Advanced Excel Conference Recap
July 6, 2009 • JP • No Comments • Rate This Article
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I attended this year's Advanced Excel Conference. There were presentations by Bob Umlas and Jon Peltier, Excel MVPs. See link for topics list.
This year's conference was different from last year's in the following ways:
- I didn't eat at Burger King on the way to Atlantic City. Or on the way home.
- Red Bull and Vitamin Water (Energy) help you stay awake on the road.
- I have a much better job than I did last time. They don't offer paid vacation, but I can come and go as I please (more or less).
- I attended the full conference (both days).
The weather was terrible; it's still cloudy and raining in New York to this day. But as we were indoors most of the time, it didn't matter. The only time I went out was for dinner on Wednesday night, when most of the group went to an Irish pub inside the Tropicana hotel. Food was great, drinking beer and talking about Excel and Access was a lot of fun.
I got there on Tuesday the 16th around 11:30 pm, same as last year. The conference started at 8:30 on Wednesday morning. Bob spoke until about 12, then Jon took over at 1 pm until about 5. Thursday was the reverse; Jon started and then after lunch, Bob presented until 5pm. My laptop actually decided to cooperate and work most of the time; last time, the monitor kept powering down.
Instead of CDs with the presentation spreadsheets on them, Jon passed around a USB drive with the files on them. It worked really well because you just insert the drive into an available USB port, then drag and drop the files over. And there were a lot of files. Bob used a different spreadsheet for each topic, so there were about 25 or so for his Intermediate VBA class. Jon used a single workbook with multiple worksheets.
I also met a few people I correspond with online, including Ray Schinzel and Al Vachris.
Overall, a very good experience, and worth the money. I learned a lot about the Range object from Bob, and charting is much easier thanks to Jon's presentation (which I missed last year).
Gas prices, on the other hand, have remained high. Hopefully this will change for next year's conference.
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Jimmy -
Thanks for the review. It was a good conference.
Good to meet you as well, Jimmy! The conference was full of great information … already used alot of it!
How's that code library coming?
Once I clear out my schedule (read: Once I stop playing with WordPress), I'll dedicate some time to that goal.