Speaker – Nora Junaid – The Active Cell

SPEAKER

Nora Junaid

Nora Junaid is an award-winning educator, Microsoft MVP, and Microsoft Excel Ambassador who teaches Excel and business analytics to more than 1,500 students a year as an instructor and course coordinator at the Isenberg School of Management at Umass, Amherst. She’s the creator of Excel Ninja, a learning platform making Excel practical and accessible for learners at every level, and the author of the Amazon bestseller Excel Ninja: A Guide from Zero to Hero.

Through real-world applications and innovative teaching methods, she helps students and professionals transform raw data into meaningful insights. A recognized leader in the Excel community, Nora hosted the first Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge (MECC) in the Northeastern U.S. and speaks internationally on Excel, productivity, and data analytics, reaching hundreds of thousands of learners through her teaching, workshops, and social media.

Dec 2 | 12:05 PM - 01:00 PM

Think Like an Excel Ninja: Hidden Productivity Tips Every User Should Know

Most Excel users navigate, organize, and manage their worksheets the slow way, without realizing there’s a faster path built right into the tool. In this hands-on session, you’ll open Excel and work alongside Nora Junaid to uncover the lesser-known shortcuts, menus, and settings that make multi-sheet workbooks easier to navigate, organize, and maintain. Designed for intermediate users who already know the basics, this session skips the fundamentals and goes straight into the practical, immediately-usable tricks that save real time every day.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, you will:

Navigate large workbooks in seconds.
Organize and manage worksheets like a pro.
Use hidden shortcuts that eliminate repetitive tasks.
Work with formulas and lookup data efficiently.
Use Go To Special and right-click shortcuts to fix and navigate worksheets in seconds.
Discover lesser-known Excel features that most users never learn.