting professionals. Tips and Tricks hosts monthly training on the Microsoft products already utilized within your government/DoD workplace!

Turn Raw Data into “Wow” Dashboards — in ~60 Minutes
 
If your spreadsheets are bursting with numbers but short on insight, this fast-paced session is for you. Join our Microsoft Certified Trainer Rich Brooks for a one-hour, zero-fluff walkthrough of the exact steps to transform messy data into clear, executive-ready visuals.
 
In this live training, you’ll:
  • Discover the 3–step flow: Shape → Transform → Visualize
  • Learn what makes a chart tell a story (and what makes it confusing)
  • See how to go from Excel tables to compelling Power BI visuals—live
  • Get plug-and-play design tips that make your dashboards pop without a design degree
Perfect for: Excel users, analysts, managers—anyone who needs answers at a glance.
Walk away with: the confidence to build visuals your stakeholders actually use.
Seats are limited. Save your spot and turn your data into decisions in just one hour.
 

Note-taking is not necessary during the session! This course is intended for learners of all levels of expertise, and all are welcome to join.

Our sessions will be held on Thursday, August 28, 2025, at 10:00 ET and 15:00 ET.

Note: Morning and Afternoon sessions cover the same material; feel free to register for both!

Register Below:

Desktop Analytics (DTA) is designed for program-level integrations and analytics. It eliminates time-consuming and error prone cut-and-paste, hand-jammed reporting. DTA uses the tools already in place on the government desktops. Leadership gets more reliable, timelier information and analysts spend less time collecting data and more time actually analyzing it. 

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