Basic Excel for Creatives: Organize Your Business with Confidence

Learn essential Excel skills to organize contacts, track expenses, manage inventory, and simplify the business side of your creative work.
About this Event

Your creativity is your passion, but running a successful creative business also requires keeping track of the details. Microsoft Excel can help make the administrative side easier by giving you practical tools to organize information, manage finances, and make informed decisions.

In this hands-on introductory class, you’ll learn the basics of Excel and how to apply them to real-world creative business needs. Whether you need to maintain a contact list, track inventory and supplies, monitor expenses, or build a simple budget, Excel provides flexible tools to help you stay organized.

During this workshop, you’ll learn:

• Essential spreadsheet terminology and structure
• How to navigate Excel’s tools and features
• How to create and format a spreadsheet from start to finish
• Tips and shortcuts for entering and organizing information
• How to create a polished, printable final document

Designed with creative entrepreneurs in mind, this class will help you spend less time wrestling with spreadsheets and more time focused on creating.

No prior Excel experience required.

Instructor

Barbara Raymond
Barbara Raymond spent 30 years implementing and supporting human resources technology, helping organizations transform complicated systems and data into practical, usable solutions. Throughout her career, she developed extensive expertise in Microsoft Word and Excel by using these tools to solve real-world problems, simplify processes, analyze information, and create polished professional documents.

Now a facilitator for Create Appalachia’s AVANTE Creative Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Barbara brings a practical, approachable teaching style (with a touch of humor) to Microsoft Office education. Her classes help creative entrepreneurs build confidence with essential business tools so they can work more efficiently and focus on what they do best.

Event Details

Date: Saturday, September 19
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Create Appalachia
Format: In-person

Bring your laptop if possible so you can follow along and practice during the workshop.

Registration Note

Registration is required. Space is limited to ensure a hands-on learning experience.

Registration fees include administrative and processing costs that support the continued development of creative education opportunities in our region.