{"id":511,"date":"2015-07-10T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/?p=511"},"modified":"2015-07-08T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T17:25:26","slug":"something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of a New Online Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been publishing my <a href=\"http:\/\/excelribbon.tips.net\" target=\"_blank\"><em>ExcelTips<\/em> newsletter<\/a> for quite a long time now, approaching 17 years. Every week, without fail, I&#8217;ve published tips on how to use almost every aspect of Excel.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, I&#8217;ve also conducted various seminars on teaching people how to use Excel. I&#8217;ve also developed a good number of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.tips.net\/C0895_ExcelTips_E-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">e-books and real books<\/a> about how to use Excel.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One thing that I haven&#8217;t done, however, is to create any video-based training materials about Excel. I&#8217;ve had people ask about them, but I&#8217;ve always shied away from them because of, I guess, being a harsh critic of myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Excel-Logo5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Excel-Logo5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Excel-Logo5\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Excel-Logo5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Excel-Logo5-665x498.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Excel-Logo5.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, I&#8217;m thinking of changing that situation and coming up with a new online course about how to create macros. The course would be geared toward beginners\u2014those who haven&#8217;t ever created their own macros before. (I may do a more advanced macro course later, but it is generally best to start at the beginning.)<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I&#8217;m still toying with the idea; trying to get my head around what the course would (or should) contain. This is always the toughest part for me\u2014figuring out what to include and what to leave out.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think offering such a course would be a good idea? Do you have thoughts as to what such a course should cover? If so, I&#8217;d love to have a bit of feedback. Please, let me know below what you think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been publishing my ExcelTips newsletter for quite a long time now, approaching 17 years. Every week, without fail, I&#8217;ve published tips on how to use almost every aspect of Excel. During that time, I&#8217;ve also conducted various seminars on teaching people how to use Excel. I&#8217;ve also developed a good number of e-books and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/something-new\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenwyatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}