Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
Mike has worked in the IT training business since 1989 where his expertise and experience covers designing, delivering training courses, writing training materials and recording and editing video-based tutorials. Although he is a subject matter expert in a range of Microsoft technologies and has worked extensively with Mac OSX and Mac-related software since 2006; however, his passion is for all-things-Excel and in 2012 he founded the website theexceltrainer.co.uk
Mike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.
Live Webinar
By: Mike Thomas
Nov. 18, 2026
Excel + AI: The Smart User's Guide to Faster, Easier Work with ChatGPT
ChatGPT can take a lot of the friction out of Excel work. This hands-on 60-minute session shows how to combine Excel and ChatGPT to speed up repetitive tasks, simplify tricky formulas, tidy messy …
Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
By: Mike Thomas
Sept. 16, 2026
Excel - Pivot Tables - The Key To Modern Data Analysis and Reporting
Pivot Tables are one of the strongest data analysis and business intelligence tools in Excel. Whether you're building a dashboard, analyzing data in depth or summarizing a personal project, this E…
Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Recorded Session
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Excel - Formulas and Functions 101
You can use Excel without ever writing a formula, but you would miss much of what makes it powerful. This 60-minute Excel formulas and functions training covers the basics every user needs.
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Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Excel - Lists and Tables - A Beginner's Guide to Managing List-Based Data
Excel is more than a calculator. This Excel lists and tables training for beginners shows how to organize and manage list-based data such as employee rosters, inventories and course catalogs.
<…Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Excel Meets AI - Using ChatGPT with Excel
Using ChatGPT with Excel can save time on formulas, analysis and repetitive work. This 60-minute Excel and AI webinar shows how the two fit together and how AI can extend what you do in a spreadsh…
Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Excel - Creating an Interactive Dashboard
In any business, a dashboard is a key communication tool, and presentation is what makes it work. Many tools can build one, but Excel is a common choice because it is powerful, flexible and alread…
Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Outlook - Master your Mailbox - Inbox Hero Inbox Zero
Microsoft Outlook is the standard tool for email, calendar appointments and to-dos for most business users, with desktop and mobile versions full of features. In practice, with the average office …
Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Excel - A Beginner's Guide to Formulas
Formulas let Excel do your calculations for you, making your work faster and more accurate. This Excel formulas for beginners training assumes no prior experience with Excel or formulas.
Any…
Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Email management : Best way to organize microsoft outlook emails
Microsoft Outlook runs on Windows, Mac, mobile and the web, yet many professionals still face email overload, missed deadlines and packed calendars. This 60-minute Outlook email management trainin…
Industry: Software Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Excel - Pivot Tables for HR Professionals
Excel pivot tables are among the most useful tools for HR professionals who need to summarize data, build a dashboard or run deeper analysis. With a few clicks and no complicated formulas, you can…
Industry: Software Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Microsoft Excel: VBA 101 - Automation Beyond the Macro Recorder
If you repeat the same steps in your spreadsheets, it's time to automate them. VBA is the programming language built into Excel and the other Microsoft Office apps, and it automates tasks you'd ot…
Industry: Software Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Excel 2010-16 VBA Basics: Take Automation Beyond the Macro Recorder.
Excel's macro recorder can automate simple tasks, but it has limits. Where the recorder stops, VBA takes over, letting you automate almost anything you do in Excel. This 90-minute Excel VBA basics…
Industry: Software Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Microsoft Excel: Creating an effective and balanced KPI Dashboard for HR Professionals
Dashboards help HR teams report on the business, inform decisions, keep stakeholders up to date, track problems, present KPIs and other metrics, and manage talent. As with any communication tool, …
Industry: Software Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Mike Thomas
Recorded Session
Excel Power Query: The Powerful Get & Transform Tool for Importing and Manipulating Data
Large imported datasets quickly hit Excel's limits. Power Query, called Get & Transform in Excel 2016, gets past them by letting you import and work with datasets of over a million rows from a…
Industry: Software Duration: 90 Minutes