Excel Courses

To book, contact hello@generalBI.com, mention the course you’d like, preferred dates, and venue (teams or a location) and anything else you’d like. We’ll respond with pricing.

Public courses are listed in the calendar.

Attendees can attend Office Hours for after course support.

Excel Fledgling

No experisnce necessary. Start from the beginning and learn the best practices. Learn about Workbooks, Sheets, Cells, Formulas, Addressing Modes, Structure and Formatting.

Excel Practitioner

Tables, Pivot Tables, Lookups, Conditional Formatting, Formulas.

Excel Dashboards

Analytics, Dashboards, Power Pivot, Power Query, DAX FormulasTables, Slicers, Charts, Star Schema vs Snowflake Schema, Relationships, Normalization, Flattening, Kimbal Method, Story Telling, Data Vidsualization and Best Practices

Excel Automation

Automate business process, Macros, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Custom Functions, Event Handling, Active X Data Objects (ADO), Structured Query Languate (SQL).

MS Access Fledgling

Database Terminology, Relational Database Concepts, Databasee Design, Tables, Forms, Queries, Reports.

MS Access Practitioner

Create a complete application. Learn by doing.

MS Access Mastery

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Form Timers, Structured Query Language (SQL), Form Navigation, Usability, File System Object (FSO), ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)

Industry and Task Specific Excel Courses

Excel Finance

Learn to build dynamic/dashboards comparing budgeted and actual performance. This hands-on course covers data modeling, variance calculations, and visual storytelling—perfect for finance teams and analysts who want clearer insights and faster reporting.

Excel Process Management

For those involved with Process/Workflow/Lifecycle/Case Management. Hands-on approach to measuring Case Loads, Workloads, Time-in-Stage, Response Time etc.

Excel Risk Management

Creating risk dashboards. Suitable for those working in Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Safety, Government and Public Sector, Technology, Construction, Engineering and Retail.

Excel: My Data Sucks

Learn best practices for fixing bad data. Efficient methods of cleaning large volumes of data.

The course is incredibly valuable, and it’s clear that Darcy is an expert in Power BI with a talent for sharing his knowledge. He addressed all our questions during the training sessions and provided excellent supporting materials. I highly recommend this course to anyone starting in the Power BI world, as well as those with some prior experience. I previously took a course offered by Microsoft, but as someone without an IT background, I found some topics difficult to grasp. However, through this training session, I was able to connect many of the concepts I learned in the Microsoft course. I would rate it a 10/10. — Natalia

The course was an amazing introduction to PowerBI. All the credit to Darcy, who was engaging, patient (open to all questions and genuinely wanted to make sure everyone was keeping up), all while ensuring a practical pace for all participants. One of my co-workers was also attending and sent me a chat with "this teacher is the best" and I agree. Content and pace were perfect and the detailed step by step ppt slides will serve as a great reference in case I forget any steps. — Kana (Justice Canada)

Excellent course. Darcy was able to clearly explain how to use Power BI. I feel I am well informed to begin to create reports. — Kim G (Justice Canada)

One of the best training and trainers i've ever attended. As a very beginner to power BI, I found that his teaching style, his enthusiasm, humor, patience and kindness made everyone comfortable and at ease. He was very knowledgeable and had the ability to keep his audience engaged and interested. He was also very communicative and took the time to answer questions by email as well as during the class. The materials he provides included step by step instructions, with an understanding that some people need visuals and demonstration. I have taken other power bi courses in the past and this was the only one that made sense to me. Highly recommended! — Jade (Justice Canada)

Darcy provided us with many tools and explained many of Power BI's features in detail. He answered all our questions and repeated steps when necessary. It was entertaining and interactive, and he made sure everyone followed along and understood the concepts. I will definitely recommend this course! — Yessica (Justice Canada)

This was fantastic. Darcy did such a great job of explaining and provided a really perfect walk-through of the basic fundamentals. Thank you! — Katelyn Negin

I took Excel Level 1 yesterday with you. Very informative. You know your product and you seem very passionate about teaching as well. The overall was very interesting. I did enjoy you’re class. — Maryse Paré

Super engaging for a basics course. Loved learning pivot tables! — Brittany

I found this extremely helpful and engaging. The 2 hours flew by. — Monica

Thank you so much. I really enjoyed learning about power pivot and data query today! Your Excel enthusiasm is contagious. — Janine

Darcy is a great instructor. He’s extremely knowledgeable, engaging, and he also has a great sense of humour. I learned a lot of very useful information. Thanks! — Laurendeau

The course is incredibly valuable, and it’s clear that Darcy is an expert in Power BI with a talent for sharing his knowledge. He addressed all our questions during the training sessions and provided excellent supporting materials. I highly recommend this course to anyone starting in the Power BI world, as well as those with some prior experience. I previously took a course offered by Microsoft, but as someone without an IT background, I found some topics difficult to grasp. However, through this training session, I was able to connect many of the concepts I learned in the Microsoft course. I would rate it a 10/10. — Natalia

The course was an amazing introduction to PowerBI. All the credit to Darcy, who was engaging, patient (open to all questions and genuinely wanted to make sure everyone was keeping up), all while ensuring a practical pace for all participants. One of my co-workers was also attending and sent me a chat with "this teacher is the best" and I agree. Content and pace were perfect and the detailed step by step ppt slides will serve as a great reference in case I forget any steps. — Kana (Justice Canada)

Excellent course. Darcy was able to clearly explain how to use Power BI. I feel I am well informed to begin to create reports. — Kim G (Justice Canada)

One of the best training and trainers i've ever attended. As a very beginner to power BI, I found that his teaching style, his enthusiasm, humor, patience and kindness made everyone comfortable and at ease. He was very knowledgeable and had the ability to keep his audience engaged and interested. He was also very communicative and took the time to answer questions by email as well as during the class. The materials he provides included step by step instructions, with an understanding that some people need visuals and demonstration. I have taken other power bi courses in the past and this was the only one that made sense to me. Highly recommended! — Jade (Justice Canada)

Darcy provided us with many tools and explained many of Power BI's features in detail. He answered all our questions and repeated steps when necessary. It was entertaining and interactive, and he made sure everyone followed along and understood the concepts. I will definitely recommend this course! — Yessica (Justice Canada)

This was fantastic. Darcy did such a great job of explaining and provided a really perfect walk-through of the basic fundamentals. Thank you! — Katelyn Negin

I took Excel Level 1 yesterday with you. Very informative. You know your product and you seem very passionate about teaching as well. The overall was very interesting. I did enjoy you’re class. — Maryse Paré

Super engaging for a basics course. Loved learning pivot tables! — Brittany

I found this extremely helpful and engaging. The 2 hours flew by. — Monica

Thank you so much. I really enjoyed learning about power pivot and data query today! Your Excel enthusiasm is contagious. — Janine

Darcy is a great instructor. He’s extremely knowledgeable, engaging, and he also has a great sense of humour. I learned a lot of very useful information. Thanks! — Laurendeau