Alan Murray
About Alan Murray
Alan has over 20 years' experience as an Excel trainer and loves to help companies improve their business processes and learn how to harness the power of Excel.
As well as providing online Excel training, Alan also provides in-house training and consultancy services. Alan creates Excel solutions for businesses to improve their current processes. This could be speeding up their spreadsheets and cleaning up bad Excel practices, or creating complete VBA solutions to streamline business tasks.
Alan likes to create learning that is relaxed and fully focused on what people need and want. It is important to Alan that people feel confident in using Excel, and to feel that they can ask for help with any area of Excel.
What makes Alan tick?
Alan enjoys seeing the impact Excel can have in people's work when they see how a formula, VBA or the Power BI tools can greatly save them time, or automate their reporting and Excel tasks.CPD Courses
Level up your Excel skills with the latest updates, from AI-powered Copilot to new regex and calculation functions, plus improved accessibility features.
AI Tools in Excel
Learn how to use ChatGPT and Copilot to speed up and simplify your Excel work, from cleaning data and writing formulas to generating insights.
Data Analysis With Excel
As a finance professional you use Excel to analyse data, but how often do you overlook Excel's useful features? This course explores some basic and more advanced features of Excel's PivotTable tool, covering Power Pivot and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) formulas.
Excel: Formula Enhancements
Part of a series on 2024 Excel. Excel continues to evolve with exciting new features that enhance how we use and manage formulas. This short course explores the latest formula enhancements available in both Excel Desktop and Excel for the Web.
Excel: GROUPBY and PIVOTBY
Part of a series on 2024 Excel. The GROUPBY and PIVOTBY functions allow you to create PivotTable-style reports from a single formula. This short course explains how these two new functions can be used in conjunction with other functions.
Excel: Handling Data
Part of a series on 2024 Excel. This short course looks at improvements to how we import and handle data in Excel, making use of new data conversion settings and explaining how data can be linked and connected.
Excel: Recent Enhancements
Part of a series on 2024 Excel. This short course covers the enhancements to existing tools used to input data into Excel, and the introduction of new features. It looks at improvements to the lists usability, new calendar and checkbox format controls, and upgrades to working with images.
Excel 2025: Copilot
Part of a series on 2025 Excel. Excel Copilot brings AI-powered productivity right into your spreadsheets. This update will help you navigate the Copilot pane and in-grid experiences, and to use Copilot features to clean up data, work with formulas and more.
Part of a series on 2025 Excel. Discover new features that enhance the end-user experience, from dark mode and performance checks to change tracking and accessibility tools.
Excel 2025: New Functions
Part of a series on 2025 Excel. Modern formulas are more powerful and more readable than ever. Get ready for a deep dive into how smarter formulas and range handling can boost your spreadsheets and change the way you work.
Part of a series on 2025 Excel. Pattern recognition has reached new levels with built-in regex functions, enabling advanced text manipulation, based on text patterns. Discover what you could do to enhance your productivity with REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE, and REGEXTEST.