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2025-01-20_Our Work Begins Where Your Excel Troubles Lead You

 

2025-01-20_Our Work Begins Where Your Excel Troubles Lead You

In the year 2019, this course was launched for the very first time. "BEGINNERS COURSE ON VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONS (VBA) alias VBA-Excel". Multiple phone-calls and to my consternation, multiple assurances later, we had NO TAKERS for this course! What was the reason, nobody would elaborate, only that Rs. 15,000/- for 15 sessions (So, Rs. 1,000/-) per session was "Too Expensive"!! When I contacted other institutes in the City about similar courses, the prices were almost the same, yet, they had students coming in and learning MS Excel and the basics of VBA, but we had none. Finally, after my father-in-law, who owned that office at A-107, Doctor House, passed away on April 18th, 2021, I told my wife, who was the inheritor of the office, that we should sell it, as nothing seemed to succeed there, except for my father-in-laws practise as a Diabetologist.

Upto December 2024, I did not think much about this profile. Somewhere, I did realise that running an Excel Training Institute in a practising doctor's clinic was what was driving people away from learning excel, even though he would be in the clinic/office only from 4:30 pm upto 8:30 pm!! I would be the sole occupant of the office from 10:30 AM / 11:00 AM till 4:30 PM, and yet nobody ever did turn up. 

We finally disposed of the office after the death of my mother-in-law and the property ownership finally passed to my wife, in approximately May 2024. I had stopped going to the office post-COVID19, because of the fact that I did not want to take the risk of travelling to and fro from the office to home, when there was no assured business happening there.

So, with this launch of the new course, named the same as the old course, I plan to give the participants some pointers on how to get successfully recruited in the Industry or Profession, whichever they chose, by imparting some training in the final stages, that I know for sure other institutes are definitely not giving, because I myself have been a part of this profession, as a VBA Programmer since almost 25-30 years of my life. You see, Microsoft 365 / Office 2019 / Office 2024 has added a whole lot of functions to the Excel interface, that work no only in the local installation of Office, but on the online excel interface available from https://office.microsoft.com interface as well.

CA VIKRAM SHANKAR MATHUR
January 20th, 2025 @05:31 Hours IST

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.



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2025-01-20_Our Work Begins Where Your Excel Troubles Lead You

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