Those of you choosing to focus on your spreadsheet modeling skills this summer (and everyone else who hopes to devote some time to that at some point) should download the materials I’ve just added to our Blackboard site. (You’ll see a new section, Excel Resources, in the left side-bar.)

The main deck, the “Three Hour Tour,” is an enormous collection. For some of you, all you really need may be found in a small number of slides, for example:

• The “Top 10” and “Next 10” lists of Excel skills that are essential for MBA work are found on slide #162.
• Lists of print and web resources for learning and using Excel are found in Appendix 3, starting on slide #193.

Also, for those of you looking for keyboard shortcuts, those new resources on Blackboard include a compilation of several sources’ recommendations and cheat-sheets for Excel and some of the other MS Office applications.

I’ll contribute some more Excel content here in the 05-Spreadsheet Modeling channel of our blog, but of course part of the point is for you to do the same – please share your own discoveries and experiences, and get some discussions going here and elsewhere on the blog.