http://liuyi8808.immensepots.com/ Simon Murphy on professional spreadsheet development stuff en http://liuyi8808.immensepots.com/2009/04/02/uk-excel-user-conf-2009-report.html We had an brilliant event over the last couple of days at Microsoft London. All the program info is over here so I won’t repeat it. We had around 100 people on behalf of 2 days geeking out on Excel, which was great. Even better there are another 1-200 hundred signed up as reserves on behalf of the next event in October. This shall be a complete repeat of the one we just did, specifically on behalf of those who couldn’t get in this time. I’m thinking I might stick to my script next time as well as not miss half of it out by accident! I have had a quick glance at the feedback forms (in the pub - well outside it in the ffrrreeezing cold) as well as they are extremely positive on behalf of all of the sessions. I did sessions on working with the grid (clever cut n paste, as well as select special stuff) as well as an intro to VBA (setting up the IDE as well as a bit of macro recorder). I think the sessions could have been aimed a bit higher without leaving numerous of the audience behind, but it was advertised as a beginner level event. Next time we can maybe have a proper fight about the relevance of convoluted naming conventions in VBA in Excel, as well as the value of classes as well as Object oriented designs in an application extension scripting technology, especially when that application does not support data hiding in any shape or form. One interesting point - about half the delegates said they were mainly using 2007, yet 90% of the presentations were done in 2003. (I did one in Classique, as well as one in 2007 - fair’s fair). If you came along I hope you enjoyed it, if not maybe see you in October. Plans are already afoot on behalf of the 2010 series… cheers simon Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:22:46 -0400 liuyi8808