Microsoft Excel workshops delivered for members of CPA Ontario, the regulatory body for Chartered Professional Accountants in the province, in February 2019. The audience is among the most specific kinds of learner a Microsoft Office trainer encounters.
Accountants approach Excel from inside the spreadsheet, not from outside it. They have done more pivot tables before lunch than most office workers do in a year. Training for that audience means skipping past the explanations they don’t need and landing directly on the techniques and shortcuts that compound for someone whose entire workflow lives in cells.