Talking Microsoft Excel: What are you learning?

Do you love Excel? Do you love using Excel to bring data from a Dynamics ERP system to life? Then join us on Friday, April 4^th at 2pm EDT as we let three Dynamics experts and self-described Excel enthusiasts geek out (a term of endearment, of course) over their favorite Excel features.

Why Excel and why now? First of all, is there ever a bad time for Dynamics users to hone their Excel skills? It's hard to argue with the view that, for many users, Excel is the still the client of choice for many common BI and reporting tasks. And when a terrific group of Dynamics experts wants to talk Excel with our readers, who are we to say no? The event really will be a hangout - informal, with no presentation slides or scripts, but lots of demonstration, discussion, and as much audience interaction as we can manage.

While interest seems to be growing in the use of the newest Excel tools with Dynamics, the possibilities are so broad that even those out front are still having fun with it.  That's what will make this Friday's Excel Hangout so much fun. When you join our Dynamics expert panel - GP MVPs Mark Polino and Belinda Allen, plus Microsoft's Jared Hall, you will hear about the features of Excel that they are taking advantage of today. 

For example, Mark just realized that in Excel 2013, "you CAN set a Power Pivot based data connection to refresh on schedule (every X minutes) just like non-Power Pivot based connections." This wasn't ...