According to Gartner there is a huge skills shortage in IT. As the COVID-19 response accelerates the speed and scale of digital transformation, a lack of digital skills could jeopardize companies with misaligned talent plans. This is part of the reasons organisations such [...]
What Is a macro? A macro is shorthand for a programming term: macroinstruction. In the most basic terms, a macro is a way to automate simple tasks. They can be used in a variety of ways, but most of us will learn to [...]
While almost everyone these days uses some form of modern tech to benefit their lives, there remain a surprising number of people who continue to resist the influx of technology, and only use it if they have to. On an individual level this [...]
With everyone using Excel more and more in business, the level of skill and knowledge required has increased hugely. Just being able to create a simple spreadsheet and input data is often no longer enough and more advanced use of the tool is [...]
We’re surrounded by technology; immersed in it so completely that most of us barely even realise it’s there (although we certainly notice when it’s not). Yet, it seems that despite our growing dependence on technology, it’s not as all-encompassing as we might believe, [...]
It would be hard to think of a role that exists today that doesn’t require the use of technology in some form. The evolution of the digital realm has been so rapid that it has become all-consuming in some areas. But the reality [...]
On a recent Indesign course, run at our Gatwick centre, most people had never used InDesign before. Some wanted to learn in order to create new documents, others on the course needed to amend documents that their design team had already created, and [...]
If you are involved in document production it’s important to use the right tools for the right jobs. A word processor is fine for basic tasks, but if you have to create more complex documents such as flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, and books, [...]
When we talk about transforming your data as well as tidying it up you can also add extra columns to your data and again this will be added as steps and inserted every time you refresh your data. There are three key types [...]
When using Power BI, the first thing to we need to do is ensure we have good data to work with. We need to ensure we are working with transactional data organised into records. For this we use a process called ETL, Extract, [...]